rex dorricott sony broadcast and professional europe mpeg-4 universal content of the future?

Rex DorricottSony Broadcast and Professional Europe

MPEG-4 MPEG-4 Universal Content of the Future?Universal Content of the Future?

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Books Film CDRom DVDRom Tape WEB Intranet Slides DVDVideo …….

Acquisition Reusable Source

IndexAuthoring

Universal Sources• Heritage• Entertainment• Education• (All Genre)

Application Specific Authoring

The Source and The Authoring

S ONY

Acquisition

Reusable Source

Index

Authoring

Universal Sources• Heritage• Entertainment• Education• (All Genre)

Exisiting

Libraries

Searchable• Issues

• Indexing• Automaic Indexing• Segmentation Temporal• Segmentation Spacial• Browse• Accessibility

• Relevant Technologies• MPEG-7• MPEG-4• Universal ID’s SMPTE/EBU

Requirements for Reusable Source (1)

S ONY

Acquisition

Reusable Source

Index

Authoring

Universal Sources• Heritage• Entertainment• Education• (All Genre)

Exisiting

Libraries

Multiple Representations (Authoring specific)• Issues

• Basic Forms • Audio/Video• Audio• Video/Still• Text• Objects

• Low-level Characteristics • eg Scaleale b/w, multiple aspect ratios

• Colourimetry……

• Transformations and Transcoding• Speech to text• …..

•Relevant Technologies• Frameworks and Storage and Distribution

• MPEG-4• MPEG-7?• XML• …..

•Scaleable Encoding

Requirements for Reusable Source (2)

S ONY

Acquisition

Reusable Source

Index

Authoring

Universal Sources• Heritage• Entertainment• Education• (All Genre)

Exisiting

Libraries

Quality• Issues

• Artifacts (compression, Transcription)• Noise• …..

• Relevant Technologies• MPEG-4,2,1• Filters and transforms

Requirements for Reusable Source (3)

S ONY

Acquisition

Reusable Source

Index

Authoring

Universal Sources• Heritage• Entertainment• Education• (All Genre)

Exisiting

Libraries

Accessible• Issues

• Transport/Delivery• Distributed• Protection of Assets

• Relevant Technologies• UMTS, Intranet, DVD-ROM, e-mail …….• MPEG-4,2,1….

Requirements for Reusable Source (4)

S ONY

Acquisition

Reusable Source

Index

Authoring

Universal Sources• Heritage• Entertainment• Education• (All Genre)

Exisiting

Libraries

Commercial• Issues

• Business Model• Ownership/Copyright, Protection/ Charging Model• Use of existing Assets (Automatically)

• Relevant Technologies• MPEG 4, IPMP• MPEG-4,2,1….

Requirements for Reusable Source (5)