The 120th MPEG meeting concluded on October 27, 2017 in Macau, China with the following topics: Point Cloud Compression – MPEG evaluates responses to call for proposal and kicks off its technical work The omnidirectional media format (OMAF) has reached its final milestone MPEG-G standards reach Committee Draft for compression and transport technologies of genomic…
The MPEG-VCEG Joint Video Exploration Team has concluded that the latest round of testing and evaluation shows that evidence exists of a potential to build a new standard that could significantly outperform HEVC. At the 119th MPEG meeting, responses to the previously issued call for evidence have been evaluated and they have all successfully demonstrated evidence….
The 118th MPEG meeting concluded on April 7, 2017 in Hobart, Australia and featured topics such as MPEG-I, CMAF, and (beyond) HEVC. If you’re not familiar yet with these acronyms (or parts thereof), keep on reading … The entire MPEG press release can be found here comprising the following topics: Coded Representation of Immersive Media (MPEG-I): new work item approved…
The 117th MPEG meeting concluded on Jan 20, 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland and featured some hot topics such as; Omnidirectional Media Application Format, Global Media Technology Standards and going beyond HEVC. The entire MPEG press release can be found here, but in this blog post I will focus on the following topics from the meetup: MPEG…
In this blog post we discuss items from the 115th MPEG meeting that are specifically relevant for adaptive streaming, including SAND, Server Push and Websocket, CMAF and more… The 115th MPEG meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland and its press release highlights the following aspects: MPEG issues Genomic Information Compression and Storage joint Call for Proposals…
This blog post is also available at at blog.timmerer.com and SIGMM records. The 112th MPEG meeting in Warsaw, Poland was a special meeting for me. It was my 50th MPEG meeting, which roughly equates to one year of MPEG meetings (i.e., I’ve spent one year of my life in MPEG meetings incl. traveling – scary, isn’t it? ……
The 108th MPEG meeting was held at the Palacio de Congresos de Valencia in Spain featuring the following highlights (don’t worry about the acronyms, this is on purpose and they will be explained further below): Requirements: PSAF, SCC, CDVA Systems: M2TS, MPAF, Green Metadata Video: CDVS, WVC, VCB JCT-VC: SHVC, SCC JCT-3D: MV/3D-HEVC, 3D-AVC Audio:…
January, 2014, San Jose, CA, USA MPEG Receives an Emmy Award The MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS; formally known as Rec. ITU-T H.222.0 | ISO/IEC 13818-1) has been awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It is the fourth time MPEG has received an Emmy award. The…
November, 2013, Geneva, Switzerland Here comes a news report from the 106th MPEG in Geneva, Switzerland which was actually on the same day as the Austrian national day and Austrian Airlines had a nice present (see picture) for their passengers. The official press release can be found here. In this meeting, ISO/IEC 23008-1 (i.e., MPEG-H…
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