From Leonardo.Chiariglione TILAB.COM Fri May 3 00:14:53 2002 From: Leonardo.Chiariglione TILAB.COM (Chiariglione Leonardo) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:34 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] To those concerned about MPEG-4 Licensing ... Message-ID: >As everyone on this list knows, many concerns have been voiced over licensing of, notably, MPEG-4 Video. I am not voicing concern over the specific terms of the announced, but unconfirmed, MPEG-4 Video licensing. I am just reiterating what I said one year ago in San Jose at the M4IF meeting: if there is no way to get an MPEG-4 license, this is not fair and not reasonable (I do not know if it is discriminatory). Therefore such an ISO standard cannot be retained if normal people cannot get a license to use it. If the only answer for people wishing to use the standard, 3.5 years after it was approved, is that "the process is advancing" (thak you for informing us of this, we thought it was moving backwards) and that there are "hopes to have a further > > announcement in the near future" (thank you very much for your kind commitment), either we are dealing with too smart or too dull people. I, as the average subscriber to this list, am neither, but I know that, with such an attitude, there is no prospect to use the standard before the next ice age. One suggestion could be that the people working on MPEG-4 licensing reduce their engagements on the golf courses and turn a benevolent eye to such worldly matters as giving a chance to people who have believed in and supported a fair process, to be able to use its results. But, maybe, this is asking too much. Leonardo -----Original Message----- From: Rob Koenen [mailto:rkoenen@intertrust.com] Sent: 2002 maggio 01 mercoled? 01:40 To: M4IF news (E-mail) Subject: [M4IF News] To those concerned about MPEG-4 Licensing ... M4IF watchers, Coming Friday, May 3rd, M4IF is having a special meeting on MPEG-4 licensing. This meeting will be attended by both potential licensees and licensors. No decisions on licensing will be taken (M4IF cannot do that) but the meeting will provide valuable input for the licensors to take into account. As everyone on this list knows, many concerns have been voiced over licensing of, notably, MPEG-4 Video. Many of these concerns have been brought to the awareness of the licensors, usually through MPEGLA. Unfortunately, not all concerned parties have made their opinions known. Some of you have just moved on to other technologies. Because the licensors and MPEGLA *ARE* listening, it is crucial that your voices be heard. THIS IS perhaps YOUR LAST CHANCE to still voice concerns. If you want to use MPEG-4 technology, but have an issue with the structure of the license as it has been announced, then please let me know AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, but Thursday at the latest. Let me know on behalf of whom you are speaking and if your name can be used, or if you want to be 'anonimized'. I will bring all constructive input to the attention of the meeting, including the licensors and their representatives. Kind Regards, Rob Koenen President, M4IF ps: please do not reply to the list. A summary of all input will be provided, as well as a public report on the result of the meeting. _______________________________________________ News mailing list News@lists.m4if.org http://lists.m4if.org/mailman/listinfo/news From rkoenen intertrust.com Sat May 4 23:49:16 2002 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:34 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] Results M4IF Fairfax Meeting Message-ID: <3C124172E7FDD511B510000347426D59CF1B6D@exchange.epr.com> M4IF Members and MPEG-4 Watchers, Our meeting yesterday in Fairfax was an interesting event, as one can expect from a meeting that discusses issues surrounding MPEG-4 licensing. Decisions on licensing were of course not taken, as M4IF is not responsible for such terms. I do expect, however, that the open discussion between licensors, their representatives and potential licensees will result in a better mutual understanding of the situation and an even greater sense of urgency among licensors than already existed. Below are the resolutions of the meeting. My notes taken during the discussion will be posted on our website shortly, together with these resolutions (http://www.m4if.org; see under M4IF News). I apologize for any duplication in emails caused by the wide distribution of this email, but I consider this important information for all involved with MPEG-4. Kind Regards, Rob Koenen, President, M4IF ______________________________________________________________________ Meeting 9th M4IF meeting, Fairfax, VA, USA, May 2002 Document: m4-out-20017 Source: Plenary Meeting Title: Resolutions of the 9th (Fairfax) MPEG-4 Industry Forum Meeting Status: Final Purpose: Output of meeting Resolutions of the 9th (Fairfax) Special MPEG-4 Industry Forum meeting on Licensing 1. M4IF, noting that it is now 3.5 years after MPEG-4 Version 1 was approved by WG11, urges the licensors to come with licensing terms within a matter of weeks. 2. M4IF notes that there is much concern of what the market understands to be the proposed licensing scheme for notably MPEG-4 Visual, and urges licensors to listen to and address these concerns. 3. M4IF urges parties that wish to use MPEG-4, but do not like the proposed licensing terms, to engage in a discussion with the licensors through their representatives: * MPEG LA as the Licensing Agent for Visual * MPEG LA as facilitator of the Systems Patent Holder Group, * Dolby as the facilitator for the Audio Patent Holder Group * Dolby as the Licensing Agent for the AAC Group that has started to license its MPEG-4 AAC patents 4. M4IF points to the "Summary of the MPEG-4 Licensing Situation by the President" (m4-out-20017) for an account of what was discussed during the meeting. M4IF notes that the goal of these discussions was not to reach a consensus, but to document the situation. 5. In order to facilitate deployment of MPEG-4 Structured Audio and Face/Body Animation, it will be necessary to assess the patent situation. M4IF resolves to have a "Call for Existence of Patents Essential to the Implementation of MPEG-4 Structured Audio and Face/Body Animation" at the June M4IF meeting. If such a Call results in statements by parties that believe that such essential patents may exist, M4IF will recommend that there be a third-party process to: a) Determine if there are such essential patents, and, if so b) Establish a joint licensing scheme for each of these two pieces of technology. This process will be like the processes that lead to the establishment of the Visual, Audio and Systems Patent Holder Groups. M4IF will not be involved in either the determination of essentiality or the discussions between such patent holders. 6. M4IF recommends that discussions on M4IF's potential roles in: * getting rapid access to licenses for MPEG-4 part 10 and AFX/Multi-user worlds, and * facilitating a royalty-free baseline, continue on a new discussion list, Patent WG5 (patentWG5@lists.m4if.org), to be chaired by a chairperson to be found among the M4IF members taking part in the JVT process. Jan van der Meer (Jan.vandermeer@philips.com) will chair the discussions until such a chair has been identified. M4IF is prepared to fulfill any role in this process that could advance the process, and is consistent with its Statutes. Adjourned 17:11 hours ______________________________________________________________________ From rkoenen intertrust.com Wed May 8 17:50:31 2002 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:34 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] New version of MPEG-4 Overview Message-ID: <3C124172E7FDD511B510000347426D59AF53B3@exchange.epr.com> James, all, it took a bit longer than anticipated, but the PDF version of the overhauled MPEG-4 Overview is now online. See www.m4if.org under Hot News. Thanks for hosting the PDF in the meantime, James. Kind Regards, Rob ps: Note that I generated the PDF straight from my Word master, and not from the HTML derivation of the Word. It makes for a slightly better looking document. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Irwin [mailto:jirwin@sfgate.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 10:08 > > To: Rob Koenen > > Cc: 'M4IF news (E-mail)' > > Subject: Re: [M4IF News] New version of MPEG-4 Overview > > > > > > Rather than merely complain that the "printable" version of > > the standard > > is in a Microsoft Word document, I instead printed it to a PDF > > from the Web browser and uploaded it (temporarily!) to: > > > > http://sfgate.com/gate/av/workbin/MP4_0402.PDF [834 Kbytes] > > > > Please feel free to copy this, mirror it, optimize it or, > even better, > > include more open-standard, cross-platform versions of your > > documentation > > in future mailings. > > > > [NOTE: I intend to remove this file from the above URL on > > Friday, Apr 26. > > I haven't checked it for accuracy or optimized it in size. I > > printed it > > from IE Explorer 5.1 for Mac OS X to a PDF file and directly > > uploaded it > > without making any modifications to the file] > > > > -- James Irwin > > Multimedia Manager > > SFGate.com > > > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Rob Koenen wrote: > > > > > MPEG-4 watchers, > > > > > > There is a new version of the MPEG-4 Overview, with > > considerable revisions. > > > It contains, e.g., a complete overview of all profiles and > > levels and updates > > > on the most recent extensions underway. > > > > > > It can be found in HTML version here: > > > http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm > > > > > > For those who prefer a printed document, a word document is here: > > > http://www.m4if.org/resources/w4668.zip > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > > > News mailing list > > > News@lists.m4if.org > > > http://lists.m4if.org/mailman/listinfo/news > > > From rkoenen intertrust.com Wed May 15 15:14:59 2002 From: rkoenen intertrust.com (Rob Koenen) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:34 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] Fairfax MPEG Press Release Message-ID: <3C124172E7FDD511B510000347426D59AF548D@exchange.epr.com> I just received the following Press Release from Peter Schirling. Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION ISO/IEC / JTC1 / SC29 / WG11 CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N4733 May 2002 - Fairfax, VA (US) Source: Convenor of mpeg Status: Approved by WG11 Subject: MPEG Press Release Date: May 2002 MPEG CONTINUES ITS WORK ACROSS ALL ASPECTS OF ITS MULTIMEDIA CHARTER Fairfax, Virginia, 15 May 2002. At its 60th meeting, held from 6-10 May 2002, MPEG reached two important milestones, the completion of the first specification in the suite of standards known as MPEG-21 and the first ballot for its joint video codec development effort with the ITU known as the Joint Video Team (JVT), that is developing a new and important video standard for industry. Digital Item Declaration (ISO/IEC FDIS 21000-2) was elevated to Final Draft International Standard and will become an International Standard following a 2 month ballot by JTC 1. This is an important milestone as MPEG has now standardized a fundamental model for the transaction of any content that may be referenced, including multimedia content. Subsequent standards in the MPEG-21 suite will use and further enable this framework by specifying Digital Item Identification, Intellectual Property Management and Protection, Rights Expression Language, Right Data Dictionary, Digital Item Adaptation and the MPEG-21 Reference Software. These parts will be finalized by MPEG over the next two years. Also, the new video coding standard being developed jointly with the ITU was promoted to Committee Draft, the first ballot stage leading to an ISO/IEC International Standard. This new standard will provide a significant improvement in compression performance for general video coding applications. "I am very pleased with the work that the JVT has achieved in such a short time since it was formed in December of 2001." said Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, Convenor of the MPEG Committee. Dr. Gary Sullivan, Chair/Rapporteur of the JVT also expressed his congratulations to the team. "It has been very rewarding to see such a large group of experts collaborate on a complex topic. They are to be congratulated." For reference, the standard will be identified both as ITU-T Rec. H.264 and ISO/IEC 14496-10 "Advanced Video Coding". In addition to the video work, MPEG Systems has begun the work needed to carry this new video standard in its existing systems multiplex standards, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. In other important news from Fairfax, MPEG reviewed 25 responses to its call for technologies on Digital Item Adaptation. MPEG has produced its first working draft containing technology needed to adapt digital items and their associated resources to a wide variety of consumer devices along with an adaptation software model to assist early adopters and implementers. Digital Item Adaptation is an important technology for content authors and owners, and service providers not just the consumers of MPEG streams. When coupled with the Audio-Visual standards of MPEG-2, or 4 and the metadata standard in MPEG-7, and the other standards being developed in MPEG-21, DIA as it has come to be known, will be another powerful tool in the multimedia industry. Combined with the specifications currently under development to provide a Rights Data Dictionary and a Rights Expression Language, this will provide tools to enable the association of permissions governing the context in which content may be adapted. Other MPEG news As reported from the last MPEG meeting MPEG-4 Audio Extension work continues. At the Fairfax meeting Audio Extension 1 progressed to Committee Draft. This provides technology for extending the bandwidth of existing MPEG-4 audio coders using a relatively small amount of side information. MPEG continues to seek new technology and has issued a Call for Proposals on Advanced Text and 2D Graphics. MPEG has identified the need for extensions of the Systems part of the MPEG-4 standard. These requirements are mainly in the areas of Text representation and 2D graphics representation. Responses are due to MPEG by 16 July, in time to be considered at its next meeting from 22-26 July 2002, Klagenfurt, Austria. MPEG reminds industry of outstanding calls due back shortly. 1. Call for Requirements for Persistent Association of Identification and Description with Content (N4682) published at the 59th Meeting in Jeju are due by Sunday 14th July 2002 prior to the 61st Meeting in Klagenfurt. 2. Call for Proposals for MPEG-7 Systems Extensions notably to address additional coding efficiency for MPEG-7 descriptions as well as MPEG-21 Digital Item Declarations. The response to these calls will be reviewed at its 61st meeting in Klagenfurt, Austria from 22 to 26 July 2023 3. The Multimedia Description Schema subgroup request for a Registration Authority has resulted in an SC29 "Request for Candidates for the Registration Authority for ISO/IEC 21000-3". Responses should be forwarded directly to the SC29 Secretariat: Ms. Yukiko Ogura (ogura@itscj.ipsj.or.jp) or visit http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc29/ for information and details of this call. Details of how to obtain MPEG's CfP's and other public information is shown below. Further information Future MPEG meetings are as follows: 61st meeting: 22-26 July 2002 (Klagenfurt, Austria), 62nd meeting: 21-25 October 2002 (Shanghai, China), 63rd meeting 9-13 December 2002. For further information about MPEG, please contact: Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, (Convenor of MPEG, Italy) TILAB Via G. Reiss Romoli, 274 10148 Torino, ITALY Tel.: +39 11 228 6120; Fax: +39 11 228 6299 Email: mailto:leonardo.chiariglione@tilab.com or Peter Schirling (HoD US MPEG Committee) IBM Research - Digital Media Standards Tel +1 802 769 6123 Fax: +1 802 769 7362 Email: schirlin@us.ibm.com This press release and other MPEG-related information can be found on the MPEG homepage: http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com For the Outstanding Call for Proposals, see the Hot News section, http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com/hot_news.htm The MPEG homepage has links to other MPEG pages, which are maintained by some of the subgroups. It also contains links to public documents that are freely available for download to non-MPEG members. Journalists that wish to receive MPEG Press Releases by email can contact Peter Schirling. From NLing scu.edu Tue May 21 17:12:03 2002 From: NLing scu.edu (Nam Ling) Date: Wed Jul 23 13:58:35 2003 Subject: [M4IF News] DCV02 workshop Message-ID: Dear M4IF members, I would like to take this opportunity to publicize the Third International Workshop on Digital and Computational Video (DCV02) to the M4IF members. The DCV02 workshop addresses a broad range of technical interests in digital and computational video technology, of which MPEG-4 video is one of the most important elements. We encourage researchers to submit papes and to organize sessions in the areas of MPEG-4 video coding/decoding, networked video, synthetic video and animation, object-based video coding, mobile visual communications, digital TV, studio video, and many other topics and applications related to MPEG-4. A call for papers is attached below. Thanks, Nam Ling Program Co-Chair, DCV02 Third International Workshop on Digital and Computational Video November14-15, 2002 Radisson Suite Resort on Sand Key Clearwater Beach, Florida, U.S.A. PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS The Third International Workshop on Digital and Computational Video (DCV '02) presents and explores the trends in digital and computational video including, but not limited to, the applications, technology and mathematical aspects of this 21st century era. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and users to share their experiences, vision and methodologies. By providing a forum which would include experts from mathematical sciences, medicine, engineering, computer science, education, fine arts and television, it intends to cross-fertilize ideas and to bridge cross-cultural differences. The workshop will include keynote presentations and regular paper presentations on topics including, but not limited to: ? Telemedicine ? Stereo vision ? Digital television ? Computed medical imaging ? Standards conversion ? Mass communications ? Motion estimation ? Mathematical morphology and compensation ? Networked video ? 3D modeling ? Distance learning ? Digital arts and animation ? Camera on a chip ? Algorithms and software ? Microelectronics for video The program committee invites authors to submit a three to four page summary of their paper. Submission instructions will be found at the DCV website web.cacs.louisiana.edu/~belinda/publish/index.html Papers should clearly describe the nature of the work, explain its significance, highlight its novel features, and project its scientific, medical, industrial or other applications significance. ? Summaries due June 20, 2023 ? Notification of acceptance August 5, 2023 ? Final Manuscript August 20, 2023 Submit all summaries by email to: For General Information, contact: Magdy Bayoumi Cathy Pomier mab@cacs.louisiana.edu cathy@cacs.louisiana.edu Center for Advanced Computer Studies Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504 Lafayette, LA 70504 Information on DCV '01 can be found at http://ee.eng.usf.edu/DCV01. General Chairs: Magdy Bayoumi, University of Louisiana, Lafayette Vijay Jain, University of South Florida Program chairs: Nam Ling, University of Santa Clara Joern Ostermann, AT&T Technical Sponsorship: IEEE Signal Processing; Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee IEEE Circuits & Systems; Visual Signal Processing and Communication TC Circuits and Systems for Communications TC Organised by: The center for Advanced Computer Studies, ULL Center for Digital and Computational Video, USF