N7274

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 Nice

Meetings

Phone conferences on 25^th August, 15^th September 13^th  October at 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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N7284

AHG on MPEG Dictionary

Mandate:

1.      Determine a set of normative terms & acronyms for MPEG-21

2.      Collect terms with their associated definitions

3.      Point out inconsistencies in terminology used across MPEG-21 Standards

4.      Define the best clustering for the terms

Chair:

Mike Rubinfeld (miker@nist.gov)

Duration:

Until 74^th meeting

Meetings:

Business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

vocab@nist.gov

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N7285

AHG on MAFs

Mandate:

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

2.      Discuss and gain consensus on the ‘Protected Music Player’ MAF described in MAFs under Consideration and propose revised text by the next meeting

3.      Regarding the proposed ‘Protected Music Player’ MAF described in MAFs under Consideration gather documentation with industry support and commitments for reference software to be submitted to the next meeting

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

5.      Propose text for the description of the “Synchronization of multiple JPEG data to MP3 tracks in Music Player MAF format” for possible integration in the MAFs under Consideration document

6.      Plan and perform dissemination actions

Chairs:

Klaus Diepold,  kldi@tum.de

Wo Chang

Harald Fuchs

Duration:

Until 74th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting may be held on the weekend immediately before the 74th meeting

Reflector:

mappf @yahoogroups.com

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N7286

AHG on CBSearch Framework

Mandate:

1.      To understand the scope of the CBSearch framework notably

a.       Objectives

b.      Application scenarios

c.       Requirements

d.      What needs to be normative

e.       Market needs and industry support

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

Chairman:

Wo Chang

Co-Chairs:

Riccardo Leonardi, Matthias Gruhne

Duration:

Until 74^th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before MPEG Monday plenary

Reflector:

cbsearch@yahoogroups.com

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N7287

AHG on XML Fragment Requests

Mandate:

1.      Identify the appropriate location within MPEG standards for the XML Fragment Requests tools

2.      Investigate whether existing technologies can meet the requirements established for XML Fragment Requests.

3.      Validate that the proposed technology (FRU) meets the requirements established for XML Fragment Requests under conditions to be defined by the AHG and compare it with existing technologies.

Chair:

Joseph Thomas-Kerr

Duration:

Until 74th meeting

Meetings:

No meetings

Reflector:

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

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N7288

AHG on Colour Spaces

Mandate:

1.      To study new extended-gamut colour space in IEC TC100 (IEC 61966-2-4)

2.      To study requirements for new colour spaces in MPEG standards

3.      To investigate other relevant colour spaces

4.      To study solutions to support new colour spaces

5.      To study further work plan on this activity

6.      To investigate the way to support new colour spaces in MPEG standards

Chairman:

Teruhiko Suzuki

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

color-space_AHG@color.sony.co.jp

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7338

AHG on Video IDCT Specification

Mandate:

1.          Study 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 work related to the Call for Proposals on Fixed-point 8x8 IDCT and DCT, and prepare for evaluation of the proposals at the 74^th meeting.

Chairman:

G. Sullivan, A. Luthra

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

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

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7339

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 74^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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7340

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 25.0 document

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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7341

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

3.      To take steps to facilitate the adoption of the MPEG-7 visual (e.g. technical reports on use scenarios, multimedia application formats)

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 74^th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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7342

AHG on 3D Video Coding

Mandate:

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

2.      To validate the camera parameters of the CfP test data set within 3 weeks after the meeting

3.      To generate complete anchor encodings for the CfP test data set

4.      To discuss and refine the documents on “Requirements on Multi-view Video Coding” and “Draft Exploitation Perspectives of Multi-view Video Coding”

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 74^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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7343

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 prepare for the demo of VCTR to be performed during the 74^th meeting

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang (chair), Kohtaro Asai (co-chair)

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 74^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

xtoolrepox@listes.epfl.ch

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7344

AHG on Exploration in Wavelet Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To identify and describe new applications of wavelet video coding. 

2.      For such applications, define coding conditions and plan a performance comparison with other codecs.

3.      Conduct the exploration experiments.

4.      Maintain and validate 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 74^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 74^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

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

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7345

AHG on Organization of Workshop on Future Directions in Video Compression

Mandate:

1.      To disseminate the call for participation of the second workshop.

2.      To finalize the programme of the workshop.

3.      To prepare the logistics of the workshop.

Chairman:

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jörn Ostermann

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

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

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7346

AHG on Photo Player MAF

Mandate:

1.      Edit the document "Working Draft 2.0 of Photo Player Multimedia Application Format."

2.      Edit the document “Introduction of Photo Player MAF"

3.      To create and evaluate a solution to carry Exif metadata and MPEG-7 visual metadata for the Photo Player MAF

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 74^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7393

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

1.      Maintain Audio-related conformance data

2.      Discuss reference software methodology

3.      To collect technology summaries for the MPEG technologies web page

4.      Create a catalog of MPEG subjective performance test data

5.      Conduct other miscellaneous activity

Chairman:

R. Sperschneider

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpam@uow.edu.au

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N7394

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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N7395

AHG on MPEG Surround

Mandate:

1.      Carry out the Workplan

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

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N7396

AHG on MPEG-4 Lossless Audio Coding

Mandate:

1.      Carry out Workplan for Lossless Audio Coding

2.      Produce a Verification Test report by reviewing and progressing “Draft Performance and Complexity of MPEG Lossless Audio Coding Standards”

3.      Define SLS bitstreams that could be used to demonstrate scalable compression performance.

Chairman:

Tilman Liebchen

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@uow.edu.au

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N7397

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.      finalize the solution for integrating SMR into MPEG-4

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

7.      promote an informational meeting on MPEG SMR organised 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

An AHG meeting may be held the Sunday before next meeting

Reflector:

mn-mpeg@musicnetwork.dsi.unifi.it

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N7398

AHG On Exploration of Scalable Audio and Speech Coding

Mandate:

1.      To discuss and refine use cases and requirements.

2.      Continue to collect information supporting use cases.

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N7411

Ad Hoc Group on AFX documents, CEs, and software

Mandate:

1.      Maintain and edit SNHC documents.

2.      Coordinate SNHC CE and EE activities.

3.      Coordinate collection of demonstration data set of SNHC tools.

4.      Cross-check the new implementation of the WSS decoder.

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

Chairman:

Marius Preda (INT)

Co-chairs:

Jeong-Hwan Ahn (Samsung AIT)

Francisco Morán Burgos (UPM)

Duration:

Until 74^th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 74^th Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc AT gti. ssr. upm. es

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N7412

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 74^th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 74^th Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-j AT it-aru. Com

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N7450

AHG on MPEG-21 DIP

Mandate:

1.      Complete editing of text of DIP PDAM 1.

2.      Carry out further study of DIP PDAM 1

3.      Carry out study of DIP profiling.

4.      Carry out study of DIP conformance

Chairs:

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

Duration:

Until the 74th Meeting

Meetings:

AhG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 74rd meeting.

Other business to be conducted by email or phone.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-dip at uow.edu.au

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N7451

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 Study of ISO/IEC 21000 FPDAM/1

3.      Produce an editors' input on WD of AMD/2 v1.0.

4.      Maintain the MPEG-21 DIA TuC document.

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

Chair:

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

Duration:

Until the 74^th meeting.

Meetings:

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 74^th meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma_at_merl.com

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N7452

AhG on MPEG-21 Event Reporting

Mandate:

1.      Determine the relation between Event Reporting and IPMP Digital Items

2.      Further develop Reference Software for Event Reporting

3.      Validate the relationship between Event Report Requests and their embedding within DIs

Chairs:

FX Nuttall (fx at nuttall.org)

Andrew Tokmakoff (tokmakoff at telin.nl)

Duration:

Until the 74^th Meeting

Meetings:

A pre-meeting will be held on the weekend before the 74th meeting.

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

Reflector:

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

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7453

AHG on MPEG-21 IPMP Components

Mandate:

1.      To review National Body input from the FCD ballot.

2.      To make recommendations on the drafting of the FDIS to the 74^th Meeting

Chairs:

Simon Watt (simon_dot_watt_at_umusic.com)

Duration:

Until the 74th Meeting

Meetings:

Meetings will be held (if required):

in Nice on the Sunday prior to the 74th Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-21@listserv.imec.be message titles prefixed [IPMP]

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N7454

AHG on Digital Item Streaming

Mandates:

1. Refine DI Streaming requirements and use cases, in particular for IPMP scenarios.
2. Conduct Core Experiments on DI Streaming
3. Further study the state of the art about buffering information and list examples where such information is required
4. Identify normative interfaces required for the mapping of streamed DIs to delivery channels.
5. Evaluate how existing technologies such as MPEG-2/4 Systems can be used for the streaming of DIs
6. Investigate the relevance of existing technologies for unfulfilled requirements

Chairs:

Sylvain Devillers (sdevillers.ext_at_rd.francetelecom.com)

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

Ingo Wolf (WolfI_at_t-systems.com)

Duration:

Until 74^th meeting

Meetings:

Week-end before the 74^th meeting.

Reflector:

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

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N7511

Ad Hoc Group on XML Structure Binarization and Streaming

Mandate:

1.      Update related reference software.

2.      Produce WD of MPEG-7 Conformance.

3.      Review and produce study of 15938-1/Amd.2 FPDAM

4.      Review and produce study of ISO/IEC 23000-1 FCD

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Andreas Hutter (Siemens), Itaru Kaneko (Tokyo Polytechnic University)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N7512

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

1.      Review and update the LASeR Study of FCD, in particular document the informative section on encoding schema

2.      Perform the validation experiments

3.      Crosscheck signalling mechanism for Profile and Level, in particular in an MPEG-4 Systems environment.

4.      Continue the assessment of the OMA requirements against the LASeR specification.

5.      Update conformance bitstreams for LASeR Profile and Levels.

6.      Produce WD of LASeR Conformance.

7.      Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Scene representation along with W3C, 3GPP and OMA in the area of Laser and streaming text and report actions taken back on the reflector.

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 the 22^nd and 23^rd of September in Cupertino, CA

Reflector:

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

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N7513

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 VM on the SVC File format and work towards a first working draft.

3.      Study and progress the proposed Corrigenda and Amendments on Part 12 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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N7514

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG Multimedia Middleware

Mandate:

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

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

2.      Discuss the alignment and extension of the current specification w.r.t.:
 - Specification of the IDL to be used and investigate translation from other syntaxes

 - Investigate the automatic translation possibilities between IDL syntaxes

3.      Re-evaluate the position of the remote capabilities in view of the refined M3W architecture and define the possible integration

4.      Discuss the integration & alignment of the IPMP-related ETRI submission

 - Investigate whether it could also cater for MPEG-21 IPMP next to MPEG-2/4

 - Investigate if the IPMP tool update functionality can be mapped on the M3W services

5.       Review the need of the extra requirements proposed in the ETRI submission

Chairman:

Jean Gelissen (Philips), Hendry (ICU), Martin Russ (BT), Davide Rogai (UNIFI- DISIT)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the next MPEG meeting
as well as in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, following the IBC event.

Reflector:

Mpeg-middleware@uow.edu.au

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