SILICON VALLEY: September 29 & 30, 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA

Agenda Seminar Schedule Registration includes Who should attend?

This two-day MPEG4 Technologies and Applications seminar focuses on
- MPEG4 Visual (Part 2) for rectangular and arbitrary shaped objects including Simple, Advanced Simple, FGS, Core, Main and Studio Profiles;
- MPEG4 Audio (Part 3) for speech and audio coding with scalability and functional enhancements and includes MPEG4 AAC and High Efficiency AAC profiles
- MPEG4 Systems (Part 1) for scene descriptions and elementary stream management, synchronization of streams and delivery of MPEG4 over networks and in storage applications (mp4 file format).

Our Advanced Video Coding/H.264 seminar additionally details the latest video coding standardized. It is also known as MPEG4 Part 10, and this is a separate one-day seminar offering.

Plan to attend our detailed two-day technical seminar which will provide you with in-depth information on the MPEG4 standard, its technologies, tools and applications. You will gain real-world analytical skills to benefit you in design and decision making in the challenging MPEG4 product markets. Tactical strategies and tools and technology selections leading to significant competitive advantages will be highlighted.

MPEG4 is the state-of-the-art international standard for coding of audiovisual objects. It defines a vast set of compression technologies and formats that address a wide range of applications and products. MPEG4 standardizes storage file formats and carriage of rich media over a broad range of narrowband and broadband transport networks and supports playback on a variety of target devices.

KNK Seminars presentations will benefit you with a detailed and practical coverage of the MPEG4 technology suites as well as their relevancy to product developments. You will learn the applicable combinations of toolsets and parameters that enable cost-effective and feature-rich products. Interoperability across different platforms and services will be studied. Examples of product applications and trends and design issues will be addressed throughout the seminar. An overview of features and status of the latest video coding AVC/H.264 (MPEG4 Part 10) will also be introduced and compared.

You will explore in detail the main parts of MPEG4:
Visual and Audio provide efficient object-based coding of natural and synthetic still and moving pictures and speech and audio together with error resilience and scalability assets.
Systems which provides scene descriptions, content descriptions, multiplexing, synchronization, buffer management, testability, interactivity and framework for protection and management of intellectual property.
Carriage of MPEG4 media streams over heterogeneous networks and via MPEG2 transport and IP will be discussed together with storage and streaming file formats (.mp4) and control protocols.
Conformance and testing for classes of products will be analyzed.

You will understand how to adapt MPEG4's vast suites of toolsets for specific applications. Worked examples will include accessing and playing content and authoring.

Product and service focuses including mobile video, broadband streaming, interactive television, real-time communications and surveillance will assist you in developing the key features and tradeoffs for implementation and deployment of successful MPEG4-based products. Demonstrations will be shown through the seminar that illustrate technologies and the benefits that MPEG4 brings to markets.

Join us to master the technologies and applications enabled by MPEG4. The detailed technical content and concise perspectives of this seminar will aid you in establishing your company in a strong position to take advantage of timely development opportunities and to gain leadership in rich media products and services now and in the future.

Register today to take advantage of these two intensive days of MPEG4 training that will give you the foundation for successful rich-media product opportunities!

Seminar Agenda for MPEG4 Technologies & Applications:

September 29, 2008: DAY 1 OF MPEG4 Technologies & Applications

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Registration and refreshments

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEW

    Structure of the MPEG4 standard and relationship to other standards
    Content representation and its benefits
    Architecture & processes of an MPEG4 system
    Structure and functionalities
    Interoperability and Profiles & Levels overview
    Industry applications and adoptions of MPEG4

MPEG4 VISUAL (MPEG4 Part 2)

    Introduction to MPEG4 visual
        - Overview of coding tools, object types, characteristics of MPEG4 Visual, conformance points, application examples of features, issues and MPEG4's beneficial solutions, document summary - Version 1 & 2, Amendment 1 & 2
    Fundamentals of MPEG4 Visual Object Coding
        - MPEG4 data structures, top-level encoder/decoder block diagrams, comparison with other standards
    High-level comparison to Advanced Video Coding (AVC) - MPEG4 Part 10/ITU H.264
    MPEG4 Visual Coding: detailed descriptions, functional block diagrams, analyses, implementations
         - Video formats summary, syntactic data structure, hierarchical visual descriptions, video objects defined, detailed visual tools summary and groupings for object types based on nature of content, operating environments, network architectures and their characteristics
         - Texture and Motion Coding: Includes DCT, quantization, scan, DC/AC prediction, variable length coding, predictive coding, I/P/B-VOPs, direct mode, mode selection, advanced prediction, unrestricted motion vectors, padding, global motion compensation, ¼-pel
         - Shape Coding - binary coding, mode selection, arithmetic coding, grey-scale shape coding, padding techniques for texture and motion coding, shape-adaptive DCT

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Hosted networking luncheon and demonstrations

1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
MPEG4 VISUAL continued

  MPEG4 Visual Coding continued: detailed descriptions, functional block diagrams, analysis, implementations
        - Error Resilience, Scalability and FGS: Resynchronization, error concealment, data partitioning, backchannel assist, scalability technologies for object, spatial, temporal, computational and fine granularity scalability
        - Other Visual Tools - includes sprite, interlaced, still texture, synthetic visual (face and body animation, mesh), studio application
  Visual Bitstream Syntax and Semantics
        - Fundamental hierarchical layered structures and properties: visual configuration, elementary streams
        - Detailed syntax descriptions, structure and analysis for each layer
        - Detailed example of syntax for video plane with short header and MPEG4 extensions for compliance and interoperability
        - Structure, syntax & semantics for video object plane (VOP), macroblock types for texture and binary shape, motion vectors and coded blocks
        - Error resilience syntax, video packets, data partitioning syntax and VOP structure, decoder operation for error resilience
        - Transcoding
  Conformance, Testing and Profiles & Levels
        - Concepts of profiles, object types and levels; combinations of suites of tools and parameter sets; complexity analyses
        - Profiles featured include Simple, Simple Scalable, Advanced Simple, Core
        - Conformance parameters, Video Verifier model (VBV, VCV, VMV), operation, examples

September 30, 2008: DAY 2 OF MPEG4 Technologies & Applications

8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

MPEG4 SPEECH & AUDIO (MPEG4 Part 3)

    Speech/Audio Overview
        - Prior art and MPEG4's art and features sets
    MPEG4 Speech Coding
        - Overview of speech coding
        - Algorithm descriptions and block diagrams - HVXC and CELP
        - Performance measures, implementations and applications
        - Feature enhancements, scalability and text-to-speech interface
    MPEG4 General Audio Coding
        - Overview of MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coder (AAC) and comparison with MPEG layer III audio (.mp3)
        - Details of MPEG4's extensions to AAC, Twin-VQ, HILN and high efficiency AAC
        - Performance measures, implementations and applications
        - Scalability and extensions to General Audio coder
    Synthetic Audio
        - Text-to-speech architecture
    Audio Profiles
        - Descriptions with MAUI, scalable audio, high quality audio profiles high efficiency AAC highlighted

MPEG4 SYSTEMS (MPEG4 Part 1)

    MPEG4 systems architecture, scope, concepts, functionalities
    Systems Content Description: BIFS - BInary Format for Scene description
        - Scene representations and components, properties, descriptions & relationships, nodes, illustrative examples
        - Systems tools for streaming and interactive scenes
        - Binary encoding, MPEG-Java, XMT
        - Systems profiles and levels for interoperability

12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Hosted networking luncheon

1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
MPEG4 SYSTEMS continued

  Systems Data Description: Elementary Stream Description
        - Object and stream descriptors, decoder configurations, syntax
        - Unique identification of streams in scene, linking streams into scenes
        - Auxiliary streams - IPMP (intellectual property management and protection) and OCI (object content information) metadata
        - Examples: Local and remote accessing and playing of content, authoring
  Synchronization of Streams
        - Features, access units, SL packets, system and local timing, decode and composite timing, buffer models, system decoder model (SDM), testing
  Delivery over Networks & Storage
        - Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework (DMIF) concept
        - FlexMux and TransMux concepts; architecture, packet structure and detailed description of FlexMux
        - MPEG4 carriage over MPEG2 transport
        - MPEG4 carriage over IP
        - MPEG4 file format (.mp4) for storage and for streaming
        - Delivery Multimedia Integration Framework (DMIF) concept
  Summary and closing discussions

Seminar Schedule:

September 29 & 30, 2008 in Sunnyvale, CA

Day One   8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.   Registration & refreshments
.................8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Seminar presentation
Day Two   8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.   Seminar presentation

Registration includes detailed seminar reference manual of over 350 pages, bonus MPEG4 glossary, hosted networking lunches and breaks.
Register today!
To schedule your on-site seminar - call 858-459-8058

Who Should Attend?

Engineering and R&D professionals, business development and marketing directors, product and market managers, strategic planners, content providers, systems developers and integrators, service providers and others who need to understand, evaluate and design MPEG4 based technologies and applications for insertion into programs and products.