N7073

AHG on MAFs

Mandate:

1. Discuss and refine requirements for MAFs under consideration
2. Discuss and refine tools for MAFs under consideration
3. Discuss ideas and proposals for new MAFs and make recommendations
4. Edit and update the Draft PDTR ISO/IEC 23000-1
5. Plan and perform dissemination actions

Chairs:

Klaus Diepold,  kldi@tum.de

Wo Chang

Duration:

Until 73^rd meeting

Meetings:

A meeting may be held on the weekend immediately before the 73^rd meeting

Reflector:

mappf @yahoogroups.com

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N7074

AHG on Digital Item Streaming

Mandates:

1. Distribute the Call for Proposals for Digital Item Streaming
2. Organize and perform the evaluation of the responses to the Call for Proposals

Chairs:

Sylvain Devillers (sdevillers.ext_at_rd.francetelecom.com)

Ian Burnett (i.burnett_at_elec.uow.edu.au)

Ingo Wolf (WolfI_at_t-systems.com)

Duration:

Until 73^rd meeting

Meetings:

Week-end before the 73^rd meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg-21@xlistserv.imec.be messages to use the prefix [DIS] – remove x from email address

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N7075

AHG on MPEG-21 REL Profiling

Mandate:

1. Discuss and improve the MPEG REL profile in the MPEG-21 PuC.
2. Solicit and discuss technical contributions to the MPEG-21 PuC.
3. Report on these inputs and discussions and provide recommendations.

Chairs:

Xin Wang, xin.wang@contentguard.com

Jaime Delgado, jaime.delgado@upf.edu

Chris Barlas, chris.barlas@rightscom.com

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

There will be a face-to-face meeting on the Sunday before the 73^rd meeting. Business will also be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be

Message titles prefixed [REL-Profiling]

N7076

AHG on Colour Spaces

Mandate:

1. To study new extended-gamut colour space in IEC TC100 (IEC 61966-2-4)
2. To study requirements for new colour spaces in MPEG standards
3. To investigate other relevant colour spaces
4. To study solutions to support new colour spaces
5. To study further work plan on this activity

Chairman:

Teruhiko Suzuki

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

color-space_AHG@color.sony.co.jp

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N7077

AHG on Font Format Representation

Mandate:

1. Create a proposed draft of an ISO standard based on the OpenType specification 1.4 which contains an endorsement by the copyright holders by 2005-06-01.
2. Review ISO/IEC 14496-18 which already references OpenType 1.4 as an external reference to ensure it contains the proper references in a future update.
3. Provide MPEG with a development plan on how to progress the specification within MPEG.

Chairs:

Mike Ksar [mikeksar (aht) Microsoft (doht) com], Vladimir Levantovsky [firstname (doht) lastname (aht) MonotypeImaging (doht) com]

Duration:

Until 73rd MPEG meeting in Poland

Meetings:

1. 2005-05-25 – Redmond, WA
2. 2005-07-24 – MPEG meeting 73 site in Poland

Homepage

http:// groups doht yahoo doht com / group / mpeg-OTspec [remove spaces]

Reflector:

mpeg-OTspec (aht) yahoogroups (doht) com

N7078

AHG on Content-Based Search Framework

Mandate:

1. To define the objectives and architecture for the content-based search framework 
2. To identify essential modules for the content-based search framework
3. To explore and define standard interfaces between those modules.

Chairman:

Wo Chang

Co-Chair:

Tanya Beech

Duration:

Until 73^rd meeting

Meetings:

No meetings will be held

Reflector:

cbsearchX@Xyahoogroups.com (remove Xs)

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N7108

AHG on Video IDCT Specification

Mandate:

1. Study the FCD text of 11172-6 for possible improvements in FDIS.
2. Study the text of MPEG standards to identify all dependencies on ANSI/IEEE 1180, and prepare development of necessary draft corrigenda.
3. Identify and draft corrections for any errors found in the specification of IDCT requirements in MPEG standards.
4. Discuss the Call for Proposals on Fixed-point 8x8 IDCT and DCT and identify possible refinements.
5. Perform work to organize the Call for Proposals.

Chairman:

G. Sullivan, A. Luthra

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

vidct@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N7109

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

Mandate:

1. To remove known bugs and harmonize ISO/IEC 14496-4 and ISO/IEC 14496-5
2. To edit and maintain 14496-4:2004 COR1 and 14496-4:2004/Amd.1 COR1 
3. Maintenance of the MPEG-4 software and conformance Web sites
4. To collect bug reports related to MPEG-4 Visual text, VM, software and conformance

Chairman:

Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N7110

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

Mandate:

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

Edit the XM 24.0 document

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7111

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
3. To take steps to facilitate the adoption of the MPEG-7 visual (e.g. technical reports on use scenarios, multimedia application formats)

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 73^rd Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7112

AHG on 3DAV Coding

Mandate:

1. To distribute, discuss and refine the “Preliminary Call for Proposals on Multi-View Video Coding”
2. To organize distribution of new test sequences for the “Call for Proposals on Multi-View Video Coding”
3. Generate anchor encodings from the new test sequences
4. To discuss and refine the documents on “Requirements on Multi-view Video Coding” and "Draft Exploitation Perspectives of Multi-view Video Coding”

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 73^rd  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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N7113

AHG on Video Coding Tools Repository

Mandate:

1. To discuss and refine the "Study of Video Coding Tools Repository" and "VCTR Textual Description" documents
2. To develop examples of descriptions of functional units and decoder configurations
3. To work on defining an appropriate language to describe functional units, global control units, and interfaces of VCTR
4. To study requirements and feasibility of the Video Coding Tools Repository concept for the concrete application case of an intra-only decoder profile
5. To study concepts for hardware and software implementations of the repository
6. To further develop and maintain the VCTR software

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang (chair), Kohtaro Asai (co-chair)

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 73^rd  Meeting)

Reflector:

xtoolrepox@listes.epfl.ch

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N7114

AHG on Exploration in Wavelet Video Coding

Mandate:

1. Collect evidence for the advantages and potential advantages (new functionalities and new applications) which can be offered by wavelet transforms for video compression. 
2. Identify and evaluate the tools (technology components) which are responsible for providing the greatest coding efficiency and/or other functionalities of interest.
3. Integrate those tools which show the greatest promise into the common software platform.
4. To discuss and refine the exploration experiment document and conduct the exploration experiments.
5. To study the relationship between wavelet technology and the emerging 14496-10:2005/Amd.1 Scalable Video Coding work item.

Chairman:

Jizheng Xu (chair), Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu (co-chairs)

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 73^rd  Meeting)

Reflector:

vidwav@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N7115

AHG on Organization of Workshop on Future Directions in Video Compression

Mandate:

1. To disseminate the call for contributions of the second workshop
2. To disseminate the document summarizing the results of the first Workshop in Busan.
3. To issue targeted invitations to experts active in issues identified during the first workshop.
4. To collect and evaluate the abstracts of proposed contributions.

Chairman:

Touradj Ebrahimi, Jörn Ostermann

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

futurevideo@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N7123

AHG on MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description Phase 1 and 2

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.
5. To continue the evaluation of tools suitable to support implementation of phase 2.
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.
10. To investigate answers to the call for proposals for reference IDCT implementations that are appropriate for hardware implementations.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 73^th Meeting Poznan

Meetings

Phone conferences on 28^th April, 19^th May, 16^th June and 21^st July at 4 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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N7158

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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N7159

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

To:

1. Carry out MPEG-7 Audio Workplan

Chairman:

M. Gruhne

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-7-aud@uow.edu.au

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N7160

AHG on Spatial Audio Coding

Mandate:

To:

1. Carry out the Spatial Audio Workplan
2. Identify candidate 5.1 channel test items with significant LFE channel activity.

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N7161

AHG on MPEG-4 Lossless Audio Coding

Mandate:

To

1. Carry out Workplan for Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)
2. Carry out Workplan for Scalable Lossless Coding (SLS)
3. Finalize “Performance and Complexity of MPEG Lossless Audio Coding Architectures”
4. Collect additional data for use in lossless coding verification tests

Chairman:

Tilman Liebchen

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@uow.edu.au

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N7162

AHG on Symbolic Music Representation

Mandate:

To:

1. Review the Audio Core Experiment methodology to adapt it to the Symbolic Music Representation standardization process.
2. Collect and describe draft proposals for Core Experiments to be finalized at the next meeting.
3. Discuss and prepare practical proposals for the integration of SMR into MPEG-4 on the basis of the selected RM0.
4. Disseminate further the MPEG-4 SMR objectives to industry to attract new interest into the process.

Chairman:

Paolo Nesi (University of Firenze), Giorgio Zoia (EPFL)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

An AHG meeting may be held the Sunday before next meeting

Reflector:

mn-mpeg@musicnetwork.dsi.unifi.it

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N7163

AHG On Exploration of Scalable Audio and Speech Coding

Mandate:

To:

1. Support the Call for Information on Scalable Speech and Audio Coding

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N7176

Ad Hoc Group on AFX documents, CEs, and software

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit SNHC documents.
2. Coordinate SNHC CE and EE activities.
3. Coordinate collection of demonstration data set of SNHC tools
4. Coordinate fixing of reference software corresponding to AFX
5. Coordinate conformance and reference software documentation for AFX Extensions
6. Coordinate documentation on purpose and benefit of Animated 3D Object Compression Framework

Chairman:

Marius Preda (INT)

Co-chairs:

Jeong-Hwan Ahn (Samsung AIT)

Francisco Moran Burgos (UPM)

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 73^rd Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc AT gti. ssr. upm. Es

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N7177

AHG on MPEG-J GFX

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit 14496-21 (GFX) documents
2. Define plan for GFX reference software
3. Harmonize Java bindings to OpenGL ES with JSR-239 expert group

Chairman:

Mikaël Bourges-Sévenier (Mindego Inc.)

Co-chairs:

Vishy Swaminathan (Sun Microsystems)

Itaru Kaneko (Tokyo Polytechnic University)

Duration:

Until 73^rd Meeting

Meetings

- May 25-26 at HI Corp., Tokyo, Japan

- Sunday before 73^rd Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-j AT it-aru. Com

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N7192

AHG on Liaison with WG1 (JPEG)

Mandate:

1. To continue to liaise with WG1 on JPSearch project.
2. Continue to exchange technical information on MPEG-7 tools.
3. Discuss possible ways to organize work on items of common interests.

Chairman:

Wo Chang, Akio Yamada, Miroslaw Bober

Duration:

Until 73^rd meeting

Meetings:

No meetings will be held

Reflector:

m7profileX@Xyahoogroups.com (remove Xs)

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N7222

AHG on MPEG-21 DIP

Mandate:

1. Complete editing of text of DIP FDIS according to disposition of NB comments on FCD.
2. Monitor implementation of the DIP software implementation plan.
3. Prepare and follow-up registration of MIME type for Digital Item Methods.
4. Carry out further study on working draft of proposed amendment and technologies under consideration.

Chairs:

Gerrard Drury (gerrardx@xenikos.com)
Frederik De Keukaleare (Frederik.DeKeukelaerex@xugent.be)

Duration:

Until the 73rd Meeting

Meetings:

AhG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 73rd meeting.

Other business to be conducted by email or phone.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-dip at uow.edu.au

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1. Discuss and create text to be included into the 1^st Amendment to ISO/IEC 21000-3 to support varying levels of granularity with respect to DI identification;

2. Develop terms needed for the above solution and make recommendations about their inclusion into the RDD

N7224

AHG on MPEG-21 DIA

Mandate:

1. Carry out Core Experiment on DIA and provide recommendations to the MDS subgroup.
2. Produce an editors' input on the Study of ISO/IEC 21000 FPDAM/1
3. Maintain the MPEG-21 DIA TuC document.
4. Investigate technologies for resolving Classification Scheme aliases.
5. Follow and keep track of the proposed deliveries of software to the Reference Software Web site.

Chairs:

Christian Timmerer (christian.timmerer_at_itec.uni-klu.ac.at)

Thomas DeMartini (Thomas.DeMartini_at_contentguard.com)

Duration:

Until the 73^rd Meeting.

Meetings:

AHG Meeting to be held on the weekend prior to 73^rd meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma_at_merl.com

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N7225

AhG on MPEG-21 Event Reporting

Mandate:

1. Prepare a Study of Preliminary Disposition of Comments
2. Integrate agreed dispositions into Study of CD
3. Monitor CE on Event Report Requests

Chairs:

FX Nuttall (fx at nuttall.org)

Andrew Tokmakoff (tokmakoff at telin.nl)

Duration:

Until the 73^rd Meeting

Meetings:

A pre-meeting will be held on the weekend before the 73rd meeting.

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

Reflector:

mpeg-21-event-reporting@lists.telin.nl

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N7226

AHG on MPEG‑21 Fragment Identifiers

Mandates

1. Re-evaluate the set of 2D and 3D regions supported by the spatial Node-tests.
2. Produce the Study of CD for 21000-17
3. Monitor the CE on Logical Model Description

Chair

Myriam Amielh (myriam.amielh@cisra.canon.com.au)

Co Chairs

Sylvain Devillers (sdevillers.ext@rd.francetelecom.com)

Duration

Until the 73rd Meeting

Meetings

Pre-meeting to be held in Poznan prior to the 73rd meeting

Reflector

mpeg-21@listserv.imec.be

Please use the prefix [FID]

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N7227

AHG on RDD Implementation Issues

Mandate:

1. Review the definitions used in the RDD standard in light of the RDD/REL Requirements, with particular reference to Abstraction, Expression, Manifestation, and Resource/Asset. Evaluate consequences for implementers of the standard.

2. Based on the results of the above, propose any necessary amendments and/or course of action to better accommodate those terms.

3. Review all RDD terms for inconsistencies, circularity etc.

4.  Identify any other relevant details and make recommendations in support of facilitating adoption and practical implementation of an RDD standard as per the MPEG-21 and RDD/REL Requirements.

Chair:

Marc Gauvin mgauvin x@x sdae.net

Duration:

Until 73rd meeting