No No.

MPEG 101

Mandate:

Present the a tutorial on the Sunday prior to each WG 11 meeting on topics related to the structure and operation of WG 11.

Chairman:

Pete Schirling(IBM Research)

Duration:

ONGOING

Meetings:

6pm – 8pm on the Sunday prior to each WG 11 meeting (15-20 People)

Reflector:

NONE

N5530

AHG on MPEG-7 Interoperability and Profiling

Mandate:

1. To resolve profile/level signalling and extensibility.

2. To continue review of all profiles under consideration.
3. To further collect profiles into "MPEG-7 Profiles under Consideration"
4. To determine which Profiles in the PuC document can be merged
5. To propose Profiles from the PuC for promotion into a Working Draft for MPEG-7 part 9, and to draft such Working Draft
6. To continue collect interoperability test bed requirements.

Chair:

Wo Chang (wchang@nist.gov)

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings:

Business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

m7profile@yahoogroups.com

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N5541

AHG on MPEG-21 Architecture and IPMP Requirements

Mandate:

1. Review and improve the MPEG-21 Architecture document and refine the normative behavior of an MPEG-21 peer;

2. Discuss and resolve open issues such as default behavior when no Rights Expression is present;
3. Refine the MPEG-21 IPMP Requirements.
4. Develop Requirements for M3W

Chairman:

Barney Wragg (Universal Music group); Craig Schultz; Rob Koenen; Ian Burnett

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

A 4 day meeting will be held at a location to be determined in the San Francisco Bay Area on the first week of June (exact duration and date to be announced) as well as on Saturday and Sunday before the next MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-ipmp@wg11.org

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N5542

AHG on MPEG-21 Event Reporting CE

Mandate:

1. To carry out the Core Experiment on Event Reporting Language

2. To perform an evaluation and comment on the results
3. To continue developing requirements for Event Reporting

Chairs:

Andrew Tokmakoff (tokmakoff@telin.nl)

Duration:

Until the 65th Meeting

Meetings:

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

Reflector:

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

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N5543

AHG on Persistent Association

Mandate:

1. Check EBU requirements on PAT as provided in the liaison statement against the requirements contained in Annex A of WD v2

2. Distribute WD v2 and outline Agenda for Experts’ Meeting document (N5537) to relevant experts and invite these experts to the meeting on 5th May.
3. Hold meeting, concentrating on audio issues
4. Edit and enhance the Working Draft v2. Especially, provide definitions for Clause 3

Chairs:

Paul Jessop (paul.jessop@ifpi.org), Niels Rump (niels.rump@rightscom.com)

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings

A dual-location meeting will be held on 5th May in London and Washington DC. All other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be message titles prefixed [PERSIST]

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N5544

AHG on Vocabulary

Mandate:

1. Propose framework and format for vocabulary

2. Propose terms for vocabulary, including from past MPEG standards
3. Propose definitions for these terms
4. Develop framework such that it can document future MPEG work

Chair:

Mike Rubinfeld (miker@nist.gov)

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings:

Business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

To be determined

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N5560

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, Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N5561

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 65th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 65th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N5562

AHG on Editing MPEG-7 Visual XM and PDAM

Mandate:

To maintain consistent documents for the MPEG-7 Visual XM and PDAM of MPEG-7 Visual Extensions

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, A. Yamada

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N5563

AHG on 3DAV Coding

Mandate:

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

2. To coordinate the Exploration Experiments on 3DAV
3. To coordinate integration of 3DAV applications into MPEG reference software
4. To prepare a collection of demonstrations that illustrate 3DAV applications
5. To collect 3DAV test data and to make them available to MPEG members on an ftp-site

Chairman:

Aljoscha Smolic, Hideaki Kimata

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 65th Meeting)

Reflector:

3dav@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N5564

AHG on Scalable Video Coding

Mandate:

1. To discuss and refine the document on "Applications and Requirements for Scalable Video Coding"

2. To discuss and refine the document on "Evaluation Criteria for Scalable Video Coding" (N5413)
3. To assist the Video Chair in coordinating the "Call for Evidence on Scalable Video Coding Advances"
4. To perform a preliminary assessment of the responses received to the "Call for Evidence on Scalable Video Coding Advances" in an AHG meeting
5. To review technical progress in Scalable Video Coding

Chairman:

Mihaela van der Schaar, C.J. Tsai

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Saturday and Sunday before 65th Meeting)

Reflector:

svc@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N5567

AHG on AVC Verification Tests

Mandate:

• To evaluate the coding efficiency of the AVC in comparison with MPEG-4 part 2 and MPEG-2 part 2 by the following task leading to the final verification test:

• Formulating the test methodologies and schedule.
• Identifying and securing latest available software and resources for performing the test.
• Managing the Test Plan.

Chairmen:

Tobias Oelbaum (TUM), Xuemin Chen (Broadcom), TK Tan (NTT DoCoMo)

Duration:

Until 65th MPEG-Meeting

Meetings

2pm to 5pm on the Sunday before the 65th Meeting

Reflector:

avc_ce@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N5585

AHG on MPEG-2 Audio Reference Software and Issues in MP3 on MP4

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1. Edit, review and discuss the WD of ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/Amd.3 (MP3 in MPEG 4).
2. Remove further compiler warnings in the MPEG-2 Audio Layer-3 reference software.
3. Prepare Text of ISO/IEC TR 13818-5:1997/Amd.1:1999/DCor.2 (replace dist10 with dist11).

Chairman:

Jens Spille

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

Mp3refsw@uow.edu.au

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N5586

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Conformance

Mandate:

1. Continue the collection and verification of conformance test sequences.

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mp4audconform@uow.edu.au

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N5587

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Text and Software

Mandate:

To

1. Prepare third edition on ISO/IEC 14496-3 based on
   1. ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001
   2. ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/Cor.2002
2. Collect material for proposed Draft Corrigendum.
3. Consider possibilities to extend LATM to better support SBR and to achieve better multi-layer and multi-program handling.
4. Continue to maintain the reference software.

Chairman:

M. Väänänen, H. Purnhagen

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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N5588

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Extensions 1 and 2

Mandate:

To:

1. Deliver Text of ISO/IEC 13818-7:2003/FPDAM 1.
2. Deliver Text of ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/FDAM 1.
3. Review and progress Study on ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/PDAM 2.
4. Start preparation of WD on ISO/IEC 14496-4:2003/Amd.1 (Extension 1 and Extension 2 Conformance).
5. Refine and carry out workplan for MPEG-4 Extension 1 Verification Tests.
6. Carry out workplan for MPEG-4 Extension 2.

Chairman:

Schuyler Quackenbush

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N5589

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding

Mandate:

To

1. Carry out Workplan for Audio Lossless Coding
2. Carry out Workplan for Scalable to Lossless Coding
3. Collect responses to Exploratory CfP on 1-bit lossless coding
4. Continue to gather information on industry practice, PCM formats and file formats in use and additional application scenarios.

Chairman:

Schuyler Quackenbush

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 65th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@uow.edu.au

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N5590

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

Mandate:

1. Clarify how to handle extensibility, i.e. future amendments

2. Support integration of proposed quantizers in BiM
3. Promote collection of new tools for AMD 2
4. Finalize XM for all versions
5. Continue generation and verification of conformance descriptions and conformance description generation methods (including BiM conformance)

Chairman:

Jan Rohden, Schuyler Quackenbush, Joerg Bitzer

Duration:

Until 65th MPEG Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

Mpeg-7-aud@uow.edu.au

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N5591

AHG on MPEG-21 Audio DIA

Mandate:

1. Carry workplan for Audio adaptation QOS

2. Discuss and refine User Environmental Acoustics DIA descriptor

Chairman:

Sang-Wook Kim

Duration:

Until 65th MPEG Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

Dia-audio@uow.edu.au

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N5623

AHG on Metadata Interoperability

Mandate:

1. Analyze interoperability of MPEG-7 with external metadata systems, e.g., MXF, 3GPP, ID3 V2, and EXIF.

2. Further process of mapping for more DMS1 sets/frameworks to MPEG-7 datatypes, Ds, and DSs.
3. Investigate the activity of making XML schema for DMS-1 in SMPTE and try to find the possible way to have interoperability with MPEG-7 by using that schema.

Co-Chairs

David Singer singer@apple.com(Apple), Eric Rehm rehm@singingfish.com (Singingfish / THOMSON), Peter Mulder peter.mulder@hccnet.nl ,Masanori Sano sano.m-fo@nhk.or.jp (NHK)

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings

Week-end before the next meeting

Reflector:

meta_interop@yahoogroups.com

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N5624

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

Mandate:

• Edit the Study on the FCD to accommodate all actions arising from the BoG in Pattaya. Study to be release by 28/3/03.

• Review and prepare disposition of any National Body comments

Chairman:

Barney Wragg

Co Chair

Thomas DeMartini

Duration:

Until the 65th meeting

Meetings

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Meeting 20th July in Trondheim

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be

message titles prefixed [REL]

N5625

Ad Hoc Group on Profiles and Extensions of the MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language

Mandate:

1. Review the procedure and explanation for Profiles and Extensions of the REL

2. Collect requirements from other industries for possible WG11 standardized profiles and extensions
3. Facilitate liaison with OMA on a profile of the MPEG REL with respect to the OMA Phase 2 requirements.

Chairman:

Brad Gandee

Co Chair

Barney Wragg

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings

Business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Location and date of co-located meeting with the OMA to be confirmed.

Reflector:

message titles prefixed [REL]

N5626

AhG on MPEG-21 Publishing Extension

Mandate:

1. Liaise with OeBF and EDItEUR about development of a publishing extension to the MPEG-21 REL

2. To study the interoperability implications of extensions

Co-Chairs

Brad.gandee@contentguard.com

Duration:

Until the 65th Meeting

Meetings:

The AhG will be conducted by email The AhG will be conducted by email and phone conference(s). It is also intended to convene a face to face meeting, date to be agreed with OeBF and EDItEUR

Reflector:

MPEG_OeBF@openebook.org

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N5627

AhG on RDD Reference Software and Editing

Mandate:

1. Review NB Comments on RDD FCD

2. Prepare editor’s draft of the FDIS for use in 65th meeting
3. Develop further requirements for RDD Reference Software
4. Continue integration of RDD Reference Software with REL Reference Software Plan
5. Prepare draft Disposition of Comments

Co-Chairs

Chris Barlas [chris.barlas@rightscom.com]

Godfrey Rust (godfrey@wordsout.fsnet.co.uk)

Duration:

Until the 65th Meeting

Meetings:

The AhG will be conducted by email and a possible face to face meeting prior to 65th Meeting

20th July, Trondheim (Optional)

Reflector:

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

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N5628

AHG on Use of DID by other MPEG-21 parts

Mandate:

1. Discuss and propose refined definition for Context Digital Item.

2. Discuss issues raised in relation to usage of DID, and, if required, propose amendments and/or corrections arising from discussions
   1. Semantics of Reference element. Consider proposals in previous reflector discussions.
   2. Use of Annotation/Assertion.
   3. Evaluation of target value to single node for Annotation and/or Assertion.
   4. Correction of examples for Annotation and Assertion.
   5. Requirement of fragment attribute for Anchor without a Reference child.
   6. Inheritance of attribute values in the case of a Reference chain.

Co-Chairs:

Gerrard Drury (UoW)

Do-Nyun Kim (LGE)

Duration:

Until 65th meeting

Meetings:

Business will be conducted by E-mail and/or telephone conference.

Reflector:

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N5629

AHG on Editing MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation Study of CD & AM

Mandate:

1. Produce the Study of CD and AM5.0 after a 3-week editing period and upload the documents on or before April 4, 2003.

2. Maintain schema and validated examples for the Study of CD and AM5.0 on http://www.midgardmedia.net.
3. Based on the Tool Design Guidelines for Extensibility of MPEG-21 DIA (N5614), recommend improvements to the design of existing tools.
4. Discuss the possibility to specify CPU capabilities.
5. Produce Editors Input on the FCD and AM5.1.

Chairman

Anthony Vetro (avetro@merl.com)

Co-chairman

Andrew Perkis (andrew@tele.ntnu.no)

Christian Timmerer (christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at)

Eric Delfosse (delfosse@imec.be)

Duration:

Until the 65th Meeting.

Meetings:

AHG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 65th meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma@merl.com

N5630

Ad Hoc 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 Committee Draft (Study of CD) and Adaptation Model (AM v5.0).
3. Encourage delivery (according to software implementation plan v.3 N5615) of implementation software from participants.

Chairman

Jeho Nam (namjeho@etri.re.kr)

Co Chair

Debargha Mukherjee (debargha@hpl.hp.com)

Duration

Until 65th MPEG meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Trondheim meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector

mpeg21-uma@merl.com

N5631

AHG on Editing MPEG-21 DIP

Mandate

1. Edit the Working Draft WD1.0 of MPEG-21 DIP

2. Encourage submissions of further DIBOs and discussion of the level of DIML and DIBO processing
3. Discuss and encourage demonstration of DIxOs that illustrate the use of this extensibility mechanism.
4. Produce study on WD1.0 and recommendations on improving WD1.0 .

Chairman

Rik Van de Walle (Rik.VandeWalle@rug.ac.be)

Co Chair

Ian Burnett (i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au)

Munchurl Kim (mkim@icu.ac.kr)

Vishy Swaminathan (vishy@sun.com)

Duration

Until the 65th Meeting.

Meetings

AHG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 65th meeting.

Reflector

mpeg-21-dip@uow.edu.au

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N5643

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 determine relevant HDL modules for HW acceleration of MPEG-4 part 10 (AVC ).
• To continue verifying 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 complete the evaluation of HW accelerator platforms to support the implementation of phase 2.
• To evaluate implementation tools suitable to support implementation of 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 7.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

Phone conferences on 24th Apr, 22nd May, 19th June, 17th July. at 3 p.m. GMT. Tel: (from US 1-877-582-3182, from outside US 1-706-679-1128, participant code 9202060193)

Reflector:

isgMPEG4rhd@ltslinux4.epfl.ch

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N5660

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-7 Systems

Mandate:

1. Improve WD3.0 on the use of MPEG-7 in MPEG-4.

2. Performs the Core experiments on MPEG-7 Extensions.
3. Produce studies of MPEG-7 Extensions CD.
4. Solicit contributions on MPEG-21 binarization and assess impact of the binarization on the MPEG-21 architecture.
5. Evaluate suitable DDL mechanisms to extend MPEG-7 Schemas.
6. Update MPEG-7 Systems FAQ.

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia), Adam Lindsay (Lancaster University), Ali Tabatabai (Sony)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg7-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N5661

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Scene Representation

Mandate:

1. Define/Improve/Perform core experiments on Advanced Text and Graphic (ATG) on synthesized texture.

2. Review ATG CD and produce study of ATG CD.
3. Review and improve Audio BIFS Extensions WD
4. Check that appropriate references can be made to OpenType.
5. Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Scene representation along with W3C and 3GPP in the area of streaming text.
6. Discuss software (reference and Im1) to be developed for font format representation and compression.
7. Validate the Proto approach for BIFS streams simplification (in particular within the context of Audio BIFS).

Chairman:

Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Yuval Fisher (Envivio)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting on Synthesize Texture CE will be held in the week of 5-9th of May in Paris

Reflector:

Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N5662

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. Provide for software and test streams for demonstrating MPEG-4 capabilities.
3. Finalize the IPMPX/4 implementation reference software to Im1.
4. 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.

Chairman:

Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

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N5663

AHG on the Carriage of MPEG-4 Content

Mandate:

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

2. Develop carriage of AVC content over MPEG-2 Systems.
3. Improve the usage of AVC in MPEG-4 Systems architecture and propose contributions for the next MPEG meeting.
4. Analyse how the MPEG-4 framework can be used for the carriage of AVC over IP Networks.
5. Analyse what functionality are needed for the carriage of AVC over IP Networks and assess the suitability of the MPEG-4 simple payload format.

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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N5664

AHG on MP4 Extensions

Mandate:

1. Produce a study text of ISO/IEC 14496-15/FCD.

2. Further study WD 2.0 on MPEG-21 File Format and provide extensions if needed to meet all MPEG-21 requirements and solicit contributions on the topic and produce WD2.0 of MPEG-21 File Format.
3. Conduct discussions with JPEG in order to validate amendment items for the ISO File Format. Produce WD1.5 of ISO/IEC 14496-12/Amd.1. Investigate simple joint MPEG/JPEG standardization process for that amendment.
4. Define workplan for the development of file format reference software and conformance for the new file format standards.
5. Contribute to the usage of MPEG-7 data within MPEG-4 Systems.

Chairman:

Dave Singer (Apple)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

No Meeting

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N5667

AHG on MPEG-21 Reference Software

Mandate:

1. Follow the integration plan for the MDS DIA reference software outlined in N5615, section 3.

2. Produce at least one complete DIA parser and promote its use within the parts of DIA reference software
3. Collect results and feedback of the DID/DIA validations
4. Maintain the MDS DIA reference software implementation document, including tracking of the proposed deliveries of software to http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/mpeg/mpeg21/ref-sw

Chairman:

Ian Burnett (i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au), Rik Van de Walle (rik.vandewalle@rug.ac.be), Tor Halvorsen (torhalv@tele.ntnu.no)

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg-21-refsoft@uow.edu.au

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N5668

AHG on MPEG Multimedia Test Bed

Mandate:

1. Work with MPEG-21 reference software AHG for incorporating MPEG-21 modules into the test bed.

2. Work with Scalable Video Coding AHG for testing of scalable video coding technologies.
3. Incorporate IPMP modules into the test bed.
4. Incorporate informative reference software of 14496-8 for testing of signaling and carriage of MPEG-4 content over IP network.

Chairman:

Chun-Jen Tsai (NCTU), Mihaela van der Shaar (Philips), Young-Kwon Lim (mp4cast)

Duration:

Until 65th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

testbed@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

Subscribe:

Send an email to Testbed-request@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw with subject ‘subscribe’