A 2-D MPEG-4 multimedia authoring tool

Authors:
D. W. Viljoen;A. P. Calitz;N. L. O. Cowley
Affiliations:
University of Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth 6000, South Africa.;University of Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth 6000, South Africa.;University of Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth 6000, South Africa.
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Computer graphics, virtual Reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa
Year:
2003

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Abstract

MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC standard developed by MPEG and promises to be a revolutionary force in the multimedia market. MPEG-4 allows multimedia authors to create interactive multimedia content that can be streamed at variable bit rates over high and low bandwidth connections. The standard has the potential to bring interactive multimedia to a larger audience, for instance providing interactive television or streaming video to a cell phone. Any multimedia technology will only be successful if it is accessible to content authors and users. In order for MPEG-4 to reach its full potential, it will require authoring tools and content players that satisfy the needs of its users. Currently there is a limited number MPEG-4 authoring utilities available to users. MPEG-4 as a standard is still developing and a limited amount of research has been done on these software applications. The greater part of the research effort on MPEG-4 is focused on completing and extending the standard itself.This paper provides a brief overview of the MPEG-4 standard and discusses the requirements and design of a novel 2-D MPEG-4 authoring tool that complies with the Complete 2-D Scene Graph Profile. Thereafter the paper discusses the implementation of this multimedia authoring tool, which will satisfy the requirements for authoring MPEG-4 multimedia content.