Source:

Leonardo Chiariglione

Title:

Ad hoc groups established in Hangzhou

Status

N8440

AHG on Video IDCT Specification

Mandate:

1.          Carry out the Core Experiments as described in N8480.

2.          Maintain the DCT/IDCT testbed software.

3.          Discuss the results of the experiments.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 79^th meeting)

Reflector:

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

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N8441

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 of MPEG-4 software and conformance standards

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

Chairman:

Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang           

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N8442

AHG on Reconfigurable Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To finalize N8486 and conduct the Core Experiments as described in the document.

2.      To discuss and evaluate the CE results and related inputs in preparation of the 79^th meeting

3.      To maintain the RSM software implementation

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang (chair), Yoshihisa Yamada (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 79^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

toolrepo@listes.epfl.ch

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N8443

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

Mandate:

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

2.      To maintain the text of defect reports and draft corrigenda as appropriate.

Chairman:

Sang-Kyun Kim, Robert O'Callaghan, Akio Yamada

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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Send an email to majordomo@lists.lancs.ac.uk with the message “subscribe mpeg7-visual <emailaddress>” as the first line in the body.

N8444

AHG on MPEG-7 Visual and Photo Player MAF

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 coordinate development of the reference software for 23000-3

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim, Akio Yamada, Wo Chang

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 79^th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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Send an email to majordomo@lists.lancs.ac.uk with the message “subscribe mpeg7-visual <emailaddress>” as the first line in the body.

N8507

AHG on 3DG documents, experiments and software maintenance

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit 3DG documents

2. Coordinate 3DG CE activity

3. Coordinate 3DG related conformance and reference software

Chairman:

Marius Preda (INT)

Co-chairs:

Jeong-Hwan Ahn (Samsung AIT)

Francisco Morán Burgos (UPM)

Vishy Swaminathan (SUN Microsystems)

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before 79^th meeting

Reflector:

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

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N8514

AHG on the development of MPEG standards

Mandate:

·        To Continue Reflector Activity

·        To monitor and collate input documents to 79^th meeting

·        To organise and conduct face to face meeting before 79^th meeting if necessary

Chairmen:

Chris Barlas, Takuyo Kogure and Andy Tescher

Duration:

Until 79^th meeting

Meetings

AhG activity will be conducted by email.

A meeting may be held on the Sunday before the 79^th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg-dual at listes dot epfl dot ch

Subscribe:

·        Send an E-mail to mpeg-dual-subscribe at listes dot epfl dot ch and respond to a message asking you to confirm your intention to join

·        Send an email to frederic.dufaux at epfl dot ch and touradj.ebrahimi at epfl dot ch indicating your name, affiliation and National Body

·        Wait for an email confirming that you have joined the email  reflector

N8515

AHG on IPTV Requirements

Mandate:

1.         Analyze ATIS/IIF IPTV Requirements (given in m13429) against existing IPTV related MAFs, with the Media Streaming and DMB MAFs in particular, in terms of their relevance to the existing MAFs, coverage and non-coverage by the existing MAFs, and gaps with the existing MAFs on those requirements that are relevant and to be supported.

2.         Solicit input documents which provide additional IPTV requirements.

3.         Collect a list of IPTV related requirements that the MAFs should support, based on a subset of the requirements in m13429 identified by the analysis above and any input documents.

Chairman:

Xin Wang, xin.wang at contentguard.com

Co-Chair:

Filippo Chiariglione , filippo at cedeo.net

Chris Barlas, chris.barlas at rightscom.com

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings

A meeting may be held on Sunday before the 79^th meeting.

Business will also be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mappf@yahoogroups.com

Message titles prefixed [IPTV]

N8516

AHG on MPEG-7 Query Format

Mandate:

1.      To distribute the “Final Call for Proposals on MPEG-7 Query Format (MP7QF)” and organize logistics of the evaluation.

2.      To perform a preliminary evaluation of the proposals at the AHG meeting, immediately preceding the 79^th meeting

Chairman:

Wo Chang (NIST), Kyoungro Yoon (Konkuk University)

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Weekend before the 79^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

cbsearch@yahoogroups.com

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N8517

AHG on MAFs Awareness Event

Mandate:

1.      To plan meeting logistics (location, registration fee, etc.)

2.      To compile MAF topic and description from identified speakers

3.      To establish a website to promote MAFs to industry (as http://maf.nist.gov)

Chairman:

Wo Chang, NIST

Co-Chairs:

Sang-Kyun Kim, Samsung, Mun Chul Kim,  ICU

Duration:

Until 79^th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before MPEG 79^th meeting

Reflector:

mappf@yahoogroups.com

Subscribe:

Send an email to mappf-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

N8520

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 79^th Meeting

Meetings

Phone conferences on 23^th  November, 21^st  December, 11^th January 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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N8605

AHG on MPEG-21 DIS

Mandate:

1.      Carry out the Core Experiments on DI Streaming TuC and provide recommendations to the MDS subgroup.

2.      Finalise the text of ISO/IEC 21000-18.

3.      Discuss and provide inputs on Reference S/W and Conformance for DIS.

4.      Discuss usage of DIS in the context of streaming from dynamic sources

5.      Discuss the relationship between DIS and the Media Streaming MAF

Chair:

Gerrard Drury (gerrard*at*enikos.com)

Peder Drege (peder.drege*at*adactus.no)

Duration:

Until the 79^th meeting.

Meetings:

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 79^th meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma_at_merl.com

Subscribe:

To subscribe send email to avetro_at_merl.com (Anthony Vetro).

N8606

AHG on MDS MAFs Under Development

Mandate:

1. To conduct MAF under development workplans

2. Make recommendations to WG11 regarding the MAFs under development standardisation

Chairman:

Stefan Kraegeloh, Filippo Chiariglione and Noboru Harada

Duration:

Until 79^th Meeting

Meetings:

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to the 79^th meeting. Other work will be conducted by email/telephone conference

Reflector:

mpeg-maf-dev@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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8643

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

Mandate:

To:

1.      Maintain Audio-related conformance data

2.      Maintain Audio-related reference software

3.      Conduct other miscellaneous activity

Chairman:

R. Sperschneider

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpam@uow.edu.au

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8644

AHG on Exploration of Speech and Audio Coding

Mandate:

To:

1.      Carry out Workplan for Exploration of Speech and Audio Coding.

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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8645

AHG on MPEG Surround Verification Test and SAOC CfP

Mandate:

To:

1.      Carry out Workplan for MPEG Surround Verification Test

2.      Conduct any activity associated with Draft Call for Proposals on Spatial Audio Object Coding, including the following:

a.       Collect test material

b.      Discuss evaluation process

c.       Discuss architecture for gaming use case

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N8697

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

1.      Further study Amendment 1 text and produce Study of FPDAM.

2.      Finalize / update the utility & reference software aligned with LASeR FDIS and Amd1

3.      Study and improve LASeR Conformance

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

5.      Study and improve the TuC

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

7.      Consider LASeR issues raised from MAF activities.

8.      Further study and contribute on MPEG-21 and LASeR integration.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv) co-chair, Cyril Concolato (ENST) co-chair

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N8698

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 document.

2.      Propose technologies to refine the document 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.

5.      Study and improve the Reference Software and Conformance for File Format

Chairman:

David Singer (Apple), Visharam Mohammed (Sony)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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