Area of Work
Standardization of coded representation of audio, picture, multimedia
and hypermedia information - and sets of compression and control
functions for use with such information - such as:
- Audio information
- Bi-level and Limited Bits-per-pixel Still Pictures
- Digital Continuous-tone Still Pictures
- Computer Graphic Images
- Moving Pictures and Associated Audio
- Multimedia and Hypermedia Information for Real-time Final Form
Interchange
- Audio Visual Interactive Scriptware
Excluded: Character Coding
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Requirements and Guidelines
The standards address requirements and guidelines covering:
i) data compression methods and techniques used to transform digital
data into equivalent, "compressed" representations
ii) image and information interchange requirements within and
across applications and services such as telecommunications and
broadcast networks
iii) product development, R & D activities including microchips
and systems aspects
iv) algorithm proposals, subjective tests, system packages and
implementations for the applications
v) encoding for representation of multimedia/hypermedia information
objects, and audiovisual interactive scriptware
vi) testing the conformance and compliance of requirements and
implementations
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