Source:

Leonardo Chiariglione

Title:

Ad hoc groups established at the 81^st MPEG meeting

Status

N9170

AHG on FTV (Free Viewpoint Television)

Mandate:

1.      To refine the FTV model.

2.      To refine the identification and definition of normative elements in the FTV model.

3.      To refine the FTV requirements.

4.      To coordinate exploration experiments on FTV

5.      To study methods to evaluate intermediate view synthesis

6.      To collect and evaluate more test material with emphasis on new multiview depth maps for intermediate view synthesis

7.      To seek contributions for depth map generation software

Chairman:

Hideaki Kimata (chair), Karsten Müller (co-chair)

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 82nd Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-ftv@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N9171

AHG on Requirements for Rights Ontology

Mandate:

Review, refine and gather Requirements for a possible Rights Ontology using N9325 as a basis

Chairs:

Jaime Delgado jaime.delgado@ac.upc.edu; Marc Gauvin mgauvin@sdae.net

Duration:

Until 82nd meeting

Meetings:

There may be a meeting on the Sunday prior to the 73rd meeting.

Reflector:

MPEGRightsOnto@altair.upf.edu

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N9185

AHG on MPEG Query Format

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1.      Complete editing of the MPEG-7 Query Format SoCD

2.      Finalise text changes on the Base Data model for the Query Format

3.      Complete definition of new Query types

4.      Conclude syntactic definition of the Join operator

Chairman:

Kyoungro Yoon (yoonk *at* konkuk.ac.kr)

Mario Doeller (Mario.doeller_*at*_uni_passau.de)

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 82nd  meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

cbsearch@yahoogroups.com

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N9186

AHG on Review of the MPEG-21 DI

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1.      Investigate whether the current DID (ISO/IEC 21000-2) requirements satisfy current industry needs and if not review the requirements

2.      Identify current deficiencies in the DI and propose solutions

3.      Investigate solutions to the issues identified in N9175: DID Open Issues

4.      Conduct CE on DI Semantics according to N9176

Chairman:

Giovanni Cordara (giovanni.cordara*at*telecomitalia.it)

Co-Chair: Gerrard Drury (gerrard*at*enikos.com)

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 81st  meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21*at*listserv.imec.be, please use the prefix “[DID]”

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N9187

AHG on MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description Phase 2 and 3

Mandate:

1. To collect and coordinate contributions of MPEG-4 video modules described in HDL from Part 2 and Part 10.
2. To continue the analysis of HDL modules for HW acceleration of MPEG-4 part 10 (AVC), to select relevant modules and coordinate development and submission of such selected modules.
3. To continue verifying the conformance of submitted HDL source code and associated documentation with the requirements stated in the newly updated “Call for Submission” document N6506 and template “Template for MPEG-4 Part 9 HDL module documentation” document N6507.
4. 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 and phase 3.
5. To continue the evaluation of tools suitable to support implementation of phase 3.
6. To proceed with the definition and possible extensions of the MPEG-4 Virtual H/W-S/W Socket that interfaces the HDL modules to the MPEG-4. generically optimized reference S/W part 7 and AVC part 10.
7. To proceed with functionality updates and releases of the MPEG-4 Integrated Framework that interfaces the HDL modules to the MPEG-4 generically optimized reference S/W part 7 and AVC part 10. 
8. To specify reference architectures showing the usage of MPEG-4 Part 9 Reference hardware descriptions in an example application.
9. To continue the development of the reference HW demonstrator.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 82st Meeting (Shenzhen)

Meetings

No

Reflector:

refHWdes@listes.epfl.ch

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N9190

AHG on SVC Verification Test

Mandate:

1.      To prepare the SVC Verification Test

2.      To conduct the SVC Verification Test

3.      To produce a report of the SVC Verification test as input to the 82^nd MPEG Meeting

Chairman:

Tobias Oelbaum (TU München, oelbaum@tum.de)

Mathias Wien (RWTH Aachen, wien@ient.rwth-aachen.de)

Associate Chairs:

Vincent Bottreau

Nathalie Cammas

Alex Eleftheriadis

Duration:

Until 82^nd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before the 82^nd Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-svt@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N9231

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.          Maintenance of the MPEG-4 software and conformance Web sites

Chairman:

Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang        

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N9232

AHG on Reconfigurable Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To conduct the Core Experiments and Exploration Experiments as described in the respective documents.

2.      To discuss and evaluate the CE results and related inputs in preparation of the 82nd meeting.

3.      To maintain the RSM software implementation.

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang (chair), Yoshihisa Yamada (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 82nd  Meeting)

Reflector:

rvc@listes.epfl.ch

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N9233

AHG on MPEG-7 Visual and Photo Player MAF

Mandate:

1.      To finalize test conditions for CfP on image and video signatures, and carry out the Core Experiments

2.      To assist the video chair organizing the logistics of CfP

3.      To perform an evaluation and comment on the results of the CfP and the Core Experiments

4.      To coordinate development of the reference software for ISO/IEC 23000-3

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

6.      To maintain the text of defect reports and draft corrigenda as appropriate.

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Ryoma Oami, Robert O'Callaghan

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 82nd Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@elka.pw.edu.pl

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N9235

AHG on Video Annotation

Mandate:

1.          To identify applications for video annotation and their requirements

2.          To identify categories of MPEG-7 metadata that would be useful in the context of video annotation

3.          To identify methods of embedding metadata with the video data

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Thomas Wiegand

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-van@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N9256

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

Mandate:

To:

1.      Maintain Audio-related conformance data

2.      Maintain Audio-related reference software

3.      Conduct other miscellaneous activity

Chairman:

R. Sperschneider

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpam@uow.edu.au

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N9257

AHG on AAC-ELD, Speech and Audio Exploration and SAOC

Mandate:

To:

1.      Carry out the Workplan for AAC-ELD

2.      Carry out Workplan for Speech and Audio Exploration

3.      Collect additional test items for use with SAOC

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush, Eunmi Oh

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N9272

AHG on investigating Video Standards by applications

Mandate:

1.          To investigate the suitability of MPEG video coding standards and their tools under the perspective of application needs, identify whether extensions are needed to fulfil existing requirements, and make recommendations for specific cases

2.          To identify and collect appropriate test materials and perform experimentation as would be necessary to give any evidence related to mandate 1

3.          To perform specific investigations on the topics of improved simple stereoscopic application (MPEG-C) and lossless video coding.

Chairman:

Jens-Rainer Ohm, Fons Bruls   

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-vsn@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N9303

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

1.      Further study Amendment 2 text and produce Study of FPDAM.

2.      Finalize / update the utility & reference software

3.      Study and improve LASeR Conformance

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

5.      Study and improve the TuC and recommend either promoting or removing the technologies under consideration.

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

7.      Consider LASeR issues raised from MAF activities.

8.      Further study and contribute on IuC on LASeR.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv) co-chair, Jean Lefeuvre (ENST) co-chair

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N9304

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG File Formats

Mandate:

1.      Raise and discuss issues that have to be considered in the definition of technologies for the storage and transmission of scalable video, and resolve the open questions in the document.

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

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

4.      Joint work with the JPEG FFSEC group on specification harmonization

5.      Joint work with DVB on the storage of MPEG-2 Transport Stream into the file format and recording of RTP streams.

6.      Set-up and advertise reflector for discussing joint work with DVB issues

Chairman:

David Singer (Apple), Visharam Mohammed (Sony)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N9305

Ad Hoc Group on MAF Under Development in Systems

Mandate:

1.      Further develop the following MAFs

a.       Protected Musical Slide Show MAF

b.      Portable Video Player MAF

c.       Digital Multimedia Broadcasting MAF

d.      Video Surveillance MAF

2.      Contribute harmonization activity between MAF, in particular

a.       Harmonization of TVAnytime Metadata subsets considered in DMB MAF and MS MAF

b.      Possible use of the file format for MPEG-2 TS by MS MAF

3.      Develop conformance and reference software for the MAF developed in Systems.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv), Hui Yong Kim(ETRI), Jean Cha (LG)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

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

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N9306

AHG on 3DG documents, experiments and software maintenance

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit 3DG documents

2. Coordinate 3DG CE activity

3. Coordinate 3DG related conformance and reference software

Chairman:

Jeong-Hwan Ahn (Samsung AIT),

Ning Lu (Intel Corporation)

Duration:

Until 82nd Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before the 82nd Meeting

Reflector:

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

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