MPEG Industry Forum

Coding Technologies will showcase CT-aacPlus. This state-of-the-art audio codec combines MPEG AAC and Coding Technologies' revolutionary Spectral Band Replication (SBR(TM)) technology, reference model for Bandwidth extension in MPEG-4. Already used in various applications like Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) or XM Satellite Radio, CT-aacPlus provides maximum compression efficiency and broadcast quality at datrates as low as 48kbps stereo. Experience next generation audio compression!

Envivio

A leader in MPEG-4 solutions. Envivio provides advanced MPEG-4 software solutions for authoring, encoding, streaming, and playback.

ETRI - Broadcasting Media Technology Department
Interactive Rich Media, an Interactive Contents Authoring System

We present, an interactive multimedia contents authoring system that enables a content creator to produce MPEG-4 contents easily and conveniently. Interactive Rich Media allows a content creator to compose spatially and temporally large number of objects of many different types: audio, rectangular video, arbitrarily shaped video, sill image, text, 2D and 3D graphics, and more. User interactions can be comfortably done through powerful graphic user interface. It produces MPEG-4 contents in the form of mp4 which is a binary format for MPEG-4 contents and/or XMT, a textual format for MPEG4. In order to help non-professional authors to easily customize and use previously created contents, this presented authoring system is equipped with templates, which are authoring elements customizable and reusable, and for professional authors the methods of manipulating scene trees. Furthermore, it supports arbitrarily shaped video sequence and provides a semi-automatic segmentation tool that can extract the arbitrarily shaped region of interest.

Fraunhofer Institut IIS
FHG MPEG-4 Audio and Video codecs and streaming

Fraunhofer IIS-A shows a comprehensive set of MPEG-4 Audio and Video solutions. On display are our reference quality library implementations of several audio profiles and the simple and advanced simple video profile. They are demonstrated in the framework of our FHG real-time MPEG-4 A/V streaming system that incorporates the ISMA v1.0 streaming specification and works in a mixed operating system environment including Linux, Windows and IPaq connected by WLAN. Fraunhofer IIS-A is the leading international research lab in the field of high quality low bit rate audio coding. It has been the main developer of the most advanced audio coding schemes like MPEG Layer-3 (mp3) and MPEG-4 AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). Fraunhofer IIS-A played a major role in MPEG-4 Audio standardization and contributes to many other standards bodies like 3GPP, AES, DVB, DVD, ISMA and ITU-R/T.

IndigoVision Inc.
MainStream™: A Hardware MPEG-4-SP Codec Targeted at SoCs

IndigoVision''s MainStream(tm) is a high-performance MPEG-4 codec designed for System-on-Chip applications. It encodes and decodes video to the MPEG-4 Simple Profile standard and also supports higher resolutions and higher bit rates, beyond Simple Profile constraints.

MainStream is scaleable in power consumption as well as performance, enabling the same design to support products ranging from low-power mobile phones, through PDAs and camcorders, to set-top-boxes and personal-video-recorders.

MainStream is operational and licensable from IndigoVision today.

The demonstration platform displays video compression and decompression operating on the VP1001, a SoC prototyping platform. The fully operational MainStream design has been ported to an Altera FPGA and is operating in real-time.

Interra Digital Video Technologies, Inc.

Interra Digital Video Technologies is a leading provider of test and measurement solutions to the MPEG video industry. Interra's flagship product, MProbe, is used by over 400 companies worldwide and is the defacto standard for MPEG bitstream analysis, verification and problem discovery. At WEMP 2002 Interra will demonstrate its M4 Analyzer. The Interra M4 is software for verifying the conformance of stored MPEG-4 bitstreams to the standard. Although M4 is easy to use, it provides a comprehensive set of tools for examining the health of MPEG-4 data files, including compliance checks, video buffer analysis, and the display of header and atom data. At WEMP Interra will be demonstrating the initial release of M4, the M4-1000. The company will also provide a preview of forthcoming M4 enhancements, including support for the MP4 system level structure, audio codecs, advanced video codecs, and support for MPEG-4 meta standards such as ISMA and WMF. Information about Interra and its product line can be obtained on its web site at www.interra.tv.

iVAST Inc.
End-to-End MPEG-4 Solutions

iVAST is the world leader in end-to-end MPEG-4 solutions. Based on the MPEG-4 international standard, the iVAST MPEG-4 Platform includes software to create, distribute and present high-quality digital audio and video along with compelling interactive media experiences. Whether utilizing MPEG-4 for broadband Internet, broadcast and interactive television, enterprise streaming, or package media iVAST solutions support high-performance, large-scale digital media systems, with an open, standards-based architecture that allows cost-effective interface into existing business systems and infrastructure. The iVAST products include:

iVAST Studio Encode: a professional tool for compressing and encoding audio and video media into MPEG-4 standard files
iVAST Studio Author: a visual environment for the creation of interactive MPEG-4 content with fine-grain control over audio, video, 2D graphics, animation and interactivity
iVAST Media Server: a high performance, ISMA-compliant media delivery solution for MPEG-4 audio, video and interactive rich media applications
iVAST Systemware: a suite of system utilities for remote management of multiple servers and integration with mission-critical, back-office systems
iVAST Experience Player: a versatile, rich media player that brings the full power of object-oriented media to PCs and other MPEG-4 enabled electronic devices.

Media Excel
MPEG-4 Live Encoding and Transcoding

SoftStream (MPEG-4 Live Encoding and Transcoding) SoftStream™ MPEG-4 Transcoding Real-time transcoding from MPEG-2 transport stream to MPEG-4. Input format can be MPEG-2 system stream (transport or program), DVD or DV, and output format can be MPEG-4 (.mp4). 1GHz PC (or higher) is required for real-time DVD to MP4 transcoding. SoftStream™ MPEG-4 Live Encoding MPEG-4 ASP and SP are supported with AAC. Real-time MP4 (ISMA compatible) encoding is offered from live video source (capture card) or from AVI file source. Output stream is streamed over TCP/UDP. 500Mhz PC (or higher) is required for live MPEG-4 streaming. SoftStream™ MPEG-4 ASP@30Hz Live Encoding on Equator's BSP-15 MPEG-4 ASP@30Hz real-time encoding is demonstrated on Equator's BSP-15 processor. Input source is S-Video, and output (MPEG-4 elementary) stream is transported into host processor via PCI interface. SoftStream™ is a software solution for real-time MPEG-4 (and MPEG-2) encoding, decoding, streaming and transcoding. SoftStream™ is built upon Media Excel's patent-pending fast compression technologies (e.g., progressive DCT, adaptively pruned IDCT, and hierarchical motion estimation). SoftStream™ provides open standard-based deployable and scalable software tools that are suitable for large scale, multi-channel, and fault-tolerant enterprise streaming and transcoding application. SoftStream™ Software Development Kits (SDK) are available for multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux/Unix, OS-X), and various processors (x86, Media Processor, MIPS).

MRG, Inc.
Reports & Services in MPEG-4 Market Development

MISSION: MRG, Inc (Multimedia Research Group, Inc) helps its clients and customers remove barriers to market for emerging products and services. With a focus on multimedia development tools, networks and client devices, MRG assists clients in making the higheslt level of profitable decisions through analysis, timely information and consultation.

PRODUCTS SHOWN:
"IP VIDEO & STREAMING MEDIA REPORT 2001": Worldwide market forecast by application, sector & B2B/B2C. (Market Analysis & Forecast)

"HOME GATEWAY REPORT 2002" : Worldwide Digital Set-Top, VOD & PVR Report for Digital Cable. (Market Analysis & Forecast)

"HOME GATEWAY REPORT 2001": Worldwide Digital Set-Top & PVR Report for Satellite, Telco, Digital Terrestrial & Cable. (Market Analysis & Forecast)

National Taiwan University and Digimax Production Ltd.
MPEG-4 Content and Scalable VoD Service Solutions

The Communications and Multimedia Laboratory (CML) is a well-known multimedia research center in Taiwan and focuses on multimedia codec, MPEG-4 hybrid-media presentation, MPEG-7 content retrival and virtual reality in these years. Digimax Production Ltd. is the current leading company in Taiwan's post-production industry. The company offers a full range of special effect services, for commercials, feature films, electronic games, and interactive media. In the exhibition, we present the latest research results of MPEG-4 related technology, including: MPEG-4 Scalable Video-on-Demand Toolkit: 1. Highly Scalable Codecs and the corresponding VoD Delivery System 2. Intelligent MPEG-4 Transcoder A Multi-Featured MPEG-4 Visual 2D/3D Mixed Application Development Environment (M4VADE) To enable 2D/3D Mixed Scene, Java-Script, High rendering performace, BIFS-Audio and BIFS-Anim Innovative MPEG-4 Applications 1. An MPEG-4 3D Interactive Game 2. Virtual Studio System MPEG-4 Solution Parts of exhibitions are techinical results of the project Content Engineering : Research on MPEG-4/7 Multimedia Technologies sponsored by National Science Council, digimax Production Ltd. and Cyberlink Corporation under Contact NSC 90-2622-E-002-008.

net&tv Inc.
STUDIO4

STUDIO4 is a rich media authoring tool based on MPEG-4 which is capable of easy creation of interactive contents for cooperate communications and distance learning. Since it is providing simple and user-friendly graphical user interface following widely accepted common practices of content authoring, any content authors without having pre-knowledge about MPEG-4 can use it very easily.

Philips Digital Networks
Philips Platform4 Mobile Multimedia

The Philips Platform4 Mobile Multimedia Platform is a cost-effective end-to-end solution targeted at mobile operators performing trials on next generation multimedia services. Philips' Platform4 is built on a track record of 15 years of research and development in the area of digital video compression, transmission, delivery and rendering technologies. Platform4, a fully open-standards solution, brings Philips' world class MPEG-4 technology to the wireless world. Features of Platform4:

Carrier grade, integrated Streaming Server
Integrated, real-time and off-line media encoder
Software Media Player for handheld devices
Seamless network adaptation mechanism for maximum quality of service
Support for 3GPP, MPEG-4, IETF and ISMA codecs, file formats and transport protocols
Centralized and remote system management, administration and monitoring
Content management and administration solution

PRODYS
Real-Time MPEG-4 compression solutions

PRODYS has developed several compression algorithms in the field of Audio and Video for multimedia and communications, these include MPEG-1/2 Layers II and III and MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding "AAC" Audio Codecs and MPEG-4 Video Codecs. PRODYS will demonstrate its latest developments on MPEG-4 Video Compression technology, these consist of a Real-Time MPEG-4 Simple Profile Encoder running on a Texas Instruments' TMS320C62x general purpose DSP and a Real-Time MPEG-4 Core Profile Encoder running on a Texas Instruments' TMS320C64x digital media platform. This will provide excellent video quality from very low to medium bit rates (64-1500 Kbps). PRODYS will also demonstrate its Audio Compression technology, including the MPEG-2/4 AAC Real-Time Codec running in a low cost Motorola DSP. These technologies could be used to create new kinds of products that integrated advanced audiovisual compression technology and communications, like streaming and broadcasting applications.

Samsung AIT
Scalable Broadcasting and Communication Solution

A Scalable Broadcasting and Communication solution for multimedia data are exhibited. The presented solutions support various tools including fine granularity scalability tool in MPEG-4. The demonstration shows these software solutions run on wireless portable player with supporting error resilience.

Sarnoff Corporation
Real time MPEG-4 Encoder Implementation on MAP-CA/MAP-BSP

The demo will show a real time implementation of the MPEG-4 video encoder on a signle MAP-CA DSP chip. It supports CIF video and half-D1 interlaced video with 30 fps at up to 2.5 Mbps or higher bitrates. It can be widely used in set-top box or enterprise applications.

Sigma Designs, Inc.

Sigma Designs specializes in silicon-based MPEG decoding for streaming video, progressive DVD playback and advanced digital set-top boxes. The company's award-winning REALmagic® Video Streaming Technology is used in both commercial and consumer applications providing highly integrated solutions for high-quality decoding of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

Telecom Italia LAB
MPEG-4 for e-learning, but not only…

Multimedia Distance Learning (MDL) is a complete platform for creation, real-time delivery, recording and automatic archiving of lectures as an mp4 file. The platform is targeted to universities and companies wishing to distribute and archive any kind of training courses, events. At the content-generation side the major feature of MDL is the absence of post-production costs. MDL can be used over LAN, ADSL, telephony modem and satellite, with different Qualities of Service. At the user side the TILAB MPEG-4 2D player is used to receive and playback the lecture with some interactive capabilities, even in multicast environments. Users are shown an MPEG-4 scene containing two simultaneous videos, a series of slides and navigation buttons. Users can choose the video in foreground, navigate throughout slides, ask questions to the teacher and search for specific content. MDL is an example of the integration of the advanced MPEG-4 technologies developed by Telecom Italia Lab for the next generation of multimedia solutions.

Tensilica
The Configurable Processor Company

Tensilica® is the world's leading provider of configurable and extensible microprocessor cores and associated software development tools for embedded system-on-chip (SOC) applications. The company's Xtensa® processor architecture; already employed in over 100 applications designed by 40+ licensees; is ideal for high volume, embedded applications. As designers create processors using the Xtensa Processor Generator, it simultaneously generates a complete software development environment that facilitates concurrent, software development and testing. The Xtensa platform leverages existing ASIC design methods, programming models and architectural standards to reduce risk and development time.

WebCast Technologies, Inc
MPEG-4 Products from WebCast Technologies

We will demonstrate a set of products using MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile and Fine Granularity Scalable Profile, including MPEG-4 video encoder and decoder, a network video conference system, a streaming video system, and a network surveillance system.

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