Introduction
Standards Column: JPEG and MPEG

Introduction ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 area of work comprises the standardization of coded representation of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information and sets of compression and control functions for use with such information. SC29 basically hosts two working groups responsible for the development of international standards for the compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of media content, ...
Reports
MPEG Column: Press release for the 113th MPEG meeting
MPEG explores new frontiers for coding technologies with Genome Compression Geneva, CH − The 113th MPEG meeting was held in Geneva, CH, from 19 – 23 October 2015 MPEG issues Call for Evidence (CfE) for Genome Compression and Storage At its 113th meeting, MPEG has taken its first formal step toward leveraging its compression expertise to code an ...
MPEG Column: 112th MPEG Meeting
This blog post is also available at at bitmovin tech blog and blog.timmerer.com. The 112th MPEG meeting in Warsaw, Poland was a special meeting for me. It was my 50th MPEG meeting which roughly accumulates to one year of MPEG meetings (i.e., one year of my life I’ve spend in MPEG meetings incl. traveling – scary, ...
MPEG Column: 111th MPEG Meeting
— original posts here by Multimedia Communication blog, Christian Timmerer, AAU/bitmovin The 111th MPEG meeting (note: link includes press release and all publicly available output documents) was held in Geneva, Switzerland showing up some interesting aspects which I’d like to highlight here. Undoubtedly, it was the shortest meeting I’ve ever attended (and my first meeting was #61) as final plenary concluded at 2015/02/20T18:18! In terms ...
MPEG Column: 110th MPEG Meeting
— original posts here by Multimedia Communication blog, Christian Timmerer, AAU/bitmovin The 110th MPEG meeting was held at the Strasbourg Convention and Conference Centre featuring the following highlights: The future of video coding standardization Workshop on media synchronization Standards at FDIS: Green Metadata and CDVS What’s happening in MPEG-DASH? Additional details about MPEG’s 110th meeting can be also found here including the official press release and all publicly available ...
MPEG Column: Press release for the 109th MPEG meeting
MPEG collaborates with SC24 experts to develop committee draft of MAR reference model SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) is pleased to announce that the Mixed and Augmented Reality Reference Model (MAR RM), developed jointly and in close collaboration with SC 24/WG 9, has reached Committee Draft status at the 109th WG 11 meeting. The MAR RM defines ...
MPEG Column: 108th MPEG Meeting
— original posts here and here by Multimedia Communication blog and bitmovin techblog, Christian Timmerer, AAU/bitmovin The 108th MPEG meeting was held at the Palacio de Congresos de Valencia in Spain featuring the following highlights (no worries about the acronyms, this is on purpose and they will be further explained below): Requirements: PSAF, SCC, CDVA Systems: M2TS, MPAF, Green Metadata Video: CDVS, WVC, VCB JCT-VC: SHVC, SCC JCT-3D: MV/3D-HEVC, 3D-AVC Audio: 3D ...
MPEG Column: 107th MPEG Meeting
— original posts here and here by Multimedia Communication blog and bitmovin techblog, Christian Timmerer, AAU/bitmovin The MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS; formally known as Rec. ITU-T H.222.0 | ISO/IEC 13818-1) has been awarded with the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It is the fourth time MPEG received an Emmy award. The M2TS is widely deployed across a broad range ...
MPEG Column: 106th MPEG Meeting
— original posts here and here by Multimedia Communication blog and bitmovin techblog, Christian Timmerer, AAU/bitmovin November, 2013, Geneva, Switzerland. Here comes a news report from the 106th MPEG in Geneva, Switzerland which was actually during the Austrian national day but Austrian Airlines had a nice present (see picture) for their guests. The official press release can be found here. In this meeting, ISO/IEC 23008-1 ...
MPEG Column: 105th MPEG Meeting
— original post by Multimedia Communication blog, Christian Timmerer, AAU At the 105th MPEG meeting in Vienna, Austria, a lot of interesting things happened. First, this was not only the 105th MPEG meeting but also the 48th VCEG meeting, 14th JCT-VC meeting, 5th JCT-3V meeting, and 26th SC29 meeting bringing together more than 400 experts from more than 20 countries to discuss technical ...
MPEG Column: Press release for the 104th MPEG meeting
Multimedia ecosystem event focuses on a broader scope of MPEG standards The 104th MPEG meeting was held in Incheon, Korea, from 22 January to 26 April 2013. MPEG hosts Multimedia Ecosystem 2013 Event During its 104th meeting, MPEG has hosted the MPEG Multimedia Ecosystem event to raise awareness of MPEG’s activities in areas not directly related to compression. ...
MPEG Column: 103rd MPEG Meeting
— original post by Multimedia Communication blog, Christian Timmerer, AAU The 103rd MPEG meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland, January 21-15, 2013. The official press release can be found here (doc only) and I’d like to introduce the new MPEG-H standard (ISO/IEC 23008) referred to as high efficiency coding and media delivery in heterogeneous environments: Part 1: MPEG Media Transport (MMT) – status: 2nd committee draft (CD) Part 2: High Efficiency Video ...
MPEG Column: 102nd MPEG Meeting
— original post by Multimedia Communication blog, Christian Timmerer, AAU The 102nd MPEG meeting was held in Shanghai, China, October 15-19, 2012. The official press release can be found here (not yet available) and I would like to highlight the following topics: Augmented Reality Application Format (ARAF) goes DIS MPEG-4 has now 30 parts: Let’s welcome timed text and other visual overlays Draft ...
MPEG Column: 101st MPEG Meeting
MPEG news: a report from the 101st meeting, Stockholm, Sweden The 101st MPEG meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden, July 16-20, 2012. The official press release can be found here and I would like to highlight the following topics: MPEG Media Transport (MMT) reaches Committee Draft (CD) High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) reaches Draft International Standard (DIS) MPEG and ITU-T establish JCT-3V Call ...
MPEG Column: 100th MPEG Meeting
MPEG news: a report from the 100th meeting, Geneva, CH The official press release is available here and I’d like to highlight two topics from MPEGs’ 100th meeting in Geneva, Switzerland: “MP100E“: MPEG celebrates its 100th meeting Systems news: ISOBMFF 4th edition, MDS social metadata, DASH conformance/refsw et al. WebVC and ARAF goes CD HEVC preliminary subjective test results publicly available MPEG ...