On the design and implementation of an MPEG-4 scene editor

A prototype of MPEG-4 scene editor has been developed in the joint research of our laboratories and CyberLink Inc. With this scene editor, users can compose and edit object-oriented multimedia contents conforming to the MPEG-4 specification. The system is currently developed on Microsoft Windows platform. We describe the system architecture as well as the design and implementation issues of the scene editor. We believe our development experience can benefit future developers of the MPEG-4 system.