1. ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London WP1 Progress MPEG-4 advanced broadcasting system INT

2. ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London WP1 progress Released tools q MPEG-4 compliant Video codec version 1.2:  MPEG-4 compliant Video player version 1.0  ê to be optimised ê unified stand-alone interface to MPEG-4 Video tools ê motion adaptation improvement 7 MS Media / QT do not generate MPEG-4 compliant streams ! ê block-DCT optimisation: +15% time efficiency

3. WP1 progress Next steps (1) q MPEG-4 Video codec: ê more improvement q MPEG-4 Video player: ê performance optimisation ê embedding as an application component ê management of streamed data ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London

4. ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London WP1 progress Next steps (2) ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London ê fusion with MPEG-4 SNHC avatar player q MPEG-4 tools integration: 6 requires developing a MPEG-4 compositor for flexible scene description/generation q MPEG-4 Video player (con’t) ê system integration, requiring: 6 more involvement on MPEG-4 System 6 active implication of IRT + BBC + …

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6. ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London WP4 Progress MPEG-4 advanced animation system INT

7. ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London WP4 progress Released components q MPEG-4 compliant Visia avatar q MPEG-4 compliant SNHC player version 1.2 ê BAP/FAP codec (  scalability / interpolation) ê BAF importation: to be validated ê VRML scene importation

8. WP4 progress Next steps (1) ê embedding as an application component ê management of streamed data ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London q MPEG-4 SNHC player ê Stand-alone interface to be delivered to the Consortium ê Improved face animation

9. WP4 progress Next steps (2) ViSiCAST- 5 th General Consortium Meeting 11-12 January 2001 - RNID, London q MPEG-4 SNHC full codec ê Avatar geometry / texture MPEG-4 codec ê System integration, requiring: 6 more involvement on MPEG-4 System 6 possible implication of WP2 ? q MPEG-4 tools integration  WP1

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