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

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/N6082
Hawaii, USA, December 2003

Title: List of Ad-Hoc Groups Established at the 67th Meeting in Hawaii, USA

Source: Convenor

 

N6093

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 updated "Call for Submission" document N4966.
  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 the demonstrator architecture showing the usage of MPEG-4 Part 9 Reference hardware description in an example application.

Chairman:

Robert Turney (Xilinx), Marco Mattavelli (EPFL)

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

Phone conferences on 8th Jan., 29th Jan., 19th Feb, 11th Mar. at 3 p.m. GMT.Tel: (from US 1-877-582-3182, from outside US 1-706-679-1128, participant code 9202060193)

Reflector:

isgMPEG4rhd@ltslinux4.epfl.ch

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N6099

Ad Hoc Group on AFX documents editing and Core Experiments

Mandate:

  1. Maintain and edit WD document
  2. Maintain and edit VM document.
  3. Maintain and edit CE descriptions.

Chairman:

Marius Preda (INT)

Co-Chairs

Mahnjin Han (Samsung AIT)

Mikaël Bourges-Sévenier (Mindego)

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 68th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N6106

Ad Hoc Group on AFX Conformance

Mandate:

  1. Maintain and edit the AFX conformance document
  2. Coordinate bitstream exchange

Chairman:

Mahnjin Han (Samsung AIT)

Co-Chairs

Patrick Gioia (France Telecom R&D)

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

Sunday before 68th meeting

Reflector:

mpeg-snhc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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N6152

AHG on MPEG-2 Audio Reference Software and Issues in MP3 on MP4

Mandate:

To address the following issues:

  1. Edit (until End of Jan) the Text of ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/FPDAM 3 (MP3onMP4).
  2. Discuss signaling of audioObjectType and profileandlevel.
  3. Discuss the design of the MP3onMP4 reference software and the features to be tested by conformance.
  4. Edit and progress the 3on4 Application Format specification.

Chairman:

Jens Spille

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

Mp3refsw@uow.edu.au

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N6153

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Conformance

Mandate:

1. Continue the collection and verification of conformance test sequences.

Chairman:

Ralph Sperschneider

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mp4audconform@uow.edu.au

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N6154

AHG on MPEG-2 AAC and MPEG-4 Audio Text and Software

Mandate:

To

  1. Review ISO/IEC 13818-7:2003/DCOR 1 and ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/DCOR 2.
  2. Review proposed third edition on ISO/IEC 13818-7
  3. Review proposed third edition on ISO/IEC 14496-3
  4. Continue to maintain the reference software.

Chairman:

R. Sperschneider, H. Purnhagen

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg4_vm@tnt.uni-hannover.de

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N6155

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Extensions 1 and 2

Mandate:

To:

  1. Finalize text of ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/FDAM 2.
  2. Review and progress ISO/IEC 14496-4:2001/PDAM 8, Conformance Sequences for SBR, Audio BIFS and SA.
  3. Carry out workplan for MPEG-4 Extension 1 Conformance.
  4. Carry out workplan for MPEG-4 Extension 2.

Chairman:

W. Oomen

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Sunday before next meeting

Reflector:

Mpeg-audio-call@uow.edu.au

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N6156

AHG on MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding

Mandate:

To

  1. Carry out Workplan for Audio Lossless Coding (ALS)
  2. Carry out Workplan for Scalable Lossless Coding (SLS)
  3. Carry out Workplan for 1-bit lossless coding
  4. Collect additional test sequences representing e.g. legacy "analog" archival sequences, 5.1 channel sequences, and sequences in IEEE floating point format.

Chairman:

Tilman Liebchen

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Sunday before next meeting

Reflector:

mpeg_audiolossless@uow.edu.au

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N6157

AHG on MPEG-7 Audio

Mandate:

  1. Carry out Workplan for MPEG-7 Audio
  2. Promote collection of new tools for AMD 2
  3. Finalize XM for all versions
  4. Continue verification of conformance (including BiM conformance)

Chairman:

Matthias Gruhne

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg-7-aud@uow.edu.au

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N6158

AHG on Music Notation Requirements

Mandate:

  1. Progress and finalize technical requirements for Music Notation format (i.e. coded representation) and decoder.
  2. Describe the system and interaction requirements to support integration of the Music Notation decoder into existing MPEG technology.
  3. Verify that proposed requirements and system architecture satisfy the commonly used formats for and usage of Music Notation.
  4. Progressively submit the requirement document to companies interested in multimedia and music to solicit input and collect expressions of interest
  5. Produce additional descriptions of application scenarios to exemplify functionality of Music Notation integrated with MPEG tools

Chairman:

Paolo Nesi (University of Firenze), Giorgio Zoia (EPFL)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Yes, Sat and Sun before Munich MPEG meeting

Reflector:

mn-mpeg@musicnetwork.dsi.unifi.it

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N6159

AHG on Timestamps and Audio Codec Behavior

Mandate:

1. Identify issues concerning deterministic Audio behavior for file-to-file and streaming processing, taking into consideration N6140, Audio Codec Behavior.

Chairman:

Schuyler Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mp4_timestamps@uow.edu.au

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N6160

AHG on Audio Explorations

Mandate:

  1. To support the Call for Information on Spatial Audio Coding, N6150
  2. Discuss and progress the Draft Call for Proposals on Spatial Audio Coding, N6151
  3. Consider 3DAV "Call for Comments" N6051

Chairman:

Schuyler Quackenbush

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Sunday before next meeting

Reflector:

audio-exploration@uow.edu.au

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N6176

AHG on MPEG-21 Media Locators

Mandates

  1. Revise and improve the requirements for media locators
  2. Develop, solicit and discuss solutions for MPEG-21 media locators
  3. Recommend clarifications to DID specification in regard to media locators

Chair

Myriam Amielh (myriam.amielhx@xcisra.canon.com.au)

Co Chair

Gerrard Drury (gerrardx@xenikos.com)

Sylvain Devillers (sylvain.devillersx@ximec.be)

Yongju Cho (yongjuchox@xetri.re.kr)

Craig Brown (cmbx@xcisra.canon.com.au)

Duration

Until the 68th Meeting

Meetings

Meetings may take place as required

Bussiness will primarily be conducted by email or telephone.

Reflector

mpeg-21-listx@ximec.be

Please use the prefix [medialoc]



N6177

AHG on MPEG-21 REL and RDD Reference Software

Mandate:

  1. To continue development of REL conformance licenses and test cases
  2. To continue development of REL interpretation conformance software
  3. To coordinate work on other software in the REL/RDD reference software plan

Chairman:

Xin Wang, xin.wang@contentguard.com

Co-Chair:

Jaime Delgado, jaime.delgado@upf.edu

Chris Barlas, chris.barlas@rightscom.com

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on Sunday before the 68th meeting.

Business will also be conducted by E-mail or Telephone.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-list@imec.be

Message titles prefixed [REL/RDD-RS]



N6178

AHG on DIA Editing

Mandate:

  1. Produce the AM8.0 by 2003/12/19.
  2. Produce the FDIS and submit to SC29 by 2004/03/15.
  3. Maintain the schema and description examples for the FDIS and AM8.0 at http://www.midgardmedia.net.
  4. Produce an Editors' Input on the WD for Amd.1.
  5. Produce AM8.1.

Chairman

Anthony Vetro (avetro_at_merl.com)

Co-chairman

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

Sylvain Devillers (Sylvain.Devillers_at_imec.be)

Thomas DeMartini (thomas.demartini_at_contentguard.com)

Duration:

Until the 68th Meeting.

Meetings:

AHG Meeting to be held on the weekend prior to the 68th meeting.

Reflector:

mpeg21-uma_at_merl.com


N6179

AHG on Bit-stream Adaptation in Constrained and Streaming Environments

Mandate:

  1. Identification of evaluation criteria for bit-stream adaptation in constrained or streaming environment.
  2. Study candidate technologies for XML-based transformations including XSLT, STX, and BSDTrI.
  3. Initiate the evaluation of candidate technologies.

Chairs:

Jörg Heuer (Siemens AG)
Debargha Mukherjee (HP Labs)
Sylvain Devillers (IMEC)
Christian Timmerer (University Klagenfurt)

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 68th meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg21-umaX@Xmerl.com

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N6180

AHG on MPEG-21 DIA Reference Software

Mandate:

  1. Review and collect feedback on the integrated MPEG-21 DIA Reference Software packages as outlined in N6172.
  2. Investigate transfer of the MPEG-21 DIA Reference Software packages to the NIST CVS repository.
  3. Follow and maintain the MDS DIA reference software implementation document, including tracking of the proposed deliveries of software to the Reference Software Web site.

Chairman:

Christian Timmerer (University Klagenfurt – christian.timmererX@Xitec.uni-klu.ac.at)
Gerrard Drury (UoW - gerrardX@Xtitr.uow.edu.au)
Frederik De Keukelaere (Ghent University – Frederik.DeKeukelaere@ugent.be)

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 68th meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-refswX@Xuow.edu.au

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N6181

AHG on MPEG-21 DIP Reference Software

Mandates

  1. Follow the MPEG-21 DIP Software Implementation Plan.
  2. Maintain the MPEG-21 DIP Software Implementation Plan.
  3. Encourage delivery of software implementations according to the MPEG-21 DIP Software Implementation Plan.
  4. Investigate transfer of DIP Reference SW to NIST CVS site.

Chairman

Gerrard Drury (gerrardx@xenikos.com)

Co Chair

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

Munchurl Kim (mkimx@xicu.ac.kr)

Duration

Until the 68th Meeting

Meetings

AHG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 68th meeting.

Other business to be conducted by email or phone.

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N6182

AHG on Editing and Core Experiments for DIP

Mandates

  1. Edit MPEG-21 DIP CD.
  2. Study MPEG-21 DIP CD and encourage contributions on improving this document
  3. Carry out Core Experiments on DIP.

Chairman

Gerrard Drury (gerrardx@xenikos.com)

Co Chair

Rik Van de Walle (rik.vandewallex@xugent.be)

Munchurl Kim (mkimx@xicu.ac.kr)

Duration

Until the 68th Meeting

Meetings

AHG Meeting to be held on the Sunday prior to 68th meeting.

Other business to be conducted by email or phone.

Reflector

mpeg-21-dip@uow.edu.au

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N6195

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

Mandate:

  1. To harmonize and integrate ISO/IEC 14496-4, ISO/IEC 14496-5, ISO/IEC 14496-7 including their amendments
  2. To test combination of tools and cross-decoding between MS and MoMusys encoder/decoder
  3. To maintain 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 Web site
  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 68th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

sw_int@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N6196

AHG on Visual Descriptors and Visual-only Description Schemes in MPEG-7

Mandate:

  1. To collect descriptions of core experiments, evaluation criteria and common conditions, edit the document and distribute it to the video group.
  2. To carry out the Core Experiments
  3. To perform an evaluation and comment on the results of Core Experiments
  4. To explore technical areas of work for phase 3 (Amd2)
  5. To explore what steps the group should take to facilitate the adoption of the MPEG-7 visual (e.g. issues of technical reports on use scenarios)
  6. To continue to maintain the Visual reference software.

Chairman:

Miroslaw Bober, Sang-Kyun Kim

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 68th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N6197

AHG on Editing MPEG-7 Visual related Documents

Mandate:

1. To maintain consistency of MPEG-7 Visual related documents

Chairman:

L. Cieplinski, A. Yamada

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

mpeg7-visual@lists.lancs.ac.uk

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N6198

AHG on 3DAV Coding

Mandate:

  1. To discuss the refinement of the "Application Format for Omnidirectional Video on Domes" document, adding the description and a block diagram of the decoding terminal
  2. To coordinate the Exploration Experiments on 3DAV
  3. To coordinate integration of 3DAV applications into MPEG reference software
  4. To prepare the evaluation of the responses to the Call for Comments on 3DAV

Chairman:

Aljoscha Smolic, Hideaki Kimata

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (Sunday before 68th Meeting)

Reflector:

mpeg-3dvideo@mlc.nifty.com

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N6199

AHG on Scalable Video Coding

Mandate:

  1. To discuss and refine the document on "Applications and Requirements for Scalable Video Coding"
  2. To assist the Video and Test subgroup chairs in preparing and coordinating the logistics related to the "Call for Proposals on Scalable Video Coding"
  3. To perform, jointly with the test group, the technical evaluation of the responses to the Call for Proposals
  4. To discuss evaluation criteria related to the "Call for Proposals on Scalable Video Coding"
  5. Propose Core Experiment procedures
  6. To review technical progress in Scalable Video Coding

Chairman:

Mihaela van der Schaar (chair), A. Becker, J. Ridge, C.J. Tsai (co-chairs), Vittorio Baroncini

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

Yes (2-3 days extended AHG before 68th Meeting, to be announced by the reflector)

Reflector:

svc@ient.rwth-aachen.de

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N6227

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-7 Systems

Mandate:

  1. Integrate tools in MPEG-7 Extensions in MPEG-7 reference software.
  2. Performs the Core experiments on MPEG-7 Extensions.
  3. Produce studies of MPEG-7 Extensions FPDAM.
  4. Produce WD of MPEG-7 Conformance.
  5. Solicit contributions on MPEG-21 binarization and assess impact of the binarization on the MPEG-21 architecture.
  6. Update MPEG-7 Systems FAQ.

Chairman:

Claude Seyrat (Expway), Ali Tabatabai (Sony), Itaru Kaneko (Waseda University)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

Meeting on the sunday before the München meeting.

Reflector:

Mpeg7-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N6228

Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Scene Representation

Mandate:

  1. Finalize requirements on Simple Scene Description and Simple Aggregation Format. Attracts attention and support from the industry on that activity and report actions taken back on the reflector.
  2. Complete evaluation methodology for the CfP on Lightweight Scene Coding (evaluation of Symbian player performance, version of the Symbian OS, ...).
  3. Propose test set as subset of SVGT1.2 to exite the player for performance and compression evaluation.
  4. Review PDAM of ISO/IEC 14496-11:2003/AMD 3 (Audio BIFS Extensions).
  5. Conduct the discussions on MPEG-4 Scene representation along with W3C and 3GPP in the area of streaming text and report actions taken back on the reflector.
  6. Review and improve XMT Extensions (on Bitwrapper, extensions to support AFX specific XMT description, ...).
  7. Investigate consequences of the creation of the new dimension for text profile both at the Systems level and at the Scene Description Level.
  8. Review 3DAV report and assess if the 3D Audio requirements can be fulfilled with existing and proposed MPEG technologies

Chairman:

Jean-Claude Dufourd (ENST), Yuval Fisher (Envivio), Juergen Schmidt (Thomson)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings

No Meeting

Reflector:

Bifs-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N6229

AHG on MPEG File format

Mandate:

  1. Produce studies of ISO/IEC 14496-12/PDAM1.
  2. Further study generalized addressing scheme for ISO File Format and propose specific solutions for MPEG-21 File Format.
  3. Further study WD 5.0 on MPEG-21 File Format and provide extensions if needed to meet all MPEG-21 requirements and solicit contributions on the topic and propose text for CD of MPEG-21 File Format.
  4. Define workplan for the development of file format reference software and conformance for the new file format standards.
  5. Discussions on Part 12 text should occur using both the MPEG-4 systems reflector mp4-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu and the Motion JPEG 2000 reflector mj2k_member@av.crl.sony.co.jp.

Chairman:

Dave Singer (Apple)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

No Meeting

Reflector:

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N6230

AHG on MPEG-J Extensions

Mandate:

  1. Improve PDAM of MPEG-J Extensions and produce a study.
  2. Assess the proposal of usage of Java 2 and make recommendations.
  3. Assess the proposal of changing initialization of MPEGlets and make recommendations.
  4. Evaluate answer to the Call for Proposal on MPEG Graphics APIS.

Chairman:

Mikael Bourges-Sevenier (Mindego), Vishy Swaminathan (Sun)

Duration:

Until next meeting

Meetings:

No Meeting

Reflector:

mpgj-sys@advent.ee.columbia.edu

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N6258

AHG on Reference Software

Mandate:

  1. Follow the integration plan for the MDS DIA reference software.
  2. Follow the integration plan for the MDS REL reference software.
  3. Follow the integration plan for the MDS DIP reference software.
  4. Maintain the MDS reference software implementation document, including tracking of the proposed deliveries of software to http://www.titr.uow.edu.au/mpeg/mpeg21/ref-sw

Chairman:

Christian Timmerer (University Klagenfurt – christian.timmererX@Xitec.uni-klu.ac.at),
Gerrard Drury (UoW - gerrardX@Xtitr.uow.edu.au)
Xin Wang (ContentGuard, Xin.WangX@Xcontentguard.com)

Duration:

Until 67th Meeting

Meetings

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the 68th meeting. Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

mpeg-21-refsoft@uow.edu.au

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N6259

AHG on MPEG Multimedia Test Bed

Mandate:

  1. Create working drafts of test bed APIs
  2. Design test environment for MPEG-21 DIA and MPEG IPMP Technologies
  3. Work with Scalable Video Coding AHG for testing of SVC technologies
  4. Design test environment for 14496-8
  5. Investigate issues in interoperability between the MPEG standards and the QoS related Internet protocols of session, transport, and network layers

Chairman:

Chun-Jen Tsai (NCTU), Mihaela van der Shaar (Philips), Young-Kwon Lim (net&tv), Doug Young Suh (KHU)

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

testbed@commlab18.ee.nctu.edu.tw

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N6260

AHG on MPEG-21 Conformance

Mandate:

  1. Discuss all topics related to MPEG-21 conformance
  2. Issue a WD2.1 of MPEG-21 Conformance for discussion at the next meeting, improving the existing sections and creating new sections for DID and DIP conformance.

Chairman:

Thomas DeMartini (CONTENTGUARD, Thomas.DemartiniX@Xcontentguard.com), Sylvain Devillers (IMEC, Sylvain.DevillersX@Ximec.be), Frederik De Keukelaere (Ghent Univ., Frederik.DeKeukelaereX@Xrug.ac.be), Gerrard Drury (UoW, gerrardX@Xtitr.uow.edu.au)

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

None

Reflector:

mpeg-21-conformance@uow.edu.au

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N6280

AHG on Intra-only Coding in MPEG

Mandate:

  1. To carry out further complexity analysis, which should lead to a recommendation on the creation of Profiles
  2. To consider the table of contents of a possible Technical Report
  3. To work on optimizing visual quality (e.g. by reducing flicker)
  4. To broaden the participation in the work so that the ahg can collect broader ideas and opinions about the above mandates

Chairman:

Kohtaro Asai

Duration:

Until 68th Meeting

Meetings

No

Reflector:

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N6281

AHG to complete requirements for MPEG-21 IPMP

Mandate:

  1. Complete requirements for MPEG-21 IPMP
  2. Develop Evaluation Criteria for MPEG-21 IPMP
  3. Recommend 1. and 2. to 68th Meeting

Chairman:

Simon Watt, Bas van den Heuvel, Craig Schultz

Duration:

Until 68th meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be in München on the 3 days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) directly before the 68th meeting

Reflector:

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N6282

AHG on study of MPEG-21 and broadcasting

Mandate:

  1. Development of Use-Cases for the next MPEG meeting
  2. Consideration of key use cases to define in detail
  3. Mapping of MPEG-21 tools to the detailed use cases

Chairs:

Artur Lugmayr (lartur acm * org)

Abdellatif Benjelloun Touimi (abdellatif * benjellountouimi a francetelecom * com)

Jong-Nam Kim (jnkim a kbs * co * kr)

Itaru Kaneko (itaru-k a acm * org)

Duration:

Until the 68th Meeting

Meetings:

A meeting will be held on the weekend before the Munich meeting.
Other business will be conducted by E-mail or telephone conference.

Reflector:

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N6283

AHG on Profiles and Extensions for the MPEG-21 REL

Mandate:

  1. Analyze requirements attached to the OMA liaison statement.
  2. Collect requirements from other industries for possible WG11 MPEG-21 standardized profiles and extensions
  3. Liaise with OeBF and EDItEUR about development of a publishing extension to the MPEG-21 REL
  4. Continue development of the MPEG-21 Profiles under Consideration Document
  5. Study the interoperability implications of extensions
  6. Explore mechanisms for publicizing the existence of extensions and profiles of the MPEG-21 REL.
  7. Examine the process of creating a profile of the MPEG-21 REL how it can be applied to the creation of profiles of other MPEG-21 parts or profiles that apply across multiple MPEG-21 parts and continue development of "Process and Requirements for Profiling in MPEG-21".

Co-Chairs:

Brad Gandee (brad.gandee@contentguard.com)

Chris Barlas (chris.barlas@rightscom)

Duration:

Until the 68th Meeting

Meetings:

Not planned. Business will be conducted by E-mail

Reflector:

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N6284

AHG on MPEG-7 Interoperability and Profiling

Mandate:

  1. To prepare a preliminary Final Committee Draft, based on NB votes
  2. To further collect profiles into "MPEG-7 Profiles under Consideration"
  3. To collaborate with Multimedia Application Format project to ensure the Simple Metadata Profile (SMP) can satisfy their audio (ID3) and visual (EXIF) applications.
  4. To further collect interoperability test bed requirements.
  5. To define what "union" means for multiple profiles and continue to explore the concept of modular profiling and to propose text for the MPEG-7 Requirements Document and precise syntax for profile signaling.

Chair:

Wo Chang (wchang a nist * gov)

CoChair:

Masanori Sano (sano * m-fo a nhk * or * jp)

Duration:

Until 68th meeting

Meetings:

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

Reflector:

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N6285

AHG on Multimedia Application Format (MAF)

Mandate:

  1. To review and revise MAF overview document
  2. To compile/generate/maintain MAF bitstreams at a central repository
  3. To create and maintain MAF reference software for packaging Simple Metadata Profile (SMP) metadata along with the audio (ID3) and visual (EXIF) raw bitstreams into MP4 file format.

Chair:

Wo Chang (wchang a nist *gov)

CoChair:

Olivier Avaro (olivier * avaro a francetelecom * com)

Duration:

Until 68th meeting

Meetings:

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

Reflector:

mappf a yahoogroups* com

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N6286

AhG on MPEG-21 Event Reporting

Mandate:

1. Prepare the evaluation meeting for the CfP.

Chairs:

FX Nuttall (fx a nuttall * org)

Andrew Tokmakoff (tokmakoff a telin * nl)

Duration:

Until the 68th Meeting

Meetings:

A 2 day pre-evaluation meeting will be held on the weekend before the Munich meeting.

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

Reflector:

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