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- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
I am an MPEG member and have actively participated MPEG standardization activities during 2012-2016.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
MPEG has great reputation for its media standards, particularly on codecs and streaming formats/protocols. MPEG standards such as H.264/AVC and DASH have been such great success with broad industry adoption.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
I’d say media codecs (e.g., H.264/AVC) for compression and media formats/protocols (e.g., DASH) for streaming/storage have made the biggest industry impact in terms of adoption and deployment.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes, particularly on the applied research side. MPEG participation can be very useful for media compression / systems researchers to drive the industry acceptance of their ideas through adoption in MPEG standards.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
In overall, I had great experience at MPEG and contributed as editor of several specifications and amendments. I had to discontinue my participation since 2016 due to the need to focus on 3GPP/5G standardization, but I still closely follow MPEG’s work.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Yes, particularly those ones that have been adopted by the industry and deployed broadly, i.e., in the codecs and systems areas.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Hard to give a yes/no answer on this, since I believe what standard is the right choice should be addressed on a case-by-case basis depending on the particular market segment as well as other factors.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
Continue to deliver world class media standards to address the future interoperability needs of the industry.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
NO
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
Its universality; everybody uses MPEG, many knows about it (even just its name).
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
MPEG plays a fundamental role in scenario involving digital media (TV, personal communications, social networking…)
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
I’ve no experience on MPEG activities
- Are you happy with MPEG standards?
Yes
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Are there any other choices at the same level of performance?
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
IMO, one of the major problem we are facing (and we’ll be facing much more in the future) is the multiplication of the same data acquired and transmitted by multiple sources.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
The vast competency and joint vision of it’s people, and its visibility. MPEG is truly the home of motion picture experts. The standards these people develop are leading and guiding for the whole industry, enjoying vast adoption not only by its members because of their technological relevance in the marketplace.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Interoperability
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Mostly yes, although the mixup with business and patent/IPR aspects are damaging to its neutrality and its potential for also being a conduit for peer review.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
Most of all I enjoy the interaction with highly competent people and the ability to participate in work which has a significant impact on how the future of media might look.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Usually yes on technological grounds, although some tend to be bloated with features not really used in practice – which especially hurts adoption when it results in a confusing and unjustified patent royalty situation (see HEVC as example, but it’s not the only one).
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
When they are royalty free, or come with a clear IP and and truly FRAND royalty situation, then yes.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
Fixing the IPR issue MPEG clearly has
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
I am still an MPEG member^^
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
It gives me a state-of-the art technology not only a technical point of view but also an industry point of view.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
The most important thing is MPEG is an International standard technology and most up to date technology. Lots of industry can find a promising road to live together via MPEG.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
In some case like as encoder-side research, MPEG is a good topic. But most of all case, it is a little bit industry purpose with proven technologies. So, it is limited to finish making full packages within a pre-defined time frame.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
I did not aware the scope and philosophy of MPEG when I started MPEG activity. My major role was to increase company’s benefits at first time. During the MPEG activity, I learned very important factors like as cooperation, taking care of others, and making the best results for all members. MPEG was the basement of my economy as well as professional life. And, MPEG is still continuing with my life^^
- Are you happy with MPEG standards?
It is going to be more complicated comparing the beginning stage, but MPEG still gives me a vitality. It gives me a proud of contribution for increasing the quality of life for mankind by dedicated care and hard work for a long time. It is a little bit burden that MPEG is driven by top-rank league even the process to make a state-of-the-art technology in MPEG is very happy. Whatever the standardization activity is going on, I hope the opportunity open for all members who want to make MPEG a GOOD PLACE TO ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
International standard will not be necessary if a certain technology is absolute one or proprietary one which everybody should use for a certain functionality. Absolute power will destroy ecology and will not live by himself. As MPEG has done for a long time, it should be alive in order to give an equal opportunity for everybody with same starting line by resolving various kind of challenges and difficulties.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
MPEG has been a something special for a digital media in the world like as company brand. MPEG gives the best solution for mankind to consume digital contents with the best condition. MPEG will be the most promising communication field if MPEG tries to increase the quality of life for mankind opposing any kind of challenge and threat.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes, I’m a MPEG member
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
I guess MPEG is a unique organization that transforms cutting-edge media technology to international standards to make these technology available over the world
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Families of audio and video coding standards
Transport mechanisms such as MPEG-DASH
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
MPEG creates a competitive environmet that stimulates researchers for better results
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
My personal experience is excellent. I’m very excited by the opportunity to take part in MPEG meetings and the MPEG standardization activity
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Yes, I’m satified with them. According to my personal engineering experience, MPEG and ITU standards as well as IETF RFCs are the useful normative documents in the field of moving picture coding and transmission
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Definitely, it’s right.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
I expect that MPEG will hold leadership positions in the filed of video and audio coding as well as media transport
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
No, but I have attended MPEG meetings as an observer on behalf the companies I was working for in the mid to late nineties. (My career evolved towards business development and product management/marketing roles since then.)
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
Its ability to capture the state of the art in the fields it addresses and its encouragement of the worldwide collaboration of experts towards useful and usable standards.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
As a video compression expert, I would have to say its development of the AVC and HEVC standards.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Definitely yes.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
I was a former employer’s (TeraLogic) chief liaison to MPEG. In that capacity, I coordinated TeraLogic’s submission (“Wavelet-Based Adaptive Spline Modeling for Coding Motion-Compensated Residual Frames”) into the MPEG4-Video competitive tests in July ’97 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
As a video compression expert, I am UNSATISFIED with the IP Licensing/Patent Pools situation surrounding HEVC. It is amazing that, here we are in 2019, and we still don’t know which IP is integral to HEVC and what its associated licensing cost is.
In this vein, I am currently following the effort by the new Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) to ensure that the upcoming Versatile Video Codec (VVC) MPEG codec “launches with a cohesive, transparent, and affordable royalty structure that promotes its acceptance.”
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
As applied to video codecs, my answer is yes but with the caveats described in my answer to Q6 above.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
From a video coding standpoint, please refer to my answer to Q6 above.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
I have been attending MPEG meetings since 2012 and have been implementing or making use of MPEG standards for 25 years.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
It gathers a community of experts with a large diversity of skills and expertise and is a place where industry and research (private or public) talk to each other.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Deliver standards which meet market needs.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes for a collaborative applied research.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
Appreciate the level of expertise of people and the multi-cultural collaboration brought by MPEG. Learnt a lot in the past years as editor of one MPEG standard.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Technically speaking, yes, but sad to see that the successful deployment may be compromised by licensing uncertainties
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
At least, a lot of them in the past met their market and it should still be the same for future standards if the requirements phase is built from industry input contributions.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
Continue to identify interoperability blockers for the successful deployment of new media applications and propose efficient and consensus-based solutions.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes, I am a member of MPEG (as a company delegate) since 2006.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
MPEG during its history, has managed to gather and keep involved a large number of best experts in the field of multimedia coding.
By this, MPEG provides a unique platform/eco-system for R&D and standardization in the field of multimedia coding.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
Video coding technology as we know it nowadays.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
MPEG is known to produce a high quality technical specifications for several video coding standards, few examples are AVC or HEVC.
Some of these standards were successfully deployed. In the field of video coding, MPEG is definitely a seal of quality approval.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
There are some opinions, that MPEG should be more flexible and adequately evolving to meet changes in the video signal delivery models, e.g. to address influence of the VOD and streaming services.
Faster standard development and standard deployment may be desirable in future.
Resolution of certain problems in licensing are also desirable, but this may be outside of the technical work in MPEG.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
No, but I have worked closely with folks at member companies.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
MPEG’s collaborative environment brings the best innovators from across the golbe together to move the industry forward.
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
By providing a universal codec upon which new products, services, and communications tools can be built.
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
MPEG provides a competitive environment for some research ideas to be compared against each other and to determine their maturity level. The time window for standardization is too short for getting an idea all the way from concept to “product worthiness”.
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
As a close observer of the MPEG process since 1990, it seem that the emphasis has shifted from solving really hard problems to making small incremental improvements in order to cash in on a revenue stream. Many company devote vast resources to develop and push for their ideas to be considered essential. The return on investment drives the work, and then the licensing mess afterward (the money grab) kicks in and dramatically reduces adoption.
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Mpeg 1,2,4(AVC) were all AWESOME. HEVC has some nice features, but it seems to be mostly lots of small improvements but nothing really dramatically innovative. H.266 has some new modes and use cases, but they are not core to the codec and might not get into chips, so those extensions might not get wide adoption. I think the Whole MPEG process could be getting stuck in a local minimal, and the push for profit is making the process too risk averse. AOM is focusing on solutions that make economic sense given the realities of the internet, etc. And MPEG is still stuck in the “licensing royally subsidizing research” economic model.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
AVC, yes, until AV1 gets widely deployed. HEVC is to risky, and there are no signs that VVC will be much better. AV1 will be good enough for 10 years, just like AVC is(was).
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
VVC has some interesting PCC modes and a few other things, but if they don’t fix their licensing model they won’t be competitive. Maybe require all essential core patents to be licensed in a single pool, at RAND rate that are agreed to in ADVANCE so there is clarity to the participants AND the potential licensees.
- Are you or have you been an MPEG member?
Yes, an active member, contributor and editor for almost 20 years. The last 3 years I have also been serving as Leader of UK Delegation, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 & Chair, UK National Body.
- What do you think makes MPEG special?
Its people with diverse research and business interests working together to solve a common problem and its procedures enabling competitive collaboration – all year round & around the world!
- What do you think is the most important MPEG impact?
MPEG has changed people’s life by enabling them to access and enjoy digital media content: Any time, Any where and on Any device!
- Do you think MPEG is a good conduit for research?
Yes, it’s a great knowledge transfer machine: research & IP in & glory (Emmy awards) & revenue out!
- Can you comment on your MPEG experience?
That could well be a Hollywood movie! Touring the world for almost 20 years with MPEG is a way of life, incl. friends, action, politics, intrigues, conspiracies, fiction, love, horror and drama, all wrapped in high-tech, requirements, architectures, specs, software, conformance, ballots, NB comments, consensus and, of course, oppositions not to mention sustained ones! Strongly recommended to younger generation hesitant to study Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
- Are you satisfied with MPEG standards?
Yes, however, some stakeholders need to be more flexible wrt MPEG needs, if they do expect it to be in the market for the next 30 years, otherwise pay-as-you-go media codecs are just around the corner.
- Do you think MPEG standards are the right choice?
Yes, MPEG digital media standards market success is well known, what is rather not so well known is its well established procedures and methodologies achieving knowledge transfer results in short periods of time (e.g., critical material collection, establishing evaluation frameworks, defining and running competitive core experiments). Other research communities and industry sectors could benefit from such methodologies and expertise and why not be attracted in joining MPEG, rather than reinventing the wheel.
- What do you expect from MPEG in the future?
MPEG being successful naturally gets both feelings: admiration and envy. Some stakeholders posing obstacles and trying to split it apart in pieces hoping to get some of its glory. However, what does not kill us, it make us stronger and I believe MPEG will continue its success story, e.g., with its work, among others, on MPEG-Immersive & MPEG-Genome, for the years to come!
Last but not least, as a member of MPEG community, I would like to express my appreciation to all those working towards its success. The 100s of people in the foreground: convenor, chairs and contributors, as well as, the 1000s of people in the background: NB chairs, secretaries and IT staff, meetings hosting organizers and student volunteers, researchers and product developers.
