Source:

Leonardo Chiariglione

Title:

Ad hoc groups established at the 80th MPEG meeting

Status

N8946

AHG on Review of MPEG-21 DID

Mandate:

To:

1.      Investigate whether the current DID (ISO/IEC 21000-2) requirements fit with today’s industry, and if not review the requirements.

2.       Collect information on how DID is currently used.

3.      Identify current deficiencies with DID and propose ways to address these deficiencies.

4.      Investigate feasibility of producing royalty-free DID.

Chairman:

Gerrard Drury (gerrard*at*enikos.com)

Giovanni Cordara (giovanni.cordara*at*telecomitalia.it)

Duration:

Until the 81^st meeting.

Meetings

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 81^st meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21*at*listserv.imec.be, please use the prefix “[DID]”

Subscribe:

To subscribe, send an email to owner-mpeg-21-list*at*imec.be

N8947

AHG on FTV (Free Viewpoint Television)

Mandate:

1.      To Refine the FTV architecture.

2.      To Refine the identification and definition of normative elements in the FTV architecture

3.       To Refine the FTV requirements.

Chairman:

Hideaki Kimata (chair), Karsten Müller (co-chair)

Duration:

Until 81^st Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 81^st Meeting)

Reflector:

-

Subscribe:

To subscribe, send email to kimata.hideaki@lab.ntt.co.jp

N8990

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

Mandate:

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

2.          To remove known bugs and contribute to preparation of new editions of MPEG-4 software and conformance standards

3.          Maintenance of the MPEG-4 software and conformance Web sites

Chairman:

Yi-Shin Tung, Chung-Neng Wang           

Duration:

Until 81^st Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

Subscribe:

Send an email to majordomo@research.att.com with the message

“subscribe mpeg-audio-call <emailaddress>” as the first line in the body.

N8991

AHG on Reconfigurable Video Coding

Mandate:

1.      To finalize N8985 and N8989, and conduct the Core Experiments and Exploration Experiments as described in the respective documents.

2.      To discuss and evaluate the CE results and related inputs in preparation of the 81st meeting.

3.      To maintain the RSM software implementation.

4.      To study the appropriate API for interfacing RVC framework with M3W.

Chairman:

Euee S. Jang (chair), Yoshihisa Yamada (associate chair)

Duration:

Until 81^st Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 81^st  Meeting)

Reflector:

rvc@listes.epfl.ch

Subscribe:

To subscribe, send email to rvc-subscribe@listes.epfl.ch

N8992

AHG on MPEG-7 Visual and Photo Player MAF

Mandate:

1.      To carry out the Core Experiments

2.      To perform an evaluation and comment on the results of Core Experiments related to MPEG-7 new visual extensions

3.      To coordinate development of the reference software for ISO/IEC 23000-3

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

5.      To maintain the text of defect reports and draft corrigenda as appropriate.

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Ryoma Oami, Robert O'Callaghan

Duration:

Until 81^st Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 81^st Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@elka.pw.edu.pl

Subscribe:

Send an email (from the address you wish to subscribe) to listserv@elka.pw.edu.pl with the message “subscribe mpeg7-visual [display name]” as the first line in the body.

N8993

AHG on SVC Verification Test

Mandate:

1.      To discuss test setups based on applications scenarios of the SVC profiles

2.      To refine the verification test document

3.      To prepare the verification test

Chairman:

Tobias Oelbaum (TU München, oelbaum@tum.de)

Mathias Wien (RWTH Aachen, wien@ient.rwth-aachen.de)

Associate Chairs:

Vincent Bottreau

Nathalie Cammas

Alex Eleftheriadis

Justin Ridge

Duration:

Until 81^st Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before the 81^st Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-svt@lists.rwth-aachen.de

Subscribe:

To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to

http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-svt

N8997

AHG on Video Annotation

Mandate:

1.          To identify applications for video annotation and their requirements

2.          To identify categories of MPEG-7 metadata that would be useful in the context of video annotation

3.          To identify methods of embedding metadata with the video data

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Thomas Wiegand  

Duration:

Until 81^st Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-van@lists.rwth-aachen.de

Subscribe:

To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to

http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-van

N9061

Ad Hoc Group on Scene Representation

Mandate:

To:

1.      Further study Amendment 2 text and produce Study of FPDAM.

2.      Finalize / update the utility & reference software

3.      Study and improve LASeR Conformance

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

5.      Study and improve the TuC

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

7.      Consider LASeR issues raised from MAF activities.

8.      Further study and contribute on IuC on LASeR.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv) co-chair, Cyril Concolato (ENST) co-chair

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

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

Subscribe:

http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-laser.

N9062

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG File Formats

Mandate:

To:

1.      Raise and discuss issues that have to be considered in the definition of technologies for the storage and transmission of scalable video, and resolve the open questions in the document.

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

3.      Study and progress amendments and corrigenda on parts 12, 14 and 15, as needed.

4.      Study and improve the Reference Software and Conformance for File Format

5.      Joint work with the JPEG FFSEC group on specification harmonization

6.      Consider technologies for the storage of MPEG-2 Transport Stream into the file format

Chairman:

David Singer (Apple), Visharam Mohammed (Sony)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

A meeting may be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mp4-sys@lists.uni-klu.ac.at

Subscribe:

http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/mp4-sys

N9063

Ad Hoc Group on MAF Under Development in Systems

Mandate:

To:

1.      Further develop the following MAFs

a.       Protected Musical Slide Show MAF

b.      Portable Video Player MAF

c.       Digital Multimedia Broadcasting MAF

d.      Video Surveillance MAF

2.      Contribute harmonization activity between MAF

3.      Develop conformance and reference software for the MAF developed in Systems.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv), Hui Yong Kim(ETRI), Jean Cha (LG)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

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

Subscribe:

http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/maf-sys

N9097

AHG on Audio Standards Maintenance

Mandate:

To:

1.      Maintain Audio-related conformance data

2.      Maintain Audio-related reference software

3.      Investigate issues in Long Term Prediction (LTP) conformance

4.      Conduct other miscellaneous activity

Chairman:

R. Sperschneider

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpam@uow.edu.au

Subscribe:

Go to:

http://mailinglists.uow.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/mpam

N9098

AHG on SAOC CfP, AAC-ELD and Speech and Audio Exploration

Mandate:

To:

1.      Conduct any activity associated with Call for Proposals on Spatial Audio Object Coding, including the following:

a.       Conduct listening tests and compile report

b.      Support CfP responses.

2.      Coordinate any activity relating to AAC-ELD

3.      Carry out Workplan for Speech and Audio Exploration.

Chairman:

S. Quackenbush, Eunmi Oh

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

Subscribe:

Go to:

http://mailinglists.uow.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-audio-call

N9128

AHG on MPEG-7 Query Format

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

1.      Complete editing of the MPEG-7 Query Format CD

2.      Consider improvements to the CD and TuC documents

3.      Continue discussions on Server Selection and Capabilities

4.      Study the functionality and syntax of operators

Chairman:

Kyoungro Yoon (yoonk *at* konkuk.ac.kr)

Mario Doeller (Mario.doeller_*at*_uni_passau.de)

Duration:

Until 81^st Meeting

Meetings

AHG meeting will be held on the weekend prior to 81^st  meeting. Other business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

cbsearch@yahoogroups.com

Subscribe:

To subscribe send email to cbsearch-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

N9143

AHG on 3DG documents, experiments and software maintenance

Mandate:

1.      Maintain and edit 3DG documents

2.      Coordinate 3DG CE activity

3.      Coordinate 3DG related conformance and reference software

Chairman:

Jeong-Hwan Ahn (Samsung AIT),

Ning Lu (Intel Corporation)

Duration:

Until 81^st Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 81^st meeting

Reflector:

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

Subscribe:

http://www.gti.ssr.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-3dgc