N8199

AHG on 3DGC documents, experiments and software maintenance

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit 3D Graphics Compression documents

2. Coordinate 3D Graphics Compression EE activity

3. Coordinate 3D Graphics Compression 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 78^th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 78^th meeting

Reflector:

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

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N8265

AHG on Video IDCT Specification

Mandate:

1.          Carry out the verification on fixed-point 8x8 IDCT and DCT as described in N8256.

2.          Maintain the DCT/IDCT testbed software.

3.          Prepare a summary document on the results of the experiments

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 78^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 78^th meeting)

Reflector:

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

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N8266

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 78^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N8267

AHG on Reconfigurable Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To finalize the editing of the WD N8260.

2.      To finalize N8262 and conduct the Core Experiments as described in the document.

3.      To discuss and evaluate the CE results and related inputs in preparation of the 78^th meeting

4.      To maintain the RSM software

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 78^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 78^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

toolrepo@listes.epfl.ch

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N8268

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 78^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N8269

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 78^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 78^th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N8293

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 78^th Meeting

Meetings

Phone conferences on 24^th  August, 28^th  September, 19 ^th October 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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N8332

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

Mandate

1.          Maintain Audio-related conformance data

2.          Maintain Audio-related reference software

3.          Conduct other miscellaneous activity

Chairmen

R. Sperschneider

Duration

Until 78th meeting

Meetings

No.

Reflector

mpam@uow.edu.au

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N8333

AHG on Exploration of Audio Spatialization and Speech and Audio Coding

Mandate

1.      Carry out Workplan for Exploration of Audio Spatialization

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

Chairmen

S. Quackenbush

Duration

Until 78th meeting

Meetings

No.

Reflector

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N8367

AHG on MPEG-21 DIS

Mandate

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

2.      Produce an editors' input on 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 live sources

Chairmen

Gerrard Drury (gerrard*at*enikos.com)

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

Duration

Until 78th meeting

Meetings

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 78th meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector

mpeg21-uma_at_merl.com

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N8368

AHG on MAFs Under Development

Mandate

1.          To conduct MAF under development workplans

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

Chairmen

Stefan Kraegeloh, Filippo Chiariglione and Noboru Harada

Duration

Until 78th meeting

Meetings

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 78th meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector

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

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N8421

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

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

2.      Further study Corrigendum 1 and produce Study of DCOR1

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

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

8.      Continue the development of Musical Slide Show MAF.

9.      Solicit contributions on MPEG-21 and LASeR integration.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the 4^th and 5^th of September in Nice and in the Saturday and Sunday before the MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

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

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N8422

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 Fomat

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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N8425

AHG on the Development of MPEG standards

Mandate

1.      To conduct Technology Survey

2.      To research information to create Process Design

3.      To prepare two input documents for (a) Technology Survey and (b) Draft Process Design

Chairmen

Chris Barlas, Takuyo Kogure and Andy Tescher

Duration

Until 78th meeting

Meetings

AhG activity will be conducted by email and phone conferences.

A meeting is planned on the Sunday before the 78th MPEG meeting

Reflector

Mpeg-dual at listes dot epfl dot ch

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N8426

AHG on Surveillance MAF

Mandate

1.          Identify core set of application scenarios that benefit from MPEG standards and provide a detailed description.

2.          Propose a set of audio and visual descriptors that are common to representative applications

3.          Review set of descriptors and compare them with existing profiles for MPEG-7 descriptors

4.          Select and specify required functionalities for content protection, authentication, integrity, and persistent association

5.          Provide first technical solutions that are common to representative applications.

6.          Produce text for incorporation in a working draft.

Chairmen

Klaus Diepold (kldi at tum dot de)

Kate Grant, Touradj Ebrahimi

Duration

Until 78th meeting

Meetings

A meeting may be held on the weekend immediately before the 78^th meeting

Reflector

Mappf at yahoogroups dot com with prefix [surveillance]

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N8427

AHG on Portable Video Player MAF

Mandate

1.      Refine and progress requirements and technical details of PVP MAF

2.      Produce technical proposal for incorporation in a working draft.

3.      Start work on reference software for PVP MAF

Chairmen

H. Jean Cha, hjcha_at_lge.com

Herbert Thoma, herbert.thoma_at_iis.fraunhofer.de

Duration

Until 78th meeting

Meetings

A meeting shall be held on Sunday before the 78th meeting.

Reflector

mappf_at_yahoogroups.com with a [PVP] prefix

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