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- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
My first meeting was in 1994/03 in Paris. My first technical work was on MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Video since 1991/06.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
MPEG has put and continues to put together the largest technical “community” of people working on audio, video, and other relevant coding technology. The right mix of collaboration and competition, carefully managed, makes a unique environment for the development of new technology.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
The ability to put “around the same table” people from all continents allowed the creation of standards adopted worldwide. MPEG has been successful in creating solutions (almost) unanimously adopted as technical standards in its areas of development.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
I have been working in research and development projects for almost 30 years. Practically all the projects relied upon standards in development or adopted within MPEG.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
Having started participating to MPEG development and meetings as a “freshman” I had the opportunity to meet the most relevant people in my field of expertise. This has given me invaluable advantages both in technical and in relational perspective.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Although some of the MPEG standards are more successful than others for their penetration in the commercial field, the widely adopted standards (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVC, HEVC…) are worth the efforts of the experts who contributed to MPEG at large.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
There would not be digital audio, digital broadcast, mobile video, streaming video as we know them without MPEG and its standards.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
After 30 years of success stories for MPEG and its standards, I expect the “experts group” to continue with its activities on coding technologies for audio, video, and other relevant “big data”.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
YES for more than 10 years from 1993 – 2005
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
The people (scientists, engineers, mathematicians) and the leadership from the convenor to the chairs of the work groups. Delivery to a schedule so industry can depend on investing in products to bring to market
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Enabling the digital infrastructure of Video and Audio and many associated technologies.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes, its vision points researcher in the direction of technical endeavor.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
Rarely in the career of and scientist/engineer does one have the opportunity to change the way the world experiences video/audio across the gamut of existing devices to the future of such devices.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Yes, but also no because there needs to be a stream of continuing standards based technology.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes, standards are always a right choice and MPEG has delivered a continuous stream of technology suited to the audio-visual industry.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
SIMPLY MORE OF THE SAME.. as it attracts new blood with new ideas.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
It build standards that really solve an industry problem in a timely fashion
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
The enabling of the Telecom industry being able to build IPTV solutions that are offering people choice to watch whatever they want. Without this people would be still watching just linear channels similar to 25 years ago
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes, I think so. Me myself started as an researcher in MPEG, it taught me many many things, brought sense of urgency, the opportunity and pleasure of working with people coming from many cultures and companies. Taught me how to play the company political game a bit (working for an incumbent Telco, one never learns all lessons 🙂
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
On an emotional level, MPEG has brought me many friends in this industry, several of them I still meet from time to time, always this common thing in the past connects. Learning a lot in my first job, working with the most clever minds in the world is a real pleasure
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
With the standards yes, several are really useful and applied by my company. With the licencing NO, greed is hindering our industry and the same thing is happening again and again. MPEG comes with a spec, companies implement, licencing kicks in, asking outrageous fees, nothing happens, an outside group build something licence free with a quality coming close, companies start using that one instead, licencing people understand that big percentage of nothing is nothing and fees go down…. this results in several years of delay. It is such a waste.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
Solve issues before they hit the industry by bringing standards that will further our world
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
No – not directly, although I have been involved in MPEG related working groups for some time.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
It crosses national boundaries and brings technology companies together on a common basis. The sum of their efforts together is far more than any of them could accomplish alone with a proprietary solution.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
It has ensured that large and even very small companies can collaborate and compete in a constructive way regardless of their size and resources. Now that virtually all media formats are digital, we are gradually eliminating the unnecessary international differences in formats inherited from the analogue world.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Reading about the internals of MPEG standardised technologies has often triggered new research topics and inspired new trains of thought.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
On the whole it has been extremely positive. I was disappointed that we couldn’t achieve wider adoption of BIFS (MPEG-4 part 11). However, that would be the only negative experience in over 20 years of study and involvement.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Yes very much so. They meet a great many of the needs we have for standardising media delivery. When they are combined with W3C/ECMA standards, I think they collectively cover what needs to be standardised for online and broadcast media delivery.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
I especially like that they interact very well with other standards from different organisations. Perhaps it is by design, but if not, it is a happy coincidence that they all fit neatly together without significantly overlapping.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
It would be helpful if the standards were very open, much in the tradition of open source software or W3C. Perhaps it strengthens the standards and makes them more attractive to potential adopters if we can eliminate the possibility of unaffordable license fees and patent pools.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Have been an MPEG active member from 1995-2004 and follower since
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
The system aspects that integrates media modalities and formats
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Industry and industry development as a perfect vehicle gto take academic research into practical use.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes, absolutely
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
Rewarding and educational and a perfect introduction to transdiciplinarity
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Yes
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
Continues cross/tran disciplinary work into new digital media
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
Years of success in the creation of standards that are become an essential part of our everyday life whenever we access any kind of media (audio, TV, multimedia streaming, CD, DVD)
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
MP3 for audio was a revolution allowing any portable device to store millions of audio tracks, AVC/HEVC/VVC for video made digital TV possible, DASH improved the way multimedia streaming is reaching final users.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
MPEG has push to the creation of tens of new research laboratories all over the world. Thousands of new researchers have been
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
It has been as I would never done working inside my company or just writing papers to journal and conferences. The number of people I met in MPEG allowed me also to create my own personal research activity.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Absolutely YES
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
YES
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
To continue to be place where new technologies will be developed in a way they allow the generation of new standard accessible to any company at a reasonable condition as ISO and ITU rules dictates
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes, I’m still a member of MPEG, although currently I’m less involved with it.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
What I believe it makes MPEG special is the amount of coordinated work that lots of very competent and knowledgable people put into the development of such a set of multimedia standards around, that literally help bring the World together. MPEG has been doing this, with a large share of success, for the last decades.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
The ability to produce high quality standardisation work that has a huge impact all over the World.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Sure it is… the biggest and most visible proof of that is the large number of research and development projects that were developed on top of MPEG standards and that have established a strong cooperation with the MPEG standardisation activities, contributing also for the long term development of MPEG.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
My path within MPEG was always connected with my participation in different EU projects. It started with the FP5-IST OCCAMM project, followed by the FP5-IST MOSES project and continued throughout the FP6-IST MEDIANET project. I was mostly involved with the security and intellectual property aspects of both the MPEG-4 and MPEG-21, working both on MPEG-4 IPMP Extensions and on MPEG-21 REL, RDD and IPMP.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes they are, because they reflect the worldwide effort to create a broad range of standards that enable interoperability between different multimedia systems. MPEG contributed (and continues to contribute) to a better World.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
I expect to continue to see this community doing its work towards the definition of innovative multimedia standards, targeting the increasing complex challenges that lay ahead.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
MPEG has ensured that video was and continues to be the prima donna of innovations. For example, this year’s CES (2019) noted six trends that would change the world: 5G, AI, 8K, AR, L3 SelfDriving, Resilient Technologies. Because of MPEG, video is taking center stage in all these six.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Proved to the world that with strong leadership, it is possible to deliver a cutting-edge standard that looks at both the research and implementation.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
A great idea with no action is as good as an artist’s daydream. With MPEG, great research ideas have had a place to take actions.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
I was a member at MPEG and a member at other standardization committees. MPEG was all about changing the world for better with best technology. The other committees, like many others, were more-or-less about who’s patents could get into the standard. I enjoyed much more participating in MPEG.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
MPEG standards continues to demonstrate how a global industry standardization should be operated to be meaningful.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
MPEG should and can assert itself and contribute even more to all six trends that are mentioned above.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes, my previous company and current company have been members for more than 20 years. I personally participated for around 5 years during the development of MPEG1 and MPEG2.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
Solving hard technical problems in the public interest with high industry interest to drive things very quickly to conclusion and also focus everyone’s attention. This is the standard maker’s dream and MPEG has achieved it multiple times.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Digital television for sure, MPEG facilitated a paradigm shift in television.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Providing the urgency and impetus to drive and accelerate research is something that MPEG has managed to achieve, so yes.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
As a young engineer starting out it was a career-defining moment. It is something perhaps that MPEG should study. How to have more young engineers and students involved early on. These people grow into ambassadors as well as skilled engineers through a superb collaborative experience.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
If applicable for sure.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
Find a way to balance accelerating fundamental research whilst not falling into IP ownership traps.
Maybe the name is somewhat self-limiting now, it is tricky to work out a way of not erasing past achievements whilst broadening horizons. Maybe a re-branding exercise and new vision is needed ?
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
No
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
Definition of a video compression standard so that any device of any manufacturer (hardware or software) can be used to play the video
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Standardization and introduction of new codec
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes, absolutely
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
I started to work on MPEG around 1996, always with positive results
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Yes, recent HEVC is very interesting, although royalties are a major gap
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes, absolutely
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
Introduction of CODEC based on AI and CODEC free from royalties
