The Moving Picture Experts Group

List of AHGs Established at the 110th Meeting in Strasbourg, FR

14834

AHG on 3D Audio and Audio Maintenance

Mandates

  1. Execute workplan on 3D Audio
  2. Support 3D Audio Phase II Core Experiments
  3. Maintain Audio-related conformance data
  4. Maintain Audio-related reference software

Chairmen

Schuyler Quackenbush (ARL)

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

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Meeting

During week end prior to MPEG

Room size: 40

Date: 2015-02-15 - 13:00-18:00

 

 

 

14835

AHG on Responding to Industry Needs on Adoption of MPEG Audio

Mandates

  1. Assess market needs, with respect to conformance streams, application notes, white papers, etc. that are suitable for various application domains
  2. Identify Forum software to facilitate the exchange of public information on MPEG Audio topics
  3. Publicize this effort via various mechanisms, e.g. MPEG Liaison actions

Chairmen

Schuyler Quackenbush (ARL), Juliane Borsum (FhG-IIS)

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

No meeting

 

 

 

 

 

15012

AHG on AR

Mandates

  1. Edit the ARAF and MAR RM documents
  2. Identify additional needs for ARAF
  3. Identify the MPEG technologies that shall be part of ARAF
  4. Continue actions to implement the collaborative work-plan for MAR RM with SC24
  5. Investigate the usage of 3DV, 3DA, CDVA and UD in Augmented Reality

Chairmen

Marius Preda (Institut Mines Telecom), Traian Lavric (Institut Mines Telecom), B.S. Choi (ETRI)

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 20

Date February 15, 09h00-13h00

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

15013

AHG on MPEG-V

Mandates

  1. Edit the MPEG-V documents
  2. To further develop tools for MPEG-V and discuss related contributions.
  3. Collect material for reference software and conformance of MPEG-V 3rd Edition

Chairmen

Kyoungro Yoon (Konkuk University), Marius Preda (Institut Mines Telecom),

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

metaverse@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 20

Date February 15, 14h00-16h00

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

15014

AHG on Graphics compression

Mandates

  1. To refine use cases and requirements of 3D tele-immersive coding
  2. To identify compression technologies for point clouds and meshes with time varying connectivity
  3. To prepare test data for point clouds and meshes with time varying connectivity
  4. To progress the specification and continue implementation of Web3D coding
  5. Collect contributions and maintain the utility software

Chairmen

Lazar Bivolarski (LZ), Rufael Mekuria (CWI), Christian Tulvan (Institut Mines Telecom),

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 20

Date February 15, 16h00-18h00

 

 

 

14995

AHG on MPEG-7 Visual

Mandates

  1. Maintain the MPEG-7 XM to ensure correct operation and multi-platform use.
  2. Test the functionality and conformance of the MPEG-7 XM.
  3. Maintain consistency of MPEG-7 Visual related documents, Reference Software and Conformance.
  4. Investigate the descriptor extraction conformance for the Image Signature Tools.
  5. Evaluate the performance of MPEG-7 tools in visual scene classification/ clustering.

Chairmen

Stavros Paschalakis, Miroslaw Bober (co-chairs)

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size

*

Date 2015-02-15

(* joint with CDVS/CDVA)

Before weekend prior to MPEG

Place /Date/Logistics

 

14996

AHG on Compact Descriptors for Visual Search

Mandates

  1. Conduct the experiments related to the setup of the conformance specification N14960, and perform an evaluation of results during the AHG meeting.
  2. Maintain software for the Test Model and WD N14959.
  3. Maintain the CDVS databases and training data.
  4. Discuss the TM document, and provide suggestions for editorial improvements.
  5. Refine the conditions for the conformance specification.
  6. Contribute to the promotion of CDVS by MPEG, and prepare the awareness event to be held during the 112th meeting.

Chairmen

Miroslaw Bober (Chair), Giovanni Cordara, Danilo Pau (co-chairs)

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

cdvs-tnt@listserv.uni-hannover.de

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 30

Date 2015-02-15

 

 

 

14997

AHG on Internet Video Coding

Mandates

  1. To discuss and improve the text of test model ITM11 and WD4.
  2. To further analyse the data of the visual test and contribute to the finalization of N14989.
  3. To conduct the ITM Exploration Experiments.
  4. To maintain the document of recording prior knowledge about technology brought into IVC.
  5. To discuss results of EEs and other related input docs in the AHG meeting.

Chairmen

Ronggang Wang, Euee S. Jang (co-chairs)

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 20

Date 2015-02-15

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

14998

AHG on Video Coding for Browsers

Mandates

  1. To study and suggest improvements to software and conformance amendments
  2. To maintain the software of Video Coding for Browsers in the MPEG SVN.
  3. To maintain the set of conformance test streams.
  4. To prepare the FDIS based on ballot results.
  5. To maintain a set of anchors that can be used for proposals on enhancements of VCB.

Chairmen

Mohamad Raad, Qunshan Gu

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 20

Date 2015-02-15

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

14999

AHG on Reconfigurable Media Coding

Mandates

  1. To finalize the normative and non-normative parts of RMC software, and the conformance.
  2. To discuss and study the developments necessary for ongoing and future amendments of 23001-4, 23002-4 and 23002-5.
  3. To investigate and discuss potential improvements of the parser instantiation from BSD.
  4. To further develop tools for HEVC and discuss related contributions.

Chairmen

Hyungyu Kim, Marco Mattavelli, Mickael Raulet (co-chairs)

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 20

Date 2015-02-15

 

 

 

AHG on Future Video Coding Technology

Mandates

  1. To discuss and identify challenges in video coding technology beyond HEVC.
  2. To identify suitable test cases and materials
  3. To solicit contributions on potential improvements in video compression.

Chairmen

Jens-Rainer Ohm, Gary Sullivan

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

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Date --

Before weekend prior to MPEG

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15051

AHG on MPEG File Formats

Mandates

  1. Study the question of partial file storage as raised in M33297 and M35152
  2. Study the storage of timing information for Uniform Time Alignment.
  3. Study the carriage of still pictures and image sequences in the file format
  4. Study amendments and corrigenda under ballot, including but not limited to 14496-12 & 14496-15.
  5. Maintain and update the conformance streams, reference software, and registration authority, as needed;
  6. Study the defect reports and proposed solutions
  7. Study streaming of ISOBMFF as raised in m35152
  8. Study open questions about cross issues between MMT and File Format in N15020 and solicit contributions

Chairmen

David Singer (Apple) and Per Fröjdh (Ericsson)

Duration

Until next meeting

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

15052

AHG on Font Format Representation

Mandates

  1. To study DIS of ISO/IEC 14496-22 3rd edition and solicit technologies to further improve it.

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until next meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

15053

AHG on MPEG-DASH

Mandates

  1. Collaborate with relevant SDOs
  2. Study technologies under considerations (N14857) and conduct core experiments (N14858)
  3. Study amendments and corrigenda related to DASH under ballot
  4. Generate a coverage map of Part 1 2nd edition features (elements and attributes, and segment) in the conformance and reference software
  5. Continue to work on conformance and reference software

Chairmen

Iraj Sodagar (Microsoft), Youngkwon Lim (Samsung)

Duration

Until next meeting

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 40

Date 2015-02-15 – 8:00 to 20:00

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

15054

AHG on Multimedia Preservation Application Format (MP-AF)

Mandates

  1. Solicit contribution to complete editing of DIS
  2. Work on WD v3 implementation Guidelines in order to add more examples and especially validate the data model by representing data from a range of preservation processing, and implement software producing and consuming MP-AF instances
  3. Disseminate the MP-AF data model to digital preservation communities

Chairmen

Wo Chang, wchang at nist.gov; Walter Allasia, allasia at eurixgroup.com

Duration

Until next meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size : 10

Sunday 09:00 - 18:00

Before weekend prior to MPEG

Teleconference (detail will be announced on the reflector)

 

 

 

15055

AHG on MPEG Media Transport

Mandates

  1. Conduct core experiments as described in N14872
  2. Study working drafts and the documents related to MMT under ballot
  3. Execute work plan on the conformance and reference software
  4. Study synergies with DASH
  5. Keep relevant SDOs be informed about MMT (ARIB, 3GPP, ATSC, etc.)
  6. Study conversion between MPEG-2 TS and MMT Protocol Stream
  7. Study improvements of IP based delivery of ISOBMFF files with IETF defined protocols.
  8. Study open questions about cross issues between MMT and File Format in N15020 and solicit contributions

Chairmen

Imed Bouazizi (i.bouazizi@samsung.com), Shuichi Aoki (NHK)

Duration

Until next meeting

Reflector

MMT-TNT@listserv.uni-hannover.de

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

40 persons

Date : Saturday 09:00 – 18:00

Before weekend prior to MPEG

Place /Date/Logistics

 

15056

AHG on Green MPEG

Mandates

  1. Study and contribute to ISO/IEC 23001-10 and ISO/IEC13818-1 AMD 4
  2. Study MXM APIs related to Green Metadata
  3. Study support of best effort decoding

Chairmen

Felix C. Fernandes (Samsung Electronics)

Xavier Ducloux (Thomson Video Networks)

Duration

Until Next Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

Weekend prior to MPEG meeting

Room Size

15

Date: Sunday

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None

 

15057

AHG on User Description

Mandates

  1. Harmonize the current technologies in WD of MPEG-UD
  2. Investigate the completeness of the MPEG-UD technologies
  3. Explore/verify/check the suitability of MPEG-UD as it exists now to satisfy fully existing use cases
  4. Investigate the possibility of using MPEG-UD with different standards/technologies such as Publish/Subscribe AF and User Control AF

Chairmen

  • un Joo (ETRI, joos@etri.re.kr), Bojan Joveski (TSP, bojanjoveski@gmail.com)

Duration

Until next Meeting

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Meeting

Weekend prior to MPEG meeting

Room Size

15

Date: Saturday & Sunday

Other

None

 

15058

AHG on Timeline alignment

Mandates

  1. Study use cases and open questions in N14881
  2. Solicit contributions on gap analysis and technical contributions

Chairmen

Jean Le Feuvre (TELECOM ParisTech ), Emmanuel Thomas (TNO), Youngkwon Lim (Samsung)

Duration

Until Next Meeting

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Weekend prior to MPEG meeting

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15059

AHG on Contract Expression Language, Media Contract Ontology and Publish/Subscribe Application Format

Mandates

  1. To Study WD and solicit contributions to improve it.
  2. To review WD of CEL 2nd edition and analyze the use of User Description and PSAF privacy information
  3. To review WD of MCO 2nd edition and verify consistency with CEL and solicit contributions to improve it

Chairmen

Jaime Delgado and Xin Wang

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

mpeg-m_*at*_lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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During weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

15060

AHG on Media Linking Application Format (MLAF)

Mandates

1.     Improve and extend MLAF requirements

2.     Analyse possible technologies

3.     Improve MLAF Working Draft

Chairmen

Alberto Messina (RAI), Marius Preda (Institut Mines Telecom)

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

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During weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

Before weekend prior to MPEG

 

 

 

N15021

AHG on HDR and WCG

 

Mandates

  1. Update Draft Use Cases, Requirements and Test Conditions including Exploratory Experiments.
  2. Update anchors.
  3. Continue development of the draft CfE.

 

Chairmen

Walt Husak, Edouard Francois and Ajay Luthra

 

Duration

Until next Meeting

 

Reflector

General: xyz@lists.uni-klu.ac.at  

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EE2: xyz-ee2@lists.uni-klu.ac.at (Edouard Francois)

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EE4: xyz-ee4@lists.uni-klu.ac.at (Chad Fogg)

 

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Meetings

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 75

Start  time: 10:00

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Before weekend prior to MPEG

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N15022

AHG on FTV (Free-viewpoint Television)

 

Mandates

  1. To finalize collection of all test data.
  2. To prepare draft CfE.
  3. To prepare draft anchor material.
  4. To discuss evaluation methodology.
  5. To organize viewing equipment.

 

Chairmen

Masayuki Tanimoto (chair), Krzysztof Wegner, Gauthier Lafruit (co-chairs)

 

Duration

Until 111st MPEG Meeting

 

Reflector

ftv@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

 

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Meeting

During weekend of MPEG

Room size 35

Date: 15/2/15

 

 

Before weekend of MPEG

Place /Date/Logistics:

Sunday

 

Before weekend prior to MPEG

Place /Date/Logistics

 

 

 

N15024

AHG on Media-centric Internet of Things (MIoT)

 

Mandates

  1. Improve and extend the Exploration on  MIoT
  2. Identify additional use cases for MIoT
  3. Identify the list of MPEG technologies related to MIoT standardization.

 

Chairmen

Sang-Kyun Kim (Myongji University), Marius Preda (Institut Mines Telecom)

 

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

 

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N15025

AHG on Requirements on Genome Compression and Storage

 

Mandates

  1. To identify standardization activities related to genome information file format and compression 
  2. To inform and collect requirements from industry and scientific community on genome information processing
  3. To analyze genome information applications and identify requirements related to file format definition and related compression technology
  4. To analyze the state of the art and the trends of genome information generation and compression
  5. To identify relevant classes of genome data to build a database of test data statistically representative of the variety of both sequencing technologies and life forms.

 

Chairmen

Marco Mattavelli (EPFL), Jaime Delgado (UPC)

 

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

 

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genome_compression@listes.epfl.ch

 

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During weekend prior to MPEG

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Before weekend prior to MPEG

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N15026

AHG on Screen Sharing Application Format (SS-AF)

 

Mandates

  1. To review the use cases and requirements
  2. To define scope and work plan for development of ASCS-AF
  3. To identify related technologies, especially in the areas of screen manifest description and timeline alignment

 

Chairmen

Xin Wang and Imed Bouazizi

 

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

 

Reflector

ascs-af_*at*_lists.uni-klu.ac.at

 

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During weekend prior to MPEG

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Before weekend prior to MPEG

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N15027

AHG on wearable MPEG

 

Mandates

  1. Solicit new use cases in this area 
  2. Study the MPEG technologies that can be used for wearable devices 

 

Chairmen

Mihai Mitrea (IMT, mihai.mitrea@telecom-sudparis.eu) 

Sungmoon Chun (Insignal, smchun@insignal.co.kr)

 

Duration

Until next Meeting

 

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wearableMPEG@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

 

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During weekend prior to MPEG

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Before weekend prior to MPEG

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N15062

AHG on industry needs for Future Video Coding

 

Mandates

  1. Collect information on industry needs for future video coding
  2. Identify new use cases for existing and emerging markets for video coding technology
  3. Solicit presentations on emerging markets

 

Chairmen

Ken McCann, Mohammed Raad

 

Duration

Until next Meeting

 

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futurevideo@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

 

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 30

Sunday

 

Sunday prior to MPEG

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