N7534

AHG on MPEG-7 Query Format

Mandate:

1.  Review and improve the draft requirements for query format

2.  Identify relevant typical queries for images library

3.  Define a simple query format to support these typical query

4.  Explore and review existing technology in this area

5.  Develop supporting tools for this query format (as demo)

6.  To collaborate between WG1 and WG11 on the content-based search framework

Chairman:

Wo Chang

Co-Chairs:

Kyoungro Yoon

Duration:

Until 75^th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before MPEG Monday plenary

Reflector:

cbsearch@yahoogroups.com

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N7535

AhG on MAFs

Mandate

1.      Discuss and refine requirements and tools for MAFs under Consideration

2.      Discuss new ideas and proposals for MAFs and make recommendations

3.      Discuss and describe various levels of interoperability for inclusion in a future version of the MAFs under Consideration document.

4.      Review names for MAFs to correctly reflect the nature of the target applications.

5.      Collect industry support for proposed MAFs

Chairs

Klaus Diepold (kldi at tum dot de), Wo Chang

Duration

Until 75th meeting

Meetings

A meeting may be held on the weekend immediately before the 75^th meeting                 

Reflector

mappf @yahoogroups.com

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N7545

AHG on MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description Phase 1 and 2

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.

5.      To continue the evaluation of tools suitable to support implementation of phase 2.

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.

10.  To investigate answers to the call for proposals for reference IDCT implementations that are appropriate for hardware implementations.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting Bangkok

Meetings

Phone conferences on 17^th  November, 15^th  January, 12 ^th January 4 p.m. GMT. Tel: (from US 1-877-582-3182, from outside US 1-706-679-1128, participant code 9202060193)

Reflector:

refhwmpeg@listes.epfl.ch

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N7611

Ad Hoc Group on XML Structure Binarization and Streaming

Mandate:

1.      Produce Study of MPEG-7 Conformance Amendments

2.      Produce draft 2^nd Edition of MPEG-7 Systems

3.      Produce Reference Software and Conformance for MPEG-B Part 1

4.      Analyse issues raised by Video and MDS wrt the use of BiM to encode MPEG-7 Descriptions

a.       Describe issues and use cases

b.      Investigate possible solutions with the current BiM specification

5.      Study the TuC on Fragment Request Unit.

a.       Provide test cases

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Andreas Hutter (Siemens)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg7-sys@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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N7612

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

1.      Produce final text of FDIS of LASeR with first version due by Nov 4^th, second version due for AhG and finalized version for Bangkok meeting AhG.

2.      Finalize the utility & reference software aligned with LASeR FDIS

3.      Study the Amendment 1 text  of LASeR

4.      Update the utility & reference software aligned with LASeR Amd1

5.      Study and improve WD of LASeR Conformance

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

7.      Study and improve the TuC including the specification for the Scene API.

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

Chairman:

Alexandre Cotarmanac’h (France Telecom) chair, Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv) co-chair, Cyril Concolato (ENST) co-chair

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

An AHG Meeting will be held on Nov 24^th-25^th in Seoul, KR

(fallback Paris, FR) + Software cross-check meeting to be defined in December (Paris, FR)

Reflector:

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

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N7613

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG File Formats

Mandate:

1.      Raise and discuss issues that have to be regarded in the definition of technologies for the storage and transmission of scalable video.

2.      Propose technologies to refine the WD on the SVC File format

3.      Study and progress the proposed Corrigenda and Amendments on Part 12, Part 14 and Part 15.

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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N7614

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG Multimedia Middleware

Mandate:

1.      Review and update 23004 Multimedia Middleware (M3W) WD Version 2/3 (Parts 1-7)

 - Update the seven WD parts according the (extended) action-points in the current text

2.      Implement the alignment of current specification w.r.t.:
 - Use of IDL, either translation towards one syntaxes or guidelines for mapping between the different IDLs

 - Modify the current contributions into the ISO template and style

3.      Document the usage of the Download framework for Broadcast reception of components

Chairman:

Jean Gelissen (Philips)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the next MPEG meeting and a meeting between the Nice and Bangkok meeting (date and location t.b.d.)

Reflector:

Mpeg-middleware@uow.edu.au

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N7615

AHG on Video IDCT Specification

Mandate:

1.          Refine the "Study of FCD" text of 11172-6 for possible improvements in 23002-2.

2.          Edit and Study the texts of 11172-2 DCOR4, 11172-4 DCOR1, 13818-2 DCOR2, 13818-4 DCOR1, 14496-2 DCOR2 and 14496-4 DCOR2, and harmonize them with the "Study the FCD" text of 11172-6.

3.          Organize further study and discussion on fixed-point 8x8 IDCT and DCT, and of the proposals received at the 74^th meeting.

4.          Maintain the DCT/IDCT testbed.

5.          Finalize the editing of the "Analysis and Summary" document.

Chairman:

Marco Mattavelli (chair), G. Sullivan, P. Topiwala, A. Hinds (associate chairs)

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

mpeg-vidct@lists.ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N7616

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

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

Chairman:

Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N7617

AHG on Maintenance of MPEG-7 Visual related Documents and Reference Software

Mandate:

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

2.          Edit the XM 26.0 document

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, A. Yamada, Sang-Kyun Kim, Robert O'Callaghan

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7618

AHG on Description Tools for MPEG-7 New Visual Extensions

Mandate:

1.      To carry out the Core Experiments

2.      To perform an evaluation and comment on the results of Core Experiments related to MPEG-7 new visual extensions

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7619

AHG on 3D Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To distribute the “Call for Proposals on Multi-view Video Coding”

2.      To assist the Video and Test subgroup chairs in preparing and coordinating the logistics related to the "Call for Proposals on Multi-view Video Coding "

3.      To prepare evaluation of the proposals at the 75^th meeting

4.      To maintain the anchor encodings for the CfP test data set

Chairman:

Aljoscha Smolic (chair), Hideaki Kimata (co-chair)

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Saturday and Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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N7620

AHG on Video Coding Tools Repository

Mandate:

1.      To discuss and refine the "Study of Video Coding Tools Repository" and "VCTR Textual Description" documents

2.      To develop examples of descriptions of functional units and decoder configurations

3.      To identify the benefits of the repository and suggest an appropriate formalism to accomplish the goal

4.      To study requirements and feasibility of the Video Coding Tools Repository concept for the concrete application case of an intra-only decoder profile

5.      To study concepts for hardware and software implementations of the repository

6.      To study efficient syntax reconfiguration requirements and methodologies for VCTR

7.      To further study VCTR requirements by identifying the key concepts that are critical to make a call for proposals

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang (chair), Kohtaro Asai (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

toolrepo@listes.epfl.ch

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N7621

AHG on Exploration in Wavelet Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To discuss and update the "Draft Status Report" as input for the 75^th meeting. 

2.      To prepare a visual performance comparison showing the evolution of wavelet codecs as well as comparison with JSVM and AVC by the 75^th meeting, according to the conditions described in the exploration experiments document.

3.      Conduct the exploration experiments.

4.      Maintain the exploration reference software.

5.      Maintain and edit the wavelet codec reference document.

Chairman:

Riccardo Leonardi (chair), Jizheng Xu, Stefano Tubaro, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (associate chairs)

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-vidwav@lists.ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N7622

AHG on Photo Player MAF

Mandate:

1.      To edit and maintain ISO/IEC 23000-3 CD text.

2.      To develop further advanced use scenarios and propose modification on the metadata specification

3.      To develop metadata schema for Photo Player MAF and to prepare its instantiation examples

Chairman:

M. Bober, A. Yamada, S. K. Kim, Wo Chang

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7623

AHG on Depth/Disparity Representation

Mandate:

1.      To study the relevance of applications requiring encoding of depth/disparity maps and corresponding requirements.

2.      To study and improve proposed (m12600, 12602) and alternative solutions for representation of depth/disparity maps (including study of critical cases such as occlusion, limitations of 2D+z formats) in the context of MPEG Video and Systems standards, and their feasibility for standardization, and produce a document as input to 75^th meeting.

3.      To identify the relationship of depth/disparity based applications with the applications and technology considered in the context of the "CfP on Multi-view Video Coding".

Chairman:

Arnaud Bourge (chair), Aljoscha Smolic, Hideaki Kimata (associate chairs)

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-ssv@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N7632

Ad Hoc Group on AFX documents, CEs, and software

Mandate:

1.      Maintain and edit 3D Graphics Compression documents.

2.      Coordinate 3D Graphics Compression CE and EE activities.

3.      Coordinate conformance and reference software for AMD1 (Morphing and Textures).

4.      Coordinate 3D Graphics Compression business plan activity

Chairman:

Marius Preda (INT)

Co-chairs:

Jeong-Hwan Ahn (Samsung AIT)

Francisco Morán Burgos (UPM)

Duration:

Until 75th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 75th Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N7633

AHG on MPEG-J Graphics Framework eXtensions

Mandate:

1.      Coordinate implementation of GFX reference software

2.      Investigate GFX conformance

Chairman:

Mikaël Bourges-Sévenier (Mindego Inc.)

Co-chairs:

Vishy Swaminathan (Sun Microsystems)

Itaru Kaneko (Tokyo Polytechnic University)

Duration:

Until 75th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 75th Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-j AT it-aru. com

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N7711

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

1.      Maintain Audio-related conformance data

2.      Discuss reference software methodology

3.      Conduct other miscellaneous activity

Chairman:

R. Sperschneider

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpam@uow.edu.au

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N7712

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

1.      Carry out MPEG-7 Audio Workplan

Chairman:

M. Gruhne

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-7-aud@uow.edu.au

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N7713

AHG on MPEG Surround

Mandate:

1.      Carry out the MPEG Surround Workplan

2.      Identify candidate 5.1 channel test items with significant LFE channel activity.

3.      Identify 5.1 channel test items having artistic downmixes.

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N7714

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Technology Performance

Mandate:

1.      Determine what additional information might be appropriate so as to best inform industry of the performance of the MPEG Audio technology, including the ALS and SLS specifications.

2.      Identify resources and timeframes for obtaining such additional information.

Chairman:

Schuyler Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg_audio@uow.edu.au

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N7715

AHG on Symbolic Music Representation

Mandate:

1.      further develop and improve the SMR WD

2.      develop and maintain the SMR reference software

3.      support the development of the CE on Braille and Spoken Music

4.      support the development of the CE on Korean Music

5.      integrating and developing SMR changes into MPEG-4 part 11

6.      continue to promote SMR to industry and the music community

7.      promote an informational meeting on MPEG SMR organized with MUSICNETWORK and colocated with AXMEDIS 2005 conference in December 2005, Florence, Italy

Chairman:

Paolo Nesi (University of Firenze), Giorgio Zoia (EPFL)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

One or two AHG meetings may be held in December (with the above mentioned conference) and/or in January before the 75th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

mn-mpeg@musicnetwork.dsi.unifi.it

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N7716

AHG On Exploration of Scalable Audio and Speech Coding

Mandate:

1.      To discuss N7702 and bring, as contributions to the next MPEG meeting, comments on the scope and potential requirements of this work.

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N7742

1.      Review comments received on ballot for DII PDAM 1

2.      Review comments received on ballot for RDD PDAM 1

3.      Make recommendations towards FPDAM texts

N7743

1.      Determine semantics required to define “Work” and propose for inclusion in RDD as necessary

2.      Develop and add semantics to improve consistency of RDD based on WD of Corrigendum/2

3.      Draft text for RDD Draft Corrigendum/2

4.      Start development of OWL utility software

Business will be conducted using email

An AHG meeting may be held on the Sunday before the 75^th meeting

N7744

AHG on MPEG-21 DIP

Mandate:

1.      Carry out further study of DIP PDAM 1. Specific issues to be considered are

a.       Format for array parameters.

b.      Normative reference to only the W3C DOM API (not Xerces-C).

2.      Develop test DIDs and text for DIP conformance.

Chairs:

Frederik De Keukaleare (Frederik.DeKeukelaere at ugent.be)
Gerrard Drury (gerrard at enikos.com)

Duration:

Until the 75th Meeting

Meetings:

AhG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 75th meeting.

Other business to be conducted by email or phone.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-dip at uow.edu.au

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N7745

AHG on MPEG-21 DIA

Mandate:

1.       Carry out Core Experiments on DIA and provide recommendations to the MDS subgroup.

2.       Produce an editors' input on the text of ISO/IEC 21000-7 PDAM/2.

3.       Maintain the MPEG-21 DIA TuC document.

4.       Investigate the relationship between UCD and AQoS with regards to multi-value IOPins.

5.       Produce conformance stream for ISO/IEC 21000-7 FDAM/1.

6.       Maintain the DIA reference software status and work plan.

Chair:

Christian Timmerer (christian.timmerer_at_itec.uni-klu.ac.at)

Duration:

Until the 75^th meeting.

Meetings:

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 75^th meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma_at_merl.com

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N7746

AHG on MPEG‑21 Event Reporting

Mandate:

1.      Validate the use of IPMP DI's for integrity and encryption of ER-R's and ER's.
Compare this with using Digital Signatures and explicit encryption.

2.      Continue to develop the Event Reporting reference software based upon the Study of FCD.

3.      Further develop Study of FCD as necessary.

Chairs:

Andrew Tokmakoff (tokmakoff at telin.nl)

FX Nuttall (fx at nuttall.org)

Duration:

Until the 75^th Meeting

Meetings:

A pre-meeting will be held on the weekend before the 75th meeting.

Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-event-reporting@lists.telin.nl

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N7747

AHG on MPEG‑21 Fragment Identifiers

Mandates

1.      Produce the Study of FCD for 21000-17

2.      Investigate Logical Models for MP3 and SAF

3.      Investigate ways of constraining the types of sub-Logical Units through the grammar.

4.      Refine the syntax for addressing travelling mattes

5.      Investigate existing solutions for addressing a bitstream within an MPEG-2 TS

6.      Discuss terminology related to Logical Models

Chair

Myriam Amielh (myriam.amielh@cisra.canon.com.au)

Co Chairs

Sylvain Devillers (sdevillers.ext@rd.francetelecom.com)

Duration

Until the 75th Meeting

Meetings

Pre-meeting to be held in Bangkok prior to the 75th meeting

Reflector

mpeg-21@listserv.imec.be

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N7748

AHG on Digital Item Streaming

Mandates:

1.      Revise the requirements and use cases for DIS

2.      Investigate the relevance of existing technologies from MPEG and elsewhere for unfulfilled requirements

3.      Clarify the relationship between DIStreaming and DIA and draft appropriate text

Chairs:

Ingo Wolf (WolfI_at_t-systems.com)

Joseph Thomas-Kerr (joetk_at_elec.uow.edu.au)

Sylvain Devillers (sdevillers.ext_at_rd.francetelecom.com)

Duration:

Until 75^th meeting

Meetings:

Week-end before the 75^th meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg-21@xlistserv.imec.be messages to use the prefix [DIS] – remove x from email address

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