For about 150 years, the telephone service has provided a socially important communication means to billions of people. For at least a century the telecom industry has strived to offer…

Introduction This chapter will tell the story of how compressed digital video standards gave rise to the ever-improving digital video experience that the world is experiencing in ever greater numbers.…

Introduction In the preceding chapter the intense 40-year long history of ITU and MPEG video compression standards was presented. In this chapter the focus is on how over the years,…

Introduction With the exclusion of the first video coding standards, MPEG has always supported more than rectangular monovision. This chapter explores the evolution of this endeavour over the years. The…

Introduction MPEG has given humans the means to add significant more effectiveness and enjoyment to their lives. If billions of people, however, can stream video to anywhere at any time…

Introduction Because of obvious technology reasons, the electrical representation of sound information happened before the electrical representation of visual information. The same is true of the services that used that…

Introduction The description of the MPEG workflow highlights the role of quality assessment across the entire MPEG standard life cycle: at the time of issuing a Call for Evidence (CfE)…

Introduction All time that is spent saying that MPEG would not it be what it has become if the Systems aspects had not been part of most of its standards…

In its 31 years of activity MPEG has developed standards for compression of audio, video and 3D graphics. What is less known is that MPEG has worked on compression of…

Introduction Obviously video is a high-profile topic to MPEG people – MP stands for Moving Pictures (not Motion Pictures, which is another story) and Audio is another high-profile topic. This…