No No.

MPEG 101

Mandate:

Present the a tutorial on the Sunday prior to each WG 11 meeting on topics related to the structure and operation of WG 11.

Chairman:

Pete Schirling(IBM Research)

Duration:

ONGOING

Meetings:

6pm – 8pm on the Sunday prior to each WG 11 meeting (15-20 People)

Reflector:

NONE

N5363

AHG on Metadata Interoperability

Mandate:

1. Analyze interoperability of MPEG-7 with external metadata systems, eg., MXF, 3GPP, ID3 V2, and EXIF.

2. Analyze DMS1/MPEG-7 interoperabilty by attempting to map DMS1 sets/frameworks to MPEG-7 datatypes, Ds, and DSs.
3. Analyze the profiles proposed for TV production (DMS-1) and TV Programmes (NHK proposal) and explore what profiles and levels are needed to cover this in a generic way.
4. Propose additions to both schemas and DS’s to achieve harmonization.

Co-Chairs

Masanori Sano sano.m-fo@nhk.or.jp (NHK), Eric Rehm (Singingfish / THOMSON) (rehm@singingfish.com), David Singer (singer@apple.com), Peter Mulder peter.mulder@nob.nl

Duration:

Until 64^rd meeting

Meetings

Week-end before the next meeting

Reflector:

meta_interop@yahoogroups.com

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N5364

AhG on Preparing the Appointment of the RA for ISO/IEC 21000-3

Mandate:

1. Identify the contact person and their coordinates at each organisation that has responded to the Call for Candidates and circulate to the reflector if permission for this is granted

2. Interact with the five organisations to gather further information on how their organisation addresses the Evaluation Criteria (N5347) issued at the Awaji Meeting
3. Identify any constraints on the organisations being able to serve as the Registration Authority
4. If needed, organise and conduct telephone conference(s) with the five organisations to clarify any open issues
5. Create a report on the information gathered which will allow a decision to be taken at the 64^th Meeting.

Chairmen:

Niels Rump (niels.rump@rightscom.com)

Paul Jessop (paul.jessop@ifpi.org)

Duration:

Until 64th MPEG Meeting

Meetings:

No physical meeting.

All business will be conducted by email and telephone conferences.

Reflector:

To subscribe, send an email to owner-mpeg-21-list@imec.be

N5365

Ad Hoc Group on the MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language FCD

Mandate:

1. Edit the FCD to accommodate all actions arising from the DoC and Liaison statements regarding the CD.

2. Further develop requirements and implementation plans for REL Reference software.

Chairman:

Barney Wragg (barney.Wragg@umusic.com)

Co Chair

Thomas DeMartini (Thomas.demartini@contentguard.com)

Duration:

Until 64^th meeting

Meetings

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

message titles prefixed [REL]

N5366

AhG on Editing the MPEG-21 RDD FCD

Mandate:

1. Produce FCD text in accordance with Disposition of Comments made at Awaji and send FCD to the SC29 Secretariat by Friday 31^st January 2003

2. Produce new draft text on RDD for MPEG-21 MDS FAQ
3. Investigate and develop requirements for RDD Reference Software

Chairman

Chris Barlas ( chris.barlas@rightscom.com )

Co-Chair:

Godfrey Rust ( godfreyrust@wordsout.fsnet.co.uk)

Duration:

Until 64^th meeting

Meetings:

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

message titles prefixed [RDD]

N5367

AhG on MPEG-21 REL Publishing Extension

Mandate:

1. Liaise with OeBF and EDItEUR about development of a possible publishing extension to the MPEG-21 REL

2. To study the interoperability implications of extensions

Co-Chairs

Brad Gandee brad.gandee@contentguard.com

Duration:

Until the 64^th Meeting

Meetings:

The AhG will be conducted by email and phone conference(s), dates to be agreed with OeBF and EDItEUR

Reflector:

MPEG_OeBF@openebook.org

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N5368

AHG on Editing MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation CD & AM

Mandate:

1. Maintain schema for the CD and AM4.0 on http://www.midgardmedia.net.

2. Create a figure to reflect the relation between MPEG-7 and DIA to be included in the CD.
3. Produce the CD and AM4.0 after a 5-week editing period and upload the documents no later than Jan 22, 2002.
4. Produce AM4.1 and Editors input on CD.

Chairman

Anthony Vetro (avetro@merl.com)

Co-chairman

Christian Timmerer (christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at)

Duration:

Until the 64^th Meeting.

Meetings:

AHG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 64^th meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma@merl.com

N5369

Ad Hoc Group on Core Experiments for MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation

Mandate

1. Maintaining the MPEG-21 MDS CE Development process document.

2. Carry out Core Experiments on DIA and make recommendations to modify and improve the Committee Draft (CD v1.0) and Adaptation Model (AM v4.0).
3. Coordinate and encourage delivery (according to software implementation plan v2.0 N5355) of implementation software from participants.

Chairman

Jeho Nam (namjeho@etri.re.kr)

Co Chair

Debargha Mukherjee (debargha@hpl.hp.com)

Duration

Until 64^th MPEG meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on 9th March before the Pattaya meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector

mpeg21-uma@merl.com

N5402

Ad Hoc Group on AFX documents editing and Core Experiments

Mandates:

1. Edit the 14496-1/FDAM4 document

2. Edit the 14496-16/FDIS document
3. Maintain and edit VM document.
4. Maintain and edit CE descriptions.

Chairman:

Mikael Bourges-Sevenier (Mindego Inc., mikael@mindego.com)

Co-chairs:

Mahnjin Han (Samsung AIT)

Francisco Moran (UPM)

Marius Preda (INT)

Duration:

Until 64^th meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 64^th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N5403

Ad Hoc Group on AFX SW Implementation

Mandate:

1. Coordinate the SW implementation process.

2. Study and develop the guidelines for SW development process.
3. Coordinate software integration of existing SNHC tools in IM1 Core.
4. Investigate integration of IM1 Core and AFX reference software

Chairman:

Michael Steliaros (Superscape (UK) Ltd., msteliaros@superscape.com)

Co-chair:

James D. K. Kim (Samsung AIT)

Duration

Until 64^th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before 64^th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N5404

Ad Hoc AFX Conformance

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit the AFX conformance document

2. Coordinate collection of bitstreams
3. Coordinate bitstream exchange

Chairman:

Mahnjin Han (Samsung AIT)

Co-chairs:

Alain Mignot (SGDL Systems)

Mikael Bourges-Sevenier (Mindego)

Duration

Until 64^th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before 64^th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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Duration:

Until 64^th MPEG Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

Mpeg-7-aud@uow.edu.au

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N5417

AHG on Editorial Convergence and Maintenance of MPEG-4 Reference Software

Mandate:

1. To harmonize and integrate ISO/IEC 14496-5 including its amendments and ISO/IEC 14496-7

2. To test combination of tools and cross-decoding between MS and MoMusys encoder/decoder
3. To enable an optimised reference encoder and decoder within the framework of ISO/IEC 14496-5 and ISO/IEC 14496-7
4. Maintenance of the MPEG-4 software Web site
5. To collect bug reports related to MPEG-4 Visual software

Chairman:

T. Chiang, Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang

Duration:

Until 64^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N5418

AHG on Core Experiments for Visual Descriptors and Visual-only Description Schemes in MPEG-7

Mandate:

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

2. Coordination of core experiments

Chairman:

2. Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

3. Until 64^th Meeting

Meetings

4. Yes (Sunday before 64^th Meeting)

Reflector:

5. mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N5419

AHG on Editing MPEG-7 Visual XM and WD

Mandate:

To maintain consistent documents for the MPEG-7 Visual XM and WD of MPEG-7 Visual Extensions

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, A. Yamada

Duration:

Until 64^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N5420

AHG on Scalable Video Coding

Mandate:

1. Discuss and refine the document on applications and requirements for scalable video coding

2. Discuss and refine the "Draft Call for Evidence on Scalable Video Coding Advances"
3. Discuss and refine the document on evaluation criteria for scalable video coding
4. Perform and co-ordinate technical exploration on the testing environment
5. Review technical progress in scalable video coding
6. Explore relationships between scalable video coding and MPEG-21

Chairman:

Mihaela van der Schaar, C.J. Tsai, Touradj Ebrahimi

Duration:

Until 64^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 64^th Meeting)

Reflector:

svc@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N5446

AHG on MPEG Conformance Editing

Mandate:

1. Prepare SE on MPEG-2 Part-4 (13818-4) based on

   1. 13818-4:1998
   2. 13818-4:1998/Amd.1:1999
   3. 13818-4:1998/Amd.1:1999/Cor.1:2002
   4. 13818-4:1998/Amd.2:2000
   5. 13818-4:1998/Amd.3:2000
   6. 13818-4:1998/Amd.3:2000/Cor1-2002
   7. 13818-4:1998/Cor.2:1998
2. Prepare Amd. on MPEG-2 Part-4 (13818-4/Amd.x): LFE Conformance Test Sequences for Audio Layer-3
3. Cross-check new conformance test sequences for MPEG-2 Audio Layer-3
4. Generate MPEG-2 Audio Layer-3 conformance test sequence with mixed blocks
5. Submit SE on 14496-4 no later than 2002-12-31 (subject to change) to SC29
6. Continue provision and cross-check of MPEG-4 Audio conformance test sequences

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de), Jens Spille (spillej@thmulti.com), Jean-Claude Dufourd (jean-claude.dufourd@enst.fr)

Duration

Until 64^th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector

?

Subscribe

?

N5447

AHG on MPEG-21 Reference Software

Mandate:

1. Facilitate the use of the UoW DIDL parser to validate the DID descriptions (CDI, XDI) that are part of the respective MDS DIA software implementation in N53xx

2. Collect results and feedback of the DID validations
3. Maintain the MDS DIA reference software implementation document (N53xx), including tracking of the proposed deliveries of software to http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/mpeg/mpeg21/ref-sw
4. Propose an integration plan for the MDS DIA reference software

Chairman:

Ian Burnett (i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au), Rik Van de Walle (rik.vandewalle@rug.ac.be), Tor Halvorsen (torhalv@tele.ntnu.no)

Duration

Until 64^th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector

mpeg-21-refsw@uow.edu.au

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N5448

AHG on MPEG Multimedia Test Bed

Mandate:

1. Define scope of this test bed.

2. Create working drafts that define APIs of modules that facilitate the use of this test bed.
3. Work with MPEG-21 reference software AHG for incorporating MPEG-21 modules into the test bed.
4. Work with Scalable Video Coding AHG for testing of scalable video coding technologies.
5. Incorporate IPMP modules into the test bed.
6. Incorporate informative reference software of 14496-8 for testing of signaling and carriage of MPEG-4 content over IP network.

Chairman:

Chun-Jen Tsai (NCTU), Mihaela van der Shaar (Philips), Young-Kwon Lim (mp4cast)

Duration

Until 64^th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector

testbed@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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5449

AHG on MPEG-2 Audio Reference Software and Issues in MP3 on MP4

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1. Remove complier warnings for ISO/IEC 13818-5 with respect to Audio Layer III and verify the new code.
2. Discuss alternatives for MPEG-1/2 Layer III access unit for a new Layer III objectType that supports editiability.

Chairman:

Jens Spille

Duration:

Until 64th meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mp3refsw@uow.edu.au

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5450

AHG on MPEG-2 AAC

Mandate:

To:

1. Edit DoC of ISO/IEC TR 13818-5:1997/Amd 1:1999/DCor 1
2. to SC29 in timeframe Submit those documents specified in Audio resolutions of 63rd Meeting.
3. Edit Text of ISO/IEC TR 13818-5:1997/Amd 1:1999/Cor 1
4. Continue work on proposed second edition of ISO/IEC 13818-7

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 64th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-aac@iis.fhg.de

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5451

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Conformance

Mandate:

To

1. Continue collecting and verifying conformance test sequences

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 64th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mp4audconform@uow.edu.au

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5452

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Text and Software

Mandate:

To

1. Finalize incorporation of corrigendum and to create a proposed new edition.
2. Collect materials for proposed Corrigendum 3.
3. Continue to maintain the reference software.

Chairman:

M. Väänänen (mauri.vaananen@nokia.com), H. Purnhagen (purnhage@tnt.uni-hannover.de)

Duration:

Until 64th meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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5453

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Extensions and Core Experiments

Mandate:

To:

1. Review and check Study on ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/FPDAM 1
2. Study Proposed Method for Signaling SBR.
3. Carry out Workplan for MPEG-4 Extension 1 Verification Tests
4. Carry out Workplan for MPEG-4 Extension 2 Core Experiments.

Chairman:

Schuyler Quackenbush (srq@audioresearchlabs.com)

Duration:

Until 64th meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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5454

AHG on MPEG-4 Lossless Coding

Mandate:

To

1. Carry out Workplan for Evaluation of Audio Lossless Coding Submissions
2. Continue to gather Application Scenarios for Audio Lossless Coding
3. Publicize and support reponses to Call for Information and Interest on Lossless Audio Coding for Oversampled One-Bit Representations

Chairman:

Schuyler Quackenbush (srq@audioresearchlabs.com)

Duration:

Until 64th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 64th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@uow.edu.au

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5455

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

Mandate:

To:

1. Conduct core experiments associated with MPEG-7 Audio
2. Support integration of proposed quantizers in BiM codecs
3. Promote collection of new tools for Version 3
4. Finalize XM for all versions
5. Continue generation and verification of MPEG-7 Audio conformance descriptions and extraction methods (including BiM conformance).

Chairman:

Uwe Jost, (uwe@cre.canon.co.uk)

Duration:

Until 64^th MPEG Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

Mpeg-7-aud@uow.edu.au

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5456

Ad-Hoc group on MPEG-4 AudioBIFS Extensions and MPEG-21 DIA for Audio

Mandates:

1. Continue to attract 3D audio experts

2. Continue development of Draft Requirements for New MPEG-4 Audio BIFS (Version 3)
3. Carry out CE on sound source wideness
4. Carry out CE on Soundfield Descriptors for MPEG-21 DIA
5. Continue to investigate aspects of Digital Item Adaptation for 3D Audio
6. Discuss possible solutions to address limited usability of Sound2D node in the context of surround audio presentation.

Chairman:

Guillaume Potard (gp03@uow.edu.au ), Jens Spille (spillej@thmulti.com)

Duration:

Until 64th MPEG meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before 64th meeting

Reflector:

dia-audio@uow.edu.au

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N5340

AHG on MPEG-7 Interoperability and Profiling

Mandate:

1. To continue the profiling rules and definition refinement.

2. To review, revise and merge if possible, profiles under consideration.
3. To finalize all profile schemas for the "MPEG-7 Profile under Consideration".
4. To further collect profiles into "MPEG-7 Profiles under Consideration".
5. To continue development of a mechanism for profile & level signaling.
6. To begin conformance and interoperability testing.
7. To collect interoperability test bed requirements so that MPEG-7 Interoperability Test Bed (M7ITB) can be setup for vendors interoperability testing.

Chairman:

Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com)

Duration:

Until 64rd Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

m7profile@yahoogroups.com

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N5341

AHG on 3DAV Coding

Mandate:

1. To further refine the "Applications and Requirements for 3DAV" and "Report on Status of 3DAV Exploration" documents

2. To coordinate the Exploration Experiments on 3DAV
3. To coordinate integration of 3DAV applications into MPEG reference software
4. To prepare a collection of demonstrations that illustrate 3DAV applications
5. To collect 3DAV test data and to make them available to MPEG members on an ftp-site

Chairman:

Aljoscha Smolic (smolic@hhi.de), Hideaki Kimata (kimata.hideaki@lab.ntt.co.jp)

Duration:

Until 64th Meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday, March 9^th before the 64^th (Pattaya, Thailand) meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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N5342

AHG on Persistent Association

Mandate:

1. Identify existing public documents that describe testing methodologies relevant to Persistent Association and circulate these (or links to them) on the reflector

2. Identify parties with an interest in Persistent Association, inform them of WG11’s intention to produce a Technical Report and arrange a meeting to involve them in contributing to the Working Draft
3. Edit and enhance the Working Draft
4. Evaluate the potential role of testing software in the Technical Report

Chairs:

Paul Jessop (paul.jessop@ifpi.org)

Duration:

Until 64^th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be arranged for February 2002 in the USA. Date and location to be agreed on the reflector at least 2 weeks in advance

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

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be message titles prefixed [PERSIST]

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N5343

AHG on Digital Item Processing

Mandate:

1. Disseminate the final call for technologies on DIML and DIBOs for Digital Item Processing

2. Define the evaluation criteria for responses
3. Evaluate the responses

Chair:

Thomas DeMartini (thomas.demartini@contentguard.com)

Co-Chairs:

Ian Burnett, i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au

Duration:

Until 64^th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Pattaya meeting to evaluate the responses to the CfP.
Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-arch-list@imec.be messages to use the prefix [DIP]

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N5344

AHG on MPEG-21 IPMP

Mandate:

1. Define the vision for IPMP in MPEG-21 and propose what needs to be standardized

2. Review the draft requirements for MPEG-21 IPMP issued as an output document from the 64^th meeting
3. Create use case scenarios and extend them to include example applications of MPEG-21 IPMP functionality

Chairs:

Barney Wragg (barney.wragg@umusic.com)

Duration:

Until 64^th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Pattaya meeting.
Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-ipmp@wg11.org

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N5345

AHG on Event Reporting

Mandate:

1. Further develop the preliminary Call for Proposals

2. Further develop the Current Vision on Event Reporting in MPEG-21
3. Define the evaluation criteria for responses

Chairs:

FX Nuttall (fx@nuttall.org)

Andrew Tokmakoff (tokmakoff@telin.nl)

Duration:

Until the 64^th Meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Pattaya meeting.
Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be messages to use the prefix [ER]

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N5489

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-7 Systems

Mandate:

1. Improve WD3.0 on the use of MPEG-7 in MPEG-4.

2. Performs the Core experiments on MPEG-7 Extensions.
3. Produce studies of MPEG-7 Extensions CD.
4. Solicit contributions on MPEG-21 binarization and assess impact of the binarization on the MPEG-21 architecture.
5. Evaluate suitable DDL mechanisms to amend MPEG-7 Schemas.
6. Update MPEG-7 Systems FAQ.

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia), Adam Lindsay (Lancaster University), Ali Tabatabai (Sony)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg7-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N5490

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Scene Representation

Mandate:

1. Define/Improve/Perform core experiments on Advanced Text and Graphic (ATG):

   1. on font format to validate the font representation and compression technology wrt Shanghai requirements;

   2. on synthesized texture.

2. Produce WD3.9 of ATG.
3. Complete cross-checking of existing streams, conduct the discussions on 14496-4. Produce conformant bitstream for the profile@levels included in ISO/IEC 14496-1 and check if they exercise all the functionality of the said profile@level.
4. Check that appropriate reference can be made to OpenType.
5. Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Scene representation along with W3C in the area of streaming text and Web3D in the area of 3D scene representation.
6. Sollicit contributions on Streaming text.
7. Discuss software (reference and Im1) to be developed for font format representation and compression.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N5491

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

Chairman:

Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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N5492

AHG on the Carriage of MPEG-4 Content

Mandate:

1. Finalize payloads format for the carriage of MPEG-4 content with IETF.

2. Develop carriage of AVC content over MPEG-2 Systems.
3. Improve the usage of AVC in MPEG-4 Systems architecture and propose contributions for the next MPEG meeting.
4. Analyse how the MPEG-4 framework can be used for the carriage of AVC over IP Networks.
5. Analyse how the MPEG-4 simple payload format can be used for the carriage of AVC over IP Networks.
6. ESM :
   1. Study and document misalignment between ESI and SL.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N5493

AHG on MPEG IPMP Extension

Mandate:

1. Assess the impact of TV-Anytime and DVB requirements on IPMP-X

2. Finalize the IPMPX/4 implementation reference software to Im1.
3. Develop an architecture reference software for IPMPX/2 MPEG-2 and verify that the MPEG-2 reference software can be used as a starting point.
4. Contribute to IPMP Conformance.

Chairman:

Craig A. Schultz (Access Ticket)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

No Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg4ipmp@iis.fhg.de

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N5494

AHG on MP4 Extensions

Mandate:

1. Finalize editing of 14496-12 and 14496-14.

2. Produce a study text of ISO/IEC 14496-15/FCD.
3. Further study WD 1.0 on MPEG-21 File Format and provide extensions if needed to meet all MPEG-21 requirements and solicit contributions on the topic and produce WD2.0 of MPEG-21 File Format.
4. Integrates structural extensions in the MPEG-21 file format to efficiently support carriage of static metadata.

Chairman:

Dave Singer (Apple)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

No Meeting

Reflector:

mp4-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N5461

AHG on AVC Verification Tests

Mandate:

• To evaluate the coding efficiency of the AVC in comparison with MPEG-4 part 2 and MPEG-2 part 2 by the following task leading to the final verification test:

• Formulating the test methodologies and schedule.
• Selecting appropriate test sequences for all resolutions.
• Identifying and securing latest available software and resources for performing the test.
• Managing the Test Plan.
• Use of preliminary coding results to fine tune the verification test.

Chairmen:

Vittorio Baroncini (FUB), Xuemin Chen (Broadcom), TK Tan (NTT DoCoMo)

Duration:

Until 64^th MPEG-Meeting

Meetings

2pm to 5pm on the Sunday before the 64^th Meeting

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N5462

AHG on Production of Test Material

Mandate:

To promote the production of new test material, with no copyright obligation

To promote the collection and generation of tools to exchange test material in various format

Chairman:

Tobias Oelbaum [TUM] (oelbaum@ei.tum.de)

Duration

Until the 64^th MPEG-meeting

Meetings

1pm to 2pm on the Sunday before the 64^th Meeting.

Reflector

test_material@ldv.ei.tum.de

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