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

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/N4371
Pattaya, December 2001

Title: List of Ad-Hoc Groups Established at the 58th Meeting in Pattaya

Source: Convenor

 

N4394

AHG on MPEG-2 Audio Reference Software

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1. Remove the error in the audio part of ISO/IEC 13818-5 (Layer III,
distribution 10) as described in m7631.

2. Look for further differences between part 3 and part 5 of ISO/IEC 13818.

3. Determine if these errors are present in ISO/IEC 11172-5.

4. Collect text for a Corrigendum of ISO/IEC 13818-5.

Chairman:

Jens Spille

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

No

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mp3refsw@research.att.com

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N4395

AHG on MPEG AAC

Mandate:

To:

1. Submit Text of ISO/IEC 13818-7:1997/DCor 2:2002 to SC29 secretariat on 28 Jan, 2002.

2. Review Study on Text of MPEG-2 AAC DCor´s on conformance and reference software.

3. Finalize the collection and verification of MPEG-2 AAC Conformance test sequences.

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

Saturday or Sunday prior to the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg_aac@iis.fhg.de

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N4396

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio DCorr Text and Reference Software

Mandate:

To:

1. Submit Text of ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/Dcor 1:2002 to SC29 secretariat on
28 Jan, 2002

2. Confirm the complete implementation of all components of MPEG-4 Reference
software

3. Continue maintanance of the MPEG-4 Reference software

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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N4397

AHG on Audio part of MPEG AAC Conformance

Mandate:

To:

1. Review conformance-related proposed DCor

2. Continue collecting and verifying conformance test sequences

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

Saturday or Sunday prior to the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mp4audconform@research.att.com

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N4398

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Extension 1 Core Experiments

Mandate:

To:

1. Facilitate the delivery of documentation on Bandwidth Extension RM0.

2. Carry out core experiments indicated in the workplan.

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush (srq@research.att.com)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

Sunday prior to the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@research.att.com

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N4399

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

Mandate:

To:

1. Finalize XM integration

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

Chairman:

J. Bitzer (j.bitzer@hda.de)

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7aud@research.att.com

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N4401

AHG on Audio part of MPEG-7 Conformance

Mandate:

To:

1. Continue work on text of Audio contribution to MPEG-7 Conformance.

2. Collect audio signals for use in conformance

3. Generate conformance descriptions

4. Create Audio conformance testing platform

Chairman:

Frank Klefenz (klz@emt.iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday prior to the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Mp7audconform@research.att.com

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N4402

AHG on Issues in Lossless Audio Coding

Mandate:

To

1. Collect technical evidence on the performance of lossless coding technology, particularly as it might be used to enhance existing MPEG technology.

2. Collect information on application areas and potential customers

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@research.att.com

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N4434

AHG on MPEG-7 Systems and DDL

Mandate:

1. Continue the liaison with W3C. This includes:
- continued tracking of XML Schema developments;
- input of specific MPEG-7 requirements to the XML Schema W3C Working Group;
- dissemination of relevant W3C WG documents back to MPEG-7.

2. Continue the development of the MPEG-7 Systems and DDL reference software and integration in the XM.

3. To solicit contributions in the area of transport of MPEG-7 data, specifically:
- Carriage with MPEG-4 content (including MP4 file format);
- Carriage on MPEG-2 Systems (produce study of MPEG-2 amendment) ;
- Carriage on IP networks.

4. Improve the draft Call for Proposal on MPEG-7 Systems extension and propose updated text by the March meeting.

5. Produce a FAQ for MPEG-7 Systems.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

Mpeg7on2@advent.ee.columbia.edu for transport of metadata on MPEG-2.

Mpeg7-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu for other MPEG-7 Systems issues.

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N4435

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Conformance

Mandate:

1. Execute the work plan for bit stream creation, exchange and cross-checking for the Systems specification.

2. Create a list of features that have to be exercised by bitstreams compliant to a
given profile@level as specified in ISO/IEC 14496-1/FPDAM2.

3. Produce conformant bitstream for the profile@levels included in ISO/IEC
14496-1/FPDAM2 and check if they exercice all the functionality of the said profile@level.

4. Conduct the discussions on 14496-4.

Chair:

Yuval Fisher (Envivio), Laurent Herrmann (Philips), Michelle Kim (IBM), Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Guido Franceschini (CSELT)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

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N4436

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 BIFS

Mandate:

1. Study of potential problems related to offset of time fields in inserted/updated time dependent nodes and bring solutions by the next meeting.

2. Conduct experiments on AFX;

3. Produce study text of 14496-1:2001/DCOR2;

4. Produce study text of 14496-1:2001/FPDAM2;

5. Produce study text 14496-1:2000/PDAM4 (AFX and Multi-users functionality).

6. Study the on-going VRML’97 amendment and propose further alignment with MPEG if needed (ex : Nurbs, Geo nodes, ...).

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Saturday and/or Sunday before the MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4437

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Textual Format

Mandate:

1. Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Textual Format along with W3C and Web3D;

2. Harmonize the X3D and the XMT Schema;

3. Solicit contribution on missing tools in XMT (Face and Body Animation, SL Header, Hints, ...);

4. Produce study text for 14496-1:2001/FPDAM2 for the 59th MPEG meeting.

Chairman:

Michelle Kim (IBM), Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Text-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4438

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. Transfer the Im1 software on the CVS repository in NIST.

3. Provide for software and test streams for demonstrating MPEG-4 capabilities.

Chairman:

Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

Im1-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4439

AHG on the Carriage of MPEG-4 Content

Mandate:

1. MPEG-21 on MPEG-2:
- Study WD 1.0 of MPEG-21 on MPEG-2 and produce updated text by the next meeting.

2. 4onIP : Execute the following workplan:
- Revise the payload formats

3. ESM:
- Produce a study of FlexMux extension in 14496-1/PDAM4;
- Continue discussion on time stamp discontinuity;
- Assess the contributions on stream synchronization.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (mp4cast), Jan Van der Meer (Philips), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

4on2andIP-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4440

AHG on MPEG IPMP TRACS

Mandate:

1. To refine the current IPMP specifications and apply the following workplan:
- Produce Study 5.0 of IPMP specifications for the Tokyo AHG meeting, implementing reorganization of the text in a generic framework (MPEG-21) and specific mappings (MPEG-4). Produce WD 1.1 of the mapping of IPMP TRACS on MPEG-2.
- Produce Study 6.0 of IPMP Extension specifications and WD 1.2 of the mapping of IPMP TRACS on MPEG-2 for the Jeju AHG meeting;
- Produce Study 7.0 of IPMP specifications and and WD 1.3 of the mapping of IPMP TRACS on MPEG-2 for 59th MPEG meeting.

2. Improve the analysis of compliance of the IPMP extensions to requirements and produce an updated document for the Jeju meeting.

3. Contribute an architecture reference software to Im1.

4. Assess consistency of IPMP systems identification within the "Hooks" architecture.

Chairman:

Mike McGinty (Telanetix), Jack Lacy (Intertrust), Avni Rambhia (E-vue)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held in Tokyo on February 11-15th. A meeting will be held on the Saturday and Sunday before the 59th MPEG Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg4ipmp@iis.fhg.de

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N4550

AHG on editing the documents of the MPEG-7 Visual XM

Mandate:

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

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, J.-R. Ohm, W. Kim, A. Yamada, M. Pickering

Duration:

Until 59th meeting (March 2002)

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N4451

AHG on MP4 Extensions

Mandate:

1. Produce study text of 14496-1/Amd.5 CD and 14496-1/Amd.6 CD by the Jeju meeting.

2. Investigate how MPEG-21 requirements can be met by the MP4 file format.

3. Investigate how JVT requirements can be met by the MP4 file format and contribute to the AHG on JVT Carriage on that topics.

Chairman:

Dave Singer (Apple), William Bellknap (IBM), Guido Franceschini (CSELT)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings:

No meeting will be held.

Reflector:

mp4-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4452

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 BIFS Complexity Evaluation

Mandate:

Evaluate complexity of TemporalTransform, TemporalGroup, Quantization
Parameters:

1. List the sources of added complexity implied by these nodes (ex: footprints,
buffer, ...);

2. Assess how much overhead each of these nodes bring;

3. Document the result of the evaluation in an input contribution to the next
MPEG meeting.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Bifsisg-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4453

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Advanced Text and 2D Graphics

Mandate:

1. Develop requirements about advanced text and 2D graphics representation;

2. Identify technology that may be missing or insufficient in the MPEG-4
specification;

3. Get people involved;

4. Look at existing technologies.

Chairman:

Yuval Fisher (Envivio), Alexandre Cotarmanac’h (France Telecom R&D) and Cyril Concolato (ENST)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

atg-car@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4461

AHG on Digital Cinema

Mandate:

1. Compile and post industry feedback from call for Industry Distribution and Archive contributions and prepare study document for next meeting

2. Preparations for future testing & logistics for core experiments

3. Compile and post industry feedback on document - Digital Cinema "Expert Viewing" Test Methodologies [N4458] for the purpose of furthering understanding of subjective testing methodologies of Digital Cinema content

4. Prepare study document for the next MPEG meeting.

Chairman:

W. Husak & E. Edwards

Duration:

Until the 59th meeting (March 2002)

Meetings:

Sunday before the 59th meeting

Reflector:

dcinema@ltssg3.efpl.ch

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N4472

AHG on the Studio Profile in MPEG-4 video

Mandate:

1. Preparation of conformance documents

2. Maintain reference software

Chairman:

Yoichi Yagasaki

Duration:

Until 59th meeting (March 2002)

Meetings:

No meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg4studio@av.crl.sony.co.jp

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N4473

AHG on FGS

Mandate:

1. Preparation of FGS verification test

2. Preparation of FGS reference software (FDAM), conformance bitstreams,
and FPDAM

3. Define experimental conditions for FGS contributions to tentative JVT phase 2; review and evaluate proposals and experimental results

4. Study a possible exploration of FGS to support universal scalability required by MPEG-21

Chairman:

Jens-Rainer Ohm (chair), Weiping Li, K. Kim (co-chairs)

Duration:

Until the 59th meeting (March 2002)

Meetings:

Sunday before the 59th meeting

Reflector:

fgs@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N4474

AHG on Exploration of Interframe Wavelet Technology in Video

Mandate:

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. Analyse properties of interframe Wavelet Coding regarding possible application requirements

3. Define conditions which would allow performance comparison of different techniques

Chairman:

Jens-Rainer Ohm, Touradj Ebrahimi

Duration:

Until the 59th meeting (March 2002)

Meetings:

Sunday before the 59th meeting

Reflector:

intwav@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N4478

AHG on XM Development

Mandate:

1. To discuss XM development

2. To define the guidelines for software integration

3. To identify mechanisms and supply additional examples for integrating
software tools into the XM

4. To identify complexity features which should be measured for special
XM-components

5. To identify the means of measuring complexity features

6. To identify the possibility of integrating computational complexity measures
and evaluation tools into the MPEG-7 XM

7. To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 Visual XM Tools

8. To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 Audio XM Tools

9. To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 MMDS XM Tools

10. To define and implement key applications of normative DSs

Chairman:

Stephan Herrmann (TU Munich), Toby Walker, M. Casey.

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

MPEG-7XMADHOC@mailbag.intel.com

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N4479

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

Mandate:

1. To collect contributions of MPEG-4 modules described in HDL

2. To verify the conformance of submitted HDL source code and associated documentation with the requirements stated in the Call for submission document N4218

3. 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

4. To coordinate the development and submission of new missing modules to prevent overlapping or duplications of submissions.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

IsgMPEG4rhd@epfl.ch

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N4480

AHG on the Complexity Analysis of JVT Codec

Mandate:

1. To study the implementation complexity of the JVT codec design and

2. To recommend methods of minimizing that complexity

Chairman:

Michael Horowitz

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (date will be announced)

Reflector:

Will be announced on MPEG reflectors

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N4503

Ad Hoc Group on AFX PDAM/VM Editing and CE

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit PDAM document.

2. Maintain and edit VM document.

3. Maintain and edit CE descriptions.

Chairman:

Mikael Bourges-Sevenier

Co-chairs:

Gauthier Lafruit (IMEC), Francisco Moran (UPM), Marius Preda (INT), Michael Steliaros (Superscape)

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 59th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4504

Ad Hoc Group on AFX SW Implementation

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit the AFX SW workplan.

2. Coordinate the SW implementation process.

3. Study and develop the guidelines for SW development process.

4. Continue software integration of existing SNHC tools in MPEG-4.

5. Prepare and plan for the AFX awareness event.

Chairman:

Michael Steliaros (Superscape)

Co-chair:

James D. K. Kim (Samsung AIT)

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 59th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4519

AHG on MPEG-7 Applications and Promotion to Industry

Mandates:

1. Maintain the Introduction to MPEG-7, MPEG-7 Technical Overview Document and related Reference and PR documents

2. To set-up and develop the MPEG-7 Interoperability test Bed; to get input from Audio, Video, Systems and MDS groups and to integrate that into the IOTB

3. To liaise with the MPEG-7 Alliance

Chair

Neil Day (neil@mpeg-industry.com )

Co-chairs:

Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com),

Jose Martínez (jms@gti.ssr.upm.es),

Wo Chang (wchang@nist.gov),

Takayuki Kunieda (kunieda@src.ricoh.co.jp)

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mp7app@src.ricoh.co.jp

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N4520

AHG on MPEG-21 Requirements

Mandate:

1. Prepare version 1.0 of the MPEG-21 Requirements Document.

2. Include requirements coming from the submission to the REL/RDD Call for Proposals

3. Propose update to DII&D Requirements

4. Liaise with Mediacom2004

Chairman:

Jan Bormans (bormans@imec.be)

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings:

None

Reflector:

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N4521

AHG on REL/RDD Requirements

Mandate:

1. Harmonize OeBF’s Rights and Rules requirements with MPEG’s REL/RDD requirements

2. Propose a common Requirements document

3. To explain the MPEG-21 IPMP architecture in the context of OeBF’s applications and requirements

Co-Chairs

Chris Barlas [chris.barlas@rightscom.com]

Yoram Yaacovi [yoramy@microsoft.com]

Duration:

Until the 59th Meeting

Meetings:

The intention is to plan a meeting in New York end of January or beginning of February; exact date to be discussed with OeBF and decided on the email reflector

Reflector:

MPEG_OeBF@openebook.org

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N4522

AHG on MPEG-21 Technical Architecture

Mandate:

1. To improve the ‘Draft MPEG-21 Technical Architecture’ of the different elements in MPEG-21, starting with:

  • DID
  • DII&D
  • IPMP
  • REL/RDD
  • Persistent association of information with DIs

2. To specify the IPMP Description Scheme(s) to be included in MPEG-21 part 4

3. To specify which interfaces are missing in MPEG-21, and to propose these, using the YM as a source of information

4. To further develop the work on requirements for persistent association of information with digital items,

5. To use the persistent association scenarios to develop the architecture

Chair

Co-Chairs

Craig Schultz [c.schultz@accessticket.com]

Todd Schwartz [todd.schwartz@intel.com]

Paul Jessop [paul.jessop@ifpi.org]

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings:

2-day meeting in Tokyo co-located with IPMP AHG meeting, on 12 and 13 February, 2002

A pre-meeting meeting is planned in the weekend before the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

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N4523

AHG on MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation

Mandate:

1. Disseminate CfP

2. Discuss and enhance requirements for Digital Item Adaptation.

3. Develop evaluation criteria for evaluating submissions to the CfP.

Chair

Anthony Vetro (avetro@merl.com)

Co-Chair

Sylvain Devillers (sylvain.devillers@philips.com)

Andrew Perkis (andrew@tele.ntnu.no)

Duration:

Until the 59th Meeting

Meetings:

A pre-meeting may be held before the 59th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma@merl.com

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N4524

AHG on 3D Video coding in MPEG

Mandate:

1. To develop an end-to-end model for 3D Video

2. Using the model, to study Requirements for 3D Video applications

3. To study what standardization is needed, and the relation with existing standards

4. To study which tools already exist in the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards

5. To study what further standardization in MPEG would be required

Chair

R. Yamashita [rick-y@ascii.co.jp]

Duration:

Until 59th Meeting

Meetings:

None

Reflector:

To be announced by Chair on SC29WG11 reflector

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N4538

Ad Hoc Group on Editing the Multimedia Description Schemes XM and FDIS

Mandate:

1. Edit the MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes Extensions WD and XM.

2. Validate MDS version 2 schema and description examples.

Chairman:

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

Co Chair

K. Hasida, M. Rynderman, T. Walker

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

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



N4539

Ad-hoc group on Editing the MPEG-21 DID FCD Study and DII&D CD Study

Mandates:

1. Produce a study on the text of the Digital Item Declaration FCD (N4530)

Further study the problem of describing a Choice within a DID

Further study how to solve Choice re-use within a DID

Propose a solution for expressing MIME types in a well-defined URN format for the "type" attribute of the Resource element

2. Produce a study on the text of the Digital Item Identification & Description CD (N4532)

Define the interface of MPEG-7 within the Description part of DII&D

3. Continue developing the MPEG-21 MDS FAQ (N4535)

Chairman:

Todd Schwartz (todd.schwartz@intel.com)

Co-chairs:

Niels Rump (niels.rump@rightscom.com), Hideki Sakamoto (sakamoto@cidf.org)

Duration:

Until the 59th MPEG meeting

Meetings

One or more meetings may be held sometime during the weekend preceding the 59th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

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

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N4540

AHG on Rights Data Dictionary

Mandate:

1. Complete approved edits on WD 1.0 and upload to ftp site by 21st December

2. Continue development of WD, expanding on editor's notes

3. Create formal representation of genealogies (e.g. XSD)

4. Identify requirements from other RDD/REL submissions

5. Select schemas for development of terms (e.g. ONIX, MPEG-7, Mi3P)

6. Define relationship of RDD to REL

7. Begin development and test RDD (2 – 6 above)

8. Identify procedures for purposes of governance

Chairman:

Chris Barlas (chris.barlas@rightscom.com)

Co-chair:

Xin Wang (xin.wang@contentguard.com)

Duration

Until 59th MPEG Meeting

Meetings:

Yes, before 59th Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg-21-list@imec.be messages to use the prefix [RDD]

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N4541

Ad Hoc Group on Editing the MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language WD

Mandate:

1. Edit and enhance the MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language WD

2. Address editorial notes and work on action points defined in MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language WD

Chairman:

Barney Wragg (barney.wragg@umusic.com)

Co Chair

Brad Gandee, Renatto Iannella

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be messages to be prefixed by [REL]. To subscribe, send an email to owner-mpeg-21-list@imec.be



N4542

AHG Group on MPEG-21 Core Experiments

Mandate:

1. Maintaining the MPEG-21 Development process document.

2. Carry out Core Experiments on REL and make recommendations to modify
and improve the working draft

3. Appoint reviewers for the Core Experiments.

4. Administer the Core Experiment process.

Chairman:

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

Co Chairs:

Barney Wragg, barney.wragg@umusic.com

Duration:

Until 59th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Jeju meeting from 8th–10th March. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-mds-ce@tele.ntnu.no.

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N4543

Ad-hoc group on Developing the MPEG-21 Systems and Software Model

Mandates:

1. Develop a detailed YM software architecture document

2. Expand the YM to include interfaces with IPMP, RDD and REL according to the discussions on the MPEG-21 Architecture

3. Instigate YM software development procedures

4. Commence implementing the YM software

Chairman:

Paul Ruskin (pruskin@ieee.org), University of Wollongong

Co-chairs:

Ian Burnett (i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au), University of Wollongong

Duration:

Until the 59th MPEG meeting

Meetings

No meeting will be held. Work will take place entirely on the reflector.

Reflector:

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

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N4551

AHG on Core Experiments for Visual Descriptors 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 59th meeting (March 2002)

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 59th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N4552

AHG on editing the documents of 15938-8 PDTR
(Extraction and Use of MPEG-7 Descriptors)

Mandate:

1. To maintain consistent documents for 15938-8 PDTR

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, J.-R. Ohm, W. Kim, A. Yamada, M. Pickering, P. van Beek, A. B. Benitez, J. Heuer, J. Martinez, P. Salembier, J. Smith, T. Walker and Y. Shibata

Duration:

Until 59th meeting (March 2002)

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N4553

AHG on Editorial Convergence 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

Chairman:

T. Chiang, H. Sun

Duration:

Until 59th meeting (March 2002)

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

Initiate the work on sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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