The MPEG-4 standard and its applications in virtual 3D environments

Author

Kauff, P. ; Ohm, J.-R. ; Rauthenberg, S. ; Sikora, T.

Author_Institution

Image Process. Dept., Heinrich-Hertz-Inst. for Commun. Technol., Berlin, Germany

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Nov. 1998

Firstpage

104

Abstract

The Moving Pictures Experts Group (SC11/WG29 of ISO/IEC) is currently developing the MPEG-4 standard aiming at interactive multimedia applications. Its first version was released in early 1999, a second one will follow early 2000. In addition to an increased compression efficiency for storage and transmission applications at a wide range of bit-rates, MPEG-4 will offer advanced content-based functionalities for interactive services, such as the possibility of accessing and manipulating natural or synthetic audiovisual objects in 2D or 3D scene representations. Against this background the paper first outlines the current status of MPEG-4 standardization and then concentrates on an example application if MPEG-4 to interactive services using virtual 3D environments in combination with streaming of real-time data.

Keywords

audio coding; code standards; data compression; image coding; image representation; interactive systems; multimedia communication; standardisation; telecommunication standards; virtual reality; 2D scene representation; 3D scene representation; ISO/IEC; MPEG-4 standard; Moving Pictures Experts Group; bit-rates; compression efficiency; content-based functionalities; interactive multimedia applications; interactive services; natural audiovisual objects; real-time data streaming; standardization; storage applications; synthetic audiovisual objects; transmission applications; virtual 3D environments; Communication standards; IEC standards; ISO standards; Image coding; MPEG 4 Standard; MPEG standards; Standards development; Streaming media; TV; Video compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems & Computers, 1998. Conference Record of the Thirty-Second Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA, USA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5148-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.1998.750836

Filename

750836