CORDIS Archive

ACTS Projects Contributions to Standardisation

AC101 - ICoBN

DAVIC

• DAVIC 1.3 Cable System
• Proposed Actions to Resolve Differences in DVB and DAVIC Cable System Specifications

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CENELEC

TC 209

• DAVIC/DVB/ETSI Cable System included as ref. in PrENS 50083-10, Cable networks for television signals, sound signals and interactive services;

Part 10: System performance of return paths

• Network survey information submitted

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IEEE 802.3

• propose a MAU (Medium Attachment Unit) as interface

• DAVIC/DVB/ETSI Cable System features in IEEE 802.14

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• DAVIC/DVB/ETSI Cable System work resulted in corrections to DVB docs.
• Proposed Actions to Resolve Differences in DVB and DAVIC Specifications
• Liaison documents
• Reported DAVIC results to DVB Meetings on the Return Channel for Cable and LMDS.
• lobbied DVB to accept the ECCA request to extend the specifications to cover cable-phone

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• DAVIC/DVB Cable System frozen as ETS/EN 300800
• Resolved "loose ends" from J.112 approval by ETSI

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• Guideline on Residential Videotelephony

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• ITU-T Rec. J.isc "Transmission Systems for Interactive Cable Services"
• Recommendation J.112 Annex A

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• new IETF work group, DIFFSERV WG

SCTE USA

• Monitoring aspects for the Outside Plant Management

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MPEG4- SNHC

"Algorithms for face localisation, facial feature extraction and tracking", document 2880

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MPEG4 Requirements

"Applications description from the M2VTS project", document M2864,

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DVB-RC

"Comments on the DVB-RC draft specification of the DVB interaction channel", AC103/TSP-SSS/PI-I-001/a0

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MPEG-4

M0705 Scope of MSDL-S

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MPEG-4

M0724.DOC

Instrumentation tools, some proposals

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MPEG-4

M0727.DOC

Scope of MPEG-4 User Interface

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MPEG-4

M0740.DOC

MPEG-4 VM1.1 binary shape coding, evaluation and proposals for improvements

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MPEG-4

M0741.DOC

Implementation complexity of VLC decoding

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MPEG-4

M0766 Report of AdHoc Group on Virtual Machine Requirements

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MPEG-4

M0767 Proposal for Changes to Thresholding Decisions in VM 1.2 Motion Estimation

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MPEG-4

M0773

Essential components for MSDL

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MPEG-4

M0774.DOC

Concerns about latency and memory requirements when implementing the video Verification model.

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MPEG-4

M0778 Microkernel issues for MSDL

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MPEG-4

M0834 An overview of MPEG-4 coder/decoder system architectures

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MPEG-4

M0839 Report of Ad-hoc group on defining framework of implementation complexity analysis when performing core experiments

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MPEG-4

M0846 Ad-hoc group report on defining and implementing instrumentation tools for embedding within VMs.

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MPEG-4

M0873 Architecture reconfigurability . opening up new levels of extensibility for MPEG-4 systems

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MPEG-4

M0876 MSDL Description of Video Verification Model Decoder

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MPEG-4

M0916 Report of Ad-hoc Group on analyzing the implementation considerations for software-configurable MPEG-4 systems

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MPEG-4

M0919 A Proposal for the Direction of Future Work on MPEG-4 Audio

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MPEG-4

M0920 Complexity Analysis of the MPEG-4 Video Verification Model using Profiling Tools.

NOT submitted by EMPHASIS, but details work carried out by EMPHASIS.

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MPEG-4

M0924

A statistical study of MPEG-4 VM texture decoding complexity

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MPEG-4

M0925

Scalability of the MPEG-4 VM based on the computational power of texture decoding

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MPEG-4

M0933.DOC

Complexity of binary shape coding, improvements for speed efficiency

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MPEG-4

M0959 Report of the Ad-Hoc Group on Complexity Analysis of the Video Verification Model

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MPEG-4

M1025 Itemizing Flex-1 requirements and possible solutions

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MPEG-4

M1074 A Multitasking Architecture for an MPEG-4 decoder

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MPEG-4

M1075 Considerations for the network model of MPEG-4

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MPEG-4

M1076 Considerations for a Multimedia orientated tasking model

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MPEG-4

M1077 Bi-Directional Communications for MPEG-4 Systems

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MPEG-4

M1088 AdHoc Group report on general availability of software VM

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MPEG-4

M1091 Clarification of Video VM Bitstream Definition.

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MPEG-4

M1097 Concerns about the complexity of padding operations in video coding

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MPEG-4

M1158 Combined and Separate Mode Syntax for B-VOPs

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MPEG-4

M1192 Report of the Ad-hoc group on computational graceful degradation

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MPEG-4

M1193 Measures of the range of computational based scalability

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MPEG-4

M1230 Clarification of down sampling technique for deriving the chrominance alpha plane

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MPEG-4

M1288 Hardware evaluation of shape decoding APIs

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MPEG-4

M1289 An implementation of compositing API for 2.5D image representation

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MPEG-4

M1300 Introduction of a tool-based and object-oriented view of MSDL-M

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MPEG-4

M1310 MPEG-4 architectural issues.

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MPEG-4

M1318 Missing concepts in the current MSDL Architecture

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MPEG-4

M1373 MSDL-S Frequently Asked Questions

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MPEG-4

M1377 MPEG-4 terminal architecture

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MPEG-4

M1416 A new type of synthetic content short note on Flexes

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MPEG-4

M1417 A tentative bitstream access API in Java

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MPEG-4

M1418

Missing concepts in the current MSDL Architecture

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MPEG-4

M1445

Controlling decoding power by graceful degradation techniques

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MPEG-4

M1495 MPEG-4 Interactivity Aspects

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MPEG-4

M1525 Concurrent versus Sequential Modeling for MSDL

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MPEG-4

M1526 Report of the ad-hoc group on computational graceful degradation

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MPEG-4

M1578 Report of the Ad-Hoc Group on Investigating Reduced Complexity Padding Techniques

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MPEG-4

M1594 Recommendations for MPEG-4 Terminal Functionality

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M0471

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M0627

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MPEG-4 M1998

ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11 (MPEG)

Informative annex about the use and implementation of complexity estimation and CGD.

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

Proposed modification of the complexity

Estimation parameter list and complexity results of the video CD.

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

Proposed revisions to FCD 14496-3 Subpart 5

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

A method for complexity measurements in Structured audio

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

Proposed revision of Systems and Audio profiles and levels from an analysis of audio composition

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

Proposal for new SAOL core opcodes for high quality equalizing and dynamics processing

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

Some results on MB coding complexity

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

Speed change interaction and synchronization: proposed modifications

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

Remarks and proposals on 3-D audio scene description for version 1

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MPEG

Report of practical complexity evaluation of an optimised HILN decoder

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MPEG

Test results on speech codecs (MPEG4 CELP, G723.1, Scalable Speech codec based on G723.1 (M2917))

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MPEG

MPEG4 Audio demonstrator

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MPEG

MPEG98/M3058 Complexity analysis and functional specification of a coprocessor for MPEG-4 image rendering

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

M3248, "MPEG-4 Profiles/Levels Summary"

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M 3517, "MPEG (1-2-4-7) Systems FAQ update",

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

M3648, "MPEG-4 Profiles / Levels Summary"

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ISO/IEC JTC1/sc29/WG11

M3853, "Structure and Interaction of two IM1 Demo Applications"

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MPEG-4

3182 Complexity Profiles

3183 Binary Shape Complexity

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MPEG-4

3859 Current status of Pact 3D Player

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MPEG-4

3887 Pact 3D Player System

3888 Preliminary Profiling of Pact 3D Player System

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ITU TG 11/3

Draft New Recommendation on Digital Terrestrial Television based on the DVB European Specification - Complementary Information

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DVB-TM

Comparison of Simulated DVB-T Test Sequences within the VALIDATE Project

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DVB-TM

Summary of results of tests with the BBC DVB-T 2K modem (September 1996)

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DVB-TM

Report on the development of the dTTb demonstrator: First RF transmission of a dual mode (2K / 8K) DVB-T modem

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ITU TG 11/3

Progress report on planning factors and implementation strategy

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ITU TG 11/3

Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting service coverage study and field trials

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DVB-TM

Proposal for a Megaframe for SFN synchronisation

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Joint meeting CEN TC251 WG4 and ACR-NEMA WG VI and Jira Medis/DC

Emerald Presentation

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DICOM/MEDICOM

Evaluation of compression algorithms

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CEN TC251 WG4

Emerald network design input to security in medical imaging

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CEN TC251/WG4 Ad-hoc Security Group

EMERALD Security Approach

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CEN TC251/WG4

ACR-NEMA WG VI

Jira Medis/DC

EMERALD Security Approach

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DICOM International Committee

Supplement 31: Security Enhancements One (In public comment)

Several contributions and reviews: Scenario analysis, risk assessment, need for security policy, etc.

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ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/

WG1

JPEG 2000 contribution : submission of algorithms for evaluation (UCL, member of MID-SIM)

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DVB

DVBird IC1 info sheet

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DVB

DVBird IC2 info sheet

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DVB

DVBird IC3 info shhet

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DVB

DVBird IC4 info sheet

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