An introduction to the MPEG-4 animation framework eXtension

Author

Bourges-Sévenier, Mikaël ; Jang, Euee S.

Author_Institution

Mindego Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

7

fYear

2004

fDate

7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

928

Lastpage

936

Abstract

This paper presents the MPEG-4 Animation Framework eXtension (AFX) standard, ISO/IEC 14496-16. Initiated by the MPEG Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Coding group in 2000, MPEG-4 AFX proposes an advanced framework for interactive multimedia applications using both natural and synthetic objects. Following this model, new synthetic objects have been specified, increasing content realism over existing MPEG-4 synthetic objects. The general overview of MPEG-4 AFX is provided on top of the review of MPEG-4 standards to explain the relationship between MPEG-4 and MPEG-4 AFX. Then we give a bird´s-eye view of new tools available in this standard.

Keywords

augmented reality; computer animation; image coding; interactive systems; multimedia systems; ISO/IEC 14496-16; MPEG-4 Animation Framework eXtension standard; augmented reality; interactive multimedia; natural objects; synthetic natural hybrid coding; virtual reality modeling language; Animation; Application software; Computer graphics; Games; IEC standards; ISO standards; MPEG 4 Standard; Motion pictures; Multimedia systems; Streaming media; Animation framework; MPEG-4; VRML; augmented reality; synthetic natural hybrid coding; virtual reality modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8215

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSVT.2004.830662

Filename

1308223