The Future of 3D and Video Coding in Mobile and the Internet

The current Internet success has already changed our social and economic world and is still continuing to revolutionize information exchange. The exponential increase of amount and types of data that is currently shared on the Internet represents significant challenge for the design of future architectures and solutions. This paper reviews the current status and trends in the design of solutions and research activities in the future Internet from the point of view of managing the growth of bandwidth requirements and complexity of the multimedia which is being created and shared. Outlines the challenges that are present before the video coding and the approaches to design of standardized media formats and protocols while considering the expected convergence of multimedia formats and exchange interfaces. The rapid growth of connected mobile devices adds to the current and the future challenges in combination with the expected arrival of multitude of connected devices. The new Internet technologies connecting the Internet of Things with wireless visual sensor networks and 3D virtual worlds requires conceptually new approaches of media content handling from acquisition to presentation in the 3D Media Internet. Accounting for the entire transmission system properties and enabling adaptation in real-time to context and content throughout the media proceeding path will be paramount in enabling the new media architectures as well as new applications and services. Common video coding formats will need to be conceptually redesigned to allow for the implementation of the necessary 3D Media Internet features.