"Current and emerging standards – ISO" - Touradj Ebrahimi - QoE-Net Online Short Course
Abstract
ISO is one of the major standardisation organisations in the world, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. This short course will provide an overview ISO standards committees JPEG and MPEG.
After a general introduction of the structure and standardisation procedures within ISO, JPEG and MPEG committees, an overview of past standards developed by ISO in the field of multimedia is provided.
A particular emphasis will be given to Legacy JPEG, JPEG-LS, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and JPEG XT by JPEG Committee and MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVC, and HEVC by MPEG Committee.
In addition to the above, we will see in details how selection of technologies through call for evidence, call for proposals and core experiments is performed, and especially which quality assessment methodologies and metrics are used. The short course will then provide an outlook into emerging standards such as JPEG PLENO, JPEG XS, MPEG-FTV, and MPEG-3DGC and their current status.
Speaker's biography
Touradj Ebrahimi is a professor at EPFL and head of its multimedia signal processing group. He is also Convenor (chairman) of JPEG standardisation committee and a key member of MPEG standardisation committee. Prof. Ebrahimi has received numerous awards and distinctions for his achievements in standardisation of image and video, in particular ISO certificates for outstanding contributions to MPEG-4. JPEG 2000, JPSEC, JPEG XR and JPSearch to mention some. Prof. Ebrahimi has played a key role in the assessment of JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, JPEG XT, MPEG-4, AVC. MVC, HEVC, 3DVC, and MPEG HDR/WCG.