INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION
ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11
CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/N4907
Klagenfurt, July 2002

Title: List of Ad-Hoc Groups Established at the 61st Meeting in Klagenfurt

Source: Convenor

 

N4930

AHG on Exploration of Interframe Wavelet Technology in Video

  1. Explore technical approaches for interframe (e.g. motion-compensated) Wavelet Coding and analyse in terms of maturity, efficiency and potential for future optimisation

  2. Perform exploration experiments

Chairs:

Touradj Ebrahimi, Mihaela van der Schaar

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Weekend before 62nd Meeting)

Reflector:

intwav@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N4931

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, H. Sun

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N4932

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:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Weekend before 62nd Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N4933

AHG on Editing MPEG-7 Visual XM and WD

Mandate:

1. To maintain consistent documents for the MPEG-7 Visual XM and WD

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, A. Yamada

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N4935

AHG on Scalable Video Coding

Mandate:

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

  2. Discuss and refine conditions and methodologies for testing scalable video coding technology based on the draft document available
  3. Perform technical explorations on test beds
  4. Review technical progress in scalable video coding
  5. Explore relationships between scalable video coding and MPEG-21 DIA framework
  6. Study DIA use case(s) in context of scalable video coding test bed as potential candidate(s) for MPEG-21 reference software

Chairs:

Mihaela van der Schaar, Hermann Hellwagner, Kyuheon Kim

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Weekend before 62nd Meeting)

Reflector:

fgs@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N4958

AHG on Editing the MPEG-7 Conformance FDIS

Mandate:

Edit the MPEG-7 Conformance FDIS

Produce and collect MPEG-7 Conformance bitstreams.

Chairman:

John R. Smith (jrsmith@watson.ibm.com)

Co Chair

M. Bober, S. Quackenbush, C. Seyrat

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings

All business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg-7-ds@advent.ee.columbia.edu



N4959

AhG on Editing the MPEG-21 DII FDIS

Mandate:

  1. Identify candidates for the DII registration authority

  2. Produce the FDIS text based on the DoC and FCD
  3. Send FDIS Document to the SC29 Secretariat by 2002-08-31 and notify the email reflector.

Chairman:

Niels Rump

Co-chair

Hideki Sakamoto

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg-21-mds-editing@uow.edu.au



N4960

Ad Hoc Group on Editing the RDD

Mandate:

  1. Produce CD text in accordance with Klagenfurt decisions and send the document to the SC29 Secretariat by Friday 9th August.

  2. Develop exemplary XML representation of RDD
  3. Review style guide for textual elements and headwords
  4. Review and amend StandardisedTerms
  5. Carry out mapping of selections from key external vocabularies: demonstrate all provisions of section 4 to prove and develop standard.
  6. Develop editorial comments on RDD text, incorporating any external comments and results of mapping activity
  7. Produce draft text for MPEG-21 FAQ

Chairman

Chris Barlas ( chris.barlas@rightscom.com )

Co-Chair:

Godfrey Rust ( godfreyrust@dds.netkonect.co.uk )

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings:

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

A meeting may be arranged for Sunday 20th October

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be

message titles prefixed [RDD]



N4961

Ad Hoc Group on the MPEG-21 REL

Mandate:

  1. Review the signing method in ResourceSignedBy construct

  2. Review and bring up to date Experiment Record - m8765
  3. Review the normative references included in the CD
  4. Review formatting of CD - use of the new ISO template
  5. Study the usage of PerUseOutputLimit and CumulativeOuptutLimit constructs
  6. Review the use of "shall", "shall not", "should" etc, etc within CD
  7. Review update MPEG-21 FAQ with Reference to REL
  8. Review NB comments on the CD that may be available before the ballot close

Chairman:

Barney Wragg (barney.Wragg@umusic.com)

Co Chair

Thomas DeMartini (Thomas.demartini@contentguard.com)

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Meeting 20th October Shanghai

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be

message titles prefixed [REL]


 

N4962

AHG on Editing MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation WD v.2 and AM v.2

Mandate:

  1. Edit and upload the AM version 2.0 after a 2-week editing period (8/9/02).

  2. Improve specification of terminal capabilities and network characteristics.
  3. Discuss and identify the need for base type definitions and views on extensibility.
  4. Clarify the purpose and review the definition of the Reference element.
  5. Create and manage schema definitions of specified tools.
  6. Produce WD 2.1 and AM 2.1.

Chairman

Anthony Vetro (avetro@merl.com)

Co-chairman

Andrew Perkis (andrew@tele.ntnu.no)

Sylvain Devillers (sylvain.devillers@philips.com)

Duration:

Until the 62nd Meeting.

Meetings:

AHG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 62nd meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma@merl.com



N4963

AHG 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 Working Draft (WD v. 2.0) and Adaptation Model (AM 2.0).
  3. Develop Use Case Scenarios in agreed format from Core Experiments.
  4. Identify specifications for reference software related to CE technologies

Chairman:

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

Co Chairs:

Andrew Perkis, andrew@tele.ntnu.no

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on 20th October before the Shanghai meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma@merl.com



N4968

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

Mandate:

  • To collect contributions of MPEG-4 modules described in HDL

  • To verify the conformance of submitted HDL source code and associated documentation with the requirements stated in the updated "Call for Submission" document N4966,
  • 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,
  • To coordinate the development and submission of new missing modules to prevent overlapping or duplications of submissions.
  • To proceed with the definition 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 8.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 62tnd Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

isgMPEG4rhd@ltslinux4.epfl.ch

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N4970

AHG on Digital Item Adaptation for 3D-Audio

Mandate:

  1. Investigate aspects of Digital Item Adaptation for 3D-Audio, such as terminal capabilities and user preferences

  2. Study relation between MPEG-4 BIFS 3D-Audio and MPEG-21 DIA 3D-Audio
  3. Study relevance of elements for DIA 3D-Audio and consider for future core experiments
  4. Study other relevant audio digital item descriptions for MPEG-21

Chairman:

Guillaume Potard (gp03@uow.edu.au ), Ian Burnett (i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au), Bernhard Feiten (bernhard.feiten@t-systems.de)

Meetings

DIA meeting day before next MPEG-meeting

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N4974

AhG on MPEG-21 Event Reporting Requirements

Mandate:

Establish guidelines for categorising event reporting in MPEG-21 and propose requirements by addressing the following questions:

  1. How will event reporting impact on the existing Parts of MPEG-21?
  2. How will the existing Parts of MPEG-21 impact on Event Reporting?
  3. In what ways might event reporting be unrelated to the existing Parts of MPEG-21?
  4. Do we need to understand how events are triggered when Digital Items are processed?
  5. Will event reporting help us to understand how the MPEG-21 Architecture fits together?
  6. Are there any boundaries relating to event reporting that we need to define? (e.g. what is out of the scope of MPEG-21?)
  7. What are the events that result from processing a Digital Item?

Chairs:

Andrew Tokmakoff (tokmakoff@telin.nl)

Kevin Murray (kamurray@ndsuk.com)

Duration:

Until the 62nd Meeting

Meetings:

A meeting on the week end before the 62nd meeting.

Reflector:

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

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N4976

Ad Hoc Group on AFX PDAM/VM editing and Core Experiments

Mandates:

  1. Maintain and edit FPDAM document.

  2. Maintain and edit VM document.
  3. 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 62nd meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 62nd meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4977

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. Continue software integration of existing SNHC tools in MPEG-4.
  4. Investigate implementation within IM1

Chairman:

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

Co-chair:

James D. K. Kim (Samsung AIT)

Duration

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before 62nd meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4978

Ad Hoc Group on On-line gaming (OLGA)

Mandate:

  1. Identify industry interest and expectations on standardizing OLGA within MPEG

  2. Consider preparation for an awareness event

Chairman:

Marius Preda (marius.preda@int-every.fr)

Co-chairs:

Michael Steliaros (Superscape)

Alain Mignot (SGDL Systems)

Mahnjin Han (Samsung AIT)

Patrick Gioia (France Telecom R&D)

Duration

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before 62nd meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4994

AHG on MPEG-7 Interoperability and Profiling

Mandate:

  1. To establish precise meaning of MPEG-7 profiling based on available contributions, e.g. strict, strict-no-less

  2. To begin defining first profiles based on the MPEG-7 profiles under consideration
  3. To collect and tabulate the DSs and Ds of each profiles under consideration.
  4. To collect interoperability test bed requirements so that MPEG-7 Interoperability Test Bed (M7ITB) can be setup for interoperability testing

Chairman:

Wo Chang (wchang@nist.gov)

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

m7profile@yahoogroups.com

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N4995

AHG on 3DAV Coding

Mandate:

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

  2. To coordinate the Exploration Experiments on 3DAV
  3. To prepare a seminar on 3DAV to be held in conjunction with the 63rd meeting in Japan
  4. To invite more experts to participate in 3DAV

Chairman:

Ryozo Yamashita (YamashitaR@soj.sega.co.jp)

Aljoscha Smolic (smolic@hhi.de)

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday, October 20th before the 62nd (Shanghai) meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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N4996

AHG on Digital Cinema

Mandate:

  1. Solicit test material & collect new requirements

  2. Improve the testing plan for digital cinema and propose a revised document at the next meeting
  3. Identify a final location to conduct the Test Method Validation Test
  4. Select a test manager
  5. Create a detailed budget based on the above mandates
  6. Execute the Test Method Validation Test
  7. Plan and execute meetings with the AHG chairman, convener, US HOD and NewCo Digital Cinema (NDC) on support for Digital Cinema Activities
  8. Determine timing and availability of test materials

Chairman:

W. Husak

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

Two one day AHG meetings – Time and date decided on the reflector

Sunday before the 62st meeting (Shanghai) 1-5 pm

Reflector

dcinema@bluenose.inescn.pt

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N4997

AHG on MPEG-21 Requirements

Mandate:

  1. Maintain and develop the MPEG-21 Requirements document

  2. Develop a structure for the reorganization of the MPEG-21 TR
  3. Review and develop the draft requirements for Persistent Association
  4. Propose changes to the draft requirements for Persistent Association based on the comments received
  5. Maintain and develop the MPEG-21 Use Case Scenario document
  6. Interact with Mediacom2004

Chairs:

Jan Bormans (bormans@imec.be)

Paul Jessop (paul.jessop@ifpi.org)

Kate Grant (nine_tiles@psilink.co.uk)

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings:

AHG Meeting to be held on the weekend before the Shanghai meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

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N4998

AHG on MPEG-21 Systems Exploration

Mandate:

  1. Disseminate the draft requirements for Digital Item Processing

  2. Consolidate comments received on the draft requirements
  3. Further develop the draft requirements for Digital Item Processing for Applications
  4. Propose potential areas for further specification

Chair:

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

Co-Chairs:

Olivier Avaro olivier.avaro@rd.francetelecom.com

Rik Van de Walle (rik.vandewalle@rug.ac.be)

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings:

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

Reflector:

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N4999

AHG on MPEG-21 IPMP

Mandate:

  1. Review the draft requirements for MPEG-21 IPMP issued as an output document from the 61st Meeting

  2. Modify and develop the draft requirements
  3. Create use case scenarios based upon example applications of MPEG-21 IPMP
  4. Define the scope of IPMP in MPEG-21 and propose what needs to be standardised

Chairs:

Craig Schultz (c.schultz@accessticket.com)

Chris Russell (chris_russell@mpaa.org)

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings:

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

Reflector:

mpeg-21-ipmp@wg11.org

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N5004

AhG on MPEG-OeBF Architecture and File Format Issues

Mandate:

  1. To discuss the MPEG approach to architecture and file format issues in the context of OeBF’s specifications and requirements

  2. To consider commonalities and differences
  3. To create a statement of the alignment of approaches
  4. To discuss next steps

Chairs:

Chris Barlas (chris.barlas@rightscom.com)

Yoram Yaacovi (yoramy@microsoft.com)

Duration:

Until the 62nd Meeting

Meetings:

The intention is to arrange a meeting in the vicinity of New York, before the 62nd meeting in association with OeBF Working Group Summit

Reflector:

mpeg_oebf@openebook.org

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N5051

AHG on MPEG-2 Audio Reference Software

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

  1. Verify new code for ISO/IEC 13818-5 with respect to Audio Layer III
  2. Discuss the need for providing additional conformance bitstreams

Chairman:

Jens Spille

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

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N5052

AHG on MPEG-2 AAC

Mandate:

  1. 1. Edit DoC of:

    1. ISO/IEC 13818-4:1998/Amd 1:1999/DCor 1
    2. ISO/IEC 13818-4:1998/Amd 3: 2000/DCor 1
    3. ISO/IEC TR 13818-5:1997/Amd 1:1999/DCor 1
  2. 1. Edit Text of:
    1. ISO/IEC 13818-4:1998/Amd 1:1999/Cor 1
    2. ISO/IEC 13818-4:1998/Amd 3:2000/Cor 1
    3. ISO/IEC TR 13818-5:1997/Amd 1:1999/Cor 1
  3. 1. Submit those documents to SC29 in timeframe specified in Audio resolutions of 61st Meeting.
  4. 2. Continue work on Proposed Second Edition ISO/IEC 13818-7

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 62st meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-aac@iis.fhg.de

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N5053

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Text and Software

Mandate:

  1. Incorporate corrigendum and to create a proposed new edition.

  2. Continue to maintain the reference software.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

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N5054

AHG on Audio part of MPEG-4 Conformance

Mandate:

  1. Edit DoC of:

    1. ISO/IEC 14496-4:2000/DCor 2
    2. ISO/IEC 14496-4:2000/AMD1:2001/DCor 1
  2. Edit Text of:
    1. ISO/IEC 14496-4:2000/Cor 2
    2. ISO/IEC 14496-4:2000/AMD1:2001/Cor 1
  3. Submit those documents to SC29 in timeframe specified in Audio resolutions of 61st Meeting.
  4. Continue collecting and verifying conformance test sequences

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mp4audconform@uow.edu.au

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N5055

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Extension and Exploration Core Experiments

Mandate:

  1. Carry out core experiments indicated in the MPEG-4 Extension 1 workplan.

  2. Carry out core experiments indicated in the MPEG-4 Extension 2 workplan.
  3. Carry out core experiments indicated in MPEG-4 AudioBIFS Sound Source Wideness Core Experiment Workplan.
  4. Discuss how to integrate possible new AudioBIFS work into MPEG-4.
  5. Discuss methods for signaling BWE in MPEG-4.
  6. Discuss and develop specifications for the verification test for MPEG-4 Extension 1 (BWE).

Chairman:

Schuyler Quackenbush (srq@ieee.org), Guillaume Potard (gp03@uow.edu.au)

Duration:

Until 62nd meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

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N5056

AHG on MPEG-4 Lossless Audio Coding Call for Proposals

Mandate:

  1. Prepare final text of Call for Proposals

  2. Publicize the Call for Proposals
  3. Encourage and support responses to the Call for Proposals.
  4. Prepare ftp site associated with Call.
  5. Collect additional material for use with lossless coding Call for Proposals and subsequent core experiments.

Chairman:

Takehiro Moriya (moriya.takehiro@lab.ntt.co.jp)

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@uow.edu.au

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N5057

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

Mandate:

  1. Conduct core experiments associated with MPEG-7 Audio Version 2

  2. Collect requirements and proposals relating to optimized BiM codecs for Audio use.
  3. Promote collection of new tools for Version 2
  4. Finalize XM.
  5. Generate and verify MPEG-7 Audio conformance descriptions.

Chairman:

J. Bitzer (j.bitzer@hda.de), Juergen Herre (hrr@iis.fhg.de), Schuyler Quackenbush (srq@ieee.org)

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

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N5097

AHG on MPEG-7 Systems and DDL

Mandate:

  1. Produce text for ISO/IEC 13818-1/FDAM1.

  2. Improve WD1.0 on the use of MPEG-7 in MPEG-4.
  3. Performs the Core experiments on MPEG-7 Extensions.
  4. Produce WD2.0 of MPEG-7 Extensions.
  5. Solicit inputs on versioning of access units and DLL features within BiM for mixed content model and comments.
  6. Update MPEG-7 Systems FAQ.

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia), Adam Lindsay (Lancaster University), Jan Van der Meer (Philips), M. Wollborn (Bosch), Ali Tabatabai (Sony)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

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N5098

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Systems Conformance

Mandate:

  1. Complete cross-checking of existing streams.

  2. Conduct the discussions on 14496-4.
  3. 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.

Chair:

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

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

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N5099

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Scene Representation

Mandate:

  1. Produce study text 14496-1:2000/FPDAM4 (AFX and Multi-users functionality).

  2. Conduct the core experiments on Advanced Text and Graphic (ATG).
  3. Develop a test set for streaming text core experiment.
  4. Produce WD2.0 of ATG.
  5. Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Scene representation along with W3C and Web3D.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the sunday before the Shanghai meeting.

Reflector:

Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N5100

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. Extend the IM1 software to support IPMP requirements.
  3. Transfer the Im1 software on the CVS repository in NIST.
  4. Provide for software and test streams for demonstrating MPEG-4 capabilities.
  5. Specify a sample application based on selected use-case that exercices MPEG-21 technologies.
  6. Develop a software architecture supporting this application for the Shanghai meeting.

Chairman:

Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

Im1-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N5101

AHG on the Carriage of MPEG-4 Content

Mandate:

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

  2. Develop carriage of MPEG-4 Part 10 content over MPEG-2 Systems.
  3. Improve the usage of MPEG-4 part 10 in MPEG-4 Systems architecture and propose contributions for the next MPEG meeting.
  4. Contribute to the development of the carriage of MPEG-4 Part 10 over IP Networks.

ESM :
- Produce a study of FlexMux extension and SL extensions in 14496-1/FPDAM4.

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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N5102

AHG on MPEG-4 IPMP Extension

Mandate:

  1. To refine the current IPMP specifications (produce study of 14496-1/FPDAM3, study of 13818-1/FPDAM2);

  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. Consider how existing MPEG-2 CA architecture relates to IPMPX/2. Encourage contributions on the topic for the Shanghai meeting.
  5. Produce a WD 2.0 of IPMPX Conformance.

Chairman:

Craig A. Schultz (Access Ticket)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

No Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg4ipmp@iis.fhg.de

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N5103

AHG on MP4 Extensions

Mandate:

  1. Produce study text of 14496-1/FPDAM5 and 14496-1/FPDAM6.

  2. Produce a study text of 14496-1/PDAM7 by 2002/08/05.
  3. Further study WD 1.0 on MPEG-21 File Format and provide extensions if needed to meet all MPEG-21 requirements.
  4. Produce WD2.0 of MPEG-21 File Format.
  5. Study possible structural mapping from the MPEG-21 File Format to SMPTE File Format.

Chairman:

Dave Singer (Apple)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

No Meeting

Reflector:

mp4-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N5110

AHG on Production of Video Test Sequences

Mandate:

  1. To promote the production of new test video w. audio test sequences, with no copyright obligation

  2. To promote the collection and generation of tools to exchange test sequences in various format
  3. To define a set of possible formats for the test video material (and associated audio)

Chairman:

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

Duration

Until the 62nd MPEG-meeting (October 2002)

Meetings

Meeting on Sunday before the 62nd meeting

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To be announced later

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N5111

AHG on coding efficiency analysis and testing of AVC

Mandate:

  1. To evaluate the coding efficiency of the AVC in comparison with MPEG-4 part 2 and MPEG-2 part 2

  2. To formulate the testing conditions and schedule.
  3. To identify and secure latest available software for performing the test.

Chairmen:

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

Duration:

Until 62nd Meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

avc_ce@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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