MPEG4 Stuff - some interesting clarrification

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 1994 10:44:36 -0800
From: robg () halcyon com (Rob Glaser)


Dave I'm copying you on it for its potential as an I-P submission.


For the latter to make sense it's probably useful for me to add a little
context on what MPEG4 is (and why it's not called MPEG3).


In the original MPEG days the idea was that MPEG 1 would be CD/T1 data rates
(~150 KB/sec); MPEG2 would be the NTSC/PAL/SECAM replacement; MPEG3 would be
HDTV (higher data rates than MPEG2); and MPEG4 would be "low" bit rates
(lower than MPEG1).


What ended up happening was (a) MPEG2 scales to very high bit rates, and (b)
the digital HDTV race began to move on its own very fast track separate from
ISO (thanks to the FCC largely).  As a result the MPEG3 group was scrubbed,
but the name MPEG4 already meant "low data rate" to some people so the group
was not renumbered.


My friends in the MPEG world project that the time overlap of MPEG4 relative
to MPEG2 will be kind of like the overlap of MPEG2 relative to MPEG1, i.e.,
MPEG4 will start now, even though there are still some clean-up things to be
done on MPEG2.


Rob


> INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR
> STANDARDIZATION
> ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION
> ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11
> CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO
>
>
>       ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11
>       MPEG 93/___
>       December 20, 1993
>
> Source:        AOE Subgroup
>
> Title: Seoul Revision of Applications and Application
> Characteristics Lists
>
> Purpose:       Discussion
>
>
>
> A.     Applications
>
> A.1.   Real-time Audiovisual Communication
> A.1.1. Point-to-point videotelephony
> A.1.1.1.       Business
> A.1.1.2.       Consumer
> A.1.2. Multipoint videotelephony
> A.1.2.1.       Business meetings
> A.1.2.2.       Public meetings (e.g. video town hall)
> A.1.2.3.       Remote classroom
> A.1.3. Remote expert
> A.1.3.1.       Equipment repair and maintenance
> A.1.3.2.       Medical applications (ambulance, home)
> A.1.3.3.       GIS  (Geological Information Systems)
>
> A.2.   Multimedia
> A.2.1. Interactive editing of audiovisual material
> A.2.1.1        Multimedia annotation
> A.2.2. Interactive playback of audiovisual material
> A.2.2.1.       Electronic newspaper
> A.2.2.2.       Service directories (e.g. Yellow Pages)
> A.2.2.3.       Travel information (tourism, map, route, navigational, and
> traffic
>       information)
> A.2.2.4.       Repair manuals (embedded or remote)
> A.2.2.5.       Encyclopedias
> A.2.2.6.       Interactive training
> A.2.2.7.       Home video shopping
> A.2.2.8.       Store marketing (e.g. shopping cart display)
> A.2.2.9.       Buyer/seller matching (e.g. dating service, want ads)
> A.2.2.10.      Cosmetic preview (e.g. hair styling, clothes fitting, plastic
> surgery)
> A.2.2.11.      Real-estate & architectural Walk-through
> A.2.2.12.      Situation reenactment
> A.2.2.13.      Games
> A.2.3. Non-Interactive playback of audiovisual material
> A.2.3.1        Multimedia messages (e.g. electronic mail, video answering
>       machines)
> A.2.3.2        Multimedia presentations (music and video entertainment,
>       instruction videos)
> A.2.3.3.       Multimedia videotex (VLBR PIP in analog TV, sign language
>       captioning)
>
> A.3.   Remote sensing (acquisition and monitoring of audiovisual data)
> A.3.1. Building and property monitoring
> A.3.1.1.       Medical emergency monitoring
> A.3.1.2.       Security
> A.3.1.3.       Activity audit
> A.3.2. Transportation system monitoring
> A.3.2.1.       Intelligent vehicle highway system (IVHS)
> A.3.2.2.       Video toll collection
> A.3.2.3.       System integrity monitoring and maintenance requesting
> A.3.2.4.       Freight terminal traffic management
> A.3.2.5.       Pedestrian traffic monitoring
> A.3.3. Information gathering by mobile human
> A.3.3.1.       Business info. gathering (e.g. real estate and insurance
> adjuster)
> A.3.3.2.       Electronic News Gathering (ENG, SNG)
> A.3.4. Mobile (vehicles and robots: piloted and pilot-less)
> A.3.4.1.       Monitoring camera on public service vehicles
> A.3.4.2.       Reconnaissance
> A.3.4.3.       Guidance
> A.3.4.4.       Tele-operation
>
> B.     Application and Transmission Media Characteristics
> B.1.   Scene type
> B.1.1. Audio
> B.1.1.1.       Generic
> B.1.1.2.       Speech
> B.1.1.3.       Music
> B.1.1.4.       MIDI
> B.1.2. Video
> B.1.2.1.       Generic
> B.1.2.2.       Outdoor scenes
> B.1.2.3.       Indoor scenes
> B.1.2.4.       Single talking head
> B.1.2.5.       Multiple person
> B.1.2.6.       Background
> B.2.   Input source
> B.2.1. Video
> B.2.1.1.       Video camera
> B.2.1.2.       Other imaging sensors (FLIR, ISAR, Sonar, etc.)
> B.2.1.3.       Computer generated images
> B.2.1.4.       Scanned film
> B.2.2. Audio
> B.2.2.1.       Telephone Bandwidth speech
> B.2.2.2.       High-quality speech
> B.2.2.3.       High-quality audio
> B.2.2.4.       Synthesized sound
> B.2.3. Temporal regime
> B.2.3.1.       Real-time acquisition
> B.2.3.2.       Long-term recording
> B.2.3.2.1.     Event-triggered
> B.2.3.2.2.     Continuous
> B.3.   Presentation
> B.3.1. Video
> B.3.1.1.       Color
> B.3.1.2.       B&W
> B.3.1.3.       Stereoscopic
> B.3.1.4.       Virtual Reality
> B.3.2. Audio
> B.3.2.1.       Mono
> B.3.2.2.       Stereo
> B.3.2.3.       Surround-Sound
> B.3.2.4.       Virtual Reality stereo (responds to userUs orientation)
> B.4.   Dataflow topology
> B.4.1. Symmetry of bandwidth, power, cost
> B.4.2. Network size
> B.4.2.1.       Single terminal (with DSM)
> B.4.2.1.1.     Point-to-point
> B.4.2.1.2.     Only Receive and Display image
> B.4.2.1.3.     Only Acquire and transmit image
> B.4.2.1.4.     Duplex
> B.4.2.3.       Multipoint
> B.4.2.3.1.     One-to-many (broadcast)
> B.4.2.3.2.     Many-to-one (e.g. multipoint monitoring)
> B.4.2.3.3.     Many-to-many (videoconference, multiple presence)
> B.5.   Terminal equipment environment
> B.5.1. Desktop
> B.5.2. Portable
> B.5.2.1.       Personal
> B.5.2.1.1.     PDA
> B.5.2.1.2.     Head-mounted
> B.5.2.2.       Vehicular
> B.5.3. Dedicated (e.g. telephone handset)
> B.5.4. Human/machine interface
> B.6.   Data privacy
> B.6.1. Non-secure
> B.6.2. Secure (encrypted)
> B.7.   Data access
> B.7.1. Stored Media
> B.7.1.1.       Low capacity (smart card)
> B.7.1.2.       High capacity (magnetic, optical)
> B.7.1.3.       Very High Capacity (Library servers)
> B.7.2. Transmission Network
> B.7.2.1.       Physical Channel
> B.7.2.1.1.     Wired
> B.7.2.1.2.     Wireless
> B.7.2.1.2.1.   IR
> B.7.2.1.2.2.   RF
> B.7.2.2.       Geographical coverage
> B.7.2.2.1.     Local area
> B.7.2.2.2.     Wide area (ISDN, Satellite, etc.)
> B.7.2.3.       Network
> B.7.2.3.1.     General Purpose (Ethernet, Appletalk, etc.)
> B.7.2.3.2.     Dedicated
> B.7.2.4.       Transmission Time
> B.7.2.4.1.     Real  time
> B.7.2.4.1.1.   Low delay (interactive)
> B.7.2.4.1.2.   Non-interactive delay (broadcast)
> B.7.2.4.2.     non-real time (e.g. store and forward)
> B.8.   Attachments to audiovisual data
> B.8.1. Still image
> B.8.2. Graphics
> B.8.3. Text
> B.8.4. Fax
> B.8.5. Binary Data