N7534

AHG on MPEG-7 Query Format

Mandate:

1.  Review and improve the draft requirements for query format

2.  Identify relevant typical queries for images library

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

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 the content-based search framework

Chairman:

Wo Chang

Co-Chairs:

Kyoungro Yoon

Duration:

Until 75^th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before MPEG Monday plenary

Reflector:

cbsearch@yahoogroups.com

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N7535

AhG on MAFs

Mandate

1.      Discuss and refine requirements and tools for MAFs under Consideration

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

3.      Discuss and describe various levels of interoperability for inclusion in a future version of the MAFs under Consideration document.

4.      Review names for MAFs to correctly reflect the nature of the target applications.

5.      Collect industry support for proposed MAFs

Chairs

Klaus Diepold (kldi at tum dot de), Wo Chang

Duration

Until 75th meeting

Meetings

A meeting may be held on the weekend immediately before the 75^th meeting                 

Reflector

mappf @yahoogroups.com

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N7545

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 74^th Meeting Bangkok

Meetings

Phone conferences on 17^th  November, 15^th  January, 12 ^th January 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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N7611

Ad Hoc Group on XML Structure Binarization and Streaming

Mandate:

1.      Produce Study of MPEG-7 Conformance Amendments

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

3.      Produce Reference Software and Conformance for MPEG-B Part 1

4.      Analyse issues raised by Video and MDS wrt the use of BiM to encode MPEG-7 Descriptions

a.       Describe issues and use cases

b.      Investigate possible solutions with the current BiM specification

5.      Study the TuC on Fragment Request Unit.

a.       Provide test cases

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Andreas Hutter (Siemens)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg7-sys@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

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N7612

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

1.      Produce final text of FDIS of LASeR with first version due by Nov 4^th, second version due for AhG and finalized version for Bangkok meeting AhG.

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

3.      Study the Amendment 1 text  of LASeR

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

5.      Study and improve WD of LASeR Conformance

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

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

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

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 will be held on Nov 24^th-25^th in Seoul, KR

(fallback Paris, FR) + Software cross-check meeting to be defined in December (Paris, FR)

Reflector:

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

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N7613

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG File Formats

Mandate:

1.      Raise and discuss issues that have to be regarded in the definition of technologies for the storage and transmission of scalable video.

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

3.      Study and progress the proposed Corrigenda and Amendments on Part 12, Part 14 and Part 15.

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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N7614

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG Multimedia Middleware

Mandate:

1.      Review and update 23004 Multimedia Middleware (M3W) WD Version 2/3 (Parts 1-7)

 - Update the seven WD parts according the (extended) action-points in the current text

2.      Implement the alignment of current specification w.r.t.:
 - Use of IDL, either translation towards one syntaxes or guidelines for mapping between the different IDLs

 - Modify the current contributions into the ISO template and style

3.      Document the usage of the Download framework for Broadcast reception of components

Chairman:

Jean Gelissen (Philips)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the next MPEG meeting and a meeting between the Nice and Bangkok meeting (date and location t.b.d.)

Reflector:

Mpeg-middleware@uow.edu.au

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N7615

AHG on Video IDCT Specification

Mandate:

1.          Refine the "Study of FCD" text of 11172-6 for possible improvements in 23002-2.

2.          Edit and Study the texts of 11172-2 DCOR4, 11172-4 DCOR1, 13818-2 DCOR2, 13818-4 DCOR1, 14496-2 DCOR2 and 14496-4 DCOR2, and harmonize them with the "Study the FCD" text of 11172-6.

3.          Organize further study and discussion on fixed-point 8x8 IDCT and DCT, and of the proposals received at the 74^th meeting.

4.          Maintain the DCT/IDCT testbed.

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

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the next MPEG meeting

Reflector:

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

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N7616

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 75^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N7617

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.          Edit the XM 26.0 document

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7618

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 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7619

AHG on 3D Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To distribute the “Call for Proposals on Multi-view Video Coding”

2.      To assist the Video and Test subgroup chairs in preparing and coordinating the logistics related to the "Call for Proposals on Multi-view Video Coding "

3.      To prepare evaluation of the proposals at the 75^th meeting

4.      To maintain the anchor encodings for the CfP test data set

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Saturday and Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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N7620

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 identify the benefits of the repository and suggest an appropriate formalism to accomplish the goal

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 study efficient syntax reconfiguration requirements and methodologies for VCTR

7.      To further study VCTR requirements by identifying the key concepts that are critical to make a call for proposals

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

toolrepo@listes.epfl.ch

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N7621

AHG on Exploration in Wavelet Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To discuss and update the "Draft Status Report" as input for the 75^th meeting. 

2.      To prepare a visual performance comparison showing the evolution of wavelet codecs as well as comparison with JSVM and AVC by the 75^th meeting, according to the conditions described in the exploration experiments document.

3.      Conduct the exploration experiments.

4.      Maintain the exploration reference software.

5.      Maintain and edit the wavelet codec reference document.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

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

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N7622

AHG on Photo Player MAF

Mandate:

1.      To edit and maintain ISO/IEC 23000-3 CD 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 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N7623

AHG on Depth/Disparity Representation

Mandate:

1.      To study the relevance of applications requiring encoding of depth/disparity maps and corresponding requirements.

2.      To study and improve proposed (m12600, 12602) and alternative solutions for representation of depth/disparity maps (including study of critical cases such as occlusion, limitations of 2D+z formats) in the context of MPEG Video and Systems standards, and their feasibility for standardization, and produce a document as input to 75^th meeting.

3.      To identify the relationship of depth/disparity based applications with the applications and technology considered in the context of the "CfP on Multi-view Video Coding".

Chairman:

Arnaud Bourge (chair), Aljoscha Smolic, Hideaki Kimata (associate chairs)

Duration:

Until 75^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 75^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-ssv@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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N7632

Ad Hoc Group on AFX documents, CEs, and software

Mandate:

1.      Maintain and edit 3D Graphics Compression documents.

2.      Coordinate 3D Graphics Compression CE and EE activities.

3.      Coordinate conformance and reference software for AMD1 (Morphing and Textures).

4.      Coordinate 3D Graphics Compression business plan activity

Chairman:

Marius Preda (INT)

Co-chairs:

Jeong-Hwan Ahn (Samsung AIT)

Francisco Morán Burgos (UPM)

Duration:

Until 75th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 75th Meeting

Reflector:

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

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N7633

AHG on MPEG-J Graphics Framework eXtensions

Mandate:

1.      Coordinate implementation of GFX reference software

2.      Investigate GFX conformance

Chairman:

Mikaël Bourges-Sévenier (Mindego Inc.)

Co-chairs:

Vishy Swaminathan (Sun Microsystems)

Itaru Kaneko (Tokyo Polytechnic University)

Duration:

Until 75th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 75th Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-j AT it-aru. com

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N7711

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance