TUTORIAL - A
MULTIMEDIA AUDIOVISUAL
COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Low bit rate audio visual communication services aimed at mobile (cellular) channels, multimedia videoconferencing on a PC via ordinary telephone lines, and videophones. Video over the internet, video e-mail. Object/content based coding. Synthetic & natural (hybrid) video/audio coding. Animation, graphics, video composition etc.
1. IS G.723.1 Dual rate speech coder for multimedia telecommunication transmitting at 5.3 and 6.3 Kbits/s. Also annexes.
2. MPEG-4 Video/Audio Coding ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, Requirements, Test/Evaluation, Call for proposals, Verification Models, (VM) system description language (MSDL) (IS: Nov. 1998). VM 9.0 (Oct. 1997), Synthetic and natural images hybrid coding (SNHC). Audio coding. (Oct. 1997). Audio WD V 5.0. Systems,Content/object based coding, functionalities and applications.
3. Very low bit rate audiovisual communication services, H.263 IS by ITU-T study Group 15. H. 263 is part of H.324 which includes multiplexing protocols, multimedia system control, terminals, dialing etc., IS: International Standard H. 263 + Near term standardization of enhancements of the H. 263 video coding algorithm for real-time telecommunication. IS: April 1997. H. 263 L (Long term) LBR video coding recommendation achieving better video quality, lower complexity and better error resilience. ITU-T low bit-rate experts groups advanced video coding project aimed at real-time audio/visual conversational services/ applications. IS to coincide with MPEG-4. Draft Rec. H.223/Annex A: Multiplexing protocol for low bit-rate multimedia communication.
4. MPEG-2 Multiview profile (stereoscopic video coding), 4:2:2 profile and adaptive audio coder (nonbackward compatible audio) (AAC)
5. JPEG Extensions, JPEG-2000
6. MPEG-7: Multimedia content driven interface.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
This course is directed at researchers, engineers, technical managers and academia who like to keep abreast with the emerging/established standards aimed at interactive video/audio communications/storage services at very low bit rates so that software/hardware at various levels can be designed/developed. They can also integrate the boards/codecs with their existing PCs/workstations resulting in multimedia, teleconferencing, videophone and other interactive services.
SPEAKER:
Dr. K. R. Rao has conducted the short course/workshop/tutorial in this field worldwide for Universities, Research Institutes and Industries. He is co-author of the book "Techniques and standards for image, video and audio coding" Prentice Hall (1996). This book is now translated into Japanese.
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Dr K R Rao PhD
Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering
Box 19016, University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0016, USA
Tel: +817-272-3478, Fax: +817-272-2253
E-mail: mailto:rao@ee.uta.edu
http://www-ee.uta.edu/~dip-lab/
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