Blog Entry - (SEL Librarian) UTA Library

On-line courses

Arecent edition of the ASEE e-news included an articleon free on-line courses and how it is gaining momentum. This article appears below. It mentions MIT's efforts in this since 2001. If interested, MIT's web site for this is http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Blog entry - http://blog.uta.edu/~mmedina (SEL librarian) UTA Library

Standards Infobase - http://eresource.uta.edu/cgi-bin/db-ILIStandardsWeb.cgi

SPIE publications (journals/conferences) on line (UTA Library)

http://spiedigitallibrary.aip.org

JPEG

http://www.jpeg.org (JPEG resources)

http://www.jpeg.org/public/jfif.pdf (JPEG file interchange format)

JPEG IJG (independent JPEG group) ftp.uu.net:/graphics/jpeg

DCT based coder, EZ-DCT coder, DPCM coder

http://www.cbloom.com/src/index_im.html#A1.2

JBIG, Entropy coders, VQ, LOCO-I, LZW

http://datacompression.info/

JPEGTool http://www.dms.auburn.edu/compression/download.html

ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg (JPEG software release 6 from IJG –

email contact: )

Links for lossless jpeg source code.

ftp://ftp.deva.net/pub/sources/graphics/libs/JPEGv1.2.1.tar.Z

ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/multimed/ljpg.tar.Z

http://www.oceana.com/ftp/ljpeg

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/jpeg-faq/part2/section-15.html

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/graphics/jpeg6b.z

JPEG software from Independent JPEG Group ftp://ftp/uu.net

JPEG LS/LOCO

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/spmg/research/jpeg/jpeg_ls/jpegls.html

LOCO-I Software (public domain) (JPEG-LS) http://spmg.ece.ubc.ca/research/jpeg/jpeg_ls/jpegls.html

LOCO_I technical report www.hpl.hp.com/loco (HP Labs)

JPEG-LS ( LOCO-I)

http://www.hpl.hp.com/loco/HPL-98-193R1.pdf

JPEG 2000

The new JasPer (JPEG-2000) release is available from the JasPer Project Home Page (i.e., http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper) and the JPEG web site (i.e., http://www.jpeg.org/software) new version 1.900.0, 8 Dec. 2006. JasPer is the software in C for JPEG2000. Also http://jj2000.epfl.com

http://www.kakadusoftware.com (kakadu software by David Taubman)

JPEG-2000 JasPer software http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper

JPEG-2000 tutorial http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams

AIC Advanced Image Coding (latest activity in still frame image coding) pl access the web site below.

http://www.bilsen.com/index.htm?http://www.bilsen.com/aic/

Pl access the web site below about ELYSIUM activity in JPEG/JPEG2000/JPEG XR and AIC

www.elysium.ltd.uk ( Richard Clark JPEG webmaster )

(JPEG Convener Daniel Lee [email protected] )

JPEG XR to Ballot for Committee Draft Status (2/5/2008)

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is a working group of ISO/IEC, the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission, (ISO/IEC JTC1/ SC29/WG1) and of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T SG16), responsible for the popular JPEG, JBIG, JPEG-LS, and JPEG 2000 family of imaging standards. The WG1 group meets three times a year, in North America, Europe and Asia. The latest meeting was held on November 12-16, 2007, in Kobe, Japan, hosted by the Japanese National Body and was attended by over 60 delegates from 13 national bodies.

JPEG XR

JPEG XR is a proposed new part (Part 2) of the recently established new work item in JPEG, known as JPEG Digital Imaging System Integration (ISO/IEC 29199 - JPEG DI). JPEG DI aims to provide harmonization and integration between a wide range of existing and new image coding schemes, in order to enable the design and delivery of the widest range of imaging applications, across many platforms and technologies. JPEG DI aims to leverage the rich array of tools developed in and around JPEG and JPEG 2000 to support new image compression methods such as JPEG XR. JPEG XR is designed explicitly for the next generation of digital cameras, based extensively on the technology introduced by Microsoft in its Windows Media Format proposals, at present known as HD Photo. At the Kobe meeting, The JPEG XR specification (Working Draft) was reviewed and will be balloted for promotion to Committee Draft (CD) status before the 44th WG1 San Francisco meeting, March 31 to April 4, 2008. In addition to JPEG XR itself, the creation of two other new parts of the standard on compliance testing and reference software was approved at the meeting.

Digital Cinema

The Digital Cinema (DC) Ad Hoc Group within the JPEG Committee has been successful in seeing their work adopted by the industry. The Digital Cinema Initiatives (www.dcimovies.com) organization has adopted JPEG 2000 for the distribution of digital movies to theatres. The successful rollout of this solution continues unabated with over 5000 theatres supporting digital cinema, including 1000 stereoscopic theatres. The first live-action stereoscopic feature encoded with JPEG 2000, Beowulf, is being released on November 16, 2007. The Digital Cinema Ad Hoc Group has initiated work on studio broadcast applications. In addition, the group has begun work on the archival of motion pictures and related contents.

JPEG 2000 related work

At the Kobe meeting, the JPEG Committee confirmed the endorsement of Intellectual Resource Initiative (IRI) as JTC 1 Registration Authority (RA) for use in JPSEC. IRI is a Non Profit Organization, based in Japan, established to create policy proposals on the importance of intellectual information in society.

JPEG 2000 Part 9 known as JPIP, allows powerful and efficient network access to JPEG 2000 images and their metadata in a way that exploits the best features of the JPEG 2000 standard. Interoperability testing among several JPIP implementations continued. Participation from additional organizations is solicited, and testing will continue over the Internet between meetings. For more information please contact .

JPEG 2000 Part 10 Ad Hoc Group has been working on the extension of JPEG 2000 to three-dimensional images such as Computer Tomography (CT) scans and scientific simulations. JP3D is currently in balloting phase for International Standard (IS) status. Due to an increased interested for compression technologies for floating-point data, the JPEG Committee has issued a call for information on applications and compression technology for floating-point data. Responses will be reviewed at the 44th WG1 San Francisco Meeting, March 31 - April 4, 2008.

JPEG 2000 Part 11 Wireless, also known as JPWL, has become an International Standard (ISO/IEC 15444-11). JPWL has standardized tools and methods to achieve the efficient transmission of JPEG 2000 imagery over an error-prone wireless system.

JPEG 2000 Part 13 standardizes an entry level JPEG 2000 encoder with widespread applications, intended to be implemented on a license and royalty fee free basis, was published as ISO/IEC 15444-13.

JPSearch

ISO/IEC 24800, Still Image Search, known as JPSearch, is a project that aims to develop a standard framework for searching large collections of images. This project is divided in five parts. <UL

· Part 1 - Framework and System Components, is a Technical Report that introduces the JPSearch architecture and outlines the organization of the JPSearch specifications.

· Part 2 - Schema and Ontology Registration and Identification, standardizes a format for the import, export and exchange of ontology.

· Part 3 - JPSearch Query Format, which is developed jointly with MPEG, allows for the expression of search criteria, the aggregation of return results and the management of query process.

· Part 4 - Metadata Embedded in Image Data (JPEG and JPEG 2000) file format, standardizes image data exchange format with associated metadata.

· Part 5 - Data Interchange Format between Image Repositories, standardizes a format for the exchange of image collections and respective metadata between JPSearch compliant repositories.

At the meeting, requirements for each part have been reviewed and updated, and Working Drafts for Part 2 and Part 4 and Committee Draft of Part 3 have been produced.

Advanced Image Coding

In the Advanced Image Coding (AIC) Ad Hoc Group, presentations were made regarding evaluation metrics and scalable distributed video coding. A call for contributions was issued on development of comprehensive guidelines for image quality evaluations.

Contributions

The following presentations were given at the meeting in plenary sessions.

· "Proposal for archival formats for cinematic content," Joerg Mohr, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany.

· "Lossy and lossless floating point compression with JPEG 2000," Dominic Springer, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany.

· "Scalable distributed video coding as a new scheme for advanced image coding," Mourad Ouaret, Frederic Dufaux, Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland. On behalf of DISCOVER Project.

· "ED-Cine - Digital Cinema Distribution and Virtual Interleaving for JPWL," Fabrizio Frescura, G. Baruffa, University of Perugia / Digilab2000, Italy.

· "Inter-View Coding for Stereoscopic Digital Applications," Guillaume Boisson, Thomson R&D, France

"We are excited that under the JPEG brand our work brings new innovations to the digital camera market place," said Dr. Daniel Lee of eBay Inc., Convener of the JPEG Committee. "The JPEG XR standard in combination with the suite of technologies developed for JPEG 2000 offer new opportunities for innovation and enhanced consumer experiences."

The JPEG web site ( http://www.jpeg.org ) has sponsorship opportunities for all companies involved in developments around JPEG. The marketing departments of interested companies should contact the JPEG webmaster, Richard Clark ( ), for this high-traffic site.

The next, 44th WG1 Meeting will be held in San Francisco, California, USA, hosted by the US National Body, March 31 - April 4, 2008.

More information is available at www.jpeg.org, or by contacting Lou Sharpe, JPEG PR Chair at .

MPEG-2

http://www.mpeg.org (MPEG resources)

www.sarnoff.com Link to compliance bitstreams for MPEG-1/2 decoders

http://www.vol.it/MPEG (MPEG companies listing)

http://www.mpeg.org/ (MPEG Pointers and resources: product reviews) http://www.mpeg2.de/ (MPEG2 & DVD)

PP slides on MPEG-1/MPEG-2 by Dr. M. Isnardi, Sarnoff Corpn., Princeton , NJ.

http://www.leitch.com/resources/tutorials/mpeg-2VideoCompression.pdf

MPEG-2 software www.mpeg.org./MSSG (mpeg2v12.zip)

Mpeg-2 http://www.mpeg.org/MSSG

There is a reference software available for MPEG-2 (ISO 13818) (includes, audio, video and systems) from ISO’s website. http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/s025038_ISO_IEC_TR_13818-5_1997(E)_Software_Simulation.zip

. There is also a version of MPEG-2 software available from Berkeley Multimedia Research Center at ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg2/.

http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/video/mssg-free-mpeg-software.html

http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php

ftp://ftp.hhi.de/ieee-tcsvt/

Our MPEG-21 work is summarized at

http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ssm/index.html

Some MPEG21 documents are available at

http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/working_documents.htm

DCTune

http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/dctune

Berkeley multimedia research center (excellent web site)

http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/

The above software seems to have been developed in 1997.

There is also a version of MPEG-2 software available from Berkeley Multimedia Research Center at ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg2/. But I think this covers only MPEG-2 video.

MPEG-2 VIDEO CODEC SOFTWARE

MPEG 2 software in public domain.

http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/video/mssg-free-mpeg-software.html

VISUALmpeg Link (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2):
http://www.mpeg-analyzer.com/demo/VISUALmpeg_demo.zip

VISUALmpegAVC Link (MPEG-4 AVC / H.264):
http://www.mpeg-analyzer.com/demo/VISUALmpegAVC_demo.zip

Username: sequence
Password: header

Adobe flash player9 (flash graphics video and audio)

http://www.kaourantin.net

H.264/MPEG-4 PART 10 (JVT AVC)

Here are some good links to get an understanding of what MPEG-4, H.264 and AAC are:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s&amp;threadid=62723
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96059
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H264
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
http://daringfireball.net/2007/04/some_facts_about_aac

Valuable web site related to H.264 and video coding:

http://ip.hhi.de/imagecom_G1/assets/pdfs/

Latest H.264 standard (1 March 2008)

http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/2007_06_Geneva/ document JVT-X201.

A commercial H.264 stream analyzer tool supporting higher bit-depths

(10-14 bits) and chroma formats (4:2:2, 4:4:4)?

2.) YUV viewer with the above capabilites,

Where to download raw YUV data or encoded

H.264 streams for 1920x1080 (10-14 bits, 4:2:2, 4:4:4) formats.

1.) H.264 Analysis Tool（Supports High10 and High4:2:2）

http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_1_en.htm

2.) MPEG-4 Analysis Tool

http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_2_en.htm

3.) Ns YUV Player

http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_3_en.htm

4.) Ns YUV Player-FR

http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_4_en.htm

5.) VQ-1000(Japanese language only)

http://www.nikon-sys.co.jp/products/index_1_0.htm

SVC versus simulcast for HD content

http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Ext/PCS2007/defevent/papers/cr1199.pdf

http://www.dustsigns.de/cgi-bin/dwnldcnt.cgi?file=Files/FH/H264SVCQ.pdf

http://standard.pictel.com/ftp/video-site/0201_Gen New ftp site recently established for JVT use is H.264/AVC reference SOFTWARE 11 http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/download/jm11.zip.

http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/JVT-Q042.zip JM manual.

software manual (H.264) that is available at:

http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/JM%20Reference%20Software%20Manual%20(JVT-X072).pdf

JVT-X072 for a software user's guide and JVT-X101 for algorithm descriptions for H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10.

(JVT – Joint Video Team is made of ITU-T

and ISO/IEC leading to the standard H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 10)

H.264 documents; ftp://standards.polycom.com

"How to use SP and SI frames" 4/11/07

( It is available at http://ivms.stanford.edu/~esetton/H264_1.htm ). As for the technique description, you may refer to the paper "The SP- and SI-Frames Design for H.264/AVC," and you could find more references there

The general JVT reflector can be subscribed to at

http://www.imtc.org/activity_groups/ JVT-EXPERTS LIST (FAQ)

For MPEG-4 part 2, there are two sets of reference software that have been standardized. They can be found at http://megaera.ee.nctu.edu.tw/mpeg/ (a site which is often not working, and does not seem to be working today) or http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2489/Ittf_Home/PubliclyAvailableStandards.htm (look for 14496-5).

I don’t think the MPEG-4 standard is available free of charge. It can be purchased from ISO at http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/StandardsQueryFormHandler.StandardsQueryFormHandler?languageCode=en&keyword=&lastSearch=false&isoNumber=14496&isoPartNumber=&ICS=&stageCode=&stageDate=&committee=ALL&subcommittee=&scope=CATALOGUE&sortOrder=ISO.

The MPEG-4 reference software can be downloaded (free) from ISO’s website http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/14496-5_Compressed_directories/.

The latest AVC (H.264) standard and software is available from the ftp site ftp://standards.polycom.com/ ((The official ftp site is moving from the previous ftp site ftp://ftp.imtc-files.org/jvt-experts/ to Polycom.). The draft is located in the “2004_07_Redmond” subdirectory as JVTL047dX where ‘X’ is a revision level indicator.

MPEG-4 reference software from the MPEG Industry Forum. The website is

http://www.m4if.org/resources.php#section16

H.264/AVC http://bs.hhi.de/~suehring/tml/download/jm61e.zip

MPEG-4 http://bs.hhi.de/~wiegand/ICG-Project-RDO.html

http://www.ubvideo.com

H.264/AVC Software Package, Ver JM 13.2 “http://bs.hhi.de/~suehring/tml/download/

http://ftp3.itu.ch/av-arch/jvt-site/draft_standard/ (current H.264 draft standard)

FFMPEG in it's newest version (0.4.9_pre1) can play H.264 files - has CABAC

but no B-picture support.

Syntax: ffplay -f h264 x.264

(http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/)

H.264/AVC reference software JM 93 this has FRExtensions also. ( latest is JM 13.1)

http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/download/jm93.zip

JM software (e.g., version 13.2) and reading the software users' manual JVT-X072 (http://ftp3.itu.ch/av-arch/jvt-site/2007_06_Geneva/).

Verification test to measure performance of SVC amendment of ITU-T Rec. H.264 (also ISO/IEC MPEG-4 Part 10)

http://ip.hhi.de/imagecom_G1/savce/MPEG-Verification-Test/MPEG-Verification-Test.htm

Where would I find the specification of the MP4 file format for H.264?
14496-12 is the structure, 14496-15 is how H.264 (aka AVC) (aka
MPEG-4 Part 10) is stored in it.

H.264/AVC streams in MPEG-2 TS:

Korean DMB reference stream (contains FlexMux) ftp://www.elecard.net.ru/pub/mpeg/h264/korean/Reference_case1.TS

Streams captured from Korean DMB ftp://www.elecard.net.ru/pub/mpeg/h264/korean/1.ts

ftp://www.elecard.net.ru/pub/mpeg/h264/korean/2.ts

Streams produced by multiplexer (H.264 video wrapped per ETSI TS 101 154) ftp://www.elecard.net.ru/pub/mpeg/h264/ts/rbc-capture-nov15-crop.mpg

One can get a copy of the official standard from the ITU-T publication site so that the ITU has some idea how many people out there are using the standard (the ITU keeps track of the number of downloads.)

One can get a free copy of any 3 ITU-T standards per year.

One can register for the "3 free" programs by visiting http://ecs.itu.ch/cgi-bin/ebookshop

or by visiting http://www.itu.int/publications/index.html and clicking on the "3 Free Recs. Now!" button.

The official published standard can be found at http://tinyurl.com/3u9ww.

MPEG's corresponding standard is available from ISO/IEC at http://tinyurl.com/6dnck, but it costs a couple of hundred dollars per copy.

H.264 Main profile bitstreams like CVMA1_TOSHIBA_B,CANLMA2_Sony_C,Sharp_MP_PAFF_1r2:

http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/draft_conformance

A good source for the MPEG-4 Part 2 reference software (and other freely-available ISO standards) is

http://tinyurl.com/752g2

JVT DOCUMENT SITE

2006_01_Bangkok directory on the JVT document site http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site).

To subscribe to the 3rd JVT reflector (which is devoted to SVC work), send email to "" containing "subscribe svc" in the body of the message.

JVT documents can be found at http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site

No password is required for access to nearly all documents on that site. A select few documents (such as integrated-format standard drafts) require password access, using a password given only to formal JVT members.