[M4IF News] RE: Finally ... THE MPEG-4 BOOK !

[Rob Koenen]

Please note that M4IF has struck a deal with Prentice Hall, to
make this book, which is a long-awaited standard reference for 
MPEG-4, available at a discount to its visitors and members.
M4IF visitors receive a 10% discount, and members a 20% discount,
recognizing the effort by many M4IF members to getting this book 
written.
While the pages are still being built, the 10% discount offer is
already available at the link Fernando provided below. Members have
to practice a few more days of patience (unless they are willing to
settle for 10% :-).
See http://www.phptr.com/ptrbooks/ptr_0130616214.html for the offer.
This is a good moment to thank the editors, Touradj Ebrahimi and 
notably Fernando Pereira (who spent many many weekends and nights) for 
completing this huge and extremely important task. Your reward will 
be in the large readership for this Reference Book.
Also all the authors are to be thanked. They do not expect any financial
compensation, but have committed to this task to evangelize what they
believe is important - an open and interoperable multimedia ecosystem.
Having been involved in the production of this book, I can highly
recommend it to anyone who wants to go beyond reading the standard
itself (or to those who don't even want to try :-).
Kind Regards,
Rob Koenen
President, M4IF
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernando Pereira [mailto:fp   lx.it.pt]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2023 11:43
> To: Technotes   lists.m4if.org; M4IF news (E-mail)
> Subject: [M4IF Technotes] Finally ... THE MPEG-4 BOOK !
> 
> 
> 
>  NEW !!!!!!! Now available !
> 
> 
>      		THE MPEG-4 BOOK
> 
>  	Edited by Fernando Pereira & Touradj Ebrahimi
>  	Published by Prentice Hall PTR
> 
>  	http://www.phptr.com/ptrbooks/ptr_0130616214.html
> 
>  MPEG-4 represents a breakthrough in multimedia, delivering not just
> outstanding compression but also a fully interactive user 
> experience. In
> THE MPEG-4 BOOK, two leaders
> of the MPEG-4 standards community offer a comprehensive, 
> targeted guide
> to the MPEG-4 standard - and its use in cutting-edge applications. 
> 
>  Fernando Pereira and Touradj Ebrahimi, together with a unique
> collection of key MPEG experts, demonstrate how MPEG-4 addresses
> tomorrow's multimedia applications more successfully than any previous
> standard. They review every element of the standard to offer 
> you a book
> that covers:
> 
> o Synthetic and natural audio and video object coding,
> description and synchronization
> o BIFS-the MPEG-4 language for scene description
> and interaction
> o The extensible MPEG-4 textual format XMT
> o Transport and delivery of MPEG-4 content
> o MPEG-J: using Java classes within MPEG-4 content
> o A complete overview of MPEG-4 Profiles and Levels
> o Verification tests
> 
>  The authors also walk through the MPEG-4 Systems Reference Software
> offering powerful real-world insights for every product developer,
> software professional, engineer, and researcher involved with 
> MPEG-4 and
> state-of-the-art multimedia delivery.
> 
> -- 
> Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, Ph.D., Professor
> Instituto Superior Técnico - Instituto de Telecomunicações
> Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
> Phone:  + 351 21 8418460           Fax:    + 351 21 8418472
> E-mail: Fernando.Pereira   lx.it.pt WWW: http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~fp/
> 
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