N6502

Mandate:

1.      To assess how a standard can be created to replace the normative reference to an external specification in MPEG-4 part 18 and to meet requirements of the industry, of MPEG, and observing the requirements expressed in annex B of N5289.

2.      To recommend how MPEG should proceed in the light of this assessment

3.      If relevant conditions are met, to create a proposed draft of an ISO standard based on the OpenType specification v1.4.

Chairman:

Mike Ksar [mikeksar (at) Microsoft (dot) com], Vladimir Levantovsky [firstname (dot) lastname (at) agfamonotype (dot) com]

Duration:

Meetings

• An AHG meeting will be held on the 30th of September in the US, in Hilton Head (South Carolina), US
• An AHG meeting may also be held in the weekend before the 70th meeting

Homepage

http:// groups . yahoo.com / group / mpeg-OTspec [remove spaces]

Reflector:

mpeg-OTspec (at) yahoogroups (dot) com

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N6503

AhG on MPEG-21 Integration and Outreach

Mandate:

1.      Develop Motion Picture Industry Usage Scenario(s)

2.      Review and select MPEG-21 Technologies relevant to Scenario(s)

3.      Review gaps and propose solutions (other MPEG standards, external standards)

4.      Identify missing components

5.      Map Technologies to Scenario(s)

Chair:

Chris Barlas [chris.barlas@xrightscom.com – remove x]

Chris Russell [chris_russell@xmpaa.org – remove x]

Duration:

Until the 70^th Meeting

Meetings:

Business will be conducted using email and phone conferences

An AHG meeting may be held in the weekend before the 70^th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-21@xlistserv.imec.be messages to use the prefix [IR] – remove x form email address

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N6504

AHG on MAF

Mandate:

1.      To work on an MAF picture player

2.      Continue to review and revise MAF overview document

3.      To complete editing of text of FCD of ISO/IEC 23000-2

4.      To collect bitstreams on the NIST repository

Chair:

Wo Chang (wchang at nist dot gov)

CoChair:

Olivier Avaro (olivier dot avaro at francetelecom dot com)

Duration:

Until 70^th meeting

Meetings:

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

Reflector:

mappf aht yahoogroups doht com

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N6510

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 complete the evaluation of tools suitable to support implementation of phase 2.

6.      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 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 description in an example application.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 70^th Meeting

Meetings

Phone conferences on 19^th August, 9^th September, 30^th September, 14^th October. at 3 p.m. GMT. Tel: (from US 1-877-582-3182, from outside US 1-706-679-1128, participant code 9202060193)

Reflector:

refhwmpeg@listes.epfl.ch

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N6514

Ad Hoc Group on XML Structure Binarization and Streaming

Mandate:

1.      Perform MPEG-7 systems extensions core experiment.

2.      Update MPEG-7 reference software.

3.      Produce WD of MPEG-7 Conformance.

4.      Review and produce study of ISO/IEC 21000-16 CD

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Andreas Hutter (Siemens), Itaru Kaneko (Waseda University)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg7-sys@www-sci.uni-klu.ac.at

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N6515

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

1.      Conduct the Core Experiments on LASeR Binary Representation and on Harmonization with W3C/SVG.

2.      Review the LASeR CD and produce a study of CD.

3.      Review and produce study of ISO/IEC 14496-17/FCD.

4.      Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Scene representation along with W3C and 3GPP in the area of Laser and streaming text and report actions taken back on the reflector.

Chairman:

Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Alexandre Cotarmanac’h (France Telecom), Young-Kwon lim

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held in Boston on 22^nd to 24^th of September as well as on the Saturday and Sunday before the MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

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

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N6523

AHG on Maintenance of MPEG-4 Visual related Documents, Reference Software and Conformance

Mandate:

1.          To remove known bugs and harmonize ISO/IEC 14496-4 and ISO/IEC 14496-5

2.          To edit and maintain WD 2.0 of Visual Conformance corrigendum

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 and conformance Web sites

5.          To collect bug reports related to MPEG-4 Visual text, VM, software and conformance

Chairman:

T. Chiang, Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang

Duration:

Until 70^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N6524

AHG on Maintenance of MPEG-7 Visual related Documents and Reference Software

Mandate:

To maintain consistency of MPEG-7 Visual related documents, Reference Software and Conformance

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, A. Yamada, Sang-Kyun Kim, Stephan Herrmann

Duration:

Until 70^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N6525

AHG on Description Tools for New Visual Extensions

Mandate:

1.      To carry out the Core Experiments

2.      To perform an evaluation and comment on the results of Core Experiments

3.      To explore technical areas of work for New Visual Extensions (Amd2)

4.      To take steps to facilitate the adoption of the MPEG-7 visual (e.g. technical reports on use scenarios, multimedia application formats)

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

Until 70^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 70^th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N6526

AHG on Core Experiments in Scalable Video Coding

Mandate:

1.         To discuss and finalize the "Description of CE" within 2 weeks after the 69^th MPEG meeting

2.         To carry out and coordinate the CEs in SVC

3.         To communicate and discuss technical progress made in the CEs

4.         To discuss the Core Experiment conditions on the basis of application requirements, and propose improvements to N6505

5.         To discuss and summarize the CE results

6.         To prepare the expert viewing at the 70^th meeting

Chairman:

Mihaela van der Schaar, Justin Ridge

Duration:

Until 70^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (1-2 days AHG before 70^th  Meeting, to be announced 4 weeks in advance by the reflector)

Reflector:

svc@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N6527

AHG on Scalable Video Model and SVC Software

Mandate:

1.      To finalise v.2 of Scalable Video Model in 2 weeks and maintain the document

2.      To coordinate the distribution of the SVC software to be used in Core Experiments

3.      To install facilities for joint usage, development and maintenance of the SVC software

4.      To discuss and organize the evolution of the SVC software towards a unified reference solution according to the SVM document

Chairman:

Heiko Schwarz, Jizheng Xu, Mathias Wien, David Taubman

Duration:

Until 70^th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

svc_soft@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N6528

AHG on 3DAV Coding

Mandate:

1.      To discuss and refine the “Requirements on Multi-view Video Coding” document

2.      To discuss and refine the “Preliminary Call for Evidence on Multi-View Video Coding” document

3.      To finalize encoding of anchors for the Call for Evidence and to provide bitstreams on the ftp-site announced in the Call

4.      To coordinate experiments related to the tests described in the Call for Evidence

Chairman:

Aljoscha Smolic, Hideaki Kimata

Duration:

Until 70^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 70^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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N6529

AHG on Video Coding Tools Repository

Mandate:

1.      To discuss and refine the "Study of Video Coding Tools Repository" document

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

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang (chair), Kohtaro Asai (co-chair)

Duration:

Until 70^th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 70^th  Meeting)

Reflector:

xtoolrepox@listes.epfl.ch

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N6531

AHG on MPEG Multimedia Middleware

Mandate:

1.      Review, improve and complete the M3W Requirements document

2.      Study other relevant standardization activities, assess how they related to M3W and what tools and APIs are already covered by other standardization.

Chairman:

Jean Gelissen (jean (doht) gelissen (aht) philips (doht) com Philips Research),

Olivier Avaro (olivier (doht) avaro (aht) francetelecom (doht) com France Telecom),

Martin Russ (martin (doht) russ (aht) bt (doht) com British Telecom)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

No Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg-middleware  (aht) uow (doht) edu (doht) au

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N6657

AHG on MPEG‑21 Media Locators

Mandates

1.      Investigate solutions for an authoritative URI fragment identifier scheme for mpeg media types

2.      Discuss and collect comments on the collaborative solution using MPEG-7 metadata-based and URI-based schemes for DID

3.      Update the DID reference software to support <Fragment>  element and study the impact of the new element

4.      Explore requirements for addressing schemes for mpeg and non-mpeg mime types

5.      Jointly explore conventions for describing slices of composites with  MPEG 21, SMIL, X3D  

Chairman

Myriam Amielh (myriam.amielh@cisra.canon.com.au)

Co Chairs

Gerrard Drury (gerrard@enikos.com)

YongJu Cho (yongjucho@etri.re.kr)

Duration

Until the 70th Meeting

Meetings

Pre-meeting to be held in Palma on the Saturday or Sunday prior the 70^th meeting.

Reflector

mpeg-21-list@imec.be

Please use the prefix [medialoc]

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N6658

AHG on MPEG-21 IPMP

Mandate:

1.      To further review the proposals to identify relevant technologies for inclusion in the working draft.

2.      To further develop the IPMP_DIDL extensions

3.      To develop a schema for IPMP information

4.      To make recommendations on 1), 2) and 3) to the 70^th Meeting

Chairman:

Simon Watt

Duration:

Until 70^th meeting

Meetings:

Meetings will be held:

·        24-26 Aug in Mountain View

·        in Palma on the day prior to the 70th Meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-21@listserv.imec.be message titles prefixed [IPMP]

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N6659

AHG on MPEG-21 DIA

Mandate:

1.       Carry out Core Experiments on DIA and make recommendations to modify and improve the MPEG-21 DIA AMD/1 PDAM.

2.       Investigate the integration of the PDAM schema into the ISO/IEC 21000-7 schema.

3.       Produce the editor’s draft of PDAM.

Chairs

Christian Timmerer (christian.timmerer_at_itec.uni-klu.ac.at)

Thomas DeMartini (Thomas.DeMartini_at_CONTENTGUARD.COM)

Duration:

Until the 70^th Meeting.

Meetings:

AHG Meeting to be held on the weekend prior to 70^th meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma_at_merl.com

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N6660

AHG on MPEG-21 DIP

Mandates

1.       Carry out editing of DIP Study of CD according to draft disposition of NB comments on CD.

2.       Encourage contributions on improving MPEG-21 DIP Study of CD.

3.       Develop mechanisms that allow signaling of MPEG-21 DIP profile information.

4.       For use cases provided in the Draft DoC for demonstrate implementations of the concepts of the PlayResource DIBO or DIXOs.

Chairman

Gerrard Drury (gerrardx@xenikos.com)

Co Chair

Frederik De Keukaleare (Frederik.DeKeukelaerex@xugent.be)

Munchurl Kim (mkimx@xicu.ac.kr)

Duration

Until the 70th Meeting

Meetings

AhG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 70th meeting.

Other business to be conducted by email or phone.

Reflector

mpeg-21-dipx@xuow.edu.au

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N6661

AhG on MPEG-21 Event Reporting

Mandate:

1.       Finish the editing of WD 2.0

2.       Continue developing the reference software, as to comply with WD 2.0

3.       Make recommendations on possible improvements to WD 2.0

4.       contribute an editors’ draft for the next meeting

Chairs:

FX Nuttall (fx at nuttall.org)

Andrew Tokmakoff (tokmakoff at telin.nl)

Duration:

Until the 70^th Meeting

Meetings:

A pre- meeting will be held on the weekend before the Palma meeting.

Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-event-reporting@lists.telin.nl

Subscribe:

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N6662

Ad Hoc Group on AFX documents, CEs, and software

Mandates:

1.      Maintain and edit SNHC VM document.

2.      Coordinate SNHC CE activities.

3.      Coordinate AFX/AMD1 software implementation

Chairman:

Marius Preda (INT)

Co-chairs:

Mahnjin Han (Samsung AIT)

Patrick Gioia (France Telecom R&D)

Duration:

Until 70^th meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 70^th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc AT gti. ssr. upm. es

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N6663

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-J extensions for rendering

Mandate:

1.      Maintain and edit 14496-21 WD document

2.      Harmonize MPEG-J systems interfaces for rendering needs

Chairman:

Mikaël Bourges-Sévenier (Mindego Inc.)

Co-chairs:

Vishy Swaminathan (Sun Microsystems)

Itaru Kaneko (Waseda University)

Duration

Until 70^th meeting

Meetings:

Sunday before 70^th meeting

Reflector:

mpgj-sys AT advent. ee. columbia. edu

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6664

Ad Hoc Group on Audio Standard Maintenance

Mandate

For communications related to:

1.      Editing of Audio-related documents

2.      Maintenance of Audio-related conformance data

3.      Other miscellaneous activity