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

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 N3771
Pisa, January 2001

Title: List of Ad-Hoc Groups Established at the 55^th Meeting in Pisa

Source: Convenor

N3805	AHG on Audio Call for Proposals
Mandate:	To address the following issues pertaining to Call For Proposals for New Tools for Audio Coding : 1. Publicize the Call for Proposals 2. Discuss and resolve any issues regarding the Call for Proposals
Chairman:	S. Quackenbush (srq@research.att.com)
Duration:	Until 56th Meeting
Meetings	None
Reflector:	Mpeg-audio-call@research.att.com
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N3806	AHG on Audio part of MPEG-4 Reference Software
Mandate:	To finalize the editing of the MPEG-4 Audio Reference Software. To continue the coordination of the MPEG-4 Audio software framework and coder re-write activity.
Chair:	Heiko Purnhagen (email: purnhage@tnt.uni-hannover.de)
Meetings:	No
Reflector:	mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de
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N3807	AHG on Audio part of MPEG-4 Conformance
Mandate:	To finalize the audio part of 14496-4 FDAM 1 within the editing period To collect and verify conformance test sequences To review the proposed corrections on Audio conformance To define additional test sequences
Chair:	Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)
Duration:	Until 56th Meeting
Meetings:	A meeting might be held Sunday prior to the 56th MPEG meeting.
Reflector:	mp4audconform@research.att.com (Subscription can be done by sending an eMail to majordomo@research.att.com with the message subscribe mp4audconform <emailaddress> as the first line in the body.)
N3808	HG on MPEG-4 Audio 2001 Edition
Mandate:	To complete MPEG-4 Audio COR1 To continue editing and preparing the MPEG-4 Audio 2001 Edition
Chairman:	Sang-Wook Kim (swkim@samsungait.com)
Co-chair	Bernhard Grill (grl@iis.fhg.de), Takehiro Moriya (Moriya.Takehiro@lab.ntt.co.jp)
Meetings:	No
Reflector:	mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de
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N3809	AHG on MPEG-7 Audio
Mandate:	To address the following issues pertaining to MPEG-7: Progress the integration with the XM with technologies described in the Audio CD according to the workplan N3804. Study the Low-level audio descriptors according to the workplan N3803. Study the Committee Draft of ISO-IEC 15938-4. Examine the following applications, including example instantiations, in order to evaluate the completeness of MPEG-7 Audio and the parts of the standard on which it relies: Music databases (Melody, Timbre, and MediaInfo) Sample databases (Timbre, SFX) Soundtrack annotation (all, as appropriate, including Silence & AudioSegment) Conduct any other audio-related MPEG-7 business; and Promote MPEG-7 Audio to industry and within the audio research community
Chairman:	A. Lindsay (atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk)
Meetings	Provisionally, Sunday before the 56th MPEG meeting
Reflector:	Mpeg-7-aud@research.att.com
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N3829	Ad Hoc Group on Editing the Multimedia Description Schemes XM and Study of the CD
Mandate:	Edit the Multimedia Description Schemes XM and Study of the CD based on the decision taken at the Pisa meeting. Propose a set of values that can be used for ControlledTerm and consider the use of a registration authority for Classification Schemes. Create a unified description example deploying all of the DSs from MDS XM & CD
Chairman:	P. Salembier (philippe@gps.tsc.upc.es)
Co Chair:	P. van Beek (1,2), A. Benitez (1,2), J. Heuer (1,2), J. Martinez (1,2), J. Smith (1,2,3), T. Walker (1,2)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	All business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.
Reflector:	MPEG-7-DS@starlab.net
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N3830	AHG Group on MPEG-7 MDS Core Experiments
Mandate:	Carry out core experiments for MDSs based on the experiment work plans. Assign official reviewers to MDS CEs. Identify potential candidates for MDS CEs. Maintain and collect material for the AHG FTP/WWW site. Make available and collect additional test content to the MPEG-7 community.
Chairman:	Toby Walker (twalker@sslab.sony.co.jp)
Co Chair:	Ana B. Benitez ( ana@ee.columbia.edu ) Peter Mulder, mandate 6 (peter.mulder@nob.nl)
Duration:	Until the 56th meeting
Meetings	A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the 56th meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.
Reflector:	mpeg-7-ds-ce@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3831	AHG on Audio, Video, and MDS Harmonization
Mandate:	To address DDL integration issues concerning DSs and Ds within Audio, Video and MDS. To review the DDL representation of DSs and Ds based on the DDL representation guideline, and also to maintain the guideline. To explore better interface between Visual and MDS tools and to implement the specific use of visual tools using DDL. To define a formal MPEG URN allocation and resolution policy, and register the MPEG URN namespace.
Chairmain	Yoshiaki Shibata (yshibata@sslab.sony.co.jp)
Co-chairs:	Phil Garner (philg@cre.canon.co.uk ) Leszek.Cieplinski (Leszek.Cieplinski@vil.ite.mee.com ) Aaron Walsh (aaron@mantiscorp.com) (mandate 3) Caterina Saraceno (saraceno@starlab.net )
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings:	A meeting may be held on the weekend before the January MPEG meeting
Reflector:	mpeg-7-harmonization@sslab.sony.co.jp (changed since last period)
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N3832	Ad Hoc Group on the TV-Anytime Application
Mandate:	Provide updates to MPEG-7 on the status of technical development in TV-A, as well as comments from TV-A on MPEG-7 CD. Continue studying the mechanism and the purpose for a TV-A related profile in MPEG-7, in parallel to profiling discussions that are ongoing in MPEG-7 in general. Continue efforts in technical harmonization of MPEG-7 and TV-A specifications, including harmonization of thesauri/classification schemes.
Chairpersons:	Ibrahim Sezan (Sharp Laboratories of America) (sezan@sharplabs.com)
Co-chairs:	Jean Pierre Evain (EBU) (evain@ebu.ch) Peter Mulder (NOB) [thesauri/classification schemes harmonization]
Duration:	Until the 56th meeting
Meetings	None
Reflector:	mpeg7-tva@sharplabs.com
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N3833	AHG on Metada Integration
Mandate:	Automatically generate the complete dictionary based on the SoCD and to review it in order to provide feedback to the editors so as to harmonize semantics and names of duplicated terms, before the 56th meeting. Continue the defininition of a procedure for future metadata integration issues related to SMPTE, EBU, Dublin Core, NewsML, etc., until the 56th meeting.
Chairman:	Erik Oltmans, oltmans@telin.nl (Telematica Instituut)
Co Chair	Peter Mulder (NOB), Jose M. Martinez (UPM-GTI), Jean Pierre Evain (EBU), Oliver Morgan (Avid).
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	All business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone.
Reflector:	Mpeg7-integration@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3834	AHG Group on MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration Core Experiments
Mandate:	Develop procedures for evaluation, monitoring and review of Core Experiments for the DID and prepare a draft CE methodology document. Perform initial core experiments on DID and consider, modify and improve DID working draft Consider the MPEG-21 Use Case scenarios for validating the DID and identify future DID Core Experiments to be approved in Singapore Identify, collect and create MPEG-21 content test material needed for the experiments Consider and make recommendations on MPEG-7 / MPEG-21 DID harmonization Explore the possibilities of using the MPEG-7 DDL parser (M6855) in the implementation of the MPEG-21 DID core experiments.
Chairman:	Andrew Perkis, andrew@tele.ntnu.no
Co Chair	Ian Burnett, ian_burnett@uow.edu.au; Vaughn Iverson, vaughn.iverson@intel.com
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	A meeting will be held on the Sunday before the Singapore meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.
Reflector:	mpeg21-mds-ce@ltssg3.epfl.ch
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N3839	AHG on Digital Cinema Tests
Mandate:	Prepare test content Finalize test facilities and equipment. Finalize test procedures and setup Identify content protection and management issues in Digital Cinema Elaborate on Systems requirements
Chairman:	Frank Bossen (bossen@av.crl.sony.co.jp)
Co-Chairman:	Don Mead (dcmeadh@pacbell.net)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meeting:	An AHG meeting will be held on the Sunday immediately preceding the 56th meeting.
Reflector:	Dcinema@ltssg3.epfl.ch
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N3843	AHG on XM Development
Mandate:	To discuss XM development, To define the guidelines for software integration, To identify mechanisms and supply additional examples for integrating software tools into the XM, To identify complexity features which should be measured for special XM-components, To identify the means of measuring complexity features, To identify the possibility of integrating computational complexity measures and evaluation tools into the MPEG-7 XM. To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 Visual XM Tools To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 Audio XM Tools To coordinate the software integration of MPEG-7 MMDS XM Tools To define and implement key applications of normative DSs To correct and edit the Study of the MPEG-7 Reference Software CD
Chairman:	Stephan Herrmann (TU Munich)
Co-chair:	Toby Walker, M. Casey
Meetings:	By email only
Reflector:	MPEG-7XMADHOC@mailbag.intel.com
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N3881	AHG on MPEG-7 Systems
Mandate:	Complete the editing of the study of CD within 2 weeks after the Pisa meeting. Improve the study of MPEG-7 Systems CD by resolving open issues, and discussing available NB comments. Prepare draft disposition of comments when agreements are reached. Revise MPEG-2 Systems PDAM on the Carriage of Metadata on MPEG-2 Systems transport.
Chairman:	Oliver Morgan (Avid)
Co Chair	David Singer (Apple), Jan Van der Meer (Philips)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	A meeting may be held on the Sunday before the 56th 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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N3882	AHG on MPEG-7 DDL
Mandate:	To continue the editing of MPEG-7 DDL Study of CD To refine the subset of XML Schema and the extensions necessary to satisfy MPEG-7 DDL requirements To release an MPEG-7 DDL parser based on any existing solution To resolve any DDL open issues. This includes: To evaluate complexity of the available DDL tools, To clarify the implications of a data inheritance mechanism in the context of the proposed "HeaderType" DSs, To evaluate referencing tools used by MDS group, To evaluate if the DDL fulfills the "backward/forward" compatibility requirements, To consider any unresolved comments. To 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.
Chairman:	Claude Seyrat
Co Chair	Jane Hunter, Joerg Heuer
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	No meeting
Reflector:	Mpeg-7-ddl@darmstadt.gmd.de
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N3883	Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-7 data binary representation
Mandate:	Contribute to the study of MPEG-7 Systems CD on MPEG-7 data binary representation. Execute the workplan for mini experiment by the next 56th meeting. Execute the workplan for BiM software development and investigate its integration in the XM. Contribute to the MPEG-7 Requirements on BiM.
Chairman:	M. Wollborn (Bosch)
Co Chair	Ali Tabatabai (Sony)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting
Reflector:	Mpeg7bin-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3884	Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Conformance
Mandate:	Review existing conformance documents and assess if they can be improved Execute the work plan for bit stream creation, exchange and cross-checking for the Systems specification Conduct the discussions on 14496-4: WD 3.0 of 14496-4/COR1 Improve study text of ISO/IEC 14496-4/PDAM 2 Produce WD 2.0 of ISO/IEC 14496-4/Amd.3
Chair:	Yuval Fisher (Envivio)
Co Chairs	Peter Westerink (IBM), Vishy Swaminathan (Sun Microsystems), Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Guido Franceschini (CSELT)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	No meeting
Reflector:	Cbex-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3885	Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 BIFS
Mandate:	Improve study text of 14496-1:2000/DCOR1 Improve study text of 14496-1:2000/PDAM2 (Mediasensor, MediaControl, …); Investigate the use of MPEG-7 DS to represent the MPEG-4 segment descriptor. Produce WD 2.0 for 14496-1:2000/Amd4 (Multi-users functionality) Discuss M6683 (Amendment to the VRML specification on geo. Application, NURBS, …)
Chairman:	Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST)
Co Chair	Michelle Kim (IBM), Yuval Fisher (Envivio)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	No meeting
Reflector:	Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3886	Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Textual Format
Mandate:	Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Textual Format along with W3C and Web3D. Harmonize the MPEG-4 Textual Format with the MPEG-7 Descriptors and Description Schemes. Develop XMT specification for BIFS Anim. Improve proposed study text for 14496-1/PDAM3 for the 56th MPEG meeting.
Chairman:	Michelle Kim (IBM)
Co Chair	Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting
Reflector:	Text-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3887	Ad Hoc Group on IM1
Mandate:	Apply the IM1 Software Implementation Workplan with the help of the committed partners and produce Systems reference software. Provide for software and test streams for demonstrating MPEG-4 capabilities.
Chairman:	Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase)
Co Chair
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	No meeting
Reflector:	Im1-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3888	AHG on MPEG-4 Content on MPEG-2 Systems and IP Network
Mandate:	4onIP : Execute the following workplan : Finalize WD of 14496-8. Further study the use of RTSP in this framework Provide textual format for the IOD– Prepare interoperability verification test plan ESM : Study the FlexMux extension proposed in the WD of Amd. 2. Discuss issues on time stamp discontinuity.
Chairman:	Young-Kwon Lim (mp4cast)
Co Chairs	Jan Van der Meer (Philips), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	A meeting will be held on Sunday before the next MPEG meeting.
Reflector:	4on2andIP-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3889	MPEG-7 Intellectual Property Management & Protection (IPMP)
Mandate:	Investigate the issues raised in the document MPEG-7 IPMP – First Technical Ideas and Architecture. Signing descriptors, Ds and DSs using W3C’s XML Signatures Managing and Protecting descriptors, Ds and DSs Brain-storm about technical solutions on how to "support applications that distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate content" Provide text for the MDS FCD on Usage Information and Rights DS explaining the taken approach not to directly include rights into MPEG-7 Ds/DSs.
Chairman:	Niels Rump (rump@intertrust.com)
Co-chairman:	John Smith
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings:	No meeting will be held.
Reflector:	Mpeg7ipmp@ltssg3.epfl.ch (attention new reflector!) (Members of old reflector will automatically be subscribed to the new reflector)
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N3890	AHG on MPEG-4 IPMP Extensions
Mandate:	Develop solutions for the normative IPMP tools, in particular : Declarative representation of IPMP tools IPMP Tool – Terminal communication protocols Terminal identification verification and credential exchange If needed, define and perform core experiments. Exercise the walkthrough in the two identified usage cases : protected content played on terminals having IPMP systems supplied by different vendors; IPMP tools supplied by different vendors protecting the same piece of content in a given terminal. Produce WD2.1 of IPMP extensions for the 56th MPEG meeting.
Chairman:	Mike McGinty (Telanetix)
Co-chairman:	Avni Rambhia (E-vue)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings:	A meeting will be held on 01/03/03-04
Reflector:	Mpeg4ipmp@iis.fhg.de
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N3891	AHG on MPEG-4 Reference Software Architecture
Mandate:	Document major software modules of the MPEG-4 Reference Software. Produce a compilation and usage guide for each module.
Chairman:	Wo Chang (NIST)
Co-chairman:	Ed Hartley, Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase), Heiko Purnhagen (University of Hanover), Mahnjin Han (Samsung)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings:	No meeting will be held.
Reflector:	Refsoft@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3892	AHG on MP4 Extensions
Mandate:	To adress the following issue : UsePaddingFlag functionality. Improvements from the JP2000 spec including : the file type and compatible specs list movie fragments Restoring video width and height back into the headers. Clarify MP4 specification on atom order: For example, headers ought to be at the front of their enclosures. Allowing duration of last system streams (BIFS, OD’s, and MPEGJ) sample to be zero. Standardization of the RTP hint track format; moving from VM into a normative specification – various discussion items still need clarifying text or correction, and MPEG 2 hints should be revalidated Several potential bugs or at least sections need clarification in the MP4 specification have been alluded to that could usefully be fixed or improved, we need a detailed rollup or description as input to Singapore
Chairman:	Guido Franceschini (CSELT)
Co-chairman:	Dave Singer (Apple), William Bellknap (IBM)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings:	No meeting will be held.
Reflector:	mp4-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu
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N3915	AHG on Fine Granularity Scalability in MPEG-4 video
Mandate:	Coordination of bit-stream exchange in FDAM verification software Maintenance of software and coordination of integration Preparation of subjective tests Preparation of conformance documents Definition of requirements for future activities
Chairman:	J.-R. Ohm,
Duration:	Until 56th meeting (March 2001)
Meetings:	Yes
Reflector:	fgs@ient.rwth-aachen.de
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N3916	AHG on the Studio Profile in MPEG-4 video
Mandate:	Coordinate bitstream exchanges Preparation of subjective tests Preparation of conformance documents Maintain reference software
Chairman:	Y. Yagasaki
Duration:	Until 56th meeting (March 2001)
Meetings:	Yes
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N3917	AHG on Core Experiments for Visual Descriptors in MPEG-7
Mandate:	To collect descriptions of core experiments, evaluation criteria and common conditions, editing the document and distribute it to the video group. Coordination of core experiments
Chairman:	M. Bober (miroslaw.bober@vil.ite.mee.com)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting (March 2001)
Meetings:	Yes
Reflector:	Mpeg7-ce-ms@philabs.research.philips.com
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N3918	AHG on editing the documents of the MPEG-7 Visual XM and Study of CD
Mandate:	To maintain consistent documents for the MPEG-7 Visual XM and Study of CD
Chairs:	J.-R. Ohm, L. Cieplinski, M. Kim, A. Yamada, M. Pickering
Duration:	Until 56th meeting (March 2001)
Meetings:	No
Reflector:	Mpeg7-xm-doc@philabs.research.philips.com
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N3919	AHG on the Call for Proposals for new tools to further improve video coding efficiency
Mandate:	To progress the work toward conducting evaluation tests of proposed new video coding tools to further improve video coding efficiency, including: Finalization of the call for proposals document Distribution of video source test material for use in the tests Finalization of fees and logistical arrangements necessary for proposal evaluations Refining the definition of test methodology for use in the formal subjective tests of proposals Preparation and distribution of MPEG-4 Anchor Candidates
Chairman:	Klaus Diepold (klaus.diepold@dynapel.de) co-chairs: Gary Sullivan (garysull@microsoft.com) Mark Buxton (mark.j.buxton@intel.com)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting (March 2001)
Meetings:	No
Reflector:	mpeg4-video-cfp@mailbag.intel.com
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3924	Ad Hoc Group on FBA Conformance
Mandate:	Continue software and bitstream contributions to IM1, V1 and V2 conformance.
Chairman:	Eric Petajan (face2face animation, Inc.)
Co Chair:	Marius Preda (INT)
Duration:	Until the 56th meeting.
Meetings:	No meetings will be held
Reflector:	mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es
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3925	Ad Hoc Group on AFX VM editing and Core Experiments
Mandate:	Maintain and edit VM document. Maintain and edit CE descriptions.
Chairman:	Mikael Bourges-Sevenier (iVast, Inc.)
Co-chair:	Francisco Moran (UPM) Gauthier Lafruit (IMEC)
Duration:	Until the 56th meeting.
Meetings:	No
Reflector:	mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es
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3926	Ad Hoc Group on AFX S/W Implementation
Mandate:	Maintain and edit the AFX S/W workplan Coordinate the S/W implementation process Study and develop the guidelines for S/W development process.
Chairman:	Aaron E. Walsh (Mantis Corp./Web3D, aaron@mantiscorp.com)
Co-chair:	Michael Steliaros (Superscape (UK) Ltd.) James D. K. Kim (Samsung AIT)
Duration:	Until the 56th meeting.
Meetings:	No
Reflector:	mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es
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3929	Ad Hoc Group on the preparation of MPEG 101
Mandate:	Prepare first version of the WG 11 information seminar (MPEG 101) using N3778 as a basis
Chairman:	Pete Schirling (schirlin@us.ibm.com)
Co Chair	Ed Hartley, Rob Koenen, Leonardo Chiariglione
Duration:	Until 56th meeting
Meetings	All business will be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.
Reflector:	NONE
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N3946	AHG on MPEG-7 Mobile Applications
Mandate:	To gather many sample MPEG-7 descriptions for mobile applications. To use these sample descriptions to study complexity in mobile applications To continue to develop study document (N3754) and to extract the required changes to MPEG-7 Requirements Document. To keep on studying the optimum tool set for mobile applications so that the results of these studies can be used if Profiles need to be defined.
Chairman:	Mikio Sasaki (e-mail: msasaki@rlab.denso.co.jp )
Co-chair:	Shun-ichi Sekiguchi (e-mail: shun@mml.yrp.nttdocomo.co.jp), Koichi Emura(e-mail: emura@mrit.mei.co.jp), Charis Christopoulos (E-mail: charilaos.christopoulos@era.ericsson.se)
Duration:	Until the 56th meeting
Meetings	None
Reflector:	mpeg-7-mobile@mldist.denso.co.jp
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N3811	AHG on Interoperability and Conformance in MPEG-7
Mandates:	To further develop the ‘MPEG-7 Interoperability, Conformance and Profiling’ document To work towards understanding how the complexity of MPEG-7 descriptions may be measured
Chairmain	Fernando Pereira (fp@lx.it.pt)
Co-chairs:	Yoshiaki Shibata (Yshibata@sslab.sony.co.jp) Ed Hartley DDL representative M. Wollborn, F. Klefenz
Duration:	Until 56th meeting (March 2001)
Meetings:	No meetings.
Reflector:	mpeg-7@lx.it.pt
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N3844	AHG on MPEG-7 Applications and Promotion to Industry
Mandates:	Carry out the MPEG-7 Awareness Event for March 2001 (Singapore). Develop the MPEG-7 Industry Focus Group and Maintain the MPEG-7 Industry Focus Group Site (www.mpeg-7.com). Maintain the Introduction to MPEG-7, MPEG-7 Technical Overview Document and related Reference and PR documents To provide functional block diagrams of applications as input to points: To identify key applications of normative Ds and DSs, To classify such key applications into a limited number of classes or templates, To identify additional functionalities, technologies and architectural extension of the XM necessary for the integration of such key application examples in the XM Inputs sought from: TV Anytime, Mobile Applications, Integration, Harmonization AHGs
Chairman	Neil Day (neil@garage.co.jp )
Co-chairs:	Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com), Jose Martìnez (jms@gti.ssr.upm.es), Marco.Mattavelli (Marco.Mattavelli@epfl.ch), Witold Reichhart (witold@starlab.net ), Caterina Saraceno (saraceno@starlab.net)
Duration:	Until 56th meeting (March '00)
Meetings:	A meeting will be held on the weekend before the March MPEG meeting
Reflector:	mp7app@src.ricoh.co.jp
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3945	AHG Describing User and User Environment characteristics for UMA
Mandate:	Collect Requirements for Describing User and User Environment characteristics for Universal Multimedia Access. Collect information about existing description tools for user-terminal-network characteristics from relevant standardisation bodies. Determine if the existing description tools (outside MPEG) are sufficient to support UMA applications. If deficiencies exist, begin to study the technology that MPEG may wish to consider as a candidate for future standardisation. Recommend actions in the contexts of MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 Note: the User Environment is understood to include terminal, network, place, time and other relevant factors
Chairman	Andrew Perkis <andrew@tele.ntnu.no>
Co-chairman	Anthony Vetro <avetro@merl.com> Charilaos Christopoulos <Charilaos.Christopoulos@era.ericsson.se>
Duration:	Until 56th Meeting
Meetings:	No meeting
Reflector:	Chairman to provide and announce on SC29WG11 reflector
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N3949	AHG on MPEG-21 PDTR Study
Mandate:	Continue the drafting of a Study Document based on the PD Technical Report version 2. Content Representation (Andrew Perkis) Digital Item Declaration (Rik Van de Walle) Content Identification and Description (Touradj Ebrahimi) IPMP Related Technologies (Niels Rump) Content Handling and Usage (Rik Van de Walle) Terminals and Networks (Jan Bormans) Event Reporting Further develop the MPEG-21 Workplan. The tasks will include: Identifying issues which are common between the multimedia framework elements Identifying technologies which are presently missing Prioritising the above on the basis of MPEG’s ability to address them
Chair	Jan Bormans
Co-Chairs	See editors above
Duration:	Until 56th Meeting
Meetings:	One or more telephone conferences may be arranged.
Reflector:	Mpeg-21@starlab.net messages to use the prefix [MPEG-21 STUDY]
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N3952	AHG on evaluation to the responses to MPEG-21 Call for Proposals for Digital Item Identification and Description
Mandate:	Disseminate the CfP Collect responses to the Call for Proposals for Digital Item Identification and Description Perform initial evaluation of responses
Chair Co-Chair	Touradj Ebrahimi (Touradj.Ebrahimi@epfl.ch) Rob Koenen (rob@intertrust.com)
Duration:	Until 56th Meeting
Meetings:	An AHG meeting will be held on the Saturday and Sunday immediately preceding the 56th meeting, starting 13:00 hours on Saturday
Reflector:	Mpeg-21@starlab.net messages to use the prefix [MPEG-21 ID]
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3948	AHG on MPEG-21 Outreach
Mandate:	To identify relevant multimedia initiatives underway in other (non-MPEG) standards organisations; To identify an appropriate contact within these standards organisations; To evaluate the relevance of these efforts to MPEG-21; Where relevance is established (or suspected), to proactively invite these efforts to participate in MPEG-21 by responding to an MPEG-21 CfP and submitting comments on the PDTR Identify opportunities for MPEG-21 to work with other organisations to further the development of the multimedia framework. Make specific recommendations on how MPEG-21 should address these opportunities. To determine the viability of MPEG-21 participation in a Digital Media Standards Summit tentatively scheduled for October 2001 in New York City. To identify a coordinator/champion for MPEG-21 participation in the Digital Media Standards Summit (see item 6).
Chair, Co- Chair	Mark Rowe Kate Grant
Duration:	Until 56th Meeting
Meetings:	No meeting
Reflector:	Mpeg-21@starlab.net messages to use the prefix [MPEG-21 OTR]
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