MPEG-4 Book, The

1.5. MPEG-4 Schedule

After the initial study phase, in which the major MPEG-4 objectives were identified, notably through the functionalities presented earlier, the first MPEG-4 call for proposals was issued in July 1995 [N998] and answers were received by September/October 1995. The call for proposals asked for relevant video and audio technology addressing the eight MPEG-4 functionalities as described in the MPEG-4 Proposal Package Description [N998]. The technology received was evaluated using subjective tests for complete algorithms and expert panels for single tools [N999]. In the case of algorithms addressing the eight MPEG-4 functionalities, three functionalities (one for each of the three classes) were selected as representative—content-based ...