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Test and Simulation

of Compression for Data Acquisition
Main objective is the research into a hardware implementation of layered scheme compression for data acquisition of digital cinema content. Quality of the acquired image is the most important demand for digital cinema movies, because the postproduction needs ample headroom for post-processing, special effects and conversions to other media. Restrictions and parameters for high quality compression will be specified, analyzed and simulated. Typical applications for this task are film scanners and digital cinema cameras. Exemplary a portable storage unit with hardware-based compression for digital cameras shall be defined.

of Postproduction for Cross Media Distribution
In the modern world of movie, television, and digital entertainment, property profits are generally realised from a combination of deliveries beyond the first release including home video, pay-per-view, games, and syndication. It will be an important step forward in digital production if a compression technology can serve the needs of original production in all of its processes, postproduction, transcoding of the product, archival of the product master, and repurposing to create the many follow-on products of a good property. Essential part of this work will be to evaluate scalable compression technology for all steps of the post-production process.

of Transmission and Distribution
Potential distribution media for digital cinema include physical media, satellite transmission and fibre optics networks. An analysis of the technical parameters and the potential impact with respect to the layered coding schemes to be developed within the project will be undertaken. This activity is focused on the investigation and specification of the layered coding schemes for distribution. This includes the specifications for file formats, for network adaptation layers, for an RT decoder architectures as well as research in scalable 3D interframe wavelet coding.