N3980

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

Mandate:

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

2.         Create a unified description example deploying all DSs from MPEG-7 MDS FCD.

3.         Work on validating the examples in the MDS MPEG-7 FCD.

Chairman:

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

Co Chair

P. van Beek (1,3), A. Benitez (1,3), J. Heuer (1,3), J. Martinez (1,3), Y. Shibata (1,3), T. Walker (1,3)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

MPEG-7-DS@starlab.net

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N3981

AHG on MPEG-7 MDS Core Experiments

Mandates:

1.         Carry out core experiments for MDSs based on the experimental work plans.

2.         Maintain and collect experimental material for the AHG FTP/WWW site.

Chairmen:

Toby Walker (twalker@sslab.sony.co.jp)

Co Chair:

Ana B. Benitez (ana@ee.columbia.edu)

Duration:

Until the 57^th meeting.

Meetings

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

Reflector:

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

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N3982

AHG on Audio, Video, and MDS Harmonization (AVM-H AHG)

Mandates:

1.         To address DDL integration issues concerning DSs and Ds within Audio, Video and MDS.

2.         To integrate Audio, Video and MDS tools to form a single MPEG-7 schema.

3.         To define a formal MPEG URN allocation and resolution policy, and register the MPEG URN namespace.

Chairman:

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)

Duration:

Until 57th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting may be held on the weekend before the 57th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-7-harmonization@sslab.sony.co.jp

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N3983

AHG on Metadata Integration

Mandates:

1.         Automatically generate the MPEG-7 Dictionary and MPEG-7 Types Reference, based on the FCD

2.         Generate an inventory of duplicated entries and to review the duplications so as to provide feedback in order to harmonize semantics and names of duplicated entries

3.         Produce a draft proposal for a methodology for future metadata integration with other standards, considering using RDF (m7081) and also the Semantic Web initiative

4.         Continue the efforts in harmonization between MPEG-7 and TVA description tools, including controlled term thesauri, by continued information exchange between MPEG-7 and TVA and by considering feedback from TVA.

Chairman:

Erik Oltmans, oltmans@telin.nl  (Telematica Instituut).

Co-chairs:

Jose M. Martinez (UPM-GTI), Jane Hunter (DSTC), Eric Rehm (singingfish.com), Peter van Beek (Sharp Labs of America), Jean Pierre Evain (EBU)

Duration:

Until the 57^th meeting.

Meetings:

All business will be conducted by e-mail or telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg7-integration@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N3984

AHG on MPEG-7 IPMP Descriptors

Mandate:

1. Provide solution the issues raised in the document MPEG-7 IPMP Descriptors
2. Study technical solutions on how to “support applications that distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate content”

WG11 will consider terminating this activity if MPEG-7 IPMP does not progress to the level of usable technical specification

Chairman:

Niels Rump (rump@intertrust.com)

Co-chairman:

Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com)

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings:

No meeting will be held.

Reflector:

mpeg7ipmp@ltssg3.epfl.ch

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N3985

AHG on Editing the MPEG-21 WDs

Mandates:

1.         Develop and improve the text in the DII&D and DID WDs for clarity and readability, and correct any errors.

2.         Develop detailed Description Requirements from the general requirements as stated in the CfP for DIID to enable WG11 to decide which set of descriptions/description schemes are needed for interoperability

Chairman:

Todd Schwartz (todd.Schwartz@intel.com)

Co-chairman:

Niels Rump, Young-Won Song

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting focusing on DII&D WD will be held anytime during the weekend preceding the 57^th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-diid-did-editing@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N3986

AHG Group on MPEG-21 Core Experiments

Mandate:

1.         Maintaining the MPEG-21 Development process document.

2.         Carry out Core Experiments on DID and DII&D and make recommendations to modify and improve the working drafts

3.         Appoint reviewers for the Core Experiments.

4.         Identify key MPEG-21 applications for developing the MPEG-21 sYstem Model (YM) architecture.

Chairman:

Andrew Perkis, andrew@tele.ntnu.no

Co Chairs:

Ian Burnett, ian_burnett@uow.edu.au;

Duration:

Until 57^th meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

mpeg21-mds-ce@ltssg3.epfl.ch

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N3991

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

11.   To correct and edit the Study of the text of MPEG-7 Reference Software FCD

Chairman:

Stephan Herrmann (TU Munich)

Co-chair:

Toby Walker,  M. Casey, Wo Chang

Meetings:

By email only

Reflector:

MPEG-7XMADHOC@mailbag.intel.com

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N4011

AHG on Audio Call for Proposals

Mandate:

To address the following issues pertaining to Call For Proposals for New Tools for Audio Coding :

1.         Set up an FTP site to use for the Call and distribute site information

2.         Assist proponents with submission of materials

3.         Verify bitrate and decoding of submitted materials

4.         Resolve any other issues regarding the Call for Proposals

Chairman:

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

Meetings

None

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@research.att.com

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N4012

AHG on MPEG-2 AAC Clarifications

Mandate:

To

1.         review the proposed clarifications

2.         review the reference software

3.         review the conformance test sequences

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Meetings:

A meeting might be held on Saturday or Sunday prior to the 57^th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg_aac@iis.fhg.de

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N4013

AHG on Audio part of MPEG-4 Conformance

Mandate:

To

1.         continue collecting and verifying conformance test sequences

2.         review the proposed corrections on Audio conformance

3.         consider methods to assign a given configuration to a certain profile@level

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Meetings:

A meeting might be held on Saturday or Sunday prior to the 57^th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

mp4audconform@research.att.com

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N4014

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio 2001 Edition

Mandate:

1.         To complete MPEG-4 Audio 2001 Edition

2.         To continue study on possible correction items in MPEG-4 Audio

Chairman:

Sang-Wook Kim (sangwookkim@samsung.com),

Co-chair

Andrea Holzer (hoe@iis.fhg.de),

Takehiro Moriya (Moriya.Takehiro@lab.ntt .co.jp),

Bernhard Grill (grl@iis.fhg.de)

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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N4015