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INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 N14309 April 2014, Valencia, Spain

Source Convenor Status Approved Title List of AHGs Established at the 108th Meeting in Valencia, Spain

N14493 AHG on AR 1. Edit the ARAF and MAR RM documents 2. Identify additional needs for ARAF 3. Identify the MPEG technologies that shall be part of ARAF Mandates 4. Continue actions to implement the collaborative work-plan for MAR RM with SC24 5. Investigate the usage of 3DV, 3DA, CDVA and UD in Augmented Reality Marius Preda (Institut Mines Telecom), Traian Lavric (Institut Mines Chairmen Telecom), B.S. Choi (ETRI) Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector mpeg-3dgc AT gti. ssr. upm. es To subscribe, send email to https://mx.gti.ssr.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/mpeg- Subscribe 3dgc During weekend prior Room size Date July 6, 09h00-13h00 to MPEG 30 Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14494 AHG on MPEG-V 1. Edit the MPEG-V documents 2. To further develop tools for MPEG-V and discuss related contributions. Mandates 3. Collect material for reference software and conformance of MPEG-V 3rd Edition Chairmen Kyoungro Yoon (Konkuk University), Marius Preda (Institut Mines Telecom), Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/metaverse During weekend prior Room size Date July 6, 14h00-16h00 to MPEG 30 Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14495 AHG on Graphics compression 1. To define requirements of 3D tele-immersive coding 2. To progress the specification and continue implementation of Web3D Mandates coding 3. To disseminate benchmark results of MPEG tools Lazar Bivolarski (LZ), Rufael Mekuria (CWI), Christian Tulvan (Institut Chairmen Mines Telecom), Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector mpeg-3dgc AT gti. ssr. upm. es To subscribe, send email to https://mx.gti.ssr.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/mpeg- Subscribe 3dgc During weekend prior Room size Date July 6, 16h00-17h00 to MPEG 30 Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14497 AHG on Reconfigurable Media Coding 1. To finalize testing of the reference implementation of GTL FUs 2. To finalize the normative and non-normative parts of RMC software, and the conformance. Mandates 3. To discuss and study the developments necessary for ongoing and future amendments of 23001-4, 23002-4 and 23002-5. 4. To further develop tools for SVC and HEVC and discuss related contributions. Chairmen Christian Tulvan (Institut Mines Telecom), Mickael Raulet (IRISA) Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected]; mpeg-3dgc AT gti. ssr. upm. es To subscribe, send email to [email protected] and Subscribe https://mx.gti.ssr.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-3dgc During weekend prior Room size Date July 6, 17h00-18h00 to MPEG 30 Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14498 AHG on MPEG Assets 1. Collect all the information about the current place of MPEG conformance and MPEG content Mandates 2. Populate the conformance repository on wg11.sc29.org 3. Populate the content repository Christian Tulvan (Institut Mines Telecom), Marius Preda (Institut Mines Chairmen Telecom) Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector mpeg-3dgc AT gti. ssr. upm. es To subscribe, send email to https://mx.gti.ssr.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/mpeg- Subscribe 3dgc During weekend prior Room size to MPEG 30 Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14434 AHG on MPEG-7 Visual 1. To carry out further updates to the MPEG-7 XM to ensure correct operation and multi-platform use. 2. To continue testing of the functionality and conformance of the MPEG-7 Mandates XM. 3. To maintain consistency of MPEG-7 Visual related documents, Reference Software and Conformance. 4. To discuss and improve the WD2 of 15938-6 (2nd edition). Chairmen Stavros Paschalakis, Miroslaw Bober (co-chairs) Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] Send an email (from the address you wish to subscribe) to Subscribe [email protected] with the message “subscribe mpeg7-visual [display name]” as the first line in the body.… During weekend prior Room size -- Date -- to MPEG Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14435 AHG on Compact Descriptors for Visual Search 1. Conduct the core experiment, and perform an evaluation of results during the AHG meeting. 2. Maintain software for the Test Model. 3. Maintain the CDVS databases and training data. Mandates 4. Discuss the DIS and TM documents, and provide suggestions for editorial improvements. 5. Discuss and propose a conditions for a conformance specification. 6. Contribute to the promotion of CDVS by MPEG. Chairmen Miroslaw Bober (Chair), Giovanni Cordara, Danilo Pau (co-chairs) Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe https://listserv.uni-hannover.de/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CDVS-TNT During weekend prior Room size Date 2014-07-06 to MPEG 20 Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14436 AHG on Internet Video Coding 1. To discuss and improve the text of test model ITM9 and WD2. 2. To conduct the ITM Exploration Experiments. Mandates 3. To maintain the document of recording prior knowledge about technology brought into IVC. 4. To discuss results of EEs and other related input docs in the AHG meeting. Chairmen Ronggang Wang, Euee S. Jang (co-chairs) Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to Subscribe http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-ivc During weekend prior Room size Date 2014-07-06 to MPEG 20 Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14437 AHG on Video Coding for Browsers 1. To maintain the software of Video Coding for Browsers in the MPEG SVN. Mandates 2. To define and generate a set of conformance test streams. 3. To maintain a set of anchors that can be used for proposals on enhancements of VCB. Chairmen Mohamad Raad, Qunshan Gu Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to Subscribe http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-vcb. During weekend prior Room size Date 2014-07-06 to MPEG 20 Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG N14438 AHG on Video Test Material Assets 1. To collect information about availability and copyright status of video test material used by MPEG. Mandates 2. To transfer the material to MPEG Content repository after sending 3. email to reflector Chairmen Vittorio Baroncini, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Teruhiko Suzuki, T.K. Tan, Sehoon Yea Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to Subscribe http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-vtm. During weekend prior Room size -- Date -- to MPEG Meeting Before weekend prior Place /Date/Logistics to MPEG

N14524 AHG on MPEG File Formats 1. Study the question of partial file storage as raised in M33297. 2. Study the storage of timing information for Uniform Time Alignment. 3. Study the carriage of still pictures and image sequences in the file format; Study selecting a crop of a larger image, as an image in the still file format; Study assembling a larger image from independently coded sub-images (the reverse of breaking an image into tiles). 4. Study amendments and corrigenda under ballot regarding 14496-12 & Mandate: 14496-15. 5. Continue study WD of carriage of enhanced support of HEVC and MVC+D 6. Contribute to on-going DASH and MMT activities 7. Maintain and update the conformance streams, reference software, and registration authority, as needed; 8. Study the technologies under consideration 9. Study Timed Metadata Metrics of Media in the ISOBMFF Chairman: David Singer (Apple) and Per Fröjdh (Ericsson) Duration: Until next meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/mp4-sys During weekend prior to MPEG Sunday 20 Meeting Before weekend prior to MPEG No

N14525 AHG on Font Format Representation Mandates 1. To study CD of ISO/IEC 14496-22 3rd edition Vladimir Levantovsky [firstname (dot) lastname (at) monotypeimaging (dot) Chairmen com] Duration Until next meeting Reflector http:// groups . yahoo.com / group / mpeg-OTspec [remove spaces] Subscribe mpeg-OTspec (at) yahoogroups (dot) com During weekend prior to MPEG No Meeting Before weekend prior to MPEG No

N14526 AHG on MPEG-DASH 1. Collaborate with relevant SDOs 2. Study technologies under considerations (N14346) and conduct core experiments (N14347) Mandates 3. Study amendments and corrigenda related to DASH under ballot 4. Generate a coverage map of Part 1 2nd edition features (elements and attributes, and segment) in the conformance and reference software 5. Continue to work on conformance and reference software Chairmen Iraj Sodagar (Microsoft), Youngkwon Lim (Samsung) Duration Until next meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/ dash During weekend prior to Meeting No MPEG

N14527 AHG on Multimedia Preservation Application Format (MP-AF) 1. Study WD on Implementation Guideline to validate the MP-AF schema and Mandates solicit input contributions to improve it. Chairmen Wo Chang, wchang at nist.gov; Walter Allasia, allasia at eurixgroup.com Duration Until next meeting Reflector preservation -tnt @ listserv .uni-hannover.de To subscribe or unsubscribe, Subscribe go to https://listserv.uni-hannover.de/cgi-bin/wa?A0= preservation -tnt Date : Sunday During weekend prior to MPEG Room size : 10 afternoon Meeting Teleconference (detail will be Before weekend prior to MPEG announced on the reflector)

N14528 AHG on MPEG Media Transport Mandates 1. Conduct core experiments as described in N14356 2. Study working drafts and the documents related to MMT under ballot 3. Execute work plan on the conformance and reference software 4. Study synergies with DASH 5. Study IP broadcasting profile using existing IETF protocols 6. Keep relevant SDOs be informed about MMT (ARIB, 3GPP, ATSC, etc.) 7. Disseminate information about MMT Developers’ Day (N14358) and organize it. Chairmen Imed Bouazizi ( [email protected]), Shuichi Aoki (NHK) Duration Until next meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe https://listserv.uni-hannover.de/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MMT-TNT During weekend prior to MPEG 60 persons Date : Sunday Meeting Before weekend prior to MPEG Place /Date/Logistics

N14529 AHG on Green MPEG 1. Study the DIS (N14344) 2. Study and contribute to ISO/IEC 23001-10 Mandates 3. Study MXM APIs related to Green Metadata Felix C. Fernandes (Samsung Electronics) Chairmen Xavier Ducloux (Thomson Video Networks) Duration Until Next Meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe To subscribe, contact Felix Fernandes ([email protected]) Room Size Weekend prior to MPEG meeting Date: Sunday Meeting 15 Other None

N14530 AHG on User Description 1. Harmonize the current technologies in WD of MPEG-UD (N14366). 2. Investigate the completeness of MPEG-UD components. Mandates 3. Solicit missing technologies to cover as many as possible applications. Chairmen Sanghyun Joo (ETRI, [email protected]), Bojan Joveski Duration Until next Meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/user Meeting Weekend prior to MPEG meeting Room Size Date: Saturday & 15 Sunday Other None

N14531 AHG on Timeline alignment 1. Study use cases in N14365 2. Solicit contributions on gap analysis and technical contributions Mandates 3. Disseminate information about the workshop and organize it. (N14523) Jean Le Feuvre (TELECOM ParisTech ), Emmanuel Thomas (TNO), Chairmen Youngkwon Lim (Samsung) Duration Until Next Meeting Reflector gen - sys @lists.uni-klu.ac.at Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/ gen-sys Weekend prior to MPEG meeting Room Size Date: Meeting Other None

N14532 AHG on Publish/Subscribe Application Format (PSAF) 1. To review the PSAF requirements 2. To review the PSAF technologies in the WD, in particular the use of REL Mandates vs CEL 3. To discuss and propose appropriate verbs with the features required by PSAF Chairmen Jaime Delgado and Xin Wang Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector mpeg-m_*at*_lists.uni-klu.ac.at Subscribe To subscribe send email to http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-m During weekend prior to MPEG NO NO Meeting Before weekend prior to MPEG NO

N14499 AHG on 3D Audio and Audio Maintenance Mandates 1. Support 3D Audio Phase 2 submissions and associated subjective listening tests 2. Execute workplan on 3D Audio 3. Investigate and resolve any open issues associated with Candidate Technologies for 3D Audio 4. Investigate and resolve any open issues associated with Candidate Technologies for DRC. 5. Maintain Audio-related conformance data 6. Maintain Audio-related reference software Chairmen Schuyler Quackenbush (ARL) Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected]  To subscribe or unsubscribe to the list, go to http://audioresearchlabs.com/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-audio- call_audioresearchlabs.com Subscribe  To post on the mailing list, send email to mpeg-audio-call@ audioresearchlabs.com Note that posting is blocked for non-members Dates: During weekend of Room size 40 Sat Jul 5, 1000 - 1800 MPEG Sun Jul 6, 1000 - 1800 Meeting Monday 1300-1800 and Tuesday 0900- To be in Europe, location to be announced by April 25, 1800, June 2 and 3, 2014 2014

N14500 AHG on Responding to Industry Needs on Adoption of MPEG Audio 1. Assess market needs, with respect to conformance streams, application notes, white papers, etc. that are suitable for various application domains Mandates 2. Identify Forum software to facilitate the exchange of public information on MPEG Audio topics 3. Publicize this effort via various mechanisms, e.g. MPEG Liaison actions Chairmen Schuyler Quackenbush (ARL), Juliane Borsum (FhG-IIS) Duration Until 108th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] To subscribe send an email to [email protected] Subscribe with following subject: subscribe mpegaudio-adoption-support No Meeting Meeting

N14505 AHG on Still Image Coding Using HEVC 1. To propose coformance test material for HEVC v1 Still Picture Profile 2. To assess the subjective quality of HEVC still Picture coding Mandates 3. Collect test data with other properties like color spaces and bit depths

Justin Ridge (Nokia), Didier Nicholson (Vitec), Peter Schelkens (VUB), Chairmen Chaker Larabi (XLIM-SIC) Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/still During weekend Room size 10 Date: 14/07/06 of MPEG Meeting Before weekend of MPEG

N14502 AHG on FTV (Free-viewpoint Television) 1. To carry out Exploration Experiments. 2. To solicit contributions for test material. 3. To develop test conditions and procedures corresponding to the target use Mandates cases and requirements. 4. To study available technologies. 5. To prepare FTV seminar at 109th MPEG meeting in Sapporo. Chairmen Masayuki Tanimoto (chair), Anthony Vetro, Karsten Müller (co-chairs) Duration Until 108th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/ftv During weekend of MPEG Room size 50 Date: 14/07/06 Meeting Before weekend of MPEG Place /Date/Logistics

N14504 AHG on Processing and Sharing of Media under User Control 1. Explore and develop uses cases 2. Develop Requirements Mandates 3. Identify potential technologies relevant to the use case and requirements 4. Investigate related standard development activities in other SDO’s

Chairmen Touradj Ebrahimi & Xin Wang Duration Until the 109th Meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/user-controlled Meeting None N14503 AHG on Compact Descriptors for Video Analysis 1. Requirements: a. Review existing requirements under consideration and provide concrete feedbacks about their applicability on Automotive and Media&Entertainment. b. Collect requirements for the surveillance domain; c. Provide feasibility studies including quantitative values for Mandates requirements d. Define a priority list of objects/scene/events for Media&Entertainment domain based on received datasets 2. Produce annotations for datasets not annotated using the tool received. Collect them in a repository. 3. Promote CDVA using public documents and seek to enlarge industry support Chairmen Danilo Pau, Miroslaw Bober, Werner Bailer Duration Until 109th MPEG Meeting Reflector [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Subscribe with message subscribe cdvs-tnt Meetings During weekend of MPEG Room size: 30 people

N14501 AHG on HDR and WCG 1. Update Draft Use Cases, Requirements and Test Conditions including Exploratory Experiments. Mandates 2. Solicit content including high quality generally accessible content. 3. Solicit displays, formats and conversion tools for viewings and tests. Chairmen Walt Husak, Edouard Francois and Ajay Luthra Duration Until next Meeting Reflector [email protected] Subscribe http://lists.uni-klu.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/xyz Weekend before the MPEG meeting in Room size 50 Date: 2014/07/05-06 Meeting Sapporo, JP