Source:

Leonardo Chiariglione

Title:

Ad hoc groups established at the 85^th MPEG meeting

Status

N9958

AHG on MxM

Mandate:

1.      Evaluate Responses to the CfP for additional MPEG eXtensible Middleware technologies

a.       Review and discuss responses

b.      Assess how responses match the MxM requirements

c.       Report review and assessment to MPEG

2.      Review and provide revised versions of the Working Drafts based on the responses to the original CfPs

Chairman:

Filippo Chiariglione (filippo _ at _ cedeo _ dot _ net)

Marius Preda (marius _dot _ preda _ at _ int-edu _ dot _ eu

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting

Reflector:

gen-sys *ar* lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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N10024

AHG on Maintenance of MPEG-4 Visual related Documents, Reference Software and Conformance

Mandate:

1.          To collect bug reports related to MPEG-4 Visual text, VM, software and conformance

2.          To remove known bugs and contribute to preparation of new editions of MPEG-4 software and conformance standards

3.          To collect requirements related to maintenance of video reference software in the MPEG SVN repository.

Chairman:

Yi-Shin Tung, Teruhiko Suzuki                

Duration:

Until 86^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-m4maint@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N10025

AHG on Reconfigurable Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To conduct the Core Experiments.

2.      To discuss and evaluate the CE results and related inputs in preparation of the 86^th meeting.

3.      To discuss and finalize the Study documents of 23001-4 FCD and 23002-4 FCD.

4.      To maintain the normative and non-normative parts of software implementation.

5.      To study and develop the conformance testing of FUs in FU level as well as codec level.

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang, Marco Mattavelli (co-chairs), Yoshihisa Yamada (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 86^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 86^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

rvc@listes.epfl.ch

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N10026

AHG on MPEG-7 Visual

Mandate:

1.      To organize the logistics in the context of the CfP on Video Signature Tools (collection/distribution of test materials etc.).

2.      To perform an evaluation and comment on the results of input documents related to signature tools.

3.      To maintain consistency of MPEG-7 Visual related documents, Reference Software and Conformance.

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Ryoma Oami

Duration:

Until 86^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 86^th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@elka.pw.edu.pl

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Send an email (from the address you wish to subscribe) to listserv@elka.pw.edu.pl with the message “subscribe mpeg7-visual [display name]” as the first line in the body.

N10027

AHG on 3D Video and FTV Coding

Mandate:

1.      To conduct the exploration experiments as described in N9991.

2.      To maintain the software for depth map generation and view generation

3.      To discuss 3D Video systems models, applications and requirements.

4.      To organize logistics and prepare evaluation of view synthesis results at the 86^th meeting.

5.      To further discuss and refine evaluation methodologies and criteria.

Chairman:

Hideaki Kimata (chair), Aljoscha Smoli?, Karsten Müller (co-chairs)

Duration:

Until 86^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before the 86^th meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-ftv@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N10028

AHG on New Challenges in Video Coding Standardization

Mandate:

1.      To further discuss new challenges in video coding standardization along the lines given in N9993 and beyond.

2.      To organize a workshop in Korea before the October meeting,

a.       To define workshop topics

b.      To identify and invite speakers, if necessary outside of MPEG, to cover critical issues

c.       To issue a call for contributions along the topics of the workshop

d.      To publish the workshop program

3.      To solve the logistics problems.

Chairman:

Jens-Rainer Ohm, Jörn Ostermann, Ajay Luthra, Jason Suh, T.K. Tan, Lazar Bivolarski (co-chairs)

Duration:

Until 86^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

mpeg-newvid@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N10053

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

To:

1.      Maintain Audio-related conformance data

2.      Maintain Audio-related reference software

3.      Conduct other miscellaneous activity

Chair:

R. Sperschneider

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpam@uow.edu.au

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N10054

AHG on SAOC, USAC, and Support for new Loudspeaker Configurations

Mandate:

To:

1.      Carry out the Workplan on SAOC Core Experiments

2.      Investigate flexible signaling of audio channels to loudspeaker mapping, including use of components of MPEG-4 BIFS and evaluation of bitstream overhead when using BIFS (MPEG-4 over MPEG-2 transport) for signaling a 22.2 loudspeaker configuration

3.      Draft text that responds to issues raised by the French National Body concerning USAC.

4.      Support delivery of Unified Speech and Audio Coding RM0 WD text and reference source code.

5.      Discuss USAC encoder reference software and CE process

Chair:

S. Quackenbush, Eunmi Oh, Jürgen Schmidt

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N10060

AHG on 3DGC documents, software maintenance and core experiments

Mandate:

1. Ensure the correct migration of the Reference Software on the SVN provided by Elysium

2. Coordinate 3DGC related conformance and reference software

3. Maintain and edit 3DGC documents

4. Coordinate editing of the www.mpeg-3dgc.com web site

5. Conduct the experiments in Scalable Complexity Mesh Compression

Chairmen:

Patrick Gioia

Francisco Morán Burgos

Duration:

Until 86^th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 86^th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-3dgc AT gti. ssr. upm. es

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N10098

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

1.      Existing LASeR Amdments

1.      Further study and refine on-going amendments on LASeR

2.      Exploration : UI Framework

1.      Improve Context and Objective on UI Framework by:

                                                               i.      Clarifying the scope of the activity

                                                             ii.      Refining the use cases and requirements

                                                            iii.      Refining the architecture

                                                           iv.      Refining the analysis of related existing or under development standards or technologies

2.      Raise awareness on this activity 

3.      Other Activities

1.      Conduct discussion with OMA, DVB, W3C, and 3GPP in the area of LASeR and report actions back to the group.

2.      Conduct discussions with the various organization to which liaison has been sent.

3.      Consider LASeR issues raised from MAF activities.

4.      Study and improve LASeR Conformance. Cross-check conformance bitstreams for LASeR Profile and Levels.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv) co-chair, Jaeyeon Song (Samsung), Cyril Concolato (TELECOM ParisTech)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held in TBD, from 4-5 or 9-10 of September and on the Sunday before the next meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg-laser@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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N10099

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG File Formats

Mandate:

1.      Study and progress amendments and corrigenda on parts 12, 14 and 15, as needed.

2.      Study and improve the Reference Software and Conformance for File Format

3.      Study issues in the storage of MVC in the file format and propose solutions.

Chairman:

David Singer (Apple)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

mp4-sys@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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N10100

Ad Hoc Group on Application Format

Mandate:

1.      Further develop the following Application Formats

a.       Protected Musical Slide Show Application Format

b.      Portable Video Player Application Format

c.       Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Application Format

d.      Video Surveillance Application Format

e.       Professional Archival AF

f.        Stereoscopic Video Application Format

g.       Interactive Music Application Format

2.      Contribute harmonization activity between AF, in particular

3.      Develop conformance and reference software for the Application Format

Chairman:

Kyuheon Kim (Kyunghee University), Hui Yong Kim(ETRI), Jean Cha (LG), Noboru Harada (NTT), Hendry (ICU)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

maf-sys@lists.uni-klu.ac.at; mpeg-maf-dev@lists.uni-klu.ac.at (only for PA-AF)

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N10101

AHG on MVCO WD Editing

Mandate:

Editing MVCO MPEG 21 part 19 Working Draft (WD) on the basis of submissions and Requirements

Chair:

Marc Gauvin mgauvin@sdae.net; Miran Choi miranc@etri.re.kr

Duration:

Until 86th meeting

Meetings:

There may be a meeting on the Sunday prior to the 86th meeting.

Reflector:

mvcoediting@yahoogroups.com

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N10102

AHG on the RoSE Framework

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1.      conduct core experiment

2.      evaluate results of the core experiment

Chairman:

Sanghyun Joo (chair), Jean Gelissen (co-chair), Christian Timmerer (co-chair)

Duration:

Until 86th Meeting

Meetings

An AhG meeting is held on the weekend prior to 86th meeting. Other business will be also conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

rose@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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N10103

AHG on Font Format Representation

Mandate:

1.      To review the new features and corrections proposed in the ballot comments and make sure that the proposed changes made in the text of the 2^nd edition of ISO/EC 14496-22/FCD can be implemented without an adverse effect on backward compatibility.

2.      To review the text of ISO/IEC 14496-22/FCD (2^nd edition), make sure that all the new functionality is properly documented, and to provide recommendations if new changes in the text and any additional clarifications are necessary.

Chairman:

Vladimir Levantovsky [firstname (dot) lastname (at) monotypeimaging (dot) com]

Duration:

Meetings

AHG meetings may be held via teleconference if needed. At least two weeks advanced notice will be provided in case if conference call is requested. An AHG meeting may also be held on Sunday before the 87th meeting.

Reflector:

http:// groups . yahoo.com / group / mpeg-OTspec [remove spaces]

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mpeg-OTspec (at) yahoogroups (dot) com

N10110

AHG on Information Exchange with Virtual Worlds

Mandate:

To address the following issues pertaining to Call For Proposals for Information Exchange with Virtual Worlds:

1.      Disseminate the Extended Call for Requirements for Information Exchange with Virtual Worlds

2.      Conduct evaluation of responses to the extended CfR

3.      Provide recommendations based on the evaluation

4.      Prepare a Call for Proposals

Chairman:

Jean Gelissen (jean.gelissen@philips.com), Marius Preda (marius.preda@int-edu.eu)

Duration:

Until 86th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

metaverse@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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