Leonardo's Blog (2012)

Leonardo delivers the "MPEG for the past, present and future of television" keynote speech at the Annual Meeting of the USA Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC).

Leonardo closes the 100th MPEG meeting where several documents were published:

• 4th edition of MPEG-2 Systems
• 2nd edition of MPEG-4 – Scene Description and Application Engine (MPEG-4 part 11)
• 4th edition of ISO Base Media File Format (MPEG-4 part 12)
• ISO/IEC CD 14496-29 Web Video Coding
• ISO/IEC CD 23000-13, Augmented Reality Application Format
• ISO/IEC CD 23001-8 Codec independent media description codepoints
• Draft Call for Proposals on Multimedia Preservation Description Information (MPDI)
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The meeting also decided to establish a new team joint with ITU-T on 3D Video coding.

The Geneva press release gives more news on the 100th MPEG meeting.

Leonardo closes the 34th DMP General Assembly. GA34 issues a Call for Proposals on Implementation of OCTV Specification.

Leonardo runs the "MPEG 100 event" to celebrate the 100th MPEG meeting and a close to a quarter of century of activity dedicated to digital media standards.

The event saw the participation of

• Rob Steele (Secretary General, ISO)
• Frank Kitzantides (SMB Past Chairman, IEC)
• Malcolm Johnson (Director, ITU-T)
• Francis Gurry (Director General, WIPO)
• Karen Higginbottom (Chairman, JTC 1)
• Kotaro Asai (Chairman, SC 29).

Leonardo gives a speech at XII Infopoverty World Conference with a contribution on "Asset creation via distributed teams – The MPEG experience".

CEDEO exhibits its products and services at CeBIT. In particular its brand new DASH video streaming from http://test.wim.tv/.

Leonardo gives a speech at Prof. Tanimoto Masayuki's "Last lecture" at Nagoya University.

Leonardo gives a speech at "TV and internet" seminar. See the video (start at min. 64) and the presentation.