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                    Authors
                 | P. Daras | 
| I. Kompatsiaris | |
| T. Raptis | |
| M. G. Strintzis | |
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                    Year
                 | 2001 | 
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                    Venue
                 | IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2001), Sydney, Australia, May 2001 | 
Bringing much new functionality, MPEG-4 offers nu-merous capabilities and is expected to be the future standard for multimedia applications. In this paper a novel authoring tool fully exploiting the 3D functionalities of the MPEG-4 standard is described. It is based upon an open and modular architecture able to progress with MPEG-4 versions and it is easily adaptable to newly emerging better and higher-level authoring features.