An MPEG Standard for Rich Media Services

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011

The aim of this presentation is to review some of the standards, connected with multimedia and their metadata. We start with MPEG family and continue with Open Standards for Interactive TV. Efficient video-streaming is presented. Some standards for audiovisual metadata are outline. We finish with W3C standards.

2001

MPEG-7, formally known as Multimedia Content Description Interface, includes standardized tools (descriptors, description schemes, and language) enabling structural, detailed descriptions of audiovisual information at different granularity levels (region, image, video segment, collection) and in different areas (content description, management, organization, navigation, and user interaction). It aims at supporting and facilitating a wide range of applications such as media portals, content broadcasting, and ubiquitous multimedia. In this paper, we present a high-level overview of the MPEG-7 standard. We first discuss the scope, basic terminology, and potential applications. Next, we discuss the constituent components. Then, we compare the relationship with other standards to highlight its capabilities. Some parts of the standard are also covered in depth in this special issue in which this paper appears.

MPEG-M is a suite of ISO/IEC standards (ISO/IEC 23006) that has been developed under the auspices of Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). MPEG-M, also known as Multimedia Service Platform Technologies (MSPT), facilitates a collection of middleware application programming interfaces (APIs) and elementary services (ESs) as well as service aggregation so that service providers (SPs) can offer users a plethora of innovative services by extending current Internet Protocol television (IPTV) technology toward the seamless integration of personal content creation and distribution, e-commerce, social networks, and Internet distribution of digital media.

SPIE Proceedings, 2002

We briefly describe the process for creating an MP4 file and introduce the software tools used for the creation. Then, we describe the architecture of an MP4 player-Flavor Player-that implements the MPEG-4 Systems specification. The Flavor Player implements 2-D composition and depth ordering of objects, object animation, user interaction, MPEG-J, IPMP framework, and MP4 file support. Additionally, we describe a simplified version of the Flavor Player-Mild Flavor-that only implements the Object Descriptor Profile. Unlike the Flavor Player, Mild Flavor is also used to create and edit MP4 files in addition to playback.

IEEE GLOBECOM 1998 (Cat. NO. 98CH36250), 1998

With the rapid convergence in telecommunications, computer, and TVIfilm industries, rigorous efforts are in progress for designing the emerging multimedia standard-MPEG-4. The main features of MPEG-4 z e its content-based interactiviry, ejjicient coding, and universal access. For realizing MPEG-4 based application oriented systems, various issues must be carefully addressed. This paper describes a full scale MPEG-4 based interactive multimedia system project underway at the Video Technology Center of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This project aims to provide complete MPEG-4 based interactive services tailored to various applications. In order to do so, a number of key enabling technologies need to be investigated. These include encoding and decoding, multimedia server design, auser interface, and MPEG-4 stream transmission over high speed networks. The unique features ofthe project are: 1) to explore the feasibility of parallel and distributed technology using Network-of-Workstations (NOWs) to hinder thc intensive computation required for realtime encoding; 2) to provide flexibility of software-based encoding/decoding; 3) to design an intelligent transport service mechanism which can satisfy QoS requirement of MPEG-4.

2002

The most complete, focused guide to MPEG-4--the breakthrough standard for interactive multimedia. The comprehensive, focused, up-to-the-minute guide to MPEG-4 Practical solutions for next-generation multimedia applications In-depth coverage of natural and synthetic audiovisual object coding, description, composition and synchronization Binary and textual scene description Transport and storage of MPEG-4 content MPEG-4 profiles and levels; verification tests MPEG-4 represents a breakthrough in multimedia, delivering ...

2010

This paper presents an overview of the video compression standards related to the MPEG family. MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 are specially covered including its latest standard. MPEG-7 is mainly used for object descriptions and MPEG-21 is for DRM (Digital Rights Management). Keyword: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, MPEG-21, MPEG-A, MPEG-D I.INTRODUCTION MPEG is the “Moving Picture Experts Group”, working under the joint direction of the international Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electro Technical Commission (IEC). This paper will provide an overview of the recent standards in the MPEG family. MPEG-7 is developed for Multimedia content description interface ,it uses XML to store metadata, and can be attached to timecode in order to tag particular events, or synchronise lyrics to a song. MPEG-21 is an open framework for multimedia delivery and consumption. It can be used to combine video, audio, text and graphics. The other latest version in MPEG like MPEG-A, MPEG-D is also...

IEEE Multimedia, 2002

A n immeasurable amount of multimedia information is available today-in digital archives, on the Web, in broadcast data streams, and in personal and professional databases-and this amount continues to grow. Yet, the value of that information depends on how easily we can manage, find, retrieve, access, and filter it. The transition between two millennia abounds with new ways to produce, offer, filter, search, and manage digitized multimedia information.

2002

IEEE Multimedia, 2000