- 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.
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