Digital media in the home: technical and research challenges

Jordi Ribas-Corbera

doi:10.1117/12.597254

14 March 2005 Digital media in the home: technical and research challenges

Jordi Ribas-Corbera

Proceedings Volume 5685, Image and Video Communications and Processing 2005; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597254
Event: Electronic Imaging 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

This article attempts to identify some of the technology and research challenges facing the digital media industry in the future. We first discuss several trends in the industry, such as the rapid growth of broadband Internet networks and the emergence of networking and media-capable devices in the home. Next, we present technical challenges that result from these trends, such as effective media interoperability in devices, and provide a brief overview of Windows Media, which is one of the technologies in the market attempting to address these challenges. Finally, given these trends and the state of the art, we argue that further research on data compression, encoder optimization, and multi-format transcoding can potentially make a significant technical and business impact in digital media. We also explore the reasons that research on related techniques such as wavelets or scalable video coding is having a relatively minor impact in today’s practical digital media systems.

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Jordi Ribas-Corbera "Digital media in the home: technical and research challenges", Proc. SPIE 5685, Image and Video Communications and Processing 2005, (14 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597254

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