MPEG 110, Strasbourg

MPEG 110 Strasbourg 480x319Zetacast was pleased to support Samsung at the 110th meeting of MPEG and 19th meeting of JCT-VC, held from 17 to 24 October 2014 in Strasbourg, France.

This meeting started to consider the eventual successor to the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, by including a brainstorming panel discussion to explore use cases, requirements and potential timelines for the development of future video coding standards.

Guest speakers included JeongHoon Park of Samsung, Anne Aaron of Netflix, Harald Alvestrand of Google, Zhong Luo of Huawei, Stéphane Pateux of Orange, Roger Bolton of Ericsson and Paul Torres of Qualcomm, who each provided excellent presentations discussing the needs of applications in their industry segments. A range of opinions were expressed by the panelists and other participants from industry and academia, with a common theme that further increases in compression efficiency remain a fundamental need.  Two ad hoc groups were set up to continue the study of future application requirements and begin to establish a roadmap for future video coding standardisation.

MPEG is the Moving Picture Experts Group of ISO/IEC, more formally designated ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, which has been developing various standards for the coded representation of video, audio and related data since 1998. The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) is developing the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard as a joint activity between MPEG and VCEG, the ITU-T Study Group 16 Question 6.