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MPEG Press Release
May 2002
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N4733
May 2002 – Fairfax, VA (US)
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Fairfax, Virginia, 15 May 2002. At its 60th meeting, held from 6-10 May 2002, MPEG reached two important milestones, the completion of the first specification in the suite of standards known as MPEG-21 and the first ballot for its joint video codec development effort with the Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T) known as the Joint Video Team (JVT), that is developing a new and important video standard for industry.
Digital Item Declaration (ISO/IEC FDIS 21000-2) was elevated to Final Draft International Standard and will become an International Standard following a 2 month ballot by JTC 1. This is an important milestone as MPEG has now standardized a fundamental model for the transaction of any content that may be referenced, including multimedia content. Subsequent standards in the MPEG-21 suite will use and further enable this framework by specifying Digital Item Identification, Intellectual Property Management and Protection, Rights Expression Language, Right Data Dictionary, Digital Item Adaptation and the MPEG-21 Reference Software. These parts will be finalized by MPEG over the next two years.
Also, the new video coding standard being developed jointly with the ITU-T was promoted to Committee Draft, the first ballot stage leading to an ISO/IEC International Standard. This new standard will provide a significant improvement in compression performance for general video coding applications. "I am very pleased with the work that the JVT has achieved in such a short time since it was formed in December of 2001." said Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, Convenor of the MPEG Committee. Dr. Gary Sullivan, Chair/Rapporteur of the JVT also expressed his congratulations to the team. "It has been very rewarding to see such a large group of experts collaborate on a complex topic. The group is to be congratulated." For reference, the standard will be identified both as ITU-T Rec. H.264 and ISO/IEC 14496-10 "Advanced Video Coding". In addition to the video work, MPEG Systems has begun the work needed to carry this new video standard in its existing systems multiplex standards, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4.
In other important news from Fairfax, MPEG reviewed 25 responses to its call for technologies on Digital Item Adaptation. MPEG has produced its first working draft containing technology needed to adapt digital items and their associated resources to a wide variety of consumer devices along with an adaptation software model to assist early adopters and implementers. Digital Item Adaptation is an important technology for content authors and owners, and service providers not just the consumers of MPEG streams. When coupled with the Audio-Visual standards of MPEG-2, or 4 and the metadata standard in MPEG-7, and the other standards being developed in MPEG-21, DIA as it has come to be known, will be another powerful tool in the multimedia industry. Combined with the specifications currently under development to provide a Rights Data Dictionary and a Rights Expression Language, this will provide tools to enable the association of permissions governing the context in which content may be adapted.
As reported from the last MPEG meeting MPEG-4 Audio Extension work continues. At the Fairfax meeting Audio Extension 1 progressed to Committee Draft. This provides technology for extending the bandwidth of existing MPEG-4 audio coders using a relatively small amount of side information.
MPEG continues to seek new technology and has issued a Call for Proposals on Advanced Text and 2D Graphics. MPEG has identified the need for extensions of the Systems part of the MPEG-4 standard. These requirements are mainly in the areas of Text representation and 2D graphics representation. Responses are due to MPEG by 16 July, in time to be considered at its next meeting from 22-26 July 2002, Klagenfurt, Austria.
MPEG reminds industry of outstanding calls due back shortly.
1. Call for Requirements for Persistent Association of Identification and Description with Content (N4682) published at the 59th Meeting in Jeju are due by Sunday 14th July 2002 prior to the 61st Meeting in Klagenfurt.
2. Call for Proposals for MPEG-7 Systems Extensions notably to address additional coding efficiency for MPEG-7 descriptions as well as MPEG-21 Digital Item Declarations. The response to these calls will be reviewed at its 61st meeting in Klagenfurt, Austria from 22 to 26 July 2002
3. The Multimedia Description Schema subgroup request for a Registration Authority has resulted in an SC29 "Request for Candidates for the Registration Authority for ISO/IEC 21000-3". Responses should be forwarded directly to the SC29 Secretariat: Ms. Yukiko Ogura (ogura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp) or visit http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc29/ for information and details of this call.
Details of how to obtain MPEG’s CfP’s and other public information is shown below.
Further information
Future MPEG meetings are as follows: 61st meeting: 22-26 July 2002 (Klagenfurt, Austria), 62nd meeting: 21-25 October 2002 (Shanghai, China), 63rd meeting 9-13 December 2002.
For further information about MPEG, please contact:
Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, (Convenor of MPEG, Italy)
TILAB
Via G. Reiss Romoli, 274
10148 Torino, ITALY
Tel.: +39 11 228 6120; Fax: +39 11 228 6299
Email: mailto:leonardo.chiariglione@tilab.com
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Peter Schirling (HoD US MPEG Committee)
IBM Research – Digital Media Standards
Tel +1 802 769 6123 Fax: +1 802 769 7362
Email: schirlin@us.ibm.com
This press release and other MPEG-related information can be found on the MPEG homepage:
http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com
For the Outstanding Call for Proposals, see the Hot News section, http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/hot_news.htm
The MPEG homepage has links to other MPEG pages, which are maintained by some of the subgroups. It also contains links to public documents that are freely available for download to non-MPEG members.
Journalists that wish to receive MPEG Press Releases by email can contact Peter Schirling.