The Design and Development of MPEG-4 Contents Authoring System

MPEG-4 describes audiovisual scenes that are composed of several media objects, organized in a hierarchical fashion. And for end users, it brings higher levels of interaction with content, within the limits set by the author. These spatio-temporal arrangements of the objects in the scene are specified using a parametric methodology, BIFS(BInary Format for Scenes). This paper proposes MPEG-4 Contents Authoring System that provides visual configuration of an MPEG-4 scene and its event information. The developed MPEG-4 Contents Authoring System generates streaming MPEG-4 Contents, such as BIFS stream, OD(Object Descriptor) stream automatically.