- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes, since early 1990s - What do you think makes MPEG special?
Its creativity, innovations, sense of urgency to produce great standards in timely fashion and its sensitivity to the needs of the industries. And, its convener with forceful and unwavering commitment to the founding principles of MPEG: developing standards in collaborative but at the same time competitive way, and developing standards that serve the needs of the industries in a timely fashion. - What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
It has touched and impacted everyone’s life on the planet. It has revolutionized how people communicate and how digital media is created, stored and distributed. Although it started with initial focus on the entertainment industry but now its impact can be seen on other industries, like education, health, telecommunication, security etc as well – any industry that uses digital media has been profoundly impacted by MPEG standards. The concept of having standardized algorithmic representation of the multi media that can be interoperable world wide across the boundaries of the nations, industries, companies and the product lines and of having the standard that can be implemented in such a cost-effective way that it can become ubiquitous, was unthinkable when MPEG was born. MPEG made that happen. - Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
MPEG is an excellent place to interact with world leading researchers, thinkers and innovators. Not only the contributions from various experts generate exciting and thought-provoking discussions but the hall way discussions also produce new great ideas. - Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
MPEG experience has been very unique. Participants are not only the best of the best, not only on the cutting edge of the technologies, they are also very hard working as well. Where else will one find the meetings lasting for 10 days straight, including weekends, and many times the meetings lasting in the wee hours of the night. One of my memorable experience in this arena was during the development of AVC standard where one day the meeting closed around 4 am just to start again at 8 am. I and my co-chairs went to hotel to take shower and did not dare to sit on the bed as then we may not get up in time for the start of the meeting :). And, at 8:00 am when the meeting restarted the room was full! Every time it was thought that we had reached the edges and limits of the possibilities, MPEG leaped beyond and made possible that was thought to be impossible only a few years earlier. Dedication and hard work of so many world leading experts has allowed MPEG to break one barrier after another. - Are you happy with MPEG standards?
Extremely happy. They have not only been critical in improving and influencing people’s lives, producing great standards that have become ubiquitous worldwide, but have also been critical in giving participating experts opportunities to grow in multiple directions, ranging from understanding and developing new technologies, to managing diverse groups of people, to having patience to understand opposing views (at the same time to be able to stand for your own) to contributing to the standards that made such deep and fundamental impacts. - Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
They are great choice. The collaborative and at the same time competitive nature and methodology of the standard development with hundreds of experts critically reviewing every aspect of the standard ensures that they are state of the art, implementable and interoperable standards with richness of innovations. - What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
– To continue to be true to its founding principles of developing standards in collaborative but at the same time competitive way,
– To continue to serve the needs of the industries in appropriate and timely fashion,
– To continue to broaden its horizon and scope from multimedia-centric focus to other areas that need data compression and associated standards.
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