INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION
ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11
CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11N1381
October 1996

Source: Leonardo Chiariglione - Convenor
Title: List of Adhocs established at the 36th Meeting in Chicago, IL
Status: Approved at 36th WG11 meeting


1359 Adhoc Group on SNHC Audio
   
Mandate: 1. To generate more contribution, especially synthetic audio, TTS, spatial audio, and
  2. Verify and extend the audio and TTS related functionality in the SNHC-VM, joint with Audio subgroup.
   
Chairman: I. Kaneko(itaru-k@ascii.co.jp)
   
Co-chair: S. Nakajima(nakajima@nttspch.hil.ntt.jp)
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector: snhc-audio@es.com
   
Subscribe: "subscribe" to snhc-audio-request@es.com
1360 Adhoc group on Face and Body Animation
   
Mandate:  
 
  • To verify, refine and extend face and body animation functionalities in the SNHC-VM 1.0
 
  • To investigate the software implementation of the SNHC-VM 1.0 within the MSDL-VM.
 
  • To obtain a Test Data Set for body animation
   
Chairman: Eric Petajan
   
Co-chair: Tolga Capin
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector: snhc-fba@es.com
   
Subscribe:  
1361 Ad Hoc Group on Media Integration of Text and Graphics
   
Mandate:
  • To verify, refine and extend the text and graphics overlay functionalities in SNHC-VM 1.0.
 
  • Develop and demonstrate these functionalities in conjunction with the MSDL architecture group.
   
Chairman: Pete Doenges
   
Co-chair: Ram Nagarajan
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector: snhc-api@es.com
   
Subscribe:  
1362 Ad Hoc Group on SNHC
   
Mandate:
  • To coordinate the editing of the SNHC-VM text.
 
  • To investigate and evaluate existing and emerging SNHC functionalities in standards bodies and industry, eg. VRML, ITU-T.
 
  • Coordinate the evolution of the SNHC-VM with the MPEG4-Systems group
   
Chairman: Pete Doenges
   
Co-chair: Ganesh Rajan
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector: snhc@es.com
   
Subscribe:  
1363 Adhoc Group on Editing SNHC VM Specifications
   
Mandate: To refine SNHC specification version 1.0
   
Chairman: Caspar Horne
   
Co-chair: Touradj Ebrahimi
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector: snhc@es.com
   
Subscribe:  
1370 Adhoc Group on Investigating reduced complexity padding for the video VM
   
Mandate:
  1. evaluate the complexity of the new padding techniques proposed during the Chicago meeting,
 
  1. propose and study alternative padding techniques and compare their implementation complexity.
   
Chairman: Simon Winder
   
Co-chair: David Molter
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: simonw@pact.srf.ac.uk
1371 Adhoc Group on Computational Graceful Degradation
   
Mandate:
  • Identification of computational graceful degradation techniques.
 
  • Study of normative aspects of graceful degradation techniques.
 
  • Definition of test conditions the July 97 tests.
   
Chairman: Marco Mattavelli
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: marco.mattavelli@lts.de.epfl.ch
1372 Ad-hoc Group on MPEG-4 July 97 Audio Visual Test.
   
Mandate:
  • To revise document WG11/1374.
 
  • To specify possible verification tests on MPEG-4 audio, video, SNHC and MSDL, based either on demos or real-time implementations
   
Chairman: L. Contin
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: laura.contin@cselt.it
1376 Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Audio Working Draft Editing and Verification Model Software Implementation
   
Mandate: To continue the editing of the of the MPEG-4 audio Working Draft and the development of the VM software implementation.
   
Chairman: Bernhard Grill
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: grl@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
1377 Ad Hoc Group on Core Experiments for MPEG-4 Audio
   
Mandate:
  • To refine methodology for conducting and evaluating core experiments for the MPEG-4 VM work.
 
  • To coordinate the preparation of core experiments for MPEG-4 Audio.
 
  • To prepare a test document for MPEG-4 audio core experiments.
   
Chairman: K. Brandenburg
  e-mail: bdg@ iis.fhg. de
Co-chair: T. Moriya
  e-mail: moriya@splab.hil.ntt.jp
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: bdg@ iis.fhg. de
1387 Adhoc Group on Shape and Alpha Coding in MPEG-4 video
   
Mandate:
  • To collect core experiments description
 
  • Editing a document with all core experiments
 
  • Distribution of the core experiments document to the video group reflector
 
  • Development of evaluation criteria for results of core experiments
 
  • Coordination of common conditions for appropriate core experiments
   
Chairman: J. Ostermann (Ostermann@big.att.com)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: Ostermann@big.att.com
1388 Adhoc Group on Core Experiments on Error Resilience in MPEG-4 video
   
Mandate:
  • To collect core experiments description
 
  • Editing a document with all core experiments
 
  • Distribution of the core experiments document to the video group reflector
 
  • Development of evaluation criteria for results of core experiments
 
  • Coordination of common conditions for appropriate core experiments
   
Chairman: J. Brailean (brailean@areaplg2.corp.mot.com)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: J. Brailean (brailean@areaplg2.corp.mot.com)
1389 Adhoc Group on Core Experiments on Multifunctional Coding in MPEG-4 video
   
Mandate:
  • To collect core experiments description
 
  • Editing a document with all core experiments
 
  • Distribution of the core experiments document to the video group reflector
 
  • Development of evaluation criteria for results of core experiments
 
  • Coordination of common conditions for appropriate core experiments
   
Chairman: A. Puri (ap@big.att.com)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: ap@big.att.com
1390 Adhoc Group on Coding Efficiency in MPEG-4 video
   
Mandate:
  • To collect core experiments description
 
  • Editing a document with all core experiments
 
  • Distribution of the core experiments document to the video group reflector
 
  • Development of evaluation criteria for results of core experiments
 
  • Coordination of common conditions for appropriate core experiments
   
   
Chairman: J. Muller (jmuller@iterated.com)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: jmuller@iterated.com
   
1391 Adhoc Group on Region Oriented Texture Coding in MPEG-4 video
   
Mandate:
  • To collect core experiments description
 
  • Editing a document with all core experiments
 
  • Distribution of the core experiments document to the video group reflector
 
  • Development of evaluation criteria for results of core experiments
 
  • Coordination of common conditions for appropriate core experiments
   
   
Chairman: J. Ostermann (Ostermann@big.att.com)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: Ostermann@big.att.com
1392 Adhoc Group on Editing MPEG-4 Video Verification Model Document
   
Mandate: To maintain a consistent verification model (VM) document through
  1. coordination of the definition of the VM
  2. continuing editing
   
Chairman: T. Ebrahimi (ebrahimi@epfl.ch)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: T. Ebrahimi (ebrahimi@epfl.ch)
1393 Adhoc Group on MPEG-4 Requirements
   
Mandate:
  • To discuss MPEG-4 requirements
 
  • To propose revisions to the MPEG-4 Requirements Document
 
  • To propose and further develop Profile Definitions
   
Chairman: Rob Koenen
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector: mpeg4reqs@research.kpn.com
   
Subscribe: Send mail to mailserv@research.kpn.com with text "subscribe mpeg4reqs your.name@your.place
1402 AHG on MSDL Working Draft Editing
   
Mandate:
  • Edit the Systems WD
 
  • Document the need of content and shape evolution of the current WD.
 
  • Solicit contributions to solve these needs.
 
  • Integrate contributions in the Systems working draft.
   
Chairman: Olivier AVARO (France Telecom CNET)
   
Co-chair: Phil Chou (Xerox) Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST) Alexandros Eleftheriadis (Columbia) and Carsten Herpel (Thomson)
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: 1 day meeting on 17 November
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: olivier.avaro@issy.cnet.fr
1403 AHG on MSDL Verification Model
   
Mandate: Integration of Systems and MPEG-4 components
 
  • Specify the simulation framework (software components, data test ....) for individual MSDL activities (Composition, Decompression, Syntax Decoding, Demultiplex and Control), for the whole Systems and for SNHC activities.
 
  • Identify the list of software elements that needs to be donated to complete or to improve the current reference software model.
 
  • Identify possible improvements of the software documentation
 
  • Identify possible demonstrations for the July 97 tests
   
Chairman: Olivier AVARO (Franc Telecom CNET)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: 1 day meeting on 17 November
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: olivier.avaro@issy.cnet.fr
1404 AHG on MSDL Multiplex Specification and Signaling  
     
Mandate: Develop the multiplex specification  
 
  • Document and validate MSDL multiplex specification
 
 
  • Assure consistent development of MPEG-4 Multiplex and ITU-T LBC Group specifications
 
 
  • Propose a framework for integrating the multiplex within the current verification model
 
 
  • Identify MSDL multiplex signaling requirements and solutions
 
     
Chairman: Carsten Herpel (Thomson)  
     
Co-chair:    
     
Duration: Until 37th meeting.  
     
Meetings: 1 day meeting on 17 November  
     
Reflector:    
     
Subscribe: olivier.avaro@issy.cnet.fr  
1405 AHG on MSDL Architecture Evolution
   
Mandate: Specify possible evolution of the architecture
 
  • Collect information and organize technical tutorials on materials related to MSDL Architecture.
 
  • Propose possible evolution of the current architecture.
 
  • Identify elements that need to be standardised.
   
Chairman: Julien Signès (France Telecom CCETT)
   
Co-chair: Jiro Katto (NEC Corporation), Neil Day (RICOH)
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: 1 day meeting on 17 November
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: olivier.avaro@issy.cnet.fr
1406 Ad-hoc group on Editing the MPEG-4 Video Working Draft
   
Mandate: To improve the readability of the video VM and to draft the first version of the November '96 WD
   
Chairman: A. Puri (ap@big.att.com)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: ap@big.att.com
1407 Ad-hoc group on the „Definition and measurement of statistical performance parameters of the MPEG-4 Video VM
   
Mandate:
  1. To identify and define tables for statistics of
  a) VOP-based H.263 coding
  b) shape coding (overhead information for VOP´s)
   
 
  1. To organize and the exchange of VM bitstreams and trace files
   
   
Chairman: Cheung Auyeung (auyeung@ccrl.mot.com)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: auyeung@ccrl.mot.com
1408 Ad-hoc group on MPEG-4 Video Low Delay Evaluations
   
Mandate:
  1. Generate focused application requirements.
 
  1. Solicit community expertise and involvement.
 
  1. Evaluate the MPEG-4 VMs relative to delay considerations.
 
  1. Identify mechanisms to improve VM support for a Low Delay Mode.
 
  1. Evaluate MPEG-4 core experiments relative to delay considerations and solicit delay related information from proposers.
 
  1. Interface with the Requirements and Video AHGs and the MSDL and Implementation Sgs relative to delay considerations and with the Test SG relative Low Delay Mode testing criteria.
 
  1. Interface with the ITU-T LBC Experts Group relative to delay considerations
   
Chairman: Michael Zeug (mzeug@iterated.com)
   
Co-chair:  
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: No meetings. All business will be conducted by E-mail, FAX or telephone.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: mzeug@iterated.com
1409 Ad-hoc group on joint SNHC - Video technical issues
   
Mandate: To identify and develop a common framework for progress between SNHC and video
   
   
Chairman: M. Tekalp (tekalp@ee.rochester.edu)
   
Co-chair: H. Chen (Rockwell)
   
Duration: Until 37th meeting.
   
Meetings: A meeting is planned on the Sunday before the next meeting.
   
Reflector:  
   
Subscribe: tekalp@ee.rochester.edu