INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION
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 11 N10519
Maui, USA – April 2009

Source:

Leonardo Chiariglione

Title:

Ad hoc groups established at the 88th MPEG meeting

Status

Approved

Ad hoc groups established at the 88th MPEG meeting

10527

AHG on Modern MPEG Transport (MMT)

Mandate:
  1. Create list of shortcomings of current transport solutions for MPEG media
  2. Develop use cases that benefit from a modern transport solution
  3. Disseminate Call for Contributions for Workshop on MMT
  4. Handle logistics for Workshop on MMT (MPEG Modern Transport)
  5. Issue Programme of Workshop on MMT

Chairman:

Jörn Ostermann, Young-Kwon Lim, Doug Suh, Jaeyeon Song

Duration:

Until 89th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mmt@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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10533

AHG on 3DGC documents, software maintenance and core experiments

Mandate:
  1. Conduct the experiments in Scalable Complexity Mesh Compression
  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. Coordinate exploration activities related to RGC

Chairman:

Francisco Morán Burgos

Duration:

Until 89th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 89th meeting

Reflector:

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

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10560

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 video related software and conformance standards
  3.       To maintain video reference software in the MPEG SVN repository.
  4.       To continue the effort for establishment of a better structure in the MPEG-4 Visual conformance database, and start implementing a structure as outlined in N10537.

Chairman:

Yi-Shin Tung   

Duration:

Until 89th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-m4maint@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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10561

AHG on Reconfigurable Video Coding

Mandate:

  1.   To discuss and update the RVC Vision document.

  2.   To conduct the core experiments as described in N10356

  3.   To discuss and study the developments necessary for future amendments of 23002-4.

  4.   To maintain the normative and non-normative parts of RVC software, and the conformance.

  5.   To study the relationship between RVC and other parts of MPEG standards.

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang, Marco Mattavelli (co-chairs), Kazuo Sugimoto (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 89th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 89th  Meeting)

Reflector:

rvc@listes.epfl.ch

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10562

AHG on MPEG-7 Visual

Mandate:
  1.   To conduct Core Experiments as described in N10544 and perform an assessment of the results.
  2.   To maintain and distribute the test data bases.
  3.   To maintain consistency of MPEG-7 Visual related documents, Reference Software and Conformance.

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Paul Brasnett, Ryoma Oami

Duration:

Until 89th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 89th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@elka.pw.edu.pl

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10563

AHG on 3D Video Coding

Mandate:
  1.   To conduct the exploration experiments as described in N10552.
  2.   To maintain the software for depth map generation and view generation
  3.   To discuss 3D Video systems models, vision, applications and requirements.
  4.   To organize logistics and prepare evaluation of EE results at the 89th meeting.
  5.   To further discuss and refine evaluation methodologies and criteria as described in N10649.

Chairman:

Karsten Müller, Anthony Vetro (co-chairs)

Duration:

Until 89th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before the 89th meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-ftv@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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10564

AHG on High-Performance Video Coding

Mandate:
  1.   To further discuss vision, applications and requirements of high-performance video coding.
  2.   To distribute the Call for Evidence and assist the video and test chairs in preparing the logistics.
  3.   To further seek more test material according to N10362.
  4.   To perform an initial evaluation of the responses received during an AHG meeting.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 89th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Saturday and Sunday before the 89th meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-newvid@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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10565

AHG on AVC Development

Mandate:

  1.   To study and discuss 14496-4:2004/FPDAM38, ISO/IEC 14496-5:2001/FPDAM15, 14496-10:200X/FPDAM 1, and the related Study documents, as well as Defect Report N10541 and the software WD N10539.

  2.   To maintain the normative and non-normative parts of AVC reference software, and study the feasibility of unification of the JM, JMVC and JSVM codebases.

  3.   To maintain the conformance testing related to AVC.

  4.   To collect bug reports on text, software and conformance, and prepare defect reports and corrigenda as appropriate.

  5.   To communicate with ITU-T SG16 Q.6/16 (VCEG) on issues of AVC maintenance and development.

Chairman:

Gary Sullivan, Jens-Rainer Ohm (co-chairs); Ajay Luthra, Heiko Schwarz, Karsten Sühring, Teruhiko Suzuki, Alexis Tourapis, Anthony Vetro, Thomas Wiegand, C.S. Lim, T. Yamakage, L. Bivolarski (associate chairs)

Duration:

Until 89th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 89th  Meeting).

Reflector:

jvt-experts@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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10667

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

Mandate:

  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@freelists.org

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10668

AHG on SAOC, USAC and MetaData

Mandate:
  1.   Carry out the Workplan on SAOC Core Experiments and Verification Test
  2.   Carry out the Workplan on USAC Core Experiments
  3.   Carry out the Workplan on MPEG Reference Encoder.
  4.   Fix any known bugs in SAOC and USAC reference software.
  5.   Continue to gather industry needs on Audio Metadata.

Chair:

S. Quackenbush, Pierrick Philippe

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

mpeg-audio-call@freelists.org

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10675

AHG on Scene Representation

Mandate:

  1.   LASeR Amendments
    1. Further study and refine ongoing amendments on LASeR
    2. Solicit more requirements and contributions on TuC in N10586
    3. Improve example service scenario and workplan in N10585
  2.   UI Framework
    1. Further study working draft in N10626
    2. Solicit more contributions
    3. Conduct discussion with W3C on widget 
  3.   Prepare evaluation of Call for Proposals on additional BIFS technologies for interactive service for digital radio (N10568)

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 weekend before the next MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

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

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10676

AHG 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.   Improve the file format presentation material, white papers and one pagers.
  4.   Study use cases and technologies in the contributions that will be re-presented at the next meeting

Chairman:

David Singer (Apple)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

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10677

AHG on Application Format

Mandate:

  1.   Further develop the following Application Formats and/or conformance and reference software
    1. Media Streaming Application Format
    2. Professional Archival Application Format
    3. Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Application Format
      1. Integrate the BWS proposal into the existing text and software till 29th May .
    4. Video Surveillance Application Format
    5. Stereoscopic Video Application Format
    6. Interactive Music Application Format
      1. Integrate the proposals into the study text of IM AF CD until 29th May
      2. To study and improve the study text of IM AF CD

Chairman:

Kyuheon Kim (Kyunghee University), Hui Yong Kim(ETRI), Noboru Harada (NTT)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held weekend before the next 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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10678

AHG on Font Format Representation

Mandate:

  1.   To continue exploration activities of the Composite Fonts solution.
  2.   To produce a report outlining the results of the exploration activities and propose a way forward for WG11 to achieve stated goals.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A teleconference and  meeting will be held weekend before the next meeting

Reflector:

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

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10679

AHG on Advanced IPTV Terminal

Mandate:
  1.   Improve following document and prepare further development of AIT standard
    1. N10671, AIT Context and Objectives
    2. N10569, Draft AIT Use Cases and Requirement Analysis.
    3. N10497, Draft Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT) Requirements
  2.   Solicit further contributions on Use Cases and Requirements
  3.   Discuss about how to develop standards on interface to payment systems, Peer-to-Peer and social networks related features in AIT
  4.   Conduct collaboration with ITU-T Q13/16 and organize a joint meeting.

Chairman:

Xin Wang (xin_ dot_wang_at _ contentguard_ dot_com)

Young Kwon Lim (young_at_netntv_ dot_co_ dot_kr)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held weekend before the next meeting

Reflector:

jiptv_*at*_lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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10680

AHG on MXM

Mandate:
  1.   Continue editing of following standards
    1. MXM architecture
    2. MXM API
    3. MXM Conformance & Reference Software
    4. MXM Protocols
  2.   Prepare MXM Developer’s Day and disseminate the flyer
  3.   Continue the development of reference software
  4.   Investigate the possibility of moving MXM protocols as another part of MXM standard.
  5.   Investigate the possibility of establishing a policy of having MPEG reference software in form of MXM engine (N10623).
  6. 6.      Update MXM website

Chairman:

Filippo Chiariglione, Christian Timmerer, Victor Rodriguez, Marius Preda

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held weekend before the next meeting

Reflector:

mxm@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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10681

AHG on MPEG-V

Mandate:
  1.   Continue editing and produce working drafts for following standards
    1. Architecture
    2. Sensory Information
    3. Avatar Information
    4. Control Information
  2.   Solicit and prepare contributions to improve the working drafts
  3.   Prepare evaluation of reponses to the Extended Call for Proposals on MPEG-V

Chairman:

Marius Preda

Duration:

Until 89th meeting

Meetings

One meeting beginning of June on Control Information

A meeting on the weekend before

Reflector:

metaverse@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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