OPTIMIX standardisation effort
Standardisation effort purpose
ICT OPTIMIX project is expected to produce innovative solutions in several areas, in particular in the domains of video coding and
networking. The developed new schemes are in particular meant to be exploited for contributions to international standards. Especially the work on high compression-efficient and high quality video codecs is foreseen to be used in the context of standardisation at the relevant bodies (i.e., ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG). The following list gives an overview of the standardization groups targeted by the OPTIMIX project.
ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG)
- VCEG is currently investigates on new tools for coding efficiency. In order to compare the results of the different tools, VCEG established a joint platform (KTA software). In addition, VCEG does continues work on the requirements for a potential new video standard (i.e., "H.265"). In case these activities result into a standardisation project, OPTIMIX intends to contribute to the development.
Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG)
- MPEG is currently running an exploration on New Challenges in Video Coding Standardization. This will likely result in the development of a new video coding standard. The requirements are similar to VCEG, so MPEG will likely offer similar opportunities for OPTIMIX proposals.
Joint Video Team (JVT)
- The JVT is a joint group of MPEG and VCEG. In the past, it served as the working group for the standardisation of H.264/AVC and its Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension (Annex G of H.264/AVC). In case of a future collaboration between MPEG and VCEG on a new video coding standard, JVT is likely to be the responsible group and therefore likewise interesting for OPTIMIX.
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- Within IETF, especially its work on RTP transmission is relevant for the OPTIMIX project. Currently (after the finalization of the RTP payload format for SVC), no future standardization topics for OPTIMIX are seen within IETF.
Contributions to Standardisation
- Xiang Li, Peter Amon, Andreas Hutter, Andre Kaup, "Lagrange Multiplier Selection for Rate-Distortion Optimization in SVC", ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-AD021, Geneva, Switzerland, January/February 2009. [PDF]