INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION

ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11

CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO 

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/N4137

Sydney, July 2001

 Title:          List of Ad-Hoc Groups Established at the 57th  Meeting in Sydney

Source:    Convenor

 

N4143

AHG on Audio Coding Exploration

Mandate:

To address the following issues pertaining to selecting RM0:

1. Whether the best system under test or the best fully specified system under test (i.e. complete decoder source code) determines the technology selected as RM0.

2. Select test sites.

3. Select person for data analysis and report generation.

4. Execute Workplan for Selection of RM0.

5. Assist test sites in use of MUSHRA test software.

Chairman:

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

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

Sunday prior to the 58th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@research.att.com

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N4144

AHG on MPEG-2/4 AAC

Mandate:

1.1.1a).1.1.1 To review the AAC-related proposed DCor

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

Saturday or Sunday prior to the 58th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg_aac@iis.fhg.de

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N4145

AHG on Audio part of MPEG-2/4 AAC Conformance

Mandate:

To

1. Review conformance-related proposed Dcor

2. Continue collecting and verifying conformance test sequences

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider (sps@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

Saturday or Sunday prior to the 58th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mp4audconform@research.att.com

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N4146

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio

Mandate:

To

1. Review the MPEG-4 Audio proposed Dcor

Chairman:

Heiko Purnhagen (purnhage@tnt.uni-hannover.de)

Co-Chair Andreas Hoelzer (hoe@iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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N4147

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

Mandate:

To:

1. Edit the FDIS of 15938-4.

2. Produce DoC on FCD

3. Execute workplan on XM integration

Chairman:

P. Garner (Philip.garner@canon.co.jp)

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday prior to the 58th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mpeg7aud@research.att.com

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N4148

AHG on Audio part of MPEG-7 Conformance

Mandate:

To:

1. Continue work on text of Audio contribution to MPEG-7 Conformance

2. Collect audio signals for use in conformance

3. Generate conformance descriptions

4. Investigate use of reference tools (e.g. DDL parser, BIM encoder and decoder) as components of Audio conformance testing.

Chairman:

Frank Klefenz (klz@emt.iis.fhg.de)

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday prior to the 58th MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Mp7audconform@research.att.com

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N4149

AHG on Issues in Lossless Audio Coding

Mandate:

To discuss issues in considering lossless audio coding as an extension to MPEG-4

Chairman:

Takehiro Moriya (moriya.takehiro@lab.ntt.co.jp)

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@research.att.com

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N4150

Ad Hoc Group on AFX WD/VM editing and Core Experiments

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit WD/VM document.

2. Maintain and edit CE descriptions.

3. Prepare and plan for the AFX awareness event

Chairman:

Mikael Bourges-Sevenier (iVast, Inc.)

Co-chair:

Michael Steliaros (Superscape (UK) Ltd.)

Francisco Moran (UPM)

Gauthier Lafruit (IMEC)

Marius Freda (ENST)

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 58th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4151

Ad Hoc Group on AFX S/W Implementation

Mandate:

1. Maintain and edit the AFX S/W workplan

2. Coordinate the S/W implementation process

3. Study and develop the guidelines for S/W development process.

4. Continue softeware integration of existing SNHC tools in MPEG-4.

Chairman:

Michael Steliaros (Superscape (UK) Ltd., msteliaros@superscape.com)

Co-chair:

Aaron E. Walsh (Mantis Corp./Web3D, aaron@mantiscorp.com)

James D. K. Kim (Samsung AIT)

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 58th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N4152

AHG on MPEG-7 Applications and Promotion to Industry

Mandates:

1. Carry out the MPEG-7 Awareness Event for October 2001.

2. Prepare 1st MPEG-7 Industry Focus Group meeting in Washington DC, 28th October, 2001

3. Maintain the Introduction to MPEG-7, MPEG-7 Technical Overview Document and related Reference and PR documents

4. Create XM Documentation from an Industry users point of view, i.e.,

• Integrate system and functional diagrams of specific applications with XM key application functional diagrams

• To identify and survey real-world applications using normative Ds and DSs

• To classify such applications into a limited number of classes or templates

• To identify additional functionalities, technologies and architectural extensions of the XM necessary for the integration of such application examples in the XM

• To work closely with the XM and ISG Adhoc Groups for mandate 4.

Chairman

Neil Day (neil@mpeg-industry.com )

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 ), Wo Chang (wchang@nist.gov), Takayuki Kunieda (kunieda@src.ricoh.co.jp)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting (Washington '01)

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Washington MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mp7app@src.ricoh.co.jp

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N4153

AHG on MPEG-21 Digital Item Usage Environment Description

Mandate:

1. Collect requirements on describing usage environments

2. Expand on use cases for MPEG-21 usage environments

3. Work on Call for Proposals for MPEG-21 DIUED, and discuss evaluation criteria

4. Extract Requirements from CE on Content Delivery and Terminal Capabilities.

5. Encourage technical contributions that demonstrate the usefulness of usage environment descriptions

Chairman

Anthony Vetro (avetro@merl.com)

Co-chairman

Sherman (Xuemin) Chen (schen@broadcom.com)

Francisco Rivas (francisco.rivas@era.ericsson.se)

Duration:

Until the 58th Meeting.

Meetings:

None.

Reflector:

UMA-characteristics@tele.ntnu.no

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N4154

AHG on Digital Cinema Video Coding Technology

Mandate:

Study wavelet-based coding, in particular looking at exploiting temporal correlation:

• As this has proven to be useful at lower rates

• Ability to support scalability from almost lossless to bit-wise lossless

• What it could bring to Digital Cinema (both distribution and archive)

Study submissions to CfP with respect to these aspects, and complexity aspects

Study upstream generation of content (including film, computer and digital capture) and the link of (Post) production to Archive and Distribution

Study the link between Archive and Distribution

To develop a proposed workplan for archive applications

To develop a proposed workplan for distribution applications

Co-Chairman:

John Woods, Frank Bossen

Duration:

Until 58th meeting (Oct 2001)

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 58th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

dcinema@ltssg3.epfl.ch

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N4158

AHG on requirements for persistent association of information with MPEG content

Mandate:

1. To define the requirements for the persistent association with Digital Items (and other MPEG content) of identifiers and authentication information.

2. To assess the extent to which such approaches may be able to contribute to satisfying the requirement to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate content.

3. To assess the extent to which other public standards (including MPEG standards) are able to contribute to this requirement (with particular reference to signing descriptions) and what developments may be needed to achieve this.

Chair

Co-Chair

Paul Jessop (paul.jessop@ifpi.org)

Panos Kudumakis, Niels Rump

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings:

No meeting. One or more telephone conferences may be arranged.

Reflector:

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

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N4165

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Conformance

Mandate:

1. Execute the work plan for bit stream creation, exchange and cross-checking for the Systems specification.

2. Create a list of features that have to be exercised by bitstreams compliant to a given profile@level as specified in ISO/IEC 14496-1/FPDAM2.

3. Produce conformant bitstream for the profile@levels included in ISO/IEC 14496-1/FPDAM2. and check if they exercice all the functionality of the said profile@level.

4. Conduct the discussions on 14496-4:
- WD 4.1 of 14496-4/COR1;
- Produce study text on ISO/IEC 14496-4/FPDAM 1;
- Produce WD 3.1 of ISO/IEC 14496-4/Amd.2.

Chair:

Yuval Fisher (Envivio), Laurent Herrmann (Philips), Michelle Kim (IBM), Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Guido Franceschini (CSELT)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

Cbex-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4166

AHG on MPEG-7 Systems and DDL

Mandate:

1. To complete the editing of FDIS 15938-1 (Systems) by Octobert 3rd and FDIS 15938-2 (DDL) by 31st of August and make these document available for review by the AHG.

2. 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.

3. To revise MPEG-2 Systems FPDAM on the Carriage of Metadata on MPEG-2 Systems.

4. Continue the development of the MPEG-7 Systems and DDL reference software and integration in the XM.

5. Investigate possibility for evaluation tests of the Systems reference software.

6. Contribute to the key application section of the 15938-6.

7. To solicit contributions in the area of transport of MPEG-7 data, specifically:
- Carriage with MPEG-4 content (including MP4 file format);
- Carriage on MPEG-2 Systems;
- Carriage on IP networks.

8. Investigates issues for a possible amendment of 15938-1 as described in the WD 1.0 of 15938-1/Amd.1.

Chairman:

Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia), Adam Lindsay (Lancaster University), Jan Van der Meer (Philips), Claude Seyrat, Jane Hunter, M. Wollborn (Bosch), Ali Tabatabai (Sony)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the 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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N4167

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 BIFS

Mandate:

1. Study potential problems related to arithmetic encoder overflow/underflow in the BIFS Anim specification.

2. Conduct experiments on AFX and MuW functionality;

3. Improve WD of 14496-1:2001/COR2;

4. Produce study text of 14496-1:2001/FPDAM2;

5. Produce WD 4.1 for 14496-1:2000/Amd4 (AFX and Multi-users functionality).

6. Evaluate complexity of quantization for possible inclusion in Main2D.

7. Evaluate complexity of TemporalTransform, TemporalGroup for possible inclusion in Advanced 2D.

8. Study the BIFS carousel mechanism as described M7289.

Chairman:

Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Michelle Kim (IBM), Yuval Fisher (Envivio)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the Saturday and/or Sunday before the MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4168

AHG on evaluation of "expert viewing" methodologies in D-Cinema

Mandate:

1) To collect proposals for the definition of new test method(s) based on "Expert Viewing".

2) To optimize the selected test procedure(s) in order to meet as much as possible the requirements and the needs of the D-Cinema community, in the development of core-experiments.

3) To promote and overview the validation process of the proposed test method(s)

Chairman:

Dave Dawson (Motion Picture Association)

Co-chairman:

Jordan Isailovic (JRI Technology)

Duration

Until the 58th MPEG-meeting (October 2001)

Meetings

Meeting on Sunday before the 58th meeting (Washington)

Reflector

dcinema@bluenose.inescn.pt

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N4170

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Textual Format

Mandate:

1. Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Textual Format along with W3C and Web3D;

2. Harmonize the X3D and the XMT Schema;

3. Solicit contribution on missing tools in XMT (Face and Body Animation);

4. Produce study text for 14496-1:2001/FPDAM2 for the 58th MPEG meeting.

Chairman:

Michelle Kim (IBM), Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

Meeting will be held on the Sunday before the MPEG meeting

Reflector:

Text-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4171

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. Transfer the Im1 software on the CVS repository in NIST.

3. Provide for software and test streams for demonstrating MPEG-4 capabilities.

4. Implement FlexMux extensions and integrate it in Im1.

Chairman:

Zvi Lifshitz (Optibase)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

Im1-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4172

AHG on MPEG-4 Content on MPEG-2 Systems and IP Network

Mandate:

1. 4onIP : Execute the following workplan :
- Produce Study text of 14496-8/FCD;
- Prepare text of complete walkthrough to be included in 14496-8/FDIS by the Washington meeting;
- Revise the payload formats.

2. ESM :
- Study the FlexMux extension proposed in the technology under consideration for Amd. 2;
- Continue discussion on time stamp discontinuity.

Chairman:

Young-Kwon Lim (mp4cast), Jan Van der Meer (Philips), Carsten Herpel (Thomson Multimedia)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

4on2andIP-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4173

AHG on MPEG IPMP

Mandate:

1. To consider appropriate framing of MPEG-21 IPMP in the general MPEG-21 architecture

2. To refine the current IPMPExtensions specification and apply the following workplan:
- Produce Study 1.0 of IPMP Extension CD for the Santa Clara AHG meeting;
- Produce Study 2.0 of IPMP Extension CD for the Washington AHG meeting;
- Produce Study 3.0 of IPMP Extension CD for 58th MPEG meeting.

3. Improve the analysis of compliance of the IPMP extensions to requirements and produce an updated document for the Washington meeting.

4. To solicit contributions in the area of application of IPMP Extension to:
- MPEG-2 Content;
- MPEG-4 Content;
- MPEG-7 Content.

Chairman:

Mike McGinty (Telanetix), Jack Lacy (Intertrust), Avni Rambhia (E-vue), Niels Rump (Rightscom)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held in Santa Clara on september 17th-19th. A meeting will be held on the Saturday and Sunday before the 58th MPEG Meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg4ipmp@iis.fhg.de

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N4174

AHG on MP4 Extensions

Mandate:

1. Improve text of 14496-1/Amd.3 CD and provide text of 14496-1/Amd.3 FCD by the Washington meeting.

2. Investigate how MPEG-21 requirements can be met by the MP4 file format.

Chairman:

Dave Singer (Apple), William Bellknap (IBM), Guido Franceschini (CSELT)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings:

No meeting will be held.

Reflector:

mp4-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N4175

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 text of MPEG-7 Reference Software FCD.

Chairman:

Stephan Herrmann (TU Munich), Toby Walker, M. Casey.

Duration:

1.1.1a).1.1.2 Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

MPEG-7XMADHOC@mailbag.intel.com

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N4176

AHG on MPEG-4 Part 9: Reference Hardware Description Phase 1

Mandate:

• To collect contributions of MPEG-4 modules described in HDL

• To verify the conformance of submitted HDL source code and associated documentation with the requirements stated in the Call for submission document N4218,

• 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 coordinate the development and submission of new missing modules to prevent overlapping or duplications of submissions.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli

Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

isgMPEG4rhd@epfl.ch

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N4177

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

Mandate:

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

2. Validate description examples and refine the MPEG-7 Monster description.

Chairman:

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

Co Chair

P. van Beek, A. Benitez, J. Heuer, J. Martinez, Y. Shibata, T. Walker

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

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N4178

AHG on MPEG-7 Semantic Interoperability

Mandate:

1. Define the requirements for MPEG-7 semantic interoperability;

2. Continue building an MPEG-7 Ontology in RDF Schema/DAML+OIL;

3. Investigate programmatic tools to streamline the generation of the RDF Schema ontology from XML Schema;

4. Investigate mechanisms which use the ontology to implement mappings between MPEG-7 and other metadata vocabularies;

5. Continue work on the formal specification for semantic description schemes.

Chairman:

Jane Hunter, DSTC (jane@dstc.edu.au)

Co Chair

Eric Rehm (rehm@singingfish.com), Hawley K. Rising III (hawley.rising@am.sony.com)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

No meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-7-semantics@dstc.edu.au

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N4179

Ad-hoc group on Editing the MPEG-21 DID CD and DII&D WD

Mandates:

• Produce a study on the text of the Digital Item Declaration CD (N4248)

• Finalize the edits from Sydney on Digital Item Identification & Description WD 2.0 (N4249) and upload by 3 August 2001

• Edit and enhance the Digital Item Identification & Description WD

• Finalize the method (within DII&D) for identifying resource formats in DIDs

• Continue developing the MPEG-21 MDS FAQ (N4251)

• Define a set of rules for using the MPEG-21 namespace

• Investigate how to express processing actions to be taken on parts of the DID, and develop an informative example to show this in the DID CD study

Chairman:

Todd Schwartz (todd.schwartz@intel.com)

Co-chairs:

Niels Rump (niels.rump@rightscom.com), Hideki Sakamoto (sakamoto@cidf.org)

Duration:

Until the 58th MPEG meeting

Meetings

One or more meetings may be held sometime during the weekend preceding the 58th MPEG meeting.

Reflector:

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N4180

AHG Group on MPEG-21 Core Experiments

Mandate:

1. Maintaining the MPEG-21 MDS CE Development process document .

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

3. Appoint reviewers for the Core Experiments.

4. Explore methods for synchronization in DIs

Chairman:

Ian Burnett, i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au

Co Chairs:

Andrew Perkis, andrew@tele.ntnu.no

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

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N4181

Ad-hoc group on Developing the MPEG-21 Systems and Software Model

Mandates:

• Develop system functional requirements for the MPEG-21 Systems and Software Model (aka "YM")

• Develop a detailed YM software architecture document

• Commence implementing the YM software

Chairman:

Paul Ruskin (pruskin@ieee.org), University of Wollongong

Co-chairs:

Ian Burnett (i.burnett@elec.uow.edu.au), University of Wollongong

Duration:

Until the 58th MPEG meeting

Meetings

No meeting will be held. Work will take place entirely on the reflector.

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N4182

AHG on Bitstream Syntax Description Language

Mandates:

1. Draw the requirements of the Bitstream Syntax Description Language

2. Define the terminology

3. Recommend a place in MPEG to host the BSDL activity

4. Get information on current and future developments of W3C XML-Schema

5. Investigate further applications

Chairman:

Sylvain Devillers (Sylvain.Devillers@philips.com)

Co Chairs:

Jan Bormans (bormans@imec.be),
Olivier Avaro (Olivier.Avaro@francetelecom.com)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting

Meetings

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

Reflector:

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N4183

AHG on Requirements for Joint Video Project

Mandate:

1. Study the Reqs for the Joint Video Project (Enhanced Video Coding project), jointly with MPEG and ITU-T SG16 experts

2. To recommend a draft requirements document for approval at the 58th (October) MPEG meeting

3. To study the tools in H.26L with respect to the identified requirements, and make a recommendation.

Chair

Thomas Wiegand (wiegand@hhi.de), Ajay Luthra (ALuthra@gi.com)

Co-Chairs


Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings:

None

Reflector:

To be announced

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N4184

AHG on MPEG-21 Requirements

Mandate:

1. Draft an MPEG-21 Requirements Document, drawing from the DTR and other available MPEG-21 documents

2. Liaise with Mediacom2004

Chair

Jan Bormans (bormans@imec.be)

Co-Chairs


Duration:

Until 58th Meeting

Meetings:

None

Reflector:

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

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N4185

AHG on MPEG-4 Visual Studio Profile

Mandate:

Perform verification tests

Preparation of conformance documents

Maintain reference software

Chairman:

Yoichi Yagasaki

Duration:

Until 58th WG11 meeting (Oct 2001)

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 58th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

mpeghiq@gi.com

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yagasaki@av.crl.sony.co.jp



N4186

AHG on MPEG-4 Visual Fine Granularity Scalability

Mandate:

a) Study and Maintenance of FPDAM1 software

b) Preparation of conformance bit-streams

c) Preparation of verification tests

Chairman:

Jens-Rainer Ohm

Duration:

Until 58th meeting (Oct 2001)

Meetings:

No meeting

Reflector:

fgs@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N4187

AHG on editing the documents of the MPEG-7 Visual FDIS and XM

Mandate:

To maintain consistent documents for the MPEG-7 Visual FDIS and XM

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, J.-R. Ohm, W. Kim, A. Yamada, M. Pickering

Duration:

Until 58th meeting (Oct 2001)

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

Mpeg7-xm-doc@philabs.research.philips.com

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N4188

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:

Miroslaw Bober (miroslaw.bober@vil.ite.mee.com)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting (Oct 2001)

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 58th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg7-ce-ms@philabs.research.philips.com



N4189

AHG on Enhanced Compression Video Coding

Mandate:

To study the proposed tools for video compression efficiency improvement

• preparing core experiment definitions

• studying the complexity and efficiency of the proposed coding tools

• working toward recommendations for editorial improvement of the JM

• facilitating logistical efforts for technical contributions to the next meeting

Chairman:

Yoichi Yagasaki and Gary Sullivan

Duration:

Until 58th meeting (Oct 2001)

Meetings:

A meeting on September 8, location TBD, and a meeting on the weekend before the 58th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

mpeg4-video-cfp@mailbag.intel.com

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N4190

AHG on editing the documents of 15938-8 PDTR (Extraction and Use of MPEG-7 Descriptors)

Mandate:

To maintain consistent documents for 15938-8 PDTR

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, J.-R. Ohm, W. Kim, A. Yamada, M. Pickering, P. van Beek, A. B. Benitez, J. Heuer, J. Martinez, P. Salembier, J. Smith, T. Walker and Y. Shibata

Duration:

Until 58th meeting (Oct 2001)

Meetings:

No

Reflector:

Mpeg7-xm-doc@philabs.research.philips.com

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N4191

AHG on Enhanced Fine Granularity Scalability in MPEG-4 video

Mandate:

Investigate technologies that can enhance performance beyond that of MPEG-4 FGS

Co-Chairman:

Kyuheon Kim (ETRI), Mihaela Vanderschaar (Philips)

Duration:

Until 58th meeting (Oct 2001)

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 58th WG11 meeting

Reflector:

efgs@video.etri.re.kr

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The details of how to subscribe the above reflector will be announced on the FGS email reflector. Also, further information will be available from the above co-chairs: kkim@etri.re.kr, mihaela.vanderschaar@philips.com