Chiariglione and the birth of MPEG

Author

Sweet, W.

Volume

34

Issue

9

fYear

1997

fDate

9/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

77

Abstract

Leonardo Chiariglione, the father of the Moving Pictures Experts Group and the driving force behind its standards for digitized video is now pushing a standard for Internet images manipulable by the user. As first conceived, MPEG-2 was to standardize the digital coding of interlaced TV pictures (in which a field made up of every other scan line is followed by another field consisting of the remaining scan lines). The coding was to occur at about 10 Mb/s, and standard digital television was the main goal. Then MPEG-3 was to formulate coding standards for pictures at 40 Mb/s, with a view to HDTV. The current effort of the Moving Pictures Experts Group, MPEG-4, is geared to digital coding at low bit-rates and was at first conceived rather vaguely in a multimedia context

Keywords

biographies; code standards; multimedia communication; telecommunication standards; video coding; 10 Mbit/s; 40 Mbit/s; HDTV; Internet images; Leonardo Chiariglione; MPEG; MPEG-2; MPEG-3; MPEG-4; Moving Pictures Experts Group; coding standards; digital coding; digitized video standards; interlaced TV pictures; low bit rate coding; multimedia; standard digital television; Collaboration; Digital video broadcasting; Discrete cosine transforms; Image coding; Internet; Natural languages; TV; Telecommunication standards; Transform coding; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6.619383

Filename

619383