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- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
MPEG is the flagship in the world multimedia standardizations.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
In TV broadcasting, multimedia data storage and communications
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
|Has less attention from funding issue. The major financial supports in recent years are from industries.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
My 1st MPEG meeting was in year 2000, 1st proposal was in 2002 (MPEG and JVT). More than ten Ph.D. students and other MS. Students submitted technical proposals to MPEG. It was an excellent experience in MPEG, working with so many world video coding experts. Students were also satisfied with the MPEG working subjects and teams which stimulated their creations for paper and thesis writing.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
MPEG studies in new techniques and new areas are always my expectation.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
MPEG-1 systems, video (very small contribution)
MPEG-1 Audio (domestic standardization = JIS)
MPEG-2 Audio, MPEG-2 AAC
MPEG-4 SNHC Audio
MPEG-21 IPMP
MPEG-V (not much)
MPEG-G (currently working on)
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
MPEG-2 System, MPEG-2 Video, MPEG-2 AAC, AVC, HEVC, MMT, DASH
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Systems standardization is more for just creating common platform for development.
Audio, Video compression – yes.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
I am always considering how and where I should contribute.
I think I am not pessimist or optimist about standardization.
But there are many productive people in MPEG and I can always find some area it is good to contribute.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
I do not think I am position to answer by myself.
But I periodically ask users of MPEG about their satisfaction.
And I get positive answer for all major MPEG standards.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
As you know, more than 50% of the standard fail to be adopted. But this does not mean MPEG is poor to be adopted in general. All other standards or private products are very competitive.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
I think MPEG has many roles in the future.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
I joined MPEG at the second meeting, when there were 14 people at the Jet hotel outside Torino airport.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
MPEG found a hole in the standardization universe: multimedia, which barely existed as a term at the time. That included entertainment, interactivity, and connectivity. Existing standards fell into well-worn pigeonholes such as videoconferencing.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
We created a standard that was universal around the world. This served to unify visual communications in ways that prior analog systems failed at.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
MPEG is not about research. It is about consensus on what a good system can be. It can spawn some research, but both are important.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
We called it the MPEG World Tour. This globalism was critical and it exposed engineers from literally everywhere to a common theme. I enjoyed many of the arguments over the future of video.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
MPEG-1 and -2 had relatively specific target applications that gathered development mass. In my opinion, that also limited them at the cost of streaming and interactivity. Later improvements, when software took over allowed corrections.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
I have not done a comparative analysis. However, I fear that burdensome IP problems can always stand in the way of almost any innovation.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
MPEG has become a brand. It can do anything and call it MPEG. How about light field coding?
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
Great contribution to the world in the past 30 years.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Move the consumers into digitalized world.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes, but facing more challenges.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
All people are serious to the standards within a friendly community.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Most the standards are adopted by the industry successfully, but not all.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
- So far, MPEG is one of the choices, because open source community is an alternative. The industry now is standing on the cross road.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
Excellent output, and IPR friendly standards for the industry. Outstanding differentiation from other standard organizations.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
No
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
The extremely large diffusion
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
It contributed to develop (and change) the competition in the music and the film industry. In the way people “consume” those products
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Many researcher can exchange ideas and see what the others are doing.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
I am not a member
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
As a consumer I would say yes (but I have no idea if there might be something better)
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes they are one of the best example of standard
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
To keep on its task. With the evolution of hardware, compression standards can improve. I would pay attention at:
- a) a “right” pace of development. Not too fast but not even too slow.
- b) “diffusion” more then “quality” It is important to keep most important player on board.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes, I am a member of the Spanish delegation.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
It’s unique, fair, objective and transparent results driven process of requirements gathering and exigent evaluation of subsequent calls for technology.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
It’s broad array of standards that address multi stake holder requirements and aspects of digital content use and exploitation.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Any process that requires MPEG’s level of detailed analyses of requirements and integration of tools is compulsory for any serious research in digital media.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
One of the few environments where effort and support are mutually commensurate.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Yes, the standards are excellent and MPEG provides the means and avenues for constant improvement.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
I expect MPEG to continue to lead the way while broadening its scope to integrate all aspects of digital data trends and uses.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
We are active MPEG members, and have been so for 20+ years.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
MPEG has achieved broad support in the industry because of the technology superiority of its standards and the wide array of solutions offered to the marketplace. Through its commitment to openness and balance, MPEG has attracted stakeholders and developers from a variety of industries and with a variety of business models. With a renewed effort to bring the industry together through consensus, openness and balance have guaranteed the success of MPEG, and should remain the pillars for standards development in the years to come.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Despite the sometimes inevitable difference of opinions among MPEG members, MPEG has stricken a balance that has achieved wide adoption and fair return to innovators. In particular, “moving forward together as a group” has been a guiding principle in the past. In light of increased competition, MPEG should not lose sight of its guiding principles, rely on technical superiority to differentiate itself, and avoid self-cannibalize its own “products” with too many parallel efforts.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
MPEG has achieved great traction in the marketplace because of the technical superiority of many of its standards. Inclusion of the best technologies, and a focus on impactful and meaningful research and development, should continue to guide standardization. To avoid antitrust concerns, commercial matters should have no role in the development of a standard, nor in the selection of the technology building blocks of a standard. In light of growing competition from proprietary solutions, promotion of MPEG codecs and of the MPEG model based on openness and consensus will also play an increasingly important role. Industry fora like MC-IF, which was created to promote adoption of VVC, can serve a complementary function to the technical development at MPEG.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
MPEG is a community of visionaries. Frank, and sometimes heated, discussions are inevitable if not even necessary for technological breakthrough. Unfortunately, however, too often technical considerations have lately taken the back seat.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Many MPEG standards have achieved broad adoption, and some have become the industry norm. Implementers embrace the quality that MPEG standards have delivered, and users expect an ever-increasing experience that only a collaborative effort can provide.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Consensus-based standards that are open to all stakeholders regardless of business model and balance interests across industries provide unmatched benefits to consumers. MPEG standards are no different, and have delivered increasing performance to a data-hungry society. Competing “products” are challenging the MPEG model. However, I warn MPEG and the industry from embracing proprietary (or pseudo-proprietary) solutions. Proprietary platforms are inevitably a sub-optimal choice for consumers and implementers: for example, rollout, updates, availability, etc. are often controlled by a few developers, and access to the technology is not guaranteed.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
I support MPEG exploring the expansion into new areas such as big data compression, automotive data collection, medical applications etc., leveraging its expertise in audio / video compression to tackle other industries’ needs. Nonetheless, MPEG should focus on technology leadership and “best practices” in the development of best-in-class solutions in an open, balanced and consensus-based fashion. Promotion, through industry fora or other means, should continue. Commercial discussions should be left out of MPEG meetings. Lastly, MPEG should avoid stretching its resources (and participants) too thin by pursuing parallel, potentially self-cannibalizing projects in the same domain.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
A forum for both industry and academia to develop standards for future products and services. It offers to possibility to conduct research based on standards (i.e., about the informative aspects in a standard left open for competition) and research results could also lead to standards. I think this combination makes it very special.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Audio/video coding + systems support (TS+ISOBMFF, DASH)
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes (see above answer to question 2)
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
Yes, I wrote a blog post some time ago which may fit here https://multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2015/08/one-year-of-mpeg.html
- Are you happy with MPEG standards?
Yes, specifically now as I represent both academia (University Klagenfurt) and industry (Bitmovin), it’s a perfect match for both research and product development.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes, it offers a “toolbox” approach and allows one to choose the right tools to be used for products and services, yet offering the minimum required for interoperability.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
To continue leadership in the core competences of MPEG (e.g., audio/video coding + systems support), offering tools to be adopted within products and services but also other standards developing organizations (SDO) defining ’systems standards’. Additionally, I expect MPEG to evolve into other domains requiring expertise/technologies/tools in ‘compression/coding + systems support’ (i.e., beyond audio/video).
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Not directly but I workedfor companies like C-Cube Microsystems who sent experts to MPEG.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
People make MPEG special, the caliber of the engineers is unparalled in most cases. I have run into some of the same people at AOM.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
The biggest impact has been in actual audio and video compression technology. If I were to fine tune that, I would say video compression such as MPEG-2, AVC, and HEVC.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
MPEG is a good conduit for research.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
Lots of experience both as an implementer (MPEG-2 encoding, AVC encoding, HEVC encoding) and also doing patent analysis (HEVC).
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
I think that the standards can be made clearer to implement by continuing to rev. the implementations with answers to questions of implementers. For example, when I designed a video capture module for Intel, I did 51 revisions of the document incorporating an answer to any question that readers had. Another suggestion is to keep implementing details in the reference open source encoders so that there is no doubt about how to interpret the standard.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
All answers are my own opinion, not that of my employer Amazon. I don’t really have an answer on whether MPEG standards are the right choice beyond AVC. AV1 is looking quite good for my own uses. I like the performance of HEVC but the licensing is still messy.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
I expect the same advances in technology from members but better decisions in licensing. I really look forward to seeing what VVC can do and how it will be licensed.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Although I am not an engineer and have never been an MPEG member or worked for one, I have been a big fan since learning about MPEG in the middle 1990s
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
I have always been impressed by what interoperable standards make possible and with MPEG in particular, I have seen the streaming revolution born from MPEG
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
While arguably its most important impact has been for video and audio, since the early days of VRML and MPEG-4 I believe MPEG has also stood for what interoperability can enable.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
As a conduit for research, I was especially interested in MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 as they developed.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
Since May 2016, I’ve had the pleasure of writing short news stories about different MPEG technologies, under appropriate supervision of course, since I myself am neither an engineer nor an expert. This is particularly interesting, as I learn about each one, because each is both an interesting conduit for research as well as an area where interoperability could bring greater advantages. As a writer, my particular problem with MPEG coverage has been its inaccuracy and so it is especially a privilege to create digestible write-ups that do not suffer from inaccuracy, thanks again to the supervision my pieces receive. My experience with MPEG has been that I enjoy continuing to learn.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
I cannot assess whether I am satisfied with MPEG’s standards, especially because it seems to me that a lot more adoption would bring benefits that made the technical standards themselves even more satisfactory, And they almost all are extensible, so I think greater adoption would improve the quality of MPEG’s outputs.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
This gets back to the issue of who wants their digital assets to work together with whoever else’s digital assets. If the world wanted better solutions, for example for privacy, MPEG has made such standards available for years. Perhaps members of the lay public choose assertively to remain uninformed/ignorant of prospective solutions that could be implemented in the near term. Perhaps business as well choose to sometimes comply with industry efforts to make an area interoperable while those very same companies remain aprt, separated by technological walled gardens from their competitors.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
What I expect from MPEG in the future is that it will continue to stand for a flexible, constructive extensible and interoperable way of doing things that need to be accomplished in the digital world. While malls house commerce and the MPEG-4 virtual mall did not come to fruition as a digitally built space to shop in, MPEG has many other dreams that did come true. MPEG also served as a forum for discussions between professionals in common research areas that have since been productized, such as user-avatar synchronization of facial expressions. Everywhere I turn in MPEG, the applications and use cases are fascinating if not even more enthralling. Conventionally they include media that can exist in one memory location or else be accessed on the fly with various gradations of performance and bandwith needed to fit within different profiles. When companies and researchers agree that it is time to work together, interoperably, I believe MPEG will continue to be a fair and objective conduit for research to result in enormous public benefits, thanks to well spec-ed profiles. I would like to see policymakers be more cognizant of such opportunities.
