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June 25th 1998 FCD Version 0.7
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INTEGRATORS:

Simon Winder [swinder@microsoft.com]
Yoshihiro Kikuchi [kiku@eel.rdc.toshiba.co.jp]
Marco Mattavelli (Marco.Mattavelli@epfl.ch)
Marc Mongenet (Marc.Mongenet@epfl.ch)
VTC group (see below for names)

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REASON FOR UPDATE:

Integration of Wavelet Visual Texture coding
Integration of Computational Graceful Degradation syntax
Various bug fixes.

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FILES CHANGED:


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COMMENTS:

Correction of CBPY tables for DP mode
Interlace bug fix
Addition of IO stream hooks for systems integration
BVOP encoding for DP mode added
Integration of VTC
Integration of CGD

MPEG4 Visual Texture Coding (VTC) Mode Software              
                                                               
   This software was jointly developed by the following participants:    
                                                          
   Single-quant,  multi-quant and flow control           
   are provided by  Sarnoff Corporation               
     Iraj Sodagar   (iraj@sarnoff.com)                       
     Hung-Ju Lee    (hjlee@sarnoff.com)                         
     Paul Hatrack   (hatrack@sarnoff.com)                     
     Shipeng Li     (shipeng@sarnoff.com)                     
     Bing-Bing Chai (bchai@sarnoff.com)                       
     B.S. Srinivas  (bsrinivas@sarnoff.com)                
                                                          
   Bi-level is provided by Texas Instruments                   
     Jie Liang      (liang@ti.com)                            
                                                             
   Shape Coding is provided by  OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd.   
     Zhixiong Wu    (sgo@hlabs.oki.co.jp)            
     Yoshihiro Ueda (yueda@hlabs.oki.co.jp)                 
     Toshifumi Kanamaru (kanamaru@hlabs.oki.co.jp)      
                                                             
   OKI, Sharp, Sarnoff, TI and Microsoft contributed to bitstream
   exchange and bug fixing.  

To the VTC code I added some constructor and destructor code since not much cleaning up of memory
is done. the VTC encoder and decoder did not exit after running, so I modified this. Also, there
was no way of indicating a vtc bitstream to the decoder since there is no visual object layer,
therefore I added a command line switch "-vtc" to indicate a wavelet bitstream. - Simon

Computational Graceful Degradation (Complexity Estimation) syntax

    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
    Contact:
	Marco Mattavelli (Marco.Mattavelli@epfl.ch)
	Marc Mongenet (Marc.Mongenet@epfl.ch)

    Each complexity estimation can be turned on and off individually.
    The encoder does not estimate complexity, it only encodes some
    fixed hardcoded value.
    The decoder only prints the values.

