N3980

Ad Hoc Group on Editing the Multimedia Description Schemes XM and FCD

Mandate:

1.         Edit the MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes XM and FCD.

2.         Create a unified description example deploying all DSs from MPEG-7 MDS FCD.

3.         Work on validating the examples in the MDS MPEG-7 FCD.

Chairman:

John R. Smith (jrsmith@watson.ibm.com)

Co Chair

P. van Beek (1,3), A. Benitez (1,3), J. Heuer (1,3), J. Martinez (1,3), Y. Shibata (1,3), T. Walker (1,3)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

All business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

MPEG-7-DS@starlab.net

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N3981

AHG on MPEG-7 MDS Core Experiments

Mandates:

1.         Carry out core experiments for MDSs based on the experimental work plans.

2.         Maintain and collect experimental material for the AHG FTP/WWW site.

Chairmen:

Toby Walker (twalker@sslab.sony.co.jp)

Co Chair:

Ana B. Benitez (ana@ee.columbia.edu)

Duration:

Until the 57^th meeting.

Meetings

All business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg-7-ds-ce@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N3982

AHG on Audio, Video, and MDS Harmonization (AVM-H AHG)

Mandates:

1.         To address DDL integration issues concerning DSs and Ds within Audio, Video and MDS.

2.         To integrate Audio, Video and MDS tools to form a single MPEG-7 schema.

3.         To define a formal MPEG URN allocation and resolution policy, and register the MPEG URN namespace.

Chairman:

Yoshiaki Shibata (yshibata@sslab.sony.co.jp)

Co-chairs:

Phil Garner (philg@cre.canon.co.uk )

Leszek Cieplinski (Leszek.Cieplinski@vil.ite.mee.com)

Aaron Walsh (aaron@mantiscorp.com) (mandate 3)

Duration:

Until 57th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting may be held on the weekend before the 57th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-7-harmonization@sslab.sony.co.jp

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N3983

AHG on Metadata Integration

Mandates:

1.         Automatically generate the MPEG-7 Dictionary and MPEG-7 Types Reference, based on the FCD

2.         Generate an inventory of duplicated entries and to review the duplications so as to provide feedback in order to harmonize semantics and names of duplicated entries

3.         Produce a draft proposal for a methodology for future metadata integration with other standards, considering using RDF (m7081) and also the Semantic Web initiative

4.         Continue the efforts in harmonization between MPEG-7 and TVA description tools, including controlled term thesauri, by continued information exchange between MPEG-7 and TVA and by considering feedback from TVA.

Chairman:

Erik Oltmans, oltmans@telin.nl  (Telematica Instituut).

Co-chairs:

Jose M. Martinez (UPM-GTI), Jane Hunter (DSTC), Eric Rehm (singingfish.com), Peter van Beek (Sharp Labs of America), Jean Pierre Evain (EBU)

Duration:

Until the 57^th meeting.

Meetings:

All business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg7-integration@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N3984

AHG on MPEG-7 IPMP Descriptors

Mandate:

1. Provide solution the issues raised in the document MPEG-7 IPMP Descriptors
2. Study technical solutions on how to “support applications that distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate content”

WG11 will consider terminating this activity if MPEG-7 IPMP does not progress to the level of usable technical specification

Chairman:

Niels Rump (rump@intertrust.com)

Co-chairman:

Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings:

No meeting will be held.

Reflector:

mpeg7ipmp@ltssg3.epfl.ch

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N3985

AHG on Editing the MPEG-21 WDs

Mandates:

1.         Develop and improve the text in the DII&D and DID WDs for clarity and readability, and correct any errors.

2.         Develop detailed Description Requirements from the general requirements as stated in the CfP for DIID to enable WG11 to decide which set of descriptions/description schemes are needed for interoperability

Chairman:

Todd Schwartz (todd.Schwartz@intel.com)

Co-chairman:

Niels Rump, Young-Won Song

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting focusing on DII&D WD will be held anytime during the weekend preceding the 57^th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-diid-did-editing@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N3986

AHG Group on MPEG-21 Core Experiments

Mandate:

1.         Maintaining the MPEG-21 Development process document.

2.         Carry out Core Experiments on DID and DII&D and make recommendations to modify and improve the working drafts

3.         Appoint reviewers for the Core Experiments.

4.         Identify key MPEG-21 applications for developing the MPEG-21 sYstem Model (YM) architecture.

Chairman:

Andrew Perkis, andrew@tele.ntnu.no

Co Chairs:

Ian Burnett, ian_burnett@uow.edu.au;

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Sydney meeting.
Other business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg21-mds-ce@ltssg3.epfl.ch

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N3991

AHG on XM Development

Mandate:

1.         To discuss XM development,

2.         To define the guidelines for software integration,

3.         To identify mechanisms and supply additional examples for integrating software tools into the XM,

4.         To identify complexity features which should be measured  for special XM-components,

5.         To identify the means of measuring complexity features,

6.         To identify the possibility of integrating computational complexity measures and evaluation tools into the MPEG-7 XM.

7.         To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 Visual XM Tools

8.         To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 Audio XM Tools

9.         To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 MMDS XM Tools

10.   To define and implement key applications of normative DSs

11.   To correct and edit the Study of the text of MPEG-7 Reference Software FCD

Chairman:

Stephan Herrmann (TU Munich)

Co-chair:

Toby Walker,  M. Casey, Wo Chang

Meetings:

By email only

Reflector:

MPEG-7XMADHOC@mailbag.intel.com

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N4011

AHG on Audio Call for Proposals

Mandate:

To address the following issues pertaining to Call For Proposals for New Tools for Audio Coding :

1.         Set up an FTP site to use for the Call and distribute site information

2.         Assist proponents with submission of materials

3.         Verify bitrate and decoding of submitted materials

4.         Resolve any other issues regarding the Call for Proposals

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush (srq@research.att.com)

Meetings

None

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@research.att.com

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N4012

AHG on MPEG-2 AAC Clarifications

Mandate:

To

1.         review the proposed clarifications

2.         review the reference software

3.         review the conformance test sequences

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Meetings:

A meeting might be held on Saturday or Sunday prior to the 57^th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg_aac@iis.fhg.de

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N4013

AHG on Audio part of MPEG-4 Conformance

Mandate:

To

1.         continue collecting and verifying conformance test sequences

2.         review the proposed corrections on Audio conformance

3.         consider methods to assign a given configuration to a certain profile@level

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Meetings:

A meeting might be held on Saturday or Sunday prior to the 57^th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

mp4audconform@research.att.com

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N4014

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio 2001 Edition

Mandate:

1.         To complete MPEG-4 Audio 2001 Edition

2.         To continue study on possible correction items in MPEG-4 Audio

Chairman:

Sang-Wook Kim (sangwookkim@samsung.com),

Co-chair

Andrea Holzer (hoe@iis.fhg.de),

Takehiro Moriya (Moriya.Takehiro@lab.ntt .co.jp),

Bernhard Grill (grl@iis.fhg.de)

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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N4015

AhG on MPEG-7 Audio

Mandate

To:

Edit the FCD of 15938-4.  Send text to SC29 by 14^th March

Produce DoC on CD by 30^th March

Execute workplan on XM integration

Consider tools for MPEG-7 Audio Amendment 1

Chairman

P. Garner

Meetings

May 7^th Salt Lake City, May 14^th Amsterdam , July 15^th Sydney.

Reflector

mpeg7aud@research.att.com

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N4016

AHG on Audio Contribution to MPEG-7 Conformance

Mandate:

To:

1.         Continue work on text of Audio contribution to MPEG-7 Conformance

2.         Set up an FTP site to use in developing MPEG-7 Audio Conformance

3.         Collect audio signals for use in conformance

4.         Generate conformance descriptions

5.         Investigate use of reference tools (e.g. DDL parser, BIM encoder and decoder) as components of Audio conformance testing.

Chairman:

Frank Klefenz (klz@emt.iis.fhg.de)

Meetings

None

Reflector:

Mp7audconform@research.att.com

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N4017

AHG on consideration of lossless audio coding technology

Mandate:

To discuss issues in considering lossless audio coding as an extension to MPEG-4

To identify and review the requirement documents at the early stages of MPEG-2 standardization.

Chairman:

Takehiro Moriya (moriya.takehiro@lab.ntt.co.jp)

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@research.att.com

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N4022

Ad Hoc Group on AFX VM editing and Core Experiments

Mandate:

1.         Maintain and edit VM document.

2.         Maintain and edit CE descriptions.

Chairman:

Mikael Bourges-Sevenier (iVast, Inc.)

Co-chair:

Francisco Moran (UPM)

Gauthier Lafruit (IMEC)

Duration:

Until the 57^th meeting.

Meetings:

Yes (26^th & 27^th May 2001, Boston, Sunday before July meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4023

Ad Hoc Group on AFX S/W Implementation

Mandate:

1.         Maintain and edit the AFX S/W workplan

2.         Coordinate the S/W implementation process

3.         Study and develop the guidelines for S/W development process.

4.         Continue softeware integration of existing SNHC tools in MPEG-4.

Chairman:

Aaron E. Walsh (Mantis Corp./Web3D, aaron@mantiscorp.com)

Co-chair:

Michael Steliaros (Superscape (UK) Ltd.)

James D. K. Kim (Samsung AIT)

Duration:

Until the 57^th meeting.

Meetings:

Yes (26^th & 27^th May 2001, Boston, Sunday before July meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4047

AHG on MPEG-7 Applications and Promotion to Industry

Mandates:

1.         Carry out the MPEG-7 Awareness Event for October 2001 (USA).

2.         Develop the MPEG-7 Industry Focus Group and Maintain the MPEG-7 Industry Focus Group Site (www.mpeg-7.com).

3.         Maintain the Introduction to MPEG-7, MPEG-7 Technical Overview Document and related Reference and PR documents

4.         Create XM Documentation from an Industry users point of view, i.e.,

5.         Integrate system and functional diagrams of specific applications with XM key application functional diagrams

6.         To identify and survey real-world applications using normative Ds and DSs

7.         To classify such applications into a limited number of classes or templates

8.         To identify additional functionalities, technologies and architectural extensions of the XM necessary for the integration of such application examples in the XM

9.         To work closely with the XM and ISG Adhoc Groups for mandate 4.

Chairman

Neil Day (neil@garage.co.jp )

Co-chairs:

Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com), Jose Martìnez (jms@gti.ssr.upm.es),

Marco.Mattavelli (Marco.Mattavelli@epfl.ch), Witold Reichhart (witold@starlab.net ), Wo Chang  (wchang@nist.gov), Takayuki Kunieda (kunieda@src.ricoh.co.jp)

Duration:

Until 57th meeting (Sydney '01)

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Sydney MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mp7app@src.ricoh.co.jp

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N4048

AHG Describing Terminal Capabilities for UMA

Mandate:

1.         Collect requirements for describing terminal capabilities for UMA, considering new and existing description tools.

2.         Study how the description of terminal capabilities (possibly defined by MPEG) can be used with exising network standards, such as HPNA, UPnP, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11 and CableHome.

3.         Encourage and evaluate technical contributions that demonstrate the usefulness of terminal capability description for UMA.

4.         Recommend actions in the contexts of MPEG-7 and MPEG-21.

Chairman

Anthony Vetro (avetro@merl.com)

Co-chairman

Sherman (Xuemin) Chen (schen@broadcom.com)

Francisco Rivas (francisco.rivas@era.ericsson.se)

Duration:

Until the 57^th Meeting.

Meetings:

Meeting to be held on the Sunday before the 57^th meeting.

Reflector:

UMA-characteristics@tele.ntnu.no

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N4049

AHG on MPEG-7 Mobile Applications

Mandate:

1.         To continue gathering sample MPEG-7 descriptions for mobile applications.

2.         To use these sample descriptions to study complexity in mobile applications

3.         To continue to develop study document and to extract the required changes to MPEG-7 Requirements Document.

4.         To keep on studying the optimum tool set for mobile applications so that the results of these studies can be used if Profiles need to be defined.

Chairman:

Mikio Sasaki (e-mail: msasaki@rlab.denso.co.jp )

Co-chair:

Shun-ichi Sekiguchi (e-mail: shun@mml.yrp.nttdocomo.co.jp),

Koichi Emura(e-mail: emura@mrit.mei.co.jp),

Charis Christopoulos (E-mail: charilaos.christopoulos@era.ericsson.se)

Duration:

Until the 57^th meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg-7-mobile@mldist.denso.co.jp

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N4050

AHG on MPEG-21 Requirements

Mandate:

1.         Track and follow up on liaisons, and encourage mutual participation

2.         Continue the drafting of a Study Document based on the PD Technical Report version 2.

3.         Make the necessary stylistic changes to ensure consistency throughout the document

4.         Take account of NB comments in response to the ballot on the PDTR v2.0

5.         Propose responses to NB comments in the format of a draft Disposition of Comments for approval at the 57th meeting in Sydney

6.         Express generic transaction models for the management and delivery of MPEG-21 Digital Items in the form of use case scenarios

7.         Further develop the seven elements in the framework.

Chair

Jan Bormans

Co-Chairs

Duration:

Until 57^th Meeting

Meetings:

An AHG meeting will be held on 6 – 7th June in London for mandates 2-5. One or more telephone conferences may be arranged.

Reflector:

Mpeg-21@starlab.net messages to use the prefix [MPEG-21 STUDY]

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N4051

MPEG-OeBF Ad Hoc Group

Mandate:

1.         Investigate opportunities for deepening cooperation and collaboration between MPEG and the Open eBook Forum (OeBF).

2.         Make recommendations resulting from this investigation.

Chairman:

Douglas Armati (armati@intertrust.com)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings:

One or more telephone conferences may be arranged.

Reflector:

mpeg_oebf@openebook.org

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N4052

AHG on Rights Data Dictionary and Rights Expression Language

Mandate:

1.         Disseminate the re-issued Call for Requirements

2.         Collect responses

3.         Further develop requirements

4.         Consolidate the developed and collected requirements, and incorporate these into the document Draft Requirements for a RDD and REL (N4045) output from the Singapore meeting

5.         Prepare a Call for Proposals based on the requirements

Chair

Co-Chair

Keith Hill (keith.hill@rightscom.com)

Brad Gandee, Renato Iannella

Duration:

Until 57^th Meeting

Meetings:

An AHG meeting will be held on 7^th – 8^th June in London. Registration for this meeting will be required. Please contact philippa.morrell@ifpi.org no later than 25^th May to confirm attendance.

Reflector:

Mpeg-21@starlab.net messages to use the prefix [MPEG-21 RDD]

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N4053

AHG on requirements for the Persistent Association of Digital Item identifiers to content

Mandate:

Define the requirements for the persistent association of Digital Item identifiers and other identifiers to content

(The term “persistent association” is used to categorise all the techniques for managing identifiers with content. This will include the carriage of identifiers within the context of different content file and transport formats, including file headers and embedded into content as a watermark. It also encompasses the ability for identifiers associated with content to be protected against their unauthorised removal and modification.)

Chair

Co-Chair

Paul Jessop

Panos Kudumakis, Youichi Takashima

Duration:

Until 57^th Meeting

Meetings:

No meeting. One or more telephone conferences may be arranged.

Reflector:

Mpeg-21@starlab.net messages to use the prefix [MPEG-21 PA]

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N4070

AHG on MPEG-4 Visual Studio Profile

Mandate:

Preparation of subjective tests

Preparation of conformance documents

Maintain reference software

Chairman:

Yoichi Yagasaki

Duration:

Until 57th WG11 meeting (July 2001)

Meetings:

A meeting on the weekend before the 57th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

mpeghiq@gi.com

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N4071

AHG on MPEG-4 Visual Fine Granularity Scalability

Mandate:

1.         Study and Maintenance of AMD2 software, coordination of bit-stream exchange

2.         Preparation of conformance bit-streams

3.         Finalization and preparations for verification tests

Chairman:

Jens-Rainer Ohm

Duration:

Until 57th meeting (July 2001)

Meetings:

A meeting on the weekend before the 57^th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

fgs@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N4072

AHG on editing the documents of the MPEG-7 Visual XM and Study of FCD

Mandate:

To maintain consistent documents for the MPEG-7 Visual XM and Study of FCD

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, J.-R. Ohm, W. Kim, A. Yamada, M. Pickering

Duration:

Until 57th meeting (July 2001)

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

Mpeg7-xm-doc@philabs.research.philips.com

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N4073

AHG on Core Experiments for Visual Descriptors in MPEG-7 and future work

Mandate:

1.         To collect descriptions of core experiments, evaluation criteria and common conditions, editing the document and distribute it to the video group.

2.         Coordination of core experiments

3.         To provide recommendations on possible harmonization between visual binary format and BiM.

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober (miroslaw.bober@vil.ite.mee.com)

Duration:

Until 57th meeting (July 2001)

Meetings:

A meeting on the weekend before the 57^th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg7-ce-ms@philabs.research.philips.com

N4074

AHG on Video Compression Technology Proposals

Mandate:

1.         To conduct evaluation tests of proposed new video coding tools to further improve video coding efficiency, including:

2.         Distribution of video source test material for use in the tests

3.         Finalization of fees and logistical arrangements necessary for proposal evaluations

4.         Refining the definition of test methodology for use in the formal subjective tests of proposals

5.         Preparation and distribution of MPEG-4 Anchor Candidates

6.         Finalize the location of the test facilities

Chairman:

Mark Buxton                                                        (mark.j.buxton@intel.com)

co-chairs:             Gary Sullivan                     (garysull@microsoft.com)
                                    Klaus Diepold                   (klaus.diepold@dynapel.de)

Duration:

Until 57th meeting (July 2001)

Meetings:

July 8-14 to conduct test (location: FUB, Italy and Beaverton, Oregon)

and a meeting on the weekend before the 57th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

mpeg4-video-cfp@mailbag.intel.com

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N4075

AHG on Digital Cinema Tests

Chairman:

Frank Bossen

Co-Chairman:

Don Mead, Dave Dawson

Mandate:

1.         Set up bank account

2.         Distribute test content

3.         Collect registration fees

4.         Review submissions

5.         Contact Texas Instruments, Avica, NIST to request support

6.         Define testing methodology for expert viewing

7.         Disseminate the Call for Test Equipment to manufacturers

8.         Determine the responsibilities and authorize expenses of the Test Program Manager

9.         Work on systems, IPMP, and Audio requirements

10.   Finalize commitments of the ETC test facility

11.   Generate information about how originally analogue sequences have been digitised and provide the said information to proponents

Until 57^th meeting

Meeting:

AHG meetings will be held on March 23 in Los Angeles, on April 26-27 in Los Angeles, and on July 14-15 in Sydney. Weekly conference calls will be conducted.  Resolutions of each ad hoc meeting shall be produced and posted on the ad hoc group email reflector within two days of the end of the meeting.

Reflector:

dcinema@ltssg3.epfl.ch

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N4104

AHG on MPEG-7 Systems

Mandate:

1.         Complete the editing of FCD 15938-1 (Systems) by March 14^th.

2.         To solicit improvements to FCD 15938-1 (Systems) in the area of timed transport of MPEG-7 data, specifically generic semantics that can be mapped to arbitrary delivery layers, taking as an example MPEG-2 Systems PDAM on the Carriage of Metadata on MPEG-2 Systems transport.

3.         To analyze FCD 15938-5 (MDS) in order to identify requirements on the concepts mentioned in item 2.

4.         Produce a study of FCD 15938-1 (Systems) with respect to item 2.

5.         To ensure that the MPEG-4 file format can embody the concepts defined in item 2.

6.         To derive a walk through of the usage of MPEG-7 with MPEG-4 content.

7.         To revise MPEG-2 Systems PDAM on the Carriage of Metadata on MPEG-2 Systems transport.

8.         Identify major issues of concern, provide input contribution.

9.         If it is acknowledged that the issues can only be resolved by a meeting hold the meeting.

Chairman:

Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia), David Singer (Apple), Jan Van der Meer (Philips), Adam Lindsay (University of Lancaster)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

If condition 9 above is satisfied, hold a meeting on 29-30 May in Munich

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

Reflector:

Mpeg7on2@advent.ee.columbia.edu for transport of metadata on MPEG-2.

Mpeg7-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu for other MPEG-7 Systems issues.

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N4105

AHG on MPEG-7 DDL

Mandate:

1.         Provide a study  MPEG-7 DDL FCD

2.         To refine the subset of XML Schema and the extensions necessary to satisfy MPEG-7 DDL requirements

3.         Continue the developmentof an MPEG-7 DDL parser based on any existing solution

4.         To resolve any DDL open issues. This includes:

5.         To evaluate complexity of the available DDL tools,

6.         To evaluate if the DDL fulfills the "backward/forward" compatibility requirements,

7.         To consider any unresolved comments.

8.         To continue the liaison with W3C. This includes:

9.         continued tracking of XML Schema developments;

10.   input of specific MPEG-7 requirements to the XML Schema W3C Working Group;

11.   dissemination of relevant W3C WG documents back to MPEG-7.

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat, Jane Hunter, Joerg Heuer

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg-7-ddl@darmstadt.gmd.de

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N4106

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-7 data binary representation

Mandate:

1. Contribute to the study of MPEG-7 Systems FCD on MPEG-7 data binary representation.
2. Execute the workplan for mini experiment by the next 57^th meeting.
3. Execute the workplan for BiM software implementation and verification.
4. Investigate the integration of the BiM software in the XM.
5. Assess the impact of the BiM on the extension of the DSs
6. Identify major issues of concern, provide input contribution.
7. If it is acknowledged that the issues can only be resolved by a meeting hold the meeting

Chairman:

M. Wollborn (Bosch), Ali Tabatabai (Sony)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

If condition 6 above is satisfied, hold a meeting on 31 May – 1 June in Munich

Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

Mpeg7bin-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4107

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Conformance

Mandate:

1.         Review existing conformance documents and assess if they can be improved

2.         Execute the work plan for bit stream creation, exchange and cross-checking for the Systems specification

3.         Conduct the discussions on 14496-4:
- WD 3.1 of 14496-4/COR1
- Study text of ISO/IEC 14496-4/FPDAM 2
– Produce WD 3.1 of ISO/IEC 14496-4/Amd.3

Chair:

Yuval Fisher (Envivio), Peter Westerink (IBM), Vishy Swaminathan (Sun Microsystems), Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Guido Franceschini (CSELT)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

Cbex-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4108

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 BIFS

Mandate:

1.         Improve study text of 14496-1:2000/DCOR1,

2.         Improve text of technology under consideration for integration 14496-1:2000/FPDAM2 (Mediasensor, MediaControl, …);

3.         Produce WD 3.1 for 14496-1:2000/Amd4 (AFX and Multi-users functionality)

4.         Discuss M6683 (Amendment to the VRML specification on geo. Application, NURBS, …).

5.         Produce data test as described in the CfP on BIFS coding for interpolators and assess the answers to the CfP.

6.         Develop a specification with new BIFS updates, multiple replace, global quantization and dead reckoning.

7.         Create an experiment on streaming text with a clear operational application environment.

8.         Assess how BIFS configuration information can be re-organized in static and updateable parts.

Chairman:

Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Michelle Kim (IBM), Yuval Fisher (Envivio)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4109

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Textual Format

Mandate:

1.         Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Textual Format along with W3C and Web3D.

2.         Harmonize the MPEG-4 Textual Format with the MPEG-7 Descriptors and Description Schemes.

3.         Finalize XMT specification for BIFS Anim.

4.         Produce study text for 14496-1/FPDAM3 for the 57^th MPEG meeting.

Chairman:

Michelle Kim (IBM), Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Text-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4110

Ad Hoc Group on IM1

Mandate:

1.         Apply the IM1 Software Implementation Workplan with the help of the committed partners and produce Systems reference software.

2.         Provide a data set of scripts;

3.         Finalize the implementation of the script node;

4.         Provide for software and test streams for demonstrating MPEG-4 capabilities.

Chairman:

Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

Im1-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4111

AHG on MPEG-4 Content on MPEG-2 Systems and IP Network

Mandate:

1.         4onIP : Execute the following workplan :
- Produce Study text of 14496-8/CD;
- Further study the use of RTSP in this framework;
- Provide textual format for the IOD.

2.         ESM :
- Study the FlexMux extension proposed in the WD of Amd. 2;
- Continue discussion on time stamp discontinuity.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (mp4cast), Jan Van der Meer (Philips), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

4on2andIP-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4112

AHG on MPEG-4 IPMP Extensions

Mandate:

1.         Refine and develop solutions for the normative IPMP tools. If needed, define and perform core experiments.

2.         Apply the following workplan:
- Produce WD3.1 of IPMP extensions for the AHG meeting in Paris;
- Produce WD3.3 of IPMP extensions for the AHG meeting in Sydney;
- Produce WD3.4 of IPMP extensions for the 57^th  MPEG meeting.

Chairman:

Mike McGinty (Telanetix), Avni Rambhia (E-vue)

Duration:

Until 57th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held in Paris on the  4/5 or 11/12 June 2001. A meeting will be held on the Saturday and Sunday before the 57^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg4ipmp@iis.fhg.de

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N4113

AHG on MP4 Extensions

Mandate:

1.         Improve text of Corrigendum and Amendment issues related to MP4.

2.         In particular, address the following issue :
- Hint tracks for access units fragments;
- Hint track for epconfig=1.

Chairman:

Guido Franceschini (CSELT), Dave Singer (Apple), William Bellknap (IBM)

Duration:

Until 57th meeting

Meetings:

No meeting will be held.

Reflector:

mp4-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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