From: Fernando Pereira

Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996

Dear Eric

I'm very sorry for this late answer to all your messages but I just arrived

from Australia after participating in the PCS and having some holidays. Please

forgive me !

By the way, PCS went very, very well for MPEG4 and for European projects.

As you know, I made a keynote speech which had a very positive reaction namely

from people that didn't know very well MPEG4 because is not following it very

closely. Moreover european projects were very often referred and I had myself

the opportunity to announce in the final panel session the release by MOMUSYS

of the VM software.

As I promise you I will send you a short report about PCS'96. I ask you to be

so kind to allow me to sent it after the next week because I'm going to

Florence and this week I'm trying to synchronize between lessons, 800 ! e-mails

amd many other things.

About the MPEG4 Forum, I had already the opportunity to tell you that I

consider the idea very important. It is however quite difficult to make it

work because people has already a lot to do. In these days there isn't too much

time to think. Although I also support the idea that too much travelling should

be avoided, lunch meetings or break meetings will very likely not be enough to

achieve big results. It should also be avoided that too much people is involved

because this will just destroy the possibility of any interesting work be

produced. But maybe I'm too pessimist ! Anyway without a clear allocation of

responsibilites I'm paying to see the results and I will be very pleased to see

BIG results. Please keep this comments just for you.

Technically I agree with Olivier that applications should be carefully

analysed. Moreover a clear strategy regarding some MPEG4 functionalities that

till now played a less important role should be defined. I'm referring to SNHC,

stereo images, 3D representations, audio, etc.

In one of your messages you mention I offered to produce an MPEG4 overview

based in my PCS paper. When should it be made available ? Which dimension ?

By the way, I have to give you my congratulations about the idea for ACcenTS

since this kind of exchange process was missing in european projects.

I hope it will be a success. The only problem in these days is that its success

requires the participation of best people and this people has more and more

things to do.

Looking forward to meet you soon, best regards

Fernando