INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION
ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11
CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/N4564
Jeju, March 2002

Title: List of Ad-Hoc Groups Established at the 59th Meeting in Jeju

Source: Convenor

 

N4574

AHG on XM Development

Mandate:

  • To discuss XM development,

  • To define the guidelines for software integration,
  • To identify mechanisms and supply additional examples for integrating software tools into the XM,
  • To identify complexity features which should be measured for special XM-components,
  • To identify the means of measuring complexity features,
  • To identify the possibility of integrating computational complexity measures and evaluation tools into the MPEG-7 XM,
  • To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 Visual XM Tools,
  • To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 Audio XM Tools,
  • To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 MMDS XM Tools,
  • To define and implement key applications of normative DSs,
  • To correct and edit the Study of the text of MPEG-7 Reference Software FCD.

Chairman:

Stephan Herrmann (TU Munich), Toby Walker, M. Casey.

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

MPEG-7XM@lis.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de

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N4575

AHG on MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description Phase 1

Mandate:

  • To collect contributions of MPEG-4 modules described in HDL

  • To verify the conformance of submitted HDL source code and associated documentation with the requirements stated in the Call for submission document N4218,
  • To evaluate the interfaces of each module so that the specification of common interfaces might enable modules submitted in phase 1 to be directly reused for Phase 2,
  • To coordinate the development and submission of new missing modules to prevent overlapping or duplications of submissions.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

isgMPEG4rhd@epfl.ch

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N4576

AHG on the Complexity Analysis of AVC Reference Software

Mandate:

  • To provide guidelines for the complexity studies of the AVC

  • To study the implementation complexity of the AVC according to the guidelines reported in the document N4571 and to the complementary information distributed on the reflector
  • To formulate initial strategies of minimizing the AVC complexity

Chairman:

Jan Bormans (IMEC), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

jvt-complexity-list@imec.be

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N4587

AHG on Fine Granularity Scalability

Mandate:

  1. Discuss revised conditions and schedule of dynamic test iii)

  2. Prepare and conduct dynamic test iii) under new conditions
  3. Prepare a revised test report as input for Fairfax meeting
  4. Generation and upload of conformance bitstreams

Chairman:

Jens-Rainer Ohm (chair), Weiping Li, K. Kim (co-chairs)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

fgs@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N4588

AHG on Exploration of Interframe Wavelet Technology in Video

Mandate:

  1. Analyse properties of interframe Wavelet Coding regarding possible application requirements

  2. Explore technical approaches for interframe (e.g. motion-compensated) Wavelet Coding and analyse in terms of maturity, efficiency and potential for future optimisation
  3. Refine experimental conditions to allow performance comparison (e.g. compression efficiency, scalability) of different techniques

Chairman:

Jens-Rainer Ohm, Touradj Ebrahimi

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

intwav@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N4589

AHG on 3D Video Coding

Mandate:

  1. To develop an end-to-end model for 3D Video

  2. Using the model, to study requirements for 3D Video applications
  3. To study what standardization is needed, and the relation with existing standards
  4. To study what further standardization in MPEG would be required
  5. To develop requirements and improve the current preliminary version of the 3D Video requirements document

Chairman:

R. Yamashita [rick-y@ascii.co.jp]

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

To be announced by Chair on SC29WG11 reflector

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N4590

AHG on Digital Cinema

Mandate:

  1. Continue the collection of inputs related to requirements on Digital Cinema to improve the Digital Cinema Requirements document

  2. Improve the "expert viewing" methodology for Digital Cinema applications, as described in doc. N4458,
  3. Continue the collection of the material necessary to run further testing activities,
  4. Prepare an input document to the next meeting describing the Draft Test Plan of further testing activities.

Chairman:

W. Husak & E. Edwards

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

Two day AHG meeting – In Burbank, 1-2 May.

Sunday before the 60th meeting (Fairfax)

Reflector:

dcinema@ltssg3.efpl.ch

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N4591

AHG on Editorial Convergence and Maintenance of MPEG-4 Reference Software

Mandate:

  1. To harmonize and integrate ISO/IEC 14496-5 including its amendments and ISO/IEC 14496-7

  2. To test combination of tools and cross-decoding between MS and MoMusys encoder/decoder
  3. To enable an optimised reference encoder and decoder within the framework of ISO/IEC 14496-5 and ISO/IEC 14496-7
  4. Publication of MPEG-4 software on a Web site

Chairman:

T. Chiang, H. Sun

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

No

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N4592

AHG on Editing MPEG-7 Visual XM

Mandate:

1. To maintain consistent documents for the MPEG-7 Visual XM

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, J.-R. Ohm, W. Kim, A. Yamada, M. Pickering

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N4593

AHG on Core Experiments for Visual Descriptors in MPEG-7

Mandate:

1. To collect descriptions of core experiments, evaluation criteria and common
conditions, edit the document and distribute it to the video group.

2. Coordination of core experiments

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Weekend before 60th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N4596

AHG on MPEG-7 Applications & Promotion to Industry

Mandate:

  1. Maintain the Introduction to MPEG-7, MPEG-7 Technical Overview Document and related Reference and PR documents

  2. To set-up and develop the MPEG-7 Interoperability test bed; to get input from Audio, Video, Systems and MDS groups and to integrate that into the IOTB
  3. To liaise with the MPEG-7 Alliance

Chairman:

Neil Day (neil@mpeg-industry.com )

Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com),

Jose Martínez (jms@gti.ssr.upm.es),

Wo Chang (wchang@nist.gov),

Takayuki Kunieda (kunieda@src.ricoh.co.jp)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 60th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mp7app@src.ricoh.co.jp

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N4597

AHG on MPEG-7 Interoperability and Profiling

Mandbate:

To address the following issues pertaining to MPEG-7 profiles and levels for MPEG-7 interoperability:

  1. To survey the need of MPEG-7 developers for profiles and levels
  2. To gather MPEG-7 application functionalities and categorize them into a list of profiles (based on N4516 – "MPEG-7 Profiles under Consideration" guideline.)
  3. To understand the meaning of interoperability in MPEG-7 profiles and levels

Chairman:

Wo Chang (wchang@nist.gov)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

m7profile@nist.gov

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N4598

AHG on MPEG-21 Digital Item Processing for Applications

Mandate:

  1. Create/Complete a DID instance for each of four diverse use-case scenarios taken from N4042.

  2. Produce walkthroughs for each DID identifying steps, tasks and a priori knowledge required in the application.
  3. Produce draft evaluation procedures to determine required components of a common MPEG-21 YM reference software
  4. Identify common tools and their commonalities with existing/currently proposed MPEG tools.
  5. Based upon the mandates 1-4 amend the Draft Requirements for DIP (N4686) and recommend requirements for MPEG-21 DID processing

Chairman:

Ian Burnett, i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au

Co-chair:

Craig Schultz, c.schultz@accessticket.com,

Niels Rump, niels.rump@rightscom.com

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Fairfax meeting.
Other business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-arch-list@imec.be messages to use the prefix [DIP]

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N4599

AHG on MPEG-21 Requirements

Mandate:

  1. Revise the MPEG-21 Requirements Document

  2. Discuss the preparation for processing responses to the CfR for Persistent Association of Information with Digital Items
  3. Revise and update the MPEG-21 Use Case Scenario document (N4330) and include new use cases that are relevant to RDD, REL and DIA.
  4. Liaise with Mediacom2004

Chairman:

Jan Bormans (bormans@imec.be), Kate Grant (nine_tiles@psilink.co.uk)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be messages to use the prefix [MPEG-21 REQS]

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N4616

AHG on MPEG-2 Audio Reference Software

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1. Collect text for a Corrigendum of ISO/IEC TR 13818-5 w.r.t. Layer III issues

Chairman:

Jens Spille

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

mp3refsw@research.att.com, will move to mp3refsw@uow.edu.au

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N4617

AHG on MPEG-2 AAC

Mandate:

To:

  1. Submit the Text of ISO/IEC 13818-4:1998/Amd 3:2000/DCor 1 document to SC29 secretariat on 26 April, 2002.
  2. Submit the Text of ISO/IEC TR 13818-5:1997/Amd 1:1999/DCor 1 document to SC29 secretariat on 26 April, 2002.

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings:

Saturday or Sunday prior to the 60th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg_aac@iis.fhg.de

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N4618

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio DCorr Text and Reference Software

Mandate:

To:

  1. Continue to develop the Study on Text of ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/DCor 1 document
  2. Continue maintenance of the MPEG-4 Reference software

Chairman:

M. Väänänen (mauri.vaananen@nokia.com),
H. Purnhagen (purnhage@tnt.uni-hannover.de)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings:

None

Reflector:

mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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N4619

AHG on Audio part of MPEG-4 Conformance

Mandate:

To:

  1. Submit the Text of ISO/IEC 14496-4:2000/DCor2 (Audio Part) document to SC29 secretariat on 26 April, 2002.
  2. Submit the Text of ISO/IEC 14496-4:2000/Amd1:2001/DCor1 (Audio Part) document to SC29 secretariat on 26 April, 2002.
  3. Continue collecting and verifying conformance test sequences

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings:

Saturday or Sunday prior to the 60th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mp4audconform@research.att.com, will move to mp4audconform@uow.edu.au

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N4620

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Extension 1 Core Experiments

Mandate:

To:

1. Coordinate and prepare core experiments as indicated in the work plan

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush (srq@ieee.org )

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

Sunday prior to the 60th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@research.att.com, will move to mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N4621

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

Mandate:

To:

  1. Conduct core experiments associated with MPEG-7 Audio Extension 1
  2. Promote collection of new tools for Extension 1
  3. Finalize XM Integration
  4. Address the problem of description of multichannel audio signals

Chairman:

J. Bitzer (j.bitzer@hda.de), J. Herre (hrr@iis.fhg.de )

Duration:

Saturday or Sunday prior to the 60th MPEG meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7aud@research.att.com, will move to mpeg7aud@uow.edu.au

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N4622

AHG on Audio part of MPEG-7 Conformance

Mandate:

To:

  1. Continue work on text of Audio contribution to MPEG-7 Conformance.
  2. Collect audio signals for use in conformance
  3. Investigate usability of the ‘Interoperability Testbed’ for use as an Audio conformance testing platform

Chairman:

Ingo Wolf (wolfi@t-systems.com), Jason Flaks (jsf@dolby.com)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday prior to the 60th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Mp7audconform@research.att.com

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N4623

AHG on Requirements and methods for MPEG-4 Lossless Audio Coding

Mandate:

To

  1. Collect requirements for the proposed work item on MPEG-4 Lossless Audio Coding in preparation of a possible Call for Proposals
  2. Start drafting CfP document (at AhG meeting)
  3. Collect high resolution audio test material available to WG11 for development of Lossless Audio Coding schemes

Chairman:

Takehiro Moriya (t.moriya@ieee.org), Fernando Pereira (fp@lx.it.pt)

Duration:

Until 60th Meeting

Meetings

Saturday or Sunday prior to the 60th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@research.att.com, will move to mpeg_audiolossless@uow.edu.au

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N4629

Ad Hoc Group on AFX PDAM/VM editing and Core Experiments

Mandates:

  1. Maintian and edit PDAM document.

  2. Maintain and edit VM document.
  3. Maintain and edit CE descriptions.

Chairman:

Mikael Bourges-Sevenier (Mindego, mikael@sevenier.com)

Co-chairs:

Mahnjin Han (Samsung AIT)

Francisco Moran (UPM)

Marius Preda (INT)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 60th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4630

Ad Hoc Group on AFX SW Implementation

Mandate:

  1. Maintain and edit the AFX SW workplan.

  2. Coordinate the SW implementation process.
  3. Study and develop the guidelines for SW development process.
  4. Continue software integration of existing SNHC tools in MPEG-4.

Chairman:

Michael Steliaros (Superscape (UK) Ltd., msteliaros@superscape.com)

Co-chair:

James D. K. Kim (Samsung AIT)

Duration

Until 60th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before 60th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4646

AHG on Editing the MPEG-7 MDS Extensions WD and XM

Mandate:

Edit the MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes Extensions WD and XM.

Validate MDS version 2 schema and description examples.

Chairman:

John R. Smith (jrsmith@watson.ibm.com)

Co Chair

K. Hasida

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

All business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg-7-ds@advent.ee.columbia.edu



N4647

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-7 Extension Mechanisms

Mandate:

  1. Study various XML Schema extension mechanisms

  2. Study capability of extension mechanisms for forward and backward compability
  3. Recommend an approach for MPEG-7 Version 2.0

Chairman:

Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com)

Co Chairs:

Claude Seyrat (claude.seyrat@expway.fr)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Meeting 5th of May in Fairfax

Reflector:

mpeg-7-ds@advent.ee.columbia.edu Put "[extend]" in subject line.



N4648

AhG on Editing the MPEG-21 DID and DII FCDs

Mandates:

  1. Finalise edits on the DII FCD and upload the document to the MPEG ftp site by 22nd March 2002;

  2. Produce a study on the text of the Digital Item Declaration FCD (output from Pattaya
    • Further study the problem of describing a Choice within a DID;
    • Further study how to solve Choice re-use within a DID;
    • Propose a solution for expressing MIME types in a well-defined URN format for the "type" attribute of the Resource element;
  3. Produce a study on the text of the Digital Item Identification FCD;
  4. Continue developing the MPEG-21 MDS FAQ (output from Pattaya).

Chairman:

Niels Rump, Hideki Sakamoto, Young-Won Song

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-21-mds-editing@uow.edu.au

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N4649

Ad Hoc Group on the Editing of the RDD WD

Mandate:

  1. Edit WD 2.0

  2. Develop database demonstrator and carry out mapping of key external vocabularies: demonstrate all provisions of section 4 and 5 to prove and develop standard.
  3. Research governance requirements
  4. Begin Development of 3 use cases based on key external vocabularies
  5. Support REL AHG Core Experiments
  6. Begin mapping REL RDD

Chairman:

Chris Barlas ( chris.barlas@rightscom.com )

Co-Chair:

Godfrey Rust ( godfrey@dds.netkonect.co.uk )

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings:

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Meeting 19th of April and 5th of May

Meeting with REL Ad-Hoc on the 18th April to share results and synchronize activities

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be

message titles prefixed [RDD]



N4650

Ad Hoc Group on Editing the REL WD

Mandate:

1. Edit the MPEG-REL WD

Chairman:

Barney Wragg (barney.Wragg@umusic.com)

Duration:

Thomas DeMartini (Thomas.demartini@contentguard.com)

Meetings:

Until 60th meeting

Reflector:

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Meeting 5th of May in Fairfax

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message titles prefixed [REL]



N4651

Ad Hoc Group on REL Core Experiments

Mandate:

  1. Outputs will be at least 3 sets of results from the CE’s

  2. Explore further use cases to evaluate requirements as yet unreviewed

Chairman:

Barney Wragg (barney.Wragg@umusic.com)

Duration:

Thomas DeMartini ( Thomas.demartini@contentguard.com )

Xin Wang ( xin.wang@contentguard.com )

Dave Parrott ( David.Parrott@reuters.com )

Meetings:

Until 60th meeting

Reflector:

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Meeting 17th April and 4th/5th of May in Fairfax

Meeting with RDD Ad-Hoc on the 18th April to share results and synchronize activities

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message titles prefixed [REL]



N4688

AHG on MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation

Mandate:

  1. Disseminate the Final CfP.

  2. Prepare and facilitate the evaluation of responses to the CfP in May.
  3. Conduct evaluation of responses to the CfP and make recommendations of technology to form the basis of a first Working Draft.

Chairman:

Anthony Vetro (avetro@merl.com)

Co-chair:

Sylvain Devillers (sylvain.devillers@philips.com)

Andrew Perkis (andrew@tele.ntnu.no)

Duration:

Until the 60th Meeting

Meetings:

AHG Meeting to be held May 4th and 5th for evaluation of responses to the Call for Proposal

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma@merl.com

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N4689

AhG on MPEG-OeBF IPMP Issues

Mandate:

  1. To discuss the MPEG approach to IPMP in the context of OeBF’s specifications and requirements

  2. To consider commonalities and differences
  3. To create a statement of the alignment of approaches to IPMP
  4. To discuss next steps

Chairman:

Chris Barlas (chris.barlas@rightscom.com)

Yoram Yaacovi (yoramy@microsoft.com)

Duration:

Until the 60th Meeting

Meetings:

The intention is to arrange a meeting in the vicinity of Washington DC, just before the 60th meeting; exact date to be discussed with OeBF and agreed on the email reflector

Reflector:

mpeg_oebf@openebook.org

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N4719

AHG on MPEG-7 Systems and DDL

Mandate:

  • Perform functionnal verification of MPEG-7 Systems and DDL reference software in the XM.

  • Make a study of 13818-1/PDAM1 (Metadata on 2).
  • Produce study of FCD for MPEG-7 Systems Conformance.
  • Update MPEG-7 Systems FAQ.

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia), Adam Lindsay (Lancaster University), Jan Van der Meer (Philips), M. Wollborn (Bosch), Ali Tabatabai (Sony)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

Mpeg7on2@advent.ee.columbia.edu for transport of metadata on MPEG-2.

Mpeg7-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu for other MPEG-7 Systems issues.

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N4720

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Conformance

Mandate:

  1. Complete cross-checking of existing streams.

  2. Conduct the discussions on 14496-4.
  3. Produce conformant bitstream for the profile@levels included in ISO/IEC 14496-1 and check if they exercice all the functionality of the said profile@level.

Chair:

Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Yuval Fisher (Envivio), Laurent Herrmann (Philips), Michelle Kim (IBM)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

Cbex-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4721

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Scene Representation

Mandate:

  1. Produce study text of 14496-1:2001/DCOR2;

  2. Produce study text 14496-1:2000/PDAM4 (AFX and Multi-users functionality).
  3. Improve text of the Call for Proposal on Advance Text and 2D Graphics and get people involved;
  4. Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Scene representation along with W3C and Web3D.
  5. Study solutions on portals and cells for further integration in the MuW and AFX specification.
  6. Study solutions for the efficient binary representation of AFX and MuX data starting from existing technologies.

Chairman:

Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Michelle Kim (IBM), Yuval Fisher (Envivio)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Saturday and/or Sunday before the MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4722

Ad Hoc Group on IM1

Mandate:

  1. Apply the IM1 Software Implementation Workplan with the help of the committed partners and produce Systems reference software.

  2. Extend the IM1 software to support IPMP requirements.
  3. Transfer the Im1 software on the CVS repository in NIST.
  4. Provide for software and test streams for demonstrating MPEG-4 capabilities.

Chairman:

Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

Im1-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4723

AHG on the Carriage of MPEG-4 Content

Mandate:

1. 4onIP :
- Finalyse MPEG-4 part 8 and payload with IETF

2. ESM :
- Produce a study of FlexMux extension in 14496-1/PDAM4;
- Continue development of SL extensions and produce WD 2.0.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (mp4cast), Jan Van der Meer (Philips), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

4on2andIP-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4724

AHG on MPEG IPMP Extension

Mandate:

  1. To refine the current IPMP specifications (produce study of 14496-1/FPDAM3, 13818-1/Amd.2 WD 2.x and 21000-4/CD);

  2. Contribute an architecture reference software to Im1.
  3. Develop requirements on MPEG-21 IPMP for digital items.

Chairman:

Craig A. Schultz (Access Ticket)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the sunday before the MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

Mpeg4ipmp@iis.fhg.de

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N4725

AHG on MP4 Extensions

Mandate:

  1. Produce study text of 14496-1/Amd.5 FCD and 14496-1/Amd.6 FCD.

  2. Develop solutions for an MPEG-21 file format.
  3. Develop solution for a AVC file format.

Chairman:

Dave Singer (Apple)

Duration:

Until 60th meeting

Meetings:

No meeting will be held.

Reflector:

mp4-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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