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ZTE Communications ›› 2012, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (2): 1-1.

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Guest Editorial of Emerging Technologies for Multimedia Coding, Analysis and Transmission

Huifang Sun1 and Dong Wang2   

  1. 1. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
    2. ZTE Corporation, China
  • Online:2012-06-25 Published:2012-06-25
  • About author:Huifang Sun (hsun@merl.com) received his BSc degree from Harbin Military Engineering Institute, China, and his PhD degree from the University of Ottawa, Canada. In 1990, he was an associate professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Also in 1990, he joined Sarnoff Corporation and was later promoted to technology leader. In 1995, he joined Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and was promoted to vice president, deputy director, and fellow (2003). He has co-authored two books and published more than 140 journal and conference papers. He holds more than 60 US patents. In 1994, Huifang Sun received a Technical Achievement Award for optimization and specification of the Grand Alliance HDTV video compression algorithm. In 1992, he won the Best Paper award from IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics. In 1996, he won the Best Paper award at ICCE, and in 2003, he won the Best Paper award from IEEE Transactions on CSVT. He has been associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and was the chair of the Visual Processing Technical Committee of IEEE’s Circuits and System Society. He is an IEEE Fellow.

    Dong Wang (wang.dong@zte.com.cn) received his MSc degree from Southeast University in 2000. He has worked for ZTE Corporation since 2001 and is currently the multimedia standards director. He is responsible for pre-research and standardization activities on multimedia applications, system, coding, and transport. He is the vice chairman of the Study Group for Broadband Cable TV (ITU-T SG9). His research interests include the multimedia applications, systems and the next generation audiovisual coding and the next generation multimedia transport technologies, which are related to the standardization activities of ITU-T SG9&SG16, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 WG11 (MPEG) and 3GPP SA4.

Guest Editorial of Emerging Technologies for Multimedia Coding, Analysis and Transmission

Huifang Sun1 and Dong Wang2   

  1. 1. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
    2. ZTE Corporation, China
  • 作者简介:Huifang Sun (hsun@merl.com) received his BSc degree from Harbin Military Engineering Institute, China, and his PhD degree from the University of Ottawa, Canada. In 1990, he was an associate professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Also in 1990, he joined Sarnoff Corporation and was later promoted to technology leader. In 1995, he joined Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and was promoted to vice president, deputy director, and fellow (2003). He has co-authored two books and published more than 140 journal and conference papers. He holds more than 60 US patents. In 1994, Huifang Sun received a Technical Achievement Award for optimization and specification of the Grand Alliance HDTV video compression algorithm. In 1992, he won the Best Paper award from IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics. In 1996, he won the Best Paper award at ICCE, and in 2003, he won the Best Paper award from IEEE Transactions on CSVT. He has been associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and was the chair of the Visual Processing Technical Committee of IEEE’s Circuits and System Society. He is an IEEE Fellow.

    Dong Wang (wang.dong@zte.com.cn) received his MSc degree from Southeast University in 2000. He has worked for ZTE Corporation since 2001 and is currently the multimedia standards director. He is responsible for pre-research and standardization activities on multimedia applications, system, coding, and transport. He is the vice chairman of the Study Group for Broadband Cable TV (ITU-T SG9). His research interests include the multimedia applications, systems and the next generation audiovisual coding and the next generation multimedia transport technologies, which are related to the standardization activities of ITU-T SG9&SG16, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 WG11 (MPEG) and 3GPP SA4.

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Abstract: Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in the coding, analysis, and transmission of digital audio, video, and images. Digital multimedia signal processing technologies have arisen out of practical necessity and have significantly affected the multimedia industry. This special issue contains nine papers written by experts from academia and industry. The papers detail the most recent achievements in audio and video coding analysis and transmission and give an overview of emerging technologies. The paper by Ping Wu et al. introduces high-efficiency video coding (HEVC).
This new video coding standard greatly improves on the coding efficiency of H.264/AVC and is a milestone in digital video coding standards. In this paper, the technical features of HEVC (up to HEVC CD stage) are discussed.
The paper by Yichen Zhang and Lu Yu discusses the ongoing standardization of MPEG’s 3D video (3DV) coding. In this paper, coding tools proposed in response to MPEG’s Call for Proposals on 3DV coding are summarized.
The paper by Siwei Ma et al. gives an overview of the 3DV coding standard developed by the China Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) Working Group.
The paper by Euee S. Jang describes a configurable codec framework. Video codec devices are becoming increasingly complex because of a wider range of applications. MPEG suggests tackling the problem with a reconfigurable video coding (RVC) framework and by standardizing modular definitions of tools and their connections. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the RVC standard.
The paper by Minjie Xie describes lattice vector quantization (LVQ) algorithm for speech and audio coding. Various LVQ schemes have been developed for speech and audio coding, and some of these have been successfully used in ITU-T G.718 and G.719, 3GPPAMR-WB+, and MPEG USAC.
In the paper by Stephane Ragot et al., noise feedback coding (NFC) NFC is reviewed, and a novel coding technique is proposed. The technique involves using noise shaping in embedded pulse code modulation (PCM) and adaptive differential PCM (ADPCM).
The paper by Gerard Fernando describes the newest multimedia transport (MMT) standard, developed by MPEG. This paper describes the architecture and functions of MMT up to the MMT CD stage, and it lists the advantages and shortfalls of existing technologies.
The paper by Zhijie Zhao et al. describes low-complexity error resilience and error concealment for the scalable extension of H.264/AVC (SVC). This paper describes multiple description coding (MDC) for the encoder. It also describes an error concealment method in network abstraction layer (NAL) for decoder when medium grain scalability (MGS) is used. This method requires minimal computation and is suitable for real-time video streaming. In this paper, experimental results are also given.
The paper by Ling-Yu Duan et al. introduces the MPEG standard on compact descriptors for visual search (CDVS) for mobile applications. MPEG is developing a competitive and collaborative platform for evaluating existing visual search technologies. They are also developing a standard for visual descriptors.

Key words: Multimedia Coding

摘要： Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in the coding, analysis, and transmission of digital audio, video, and images. Digital multimedia signal processing technologies have arisen out of practical necessity and have significantly affected the multimedia industry. This special issue contains nine papers written by experts from academia and industry. The papers detail the most recent achievements in audio and video coding analysis and transmission and give an overview of emerging technologies. The paper by Ping Wu et al. introduces high-efficiency video coding (HEVC).
This new video coding standard greatly improves on the coding efficiency of H.264/AVC and is a milestone in digital video coding standards. In this paper, the technical features of HEVC (up to HEVC CD stage) are discussed.
The paper by Yichen Zhang and Lu Yu discusses the ongoing standardization of MPEG’s 3D video (3DV) coding. In this paper, coding tools proposed in response to MPEG’s Call for Proposals on 3DV coding are summarized.
The paper by Siwei Ma et al. gives an overview of the 3DV coding standard developed by the China Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) Working Group.
The paper by Euee S. Jang describes a configurable codec framework. Video codec devices are becoming increasingly complex because of a wider range of applications. MPEG suggests tackling the problem with a reconfigurable video coding (RVC) framework and by standardizing modular definitions of tools and their connections. This paper gives a comprehensive overview of the RVC standard.
The paper by Minjie Xie describes lattice vector quantization (LVQ) algorithm for speech and audio coding. Various LVQ schemes have been developed for speech and audio coding, and some of these have been successfully used in ITU-T G.718 and G.719, 3GPPAMR-WB+, and MPEG USAC.
In the paper by Stephane Ragot et al., noise feedback coding (NFC) NFC is reviewed, and a novel coding technique is proposed. The technique involves using noise shaping in embedded pulse code modulation (PCM) and adaptive differential PCM (ADPCM).
The paper by Gerard Fernando describes the newest multimedia transport (MMT) standard, developed by MPEG. This paper describes the architecture and functions of MMT up to the MMT CD stage, and it lists the advantages and shortfalls of existing technologies.
The paper by Zhijie Zhao et al. describes low-complexity error resilience and error concealment for the scalable extension of H.264/AVC (SVC). This paper describes multiple description coding (MDC) for the encoder. It also describes an error concealment method in network abstraction layer (NAL) for decoder when medium grain scalability (MGS) is used. This method requires minimal computation and is suitable for real-time video streaming. In this paper, experimental results are also given.
The paper by Ling-Yu Duan et al. introduces the MPEG standard on compact descriptors for visual search (CDVS) for mobile applications. MPEG is developing a competitive and collaborative platform for evaluating existing visual search technologies. They are also developing a standard for visual descriptors.

关键词: Multimedia Coding