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

14834

AHG on 3D Audio and Audio Maintenance

Mandates

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

Chairmen

Schuyler Quackenbush (ARL)

Duration

Until 111^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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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

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

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until 111th MPEG Meeting

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Meeting

No meeting

15012

AHG on AR

Mandates

Edit the ARAF and MAR RM documents
Identify additional needs for ARAF
Identify the MPEG technologies that shall be part of ARAF
Continue actions to implement the collaborative work-plan for MAR RM with SC24
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 111^th 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

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

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until 111^th 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

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

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until 111^th 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, 16h00-18h00

14995

AHG on MPEG-7 Visual

Mandates

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

Chairmen

Stavros Paschalakis, Miroslaw Bober (co-chairs)

Duration

Until 111^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

mpeg7visual@mpeg7.net

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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

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14996

AHG on Compact Descriptors for Visual Search

Mandates

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

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until 111^th 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

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

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until 111^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

mpeg-ivc@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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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

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

Chairmen

Mohamad Raad, Qunshan Gu

Duration

Until 111^th 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

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

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until 111^th 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

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

Chairmen

Jens-Rainer Ohm, Gary Sullivan

Duration

Until 111^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size --

Date --

Before weekend prior to MPEG

Place /Date/Logistics

15051

AHG on MPEG File Formats

Mandates

Study the question of partial file storage as raised in M33297 and M35152
Study the storage of timing information for Uniform Time Alignment.
Study the carriage of still pictures and image sequences in the file format
Study amendments and corrigenda under ballot, including but not limited to 14496-12 & 14496-15.
Maintain and update the conformance streams, reference software, and registration authority, as needed;
Study the defect reports and proposed solutions
Study streaming of ISOBMFF as raised in m35152
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

Reflector

mp4-sys@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Before weekend prior to MPEG

15052

AHG on Font Format Representation

Mandates

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

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

Chairmen

Iraj Sodagar (Microsoft), Youngkwon Lim (Samsung)

Duration

Until next meeting

Reflector

dash@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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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

Solicit contribution to complete editing of DIS
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
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

preservation-tnt@listserv.uni-hannover.de

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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

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

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

Chairmen

Felix C. Fernandes (Samsung Electronics)

Xavier Ducloux (Thomson Video Networks)

Duration

Until Next Meeting

Reflector

green-mpeg@googlegroups.com

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Meeting

Weekend prior to MPEG meeting

Room Size

Date: Sunday

Other

None

15057

AHG on User Description

Mandates

Harmonize the current technologies in WD of MPEG-UD
Investigate the completeness of the MPEG-UD technologies
Explore/verify/check the suitability of MPEG-UD as it exists now to satisfy fully existing use cases
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

Date: Saturday & Sunday

Other

None

15058

AHG on Timeline alignment

Mandates

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

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until Next Meeting

Reflector

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

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Meeting

Weekend prior to MPEG meeting

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15059

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

Mandates

To Study WD and solicit contributions to improve it.
To review WD of CEL 2nd edition and analyze the use of User Description and PSAF privacy information
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 111^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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

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Meeting

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

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Before weekend prior to MPEG

N15021

AHG on HDR and WCG

Mandates

Update Draft Use Cases, Requirements and Test Conditions including Exploratory Experiments.
Update anchors.
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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Meetings

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 75

Start time: 10:00

(possible Friday 13^th also)

Before weekend prior to MPEG

EPFL –Touradj.Ebrahimi@epfl.ch

Date: 2014/12/9-11, RSVP required by 2014/11/14

N15022

AHG on FTV (Free-viewpoint Television)

Mandates

To finalize collection of all test data.
To prepare draft CfE.
To prepare draft anchor material.
To discuss evaluation methodology.
To organize viewing equipment.

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until 111^st 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

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

Chairmen

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

Duration

Until 111^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size

Before weekend prior to MPEG

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N15025

AHG on Requirements on Genome Compression and Storage

Mandates

To identify standardization activities related to genome information file format and compression
To inform and collect requirements from industry and scientific community on genome information processing
To analyze genome information applications and identify requirements related to file format definition and related compression technology
To analyze the state of the art and the trends of genome information generation and compression
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 111^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

genome_compression@listes.epfl.ch

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size

Before weekend prior to MPEG

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N15026

AHG on Screen Sharing Application Format (SS-AF)

Mandates

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

Chairmen

Xin Wang and Imed Bouazizi

Duration

Until 111^th MPEG Meeting

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size

Before weekend prior to MPEG

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N15027

AHG on wearable MPEG

Mandates

Solicit new use cases in this area
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

Reflector

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size

Before weekend prior to MPEG

Place /Date/Logistics

N15062

AHG on industry needs for Future Video Coding

Mandates

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

Chairmen

Ken McCann, Mohammed Raad

Duration

Until next Meeting

Reflector

futurevideo@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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Meeting

During weekend prior to MPEG

Room size 30

Sunday