MPEG-7 Contributions
MERL Murray Hill has made three salient technical contributions to the MPEG-7 standard in addition to participating in its creation and shaping. Benefits from such participation in standards include revenue from licensing of proprietary technology included in the standard as well as timely development of expertise related to the standard. We are currently participating in the MPEG-21 standard which provides a framework for exchange of digital media. We are working on specification of user profiles and environments, as well as investigating opportunities for contributing our proprietary technology.
Background & Objective: As more and more audio-visual content becomes available in digital form in various places around the world, the ability to locate desired content will become more and more important. Already text based search engines help retrieve textual data from the World Wide Web, but no equivalent identifying information exists for A/V content. The proposed MPEG-7 standard will standardize a multimedia content description interface that will enable efficient searching and browsing of worldwide multimedia content.
Technical Discussion: Our contributions to the MPEG-7 standard include:3. Transcoding Hints Description Scheme - Meta-data that facilitates simpler and improved quality transcoding of content.
Contacts:
Anthony Vetro
Technology Area: Audio Video Processing
Modification Date: June 13, 2008