A syntactic framework for bitstream-level representation of audio-visual objects

Author

Fang, Yihan ; Eleftheriadis, Alexandros

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

16-19 Sep 1996

Firstpage

421

Abstract

We present the design of a novel syntactic and semantic framework to describe the bitstream-level representation of audio-visual information objects. This framework is important for emerging techniques in video compression, and is currently part of the MPEG-4 System Description Language Working Draft. The design is based on a principle of orthogonality between parsing and processing, i.e., separating the bitstream parsing from the other decoding operations, and extends the basic typing system of a programming language so that it incorporates sophisticated parsing information. Examples of object representations are provided using the MPEG-2 video bitstream syntax

Keywords

audio-visual systems; computational linguistics; data compression; decoding; grammars; image representation; specification languages; video coding; MPEG-2 video bitstream syntax; MPEG-4 System Description Language; audio-visual information objects; bitstream parsing; bitstream-level representation; decoding operations; object representations; orthogonality principle; parsing information; processing; programming language; semantic framework; syntactic framework; typing system; video compression; Computer languages; Computer networks; Decoding; Formal languages; Information representation; MPEG 4 Standard; Transform coding; Video compression; Virtual machining; Virtual manufacturing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 1996. Proceedings., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lausanne

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3259-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.1996.560864

Filename

560864