The design and implementation of a visual MPEG-4 scene-authoring tool

We have implemented an MPEG-4 scene-authoring tool for complete profile in our laboratory. This tool is the extension of the results from our laboratory last year. We changed the system architecture and design for 3D scenes, the event in/out mechanism, visual editing, and friendlier user interface. We believe that such a tool can allow users to produce MPEG-4 contents easily and thus can push the MPEG-4 standard to be widely used. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of an MPEG-4 scene-authoring tool, and we also introduce some necessary components for an MPEG-4 scene-authoring tool.