Source:

Leonardo Chiariglione

Title:

Ad hoc groups established at the 82^nd MPEG meeting

Status

N9448

AHG on Professional Archival Application Format

Mandate:

1.      Refine the Requirements in N9392.

2.      To support MPEG experts attending the WG1 meeting in Kobe with technical input.

3.      To update the current working draft based on the consolidated requirements.

Chairman:

Noboru Harada (NTT: harada.noboru@lab.ntt.co.jp) and Hendry (ICU: hendry@)icu.ac.kr)

Duration:

Until 83^rd Meeting

Meetings:

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to the 83^rd meeting. Other work will be conducted by email/telephone conference

Reflector:

mpeg-maf-dev@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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N9449

AHG on Requirements of Media Value Chains Ontologies

Mandate:

-         To define scope, context and objectives.

-         To gather requirements and use cases for possible standardization activities on ontologies to cover the different aspects of media value chains, initially in the areas of: Intellectual Property, Authorization Models, User role description, Context description, Social tagging.

Chairs:

Jaime Delgado jaime.delgado@ac.upc.edu;

Xin Wang xin.wang@contentguard.com

Duration:

Until 83nd meeting

Meetings:

There may be a meeting on the Sunday prior to the 83rd meeting.

Reflector:

mvco@yahoogroups.com 

Subscribe:

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N9474

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, Teruhiko Suzuki                

Duration:

Until 83^rd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N9475

AHG on Reconfigurable Video Coding

Mandate:

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

2.      To discuss application requirements as relevant for the amount of compression needed in RVC

3.      To discuss and evaluate the CE results and related inputs in preparation of the 83^rd meeting

4.      To maintain the RSM software implementation

5.      To study the conformance testing of FUs in FU level as well as codec level.

6.      To finalize the document on “Methodologies for Video Toolbox Extension”

Chairs:

Euee S. Jang, Marco Mattavelli (co-chairs), Yoshihisa Yamada (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 83^rd Meeting

Meetings:

Yes (Sunday before 83^rd  Meeting)

Reflector:

rvc@listes.epfl.ch

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N9476

AHG on MPEG-7 Visual

Mandate:

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

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

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

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

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Ryoma Oami, Robert O'Callaghan

Duration:

Until 83^rd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 83^rd Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@elka.pw.edu.pl

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Send an email (from the address you wish to subscribe) to listserv@elka.pw.edu.pl with the message “subscribe mpeg7-visual [display name]” as the first line in the body.

N9477

AHG on Video Augmentation by Metadata

Mandate:

1.          To identify applications for video augmentation by metadata, and their requirements

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

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

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Thomas Wiegand

Duration:

Until 83^rd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-van@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N9478

AHG on Free-Viewpoint Television

Mandate:

1.      To refine the FTV model, including identification and definition of normative elements

2.      To discuss the FTV applications and requirements

3.      To study methods to evaluate intermediate view synthesis results

4.      To collect and evaluate new test material, including depth maps, and contributions for depth map generation and view generation software

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 83^rd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-ftv@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N9485

Mandate:

1.      Finalize / update the utility & reference software

2.      Study and improve LASeR Conformance. Cross-check conformance bitstreams for LASeR Profile and Levels.

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

4.      Consider LASeR issues raised from MAF activities.

5.      Sollicit requirements on LASeR

6.      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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N9486

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, and proposals for a harmonized base specification for such storage.
6. Study issues in the recording of RTP streams into the file format.
7. Study issues in the storage of MVC in the file format and propose solutions.

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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N9487

Mandate:

1.      Further develop the following Application Formats

a.       Protected Musical Slide Show Application Format

b.      Portable Video Player Application Format

c.       Video Surveillance Application Format

d.      Professional Archival MAF

e.       Stereoscopic Video Application Format

2.      Contribute harmonization activity between MAF, in particular

3.      Develop conformance and reference software for the Application Format

Chairman:

Kyuheon Kim (Kyunghee University), Hui Yong Kim(ETRI), Jean Cha (LG)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N9488

Mandate:

1.      Discuss the design of a standard Digital Item/LASeR/File Format package

2.      Initiate discussions on mechanisms for URI/URL for accessing Digital Item Resources and Descriptors from the LASeR presentation

3.      Consider mechanisms for DI-based Media Streaming incorporating LASeR and other presentation mechanisms

4.      Extennd  and analyse the list of applications identified in resolution 12.16.1, namely “TV on mobile, IPTV broadcast and video distribution over the web, as well as any other domain requiring XML structured data to be presented to the end-users in a deterministic and service driven fashion”

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv) co-chair, Jihun Cha (ETRI) Jean-Claude Dufourd (Streamezzo)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

There may be a meeting on the weekend prior to the 83rd meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-laser@lists.uni-klu.ac.at (use [DIPres])

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N9489

AHG on SVC Verification Test

Mandate:

1.      To prepare the remaining part of the SVC Verification Test

2.      To conduct the remaining part of the SVC Verification Test

3.      To produce a report of the SVC Verification test as input to the 83^rd MPEG Meeting

Chairman:

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

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

Duration:

Until 83^rd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before the 83^rd Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-svt@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N9494

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),

Nikolce Stefanoski (TNT)

Duration:

Until 83^rd Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before the 83^rd Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N9525

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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N9526

AHG on Unified Speech and Audio Coding and SAOC

Mandate:

To:

1.      Support CfP on Unified Speech and Audio Coding

2.      Progress Evaluation Guidelines document.

3.      Carry out the Workplan for Candidate Test Items

4.      Carry out the Workplan on SAOC Core Experiments

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush, Eunmi Oh

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N9549

Mandate:

1.      Gather use cases for Post Production Deliverables (what uses are made of each Deliverable)

2.      Refine document Nyyyy to specify required metadata for each Deliverable

Chairman:

Julie Lofton,

Duration:

Until 83rd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 83rd Meeting)

Reflector:

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

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N9550

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1.      Complete editing of the MPEG-7 Part 12 Query Format FCD.

2.      Devise Reference Software development plan.

3.      Identify missing technologies to fulfil the MPQF requirements.

Chairman:

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

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

Duration:

Until 83rd Meeting

Meetings

AHG meeting may be held on the week prior to 83rd meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

cbsearch@yahoogroups.com

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