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11: MPEG-4: Next-Generation Standard for Interactive
Media

Sunday, Full Day
8:30 am 5:15 pm
Room 207
MPEG-4 is an international open standard that provides
technology for creation and delivery of rich, interactive
media transported via the Internet or broadcast or wireless
channels to a broad spectrum of user terminals ranging
from set-top boxes to PDAs. This course presents an
overview of the tools and opportunities for creating
interactive content with a blend of media technologies.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of various media types including
video, audio, images, and computer graphics.
Topics
MPEG-4 overview: anatomy and rationale for having a
standard. Synthetic and natural media objects: video, audio, graphics, face and body
animation. Compositing and synchronization of
media objects. Scene description. Compression of media
objects and scene description. Delivery of content over
networks: Streaming and stream management, multiplexing.
Interactivity: local, remote, backchannel. Error resilience.
File formats. Digital rights management: intellectual
property management and protection. Profiles and levels
in MPEG-4. Applications: internet streaming, wireless,
broadcast.
Organizer
Klaus Diepold
DynaPel Laboratories GmbH
Lecturers
Klaus Diepold
DynaPel Laboratories GmbH
Radek Grzeszczuk
Intel Corporation
Igor Pandzic
Visage Technologies AB
Eric Petajan
face2face
Iraj Sodagar
PacketVideo Corporation
JC Spierer
The MITRE Corporation
Gabriel Taubin
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
| 8:30 |
Introduction
to MPEG-4
Diepold |
| 8:45 |
Streams
of Media Objects
Spierer |
| 9:30 |
Delivery
of Object Streams
Spierer |
| 10:15 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
Video
and Image Coding
Sodagar |
| 11:15 |
Binary
Format for Scene Description
Diepold |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
| 1:30 |
Synthetic
Media Objects
Taubin |
| 2:15 |
Light
Field Mapping in MPEG-4
Grzeszczuk |
| 3:15 |
Break
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| 3:30 |
An
Overview of 3D in New Media
Mohler |
| 4:15 |
Introduction
to Digital Rights Management
Spierer |
| 4:45 |
Putting
it all Together in MPEG-4
Diepold |
| 5:15 |
Proliferation
of MPEG-4
Sodagar |
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