N7763

AhG on MPEG Terminology

Mandate:

1.      Select a subset of MPEG terms from N7767 (Proposal for MPEG Terminology and Acronyms)

2.      Review the definitions for those terms and propose changes where needed

3.      Create an ‘MPEG Essential Terminology’ document for the next meeting

Chair:

Paulo Villegas (Telefónica I+D)

Duration:

Until 76^th meeting

Meetings

No meeting. All business will be conducted by e-mail

Reflector:

To be announced on the MPEG general reflector

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N7764

AHG on MPEG-7 Query Format

Mandate:

1.      Review and improve the draft requirements for query format

2.      Identify relevant typical queries for images, video and audio data

3.      Define a simple query format to support these typical queries

4.      Explore and review existing technology in this area

5.      Develop supporting tools for this query format (as demo)

6.      To collaborate between WG1 and WG11 on query format

Chairman:

Wo Chang

Co-Chairs:

Kyoungro Yoon

Duration:

Until 76^th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before MPEG Monday plenary

Reflector:

cbsearch@yahoogroups.com

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N7765

AhG on MAFs

Chairs

Klaus Diepold (kldi at tum dot de)

Duration

Until 76th meeting

Meetings

A meeting may be held on the weekend immediately before the 76^th meeting                 

Reflector

mappf @yahoogroups.com

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Mandate

1.      Discuss and refine requirements for the Surveillance MAF under consideration

2.      Prepare an information document for the surveillance industry providing material that will help them understand the  relevance of the MAF work

3.      Discuss and refine ideas for the Music Slide Show MAF under development

4.      Discuss new ideas and proposals for MAFs and make recommendations

N7782

AHG on MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description Phase 2 and 3

Mandate:

1.      To collect and coordinate contributions of MPEG-4 video modules described in HDL from Part 2 and Part 10.

2.      To continue the analysis of HDL modules for HW acceleration of MPEG-4 part 10 (AVC), to select relevant modules and coordinate development and submission of such selected modules.

3.      To continue verifying the conformance of submitted HDL source code and associated documentation with the requirements stated in the newly updated “Call for Submission” document N6506 and template “Template for MPEG-4 Part 9 HDL module documentation” document N6507.

4.      To evaluate the interfaces of each module so that the specification of common interfaces might enable modules submitted in phase 1 to be directly reused for phase 2 and phase 3.

5.      To continue the evaluation of tools suitable to support implementation of phase 3.

6.      To proceed with the definition and possible extensions of the MPEG-4 Virtual H/W-S/W Socket that interfaces the HDL modules to the MPEG-4. generically optimized reference S/W part 7 and AVC part 10.

7.      To proceed with functionality updates and releases of the MPEG-4 Integrated Framework that interfaces the HDL modules to the MPEG-4 generically optimized reference S/W part 7 and AVC part 10. 

8.      To specify reference architectures showing the usage of MPEG-4 Part 9 Reference hardware descriptions in an example application.

9.      To continue the development of the reference HW demonstrator.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting Montreux

Meetings

Phone conferences on 16^th  February, 9^th  March, 30 ^th March 4 p.m. CET (3 p.m. GMT). Tel: (from US 1-877-582-3182, from outside US 1-706-679-1128, participant code 9202060193)

Reflector:

refhwmpeg@listes.epfl.ch

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N7805

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

To:

1.      Maintain Audio-related conformance data

2.      Discuss reference software methodology

3.      Conduct other miscellaneous activity

Chairman:

R. Sperschneider

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpam@uow.edu.au

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N7806

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

To edit the MPEG-7 FDAM text

Chairman:

M. Gruhne

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-7-aud@uow.edu.au

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N7807

AHG on MPEG Surround

Mandate:

To:

1.      Carry out the MPEG Surround Workplans

2.      Identify candidate 5.1 channel test items with significant LFE channel activity.

3.      Identify 5.1 channel test items having artistic downmixes.

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N7825

AHG on Video IDCT Specification

Mandate:

1.          Edit and harmonize the texts of FDIS 23002-1, 11172-2 COR4, 13818-2 COR2 and the study texts of 11172-4 DCOR1, 13818-4 DCOR1, 14496-2 DCOR2 and 14496-4 DCOR2.

2.          Edit the WD on 23003-2.

3.          Organize further study and tests on fixed-point 8x8 IDCT and DCT.

4.          Maintain the DCT/IDCT testbed software.

5.          Finalize the editing of the "Analysis and Summary" document.

Chairman:

Marco Mattavelli (chair), G. Sullivan, P. Topiwala, A. Hinds (associate chairs)

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 76^th meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-vidct@lists.ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N7826

AHG on Maintenance of MPEG-4 Visual related Documents, Reference Software and Conformance

Mandate:

1.          To collect bug reports related to MPEG-4 Visual text, VM, software and conformance

2.          To remove known bugs and contribute to preparation of new editions

3.          Maintenance of the MPEG-4 software and conformance Web sites

Chairman:

Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N7827

AHG on Maintenance of MPEG-7 Visual related Documents and Reference Software

Mandate:

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

2.          To maintain the "List of Problems Reported" and prepare draft corrigenda as appropriate.

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, A. Yamada, Sang-Kyun Kim, Robert O'Callaghan

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7828

AHG on Description Tools for MPEG-7 New Visual Extensions

Mandate:

1.      To carry out the Core Experiments

2.      To perform an evaluation and comment on the results of Core Experiments related to MPEG-7 new visual extensions

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 76^th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7829

AHG on Multiview Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To organize distribution and maintenance of the software to be used for the Core Experiments

2.      To conduct the Core Experiments as described in the CE document

3.      To discuss and evaluate the CE results in preparation of the 76^th meeting

4.      To study specific issues of AVC high-level syntax in relation to MVC requirements, e.g. random access

Chairman:

Aljoscha Smolic (chair), Hideaki Kimata (co-chair)

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 76^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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N7830

AHG on Reconfigurable Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To discuss and refine the "Study of Reconfigurable Video Coding" and " Reconfigurable Video Coding " documents

2.      To discuss and refine the "Applications and Requirements" document

3.      To discuss and refine the "Draft Call for Proposals" and the evaluation methodology

4.      To maintain the RVC software

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang (chair), Kohtaro Asai (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 76^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

toolrepo@listes.epfl.ch

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N7831

AHG on Exploration in Wavelet Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To discuss and update the " Status Report" as input for the 76^th meeting. 

2.      To prepare a visual performance comparison showing the evolution of wavelet codecs and comparison with JSVM by the 76^th meeting.

3.      Maintain the wavelet codec exploration reference software.

4.      Maintain the wavelet codec reference document.

Chairman:

Riccardo Leonardi (chair), Jizheng Xu, Stefano Tubaro, Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (associate chairs)

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 76^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-vidwav@lists.ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N7832

AHG on Photo Player MAF

Mandate:

1.      To edit and maintain ISO/IEC 23000-3 CD study text.

2.      To develop further advanced use scenarios and propose modification on the metadata specification

3.      To develop metadata schema for Photo Player MAF and to prepare its instantiation examples

Chairman:

M. Bober, A. Yamada, S. K. Kim, Wo Chang

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 76^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7833

AHG on Auxiliary Video Data Representations

Mandate:

1.      To study the relevance of applications requiring encoding of depth/parallax or other auxiliary video data and corresponding requirements.

2.      To study and improve the WD of 23002-3 and WD of 13818 Amd2, and produce draft CD documents as input to 76^th meeting.

Chairman:

Arnaud Bourge (chair), Christoph Fehn (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 76^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 76^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-ssv@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N7834

Ad Hoc Group on XML Structure Binarization and Streaming

Mandate:

1.      Produce Study of PDAM 1 to MPEG-B paty 1 (reference software and conformance)

2.      Study MPEG-B Part 1 TuC on Wildcard encoding extensions

3.      Study MPEG-7 Systems TuC on Fragment Request Unit

4.      Study what tools from MPEG-7 systems have general application and can be moved to MPEG-B

5.      Produce draft 2nd Edition of MPEG-7 Systems

Chairman:

Philippe de Cuetos (Expway) , Andreas Hutter (Siemens)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg7-sys@www-sci.uni-klu.ac.at

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N7835

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

1.      Further study Amendment 1 text and Study of PDAM.

2.      Finalize the utility & reference software aligned with LASeR FDIS

3.      Update the utility & reference software aligned with LASeR Amd1

4.      Study and improve WD of LASeR Conformance

5.      Cross-check conformance bitstreams for LASeR Profile and Levels.

6.      Study and improve the TuC including the specification for the Scene API.

7.      Carry out mini-experiment on StreamSource improvements

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

9.      Conduct the development of Music Slide Show MAF.

Chairman:

Alexandre Cotarmanac’h (France Telecom) chair, Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv) co-chair, Cyril Concolato (ENST) co-chair

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

An AHG Meeting prior to the Montreux meeting (Montreux, CH)

Reflector:

mpeg-laser@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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N7836

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG File Formats

Mandate:

1.      Raise and discuss issues that have to be considered in the definition of technologies for the storage and transmission of scalable video, and resolve the open questions in the draft.

2.      Propose technologies to refine the WD on the SVC File format.

3.      Raise and discuss issues on the definition of file format support for uni-directional file transmission ('FLUTE hinting') and propose solutions to complete the technical proposal.

4.      Study and progress amendments and corrigenda on parts 12, 14 and 15, as needed.

Chairman:

David Singer (Apple), Visharam Mohammed (Sony)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

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