Ad hoc groups

1. Solicit industry participation and contributions for ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format based on ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media

2. Study and solicit contributions (e.g., technologies and APIs) for ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format in the following areas:
    o Smart contracts and DLTs
    o Rights and metadata management
    o Content and creator IDs
    o File formats and streaming protocols

3. Study and improve the Technologies under Consideration (TuC) ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralised Media Rights Application Format document towards a Working Draft (WD)

Panos Kudumakis and Mirko Zichichi

Until the 142nd MPEG meeting

smart-contracts@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/smart-contracts

Biweekly calls starting Wed 1 Feb. 2023, alternatively at 14:00 & 16:00 UTC (2 h)

1.	Investigate and propose methodologies for running packages in the cloud
2.	Investigate impact of running encoder/decoder on different platforms and methodologies to minimize discrepancies
3.	Revise feature anchor, including TVD intra period, runtime update, adding checks
4.	Investigate methodologies for VCM encoder/decoder size measurement
Target date for CfP: April 2023

Chris Rosewarne (Canon) chris.rosewarne@canon.com.au
Yuan Zhang (China Telecom) zhangy666@chinatelecom.cn

Until the 142nd MPEG meeting

mpeg-vcm@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-vcm

Half-day face-to-face AhG meeting on Saturday or Sunday in Antalya, with remote participation before the MPEG 142
Option for conference call before April (two week notice)

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1.	Execute Workplan on MPEG-I Immersive Audio
2.	Conduct Core Experiments on MPEG-I Immersive Audio
3.	Work with WG3 Scene Description experts to study and progress the integration of MPEG-I Immersive Audio into MPEG-I Scene Description. This would include developing WG6 N0186.
4.	Maintain Audio-related text, conformance data and reference software
5.	Study and promote use Cases and Requirements for Audio Coding for Machines

Schuyler Quackenbush (ARL) srq at audioresearchlabs . com (Mandate 1, 2, 3)
Christof Fersch (Dolby) christof.fersch at dolby.com (Mandate 4)
Thomas Sporer (FhG-IDMT) thomas.sporer at idmt.fraunhofer.de (Mandate 5)

Until 11th WG 6 Meeting

mpeg-audio-call@audioresearchlabs.com

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the AhG Chair Schuyler Quackenbush
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Web AhG meetings as follows:

Joint with Scene Description to discuss common architecture (WG6 N0186): 
•	Zoom: http://iso.zoom.us/my/stockhammer, Passwd as of MPEG#141
•	Call: Monday January 30, 2023 14:30 – 16:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CET). Time slot of 15:15 - 16:00UTC) will be used to discuss WG6 N0186

Audio AhG meetings:
•	https://iso.zoom.us/j/95261587706?pwd=ZmtzeHpqWHdmOVUxb1Z6c2Jod0hrUT09
•	Thu Apr 20 and Fri Apr 21 2023, 1300-1700 UTC

Note: It is expected that document registration and upload deadline is Mon Apr 17

1.	Conduct activities to improve V-PCC Reference SW
2.	Conduct the V-PCC experiments for future enhancements
3.	Propose corrections for identified issues in the V-PCC specifications
4.	Coordinate scientific and technical dissemination of V-PCC
5.	Coordinate communications of V-PCC to fairs, exhibitions, workshops, webinars, and enrich www.mpeg-pcc.org with relevant information about V-PCC, enrich Wikipedia pages on V-PCC
6.	Solicit contributions to encapsulate V-PCC in scene graph 
7.	Release the V-Mesh model V3.0 (SW and documentation) during the editing period
8.	Conduct the experiments for video-based dynamic mesh coding
9.	Coordinate activities on Mesh use cases and requirements
10.	Solicit additional data sets for all categories

Ralf Schaefer (Chair), Khaled Mammou, Danillo Graziosi

Until the next MPEG WG 7 Meeting

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

To subscribe, send email to https://mx.gti.ssr.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-3dgc

Several online sessions before the next MPEG meeting

1. Coordinate the editing for the G-PCC 2nd edition
2. Update the TMs (SW and documentation) during the editing period
3. Update G-PCC Conformance bitstream and G-PCC Reference SW 
4. Conduct the G-PCC experiments for future enhancements
5. Coordinate scientific and technical dissemination of G-PCC
6. Coordinate communications of G-PCC to fairs, exhibitions, workshops, webinars
7. Solicit additional data sets for all categories
8. Coordinate editing of the G-PCC White Paper

Sébastien Lasserre, Ohji Nakagami, Toshiyasu Sugio

until the next MPEG WG7 meeting

mpeg-3dgc@gti.ssr.upm.es

to https://mx.gti.ssr.upm.es/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-3dgc

Several online sessions during the week before the next MPEG meeting.

Metaverse-related activity 
1) Identify existing MPEG technologies that can serve metaverse-related experiences. (provide use cases and associated technical analysis)
2) Identify potential needs in the metaverse context for efficient media coding technology and related systems technologies. In particular - Enhancements to existing standards - New activities. 
3) Prepare for dissemination the outcome of 1 & 2 to metaverse-related fora (e.g., Metaverse Standards Forum) and the public.

Gilles Teniou, Tencent (teniou@tencent.com)
Justin Ridge, Nokia (justin.ridge@nokia.com)

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpeg-market@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-market

1st March 2023
2pm-3pm UTC

29th March 2023
2pm-3pm UTC

1) Define the MPEG vision on AI 
	1.1. How AI will be used? (compression, other tasks, configurations…) 
	1.2. Identify challenges for AI in compression 
2) Define use cases for MPEG-AI
3) Define (general) requirements (including from other WGs) 
4) Prepare skeleton for a Technical Report (Part 1 of MPEG-AI)

Gilles Teniou, Tencent (teniou@tencent.com)
Dong Tian,InterDigital (dong.tian@interdigital.com)

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpeg-ai@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-ai

1st March 2023 9-10:30pm UTC
Discuss how to structure the work

23rd March 2023 2pm-3:30pm UTC
Review initial contributions

1. Study of 5G use cases, requirements, specifications and new work items that could be relevant to MPEG work.

2. Identify potential new MPEG activities that can help the industry deploy applications, including media services, over 5G.

3. Provide initial requirements for the identified new MPEG activities.

4. Solicit contributions on a document including 3GPP XR use cases in order to
gather typical traffic characteristics of media types from WGs 4,5,6,7.

5. Follow-up and report on the FS_AI4Media, MeCAR and IBACS activities from the 3GPP SA4 WG.

Igor D.D. Curcio (Nokia) igor.curcio@nokia.com
Emmanuel Thomas (Xiaomi) thomase@xiaomi.com

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpeg-and-5g@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-and-5g

One conference call to be announced 2 weeks in advance (on need basis).

1. Update the MPEG roadmap in different formats (Word, long PPT, short PPT,
video, web) according to the periodical schedule and the BoG report notes.

2. Start preparing the questions for a survey on two categories: XR and AI.

3. Add one slide to the short and long PPT versions of the roadmap containing a list of explorations in graphical form.

Arianne Hinds (Tencent) ahinds@tencent.com
Igor D.D. Curcio (Nokia) igor.curcio@nokia.com
Sachin Deshpande (Sharp) sdeshpande@sharplabs.com

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpegvision@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpegvision

One conference call to be announced 2 weeks in advance (on need basis).

1. Study and solicit contributions to improve 23090-10, 23090-18 and their amendments
2. Discuss open issues in MPEG Git (http://mpegx.int-evry.fr/software/MPEG/Systems/PCC-SYS) and propose recommended dispositions
3. Study commonalities among 23090-2, 23090-10 and 23090-18 and propose common metadata definition to be moved to 23090-7 
4. Study reference software and conformance for 23090-10 and 23090-18 and solicit contribution to improve them. 
5. Study 23090-27 and 23090-28 related documents and solicit contributions regarding systems technologies for them.

Youngkwon Lim, Lauri Ilola

until the 11th MPEG Systems WG meeting

gen-sys@lists.aau.at

http://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/gen-sys

- one conference call (detail information will be announced to the gen-sys reflector)

- F2F AHG meeting on Sunday before the meeting (to be confirmed)

- To study open questions regarding ISO/IEC 14496-34 on MPEG Git (http://mpegx.int-evry.fr/software/MPEG/Systems/sdl/contributions)
- To review the draft text and propose updates

Youngkwon Lim

Until the 11th MPEG Systems WG meeting

gen-sys@lists.aau.at

http://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/gen-sys

- one conference call (detail information will be announced to the gen-sys reflector)

- F2F AHG meeting on Saturday before the meeting (to be confirmed)

1. Prepare the text of MPEG-I Part 27 technical report to be ready for an initial ballot at MPEG 142.
2. Modify the use case document to explicitly identify how each use case relates to work that is done in MPEG, i.e., in either new or existing specifications.
3. Continue to refine the requirements documents both for Phase 1 and beyond Phase 1 of render-based 3D technologies.
4. Continue to solicit industry engagement.

Arianne T. Hinds (arianne.hinds@comcast.net), Peter Ludé (pete@missionrockdigital.com)

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpeg-render@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-render

Biweekly teleconference calls starting on Thursday 02 February 2023 for 90 minutes

UTC 15:00 to 16:30 or as agreed by AhG members.

All meetings by Zoom to be announced on the reflector and in the MPEG calendar. All meetings using the following Zoom coordinates.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88603803604?pwd=a3p3cFlzRWhBMHBjWVdyQ1JGL1cvUT09

Meeting ID:886 0380 3604
Passcode: 577815

1. Establish the entities and corresponding labels for the “independent mapping space”;
2. Identify mappings between entities from the Independent Mapping Space and Unity and Unreal Engine real-time rendering data structures and interfaces;
3. Identify mappings between the abstract entities from the “independent mapping space” and USD scene graph;
4. Identify mappings between the abstract entities from the “independent mapping space” and glTF2.0;
5. Define a process to label scene graphs with the entities of the Independent Mapping Space.
6. Provide input to MPEG 142 on results toward identifying an independent mapping space, and mappings of this space to Unity, Unreal Engine, USD, and glTF2.0;
7. Provide input to MPEG 142 that will recommend next steps for the development of other specifications that can aid in the efficient delivery of the scene-based media to a render-based client over a network.
8. Refine the requirements identified for MPEG Phase 1 (WG2N00268) and for beyond Phase 1 (WG2N00269).
9. Continue to solicit industry engagement.
10. Collect test material and refine the test scenarios document

Arianne T. Hinds (Arianne.hinds@comcast.net), Peter Ludé (pete@missionrockdigital.com)

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpeg-render@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-render

Biweekly teleconference calls starting on Thursday 02 February 2023 from 15:00 to 16:30 UTC for 90 minutes
 or as agreed by AhG members.

All meetings by Zoom to be announced on the reflector and in the MPEG calendar.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88603803604?pwd=a3p3cFlzRWhBMHBjWVdyQ1JGL1cvUT09

Meeting ID: 886 0380 3604
Passcode: 577815

1) Study the preliminary WD of amendment 2 and TuC of immersive media metrics.
2) Study the server-side dynamic adaptation architecture in TuC of OMAF.
3) Study requirements of MPEG-I phase 2 especially in relation to OMAF.
4) Preparation of OMAF version 2 reference software and conformance.
5) Maintain relationship with relevant SDOs, (e.g., VRIF, 3GPP SA4).

Sachin Deshpande, Ye-Kui Wang, Youngkwon Lim

Until the next WG3 Meeting

gen-sys@lists.aau.at

http://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/gen-sys

Online AHG meeting (as required) will be announced 2 weeks in advance.

1. Maintain datasets and INCTM
2. Study performance of NNC on low-precision inputs
3. Investigate application of NNC to further use cases (e.g., VCM, AI-based PCC, implicit neural scene representations)
4. Continue interaction with SC42, 3GPP SA4, NNEF, ONNX and the AI/ML community

Werner Bailer (chair, werner.bailer@joanneum.at)
Sungmoon Chun (vice-chair, smchun@insignal.co.kr)

until next MPEG meeting

mpeg-nnr@lists.aau.at

Email to: mpeg-nnr-join@lists.aau.at

Half-day on Sunday before next WG 4 meeting (on-site)

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1. Review the text of the updated Working Draft of ISO/IEC 14496-22 (5th edition).
2. Explore potential future changes and updates, and propose new items (if applicable) for consideration in the 5th edition of the OFF specification.

Vladimir Levantovsky (Type Standards)

Until next meeting

mpeg-otspec@lists.aau.at; https://github.com/MPEGGroup/OpenFontFormat

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-otspec

Zoom conference call may be held, if necessary (detailed information will be posted to the AHG reflector)

1. Study extensions of 23001-11 on decoding complexity metrics for decoder-power reduction for EVC
2. Prepare DIS of AMD1 of 23001-11 3rd edition for EVC
3. Study potential improvements of 23001-11 3rd edition

Edouard Francois (InterDigital), Christian Herglotz (FAU), Yong He (Qualcomm)

Until next MPEG meeting

gen-sys@lists.aau.at – use [green] in email header

http://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/gen-sys

Several online sessions before the next MPEG meeting if necessary

1. Coordinate ISO/IEC 23094-1 AMD 1 preparation and processing;
2. Coordinate management of the ETM software and its distribution;
3. Discuss EVC related input documents to WG4 11th meeting.

Roman Chernyak (chernyak@tencent.com)
Min Woo Park (m.w.park@samsung.com)

Until next WG04 meeting

mpeg-5@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-5

Friday before next WG04 meeting

online

Option for conference call before April Mtg (two week notice)

CMAF (Common Media Application Format)
1. Study the TuC and the Preliminary WD and solicit further input
2. Study the DIS of Amd 1 of Ed. 3 and solicit final comments
3. Study the potential issues regarding width and height fields
4. Solicit further contributions on CMAF conformance and test vectors
5. Solicit feedback on the open issues on GitHub and GitLab 

MIAF (Multi-Image Application Format)
1. Study the Draft DIS and solicit further input, in particular about the rotation handling issue.
2. Solicit feedback on the open issues on GitHub and GitLab

Krasimir Kolarov; Cyril Concolato

until 142nd meeting

CMAF - mpeg-cmaf@lists.aau.at
MIAF, VIAF - mpeg-maf-dev@lists.aau.at

CMAF - https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-cmaf
MIAF, VIMAF - https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-maf-dev

AF Conference call, April 20, 2023, 16:00-18:00 UTC

1. Study and improve Part 1 Draft text of  CAMD2  (WG03N 780)
2. Study technologies under consideration (TuC; WG03N 774) and defect under investigation (DuI; WG03N 765)
3. Continue to work on conformance and reference software
4. Finalize the signaling and improve the corresponding text in the AMD2 Working draft for supporting picture-in-picture
5. Study Part 1 Annex I, its usability, its extensibility and provide a path for extending its support.

Iraj Sodagar, Christian Timmerer, Ali C. Begen

Until the next MPEG meeting

dash@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/dash

1.	Discuss and address the Github and Gitlab issues.
2.	Support the groups using the file formats (including audio, DASH, CMAF, OMAF, MIAF, V3C systems, Haptics, NBMP et al.)
3.	Study the Technologies under Consideration and Working Draft documents and propose improvements. Study the defect reports and propose corrigendum text, e.g. language codes.
4.	Study the proposed clarifications on the definition of brands and the use of versions, particularly in the ISO base media file format, and suggest improvements.
5.	Maintain and update the conformance streams, reference software, white papers and one-pagers, and registration authority, as needed. Study whether conformance checking can be (maybe partially) automated, and how the specifications and conformance can be managed as a coordinated workflow. Study the license of the reference software.
6.	Check the specifications for unregistered MIME types and parameters and start registering them. Audit files as needed for the MP4RA.
7.	Study processes to improve cross-verification of MPEG file format standards and continue the discussion on m60397
8.	(New) Explore alignment of DASH/CMAF/FF terminology, concepts and solutions

Cyril Concolato (Netflix) and Miska Hannuksela (Nokia)

Until next meeting

mp4-sys@lists.aau.at
https://github.com/MPEGGroup/FileFormat

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mp4-sys

1 online Meeting to draft dispose of comments on Part 12 (2 weeks notice, March – Doodle Poll)

1 online Meeting for the joint DASH/FF/CMAF (2 weeks notice, End of February/Early March – Doodle Poll)

1.	Address the integration of G-PCC, MIV and other MPEG codecs and technologies into Scene Description jointly with 3DG/video/systems/audio based on WG03 N0795 and provide a best practices document on how to do so
2.	Study the support of multiple atlases for MIV taking into account the proposed solution in SD TuC in WG3 N0759
3.	Work with the audio group WG06 on progressing the integration of MPEG-I audio into the MPEG-I SD taking into account WG06 N0186 and the SD TuC WG3 N0759. 
4.	Study the technologies in CDAM2 of ISO/IEC 23090-14 in WG03_N0797 for potential improvements
5.	Conduct the evaluation experiments on as defined in WG3 N0767
6.	Progress the technologies in the TuC in WG03_N0759 based on the decisions made for Amd1 and Amd2.
7.	Collect/coordinate test assets that support the development of the MPEG-I Scene description work according to WG3_N0782.
8.	Collect initial problem statements and industry needs to be addressed by scene description beyond the second edition to schedule potential work later in 2023. 
9.	Work on conformance and reference software based on procedures (WG3_N0782) and progress the WD (WG3_N0771), and progress the issues in reference software (http://mpegx.int-evry.fr/software/MPEG/Systems/SceneDescription/software/reference/-/issues) and carriage (http://mpegx.int-evry.fr/software/MPEG/Systems/SceneDescription/software/23090-24-carriage/-/issues).
10.	Collect information on ongoing scene description related work in the industry and in other groups and organizations and promote the MPEG-I Scene Description, in particular Khronos and the Metaverse Standards Forum
11.	Communicate with Khronos on the MPEG extensions in WG3_N0769 (first edition) and WG3_N0815 (second edition),  and other relevant topics related to Scene Description
12.	Dispose issues in internal and public git environment

Thomas Stockhammer (tsto@qti.qualcomm.com)
Mary-Luc Champel (champelmaryluc@xiaomi.com)
Gaëlle Martin-Cocher (Gaelle.Martin-Cocher@InterDigital.com)

Until MPEG#142

mpeg-i-scene@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-i-scene
 
Please check gitlab discussions here:
http://mpegx.int-evry.fr/software/MPEG/SceneDescription/MPEG-Contributions/issues

Please check public github discussions here:
https://github.com/MPEGGroup/Scene-Description

AHG Meetings
 • Call: Monday January 30, 2023 14:30 – 16:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CET)
   o From 15:15 UTC onwards WG06 joins for Audio.
   o Additional participation of WG06 will be discussed during this slot
 • Call: Monday February 13, 2023 14:30 – 16:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CET)
   o Jointly with colleagues from AHG MPEG Immersive Video. Please check their AHG here: http://mpegx.int-evry.fr/software/MPEG/MIV/InputDocuments/-/blob/659-next-ahg/README.md
   o Additional participation of MIV experts will be discussed during this slot
 • Call: Monday March 13, 2023, 2023 14:30 – 16:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CET)
 • Call: Monday March 27, 2023, 2023 13:30 – 15:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CEST)
 • Call: Monday April 10, 2023, 2023 13:30 – 15:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CEST)
 • F2f: Sunday April 23, 2023, 2023 13:00 – 18:00 local (10:00 – 15:00 UTC)

Note:
 • 3GPP SA4#122 February 20-24, 2023 (Athens, Greece)
 • 3GPP SA4#123 April 17-21, 2023 (virtual)

Logistics
 • Zoom: http://iso.zoom.us/my/stockhammer, Passwd as of MPEG#141
 • Chairs create issues in gitlab to collect comments.
 • If MPEG#142 repository is not yet available, use MPEG#141 repository.

Calendar
 • Subscription link for MPEG AHG Calls:  http://mpeg.expert/live/nextcloud/remote.php/dav/public-calendars/HAwkATGsmc5bN3Qy?export
 • Public link for MPEG AHG Calls http://mpeg.expert/live/nextcloud/index.php/apps/calendar/p/HAwkATGsmc5bN3Qy

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1. Solicit technical and editorial feedback on the specification.
2. Review the open gitlab issues
3. Review draft white paper and solicit contributions to improve it.
4. Plan a workshop to get industry feedback

Rufael Mekuria, Yasser Syed, Khaled Jerbi

Until the next meeting

synched-encoding@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/roster/synched-encoding

- F2F AHG meeting on Sunday before the next meeting

1. Carry out exploration experiments on coding tools and codec agnostic tools for LVC
2. Explore use of LVC coding tools for compression of atlases in MIV and VPCC
3. Explore other possible coding architecture for LVC, such as AI-based and INVR-based methods
4. Determine the direction of the LVC activities in future

Mehrdad Teratani (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Xin Jin (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School)

Until next MPEG meeting

mpeg-i-visual@lists.aau.at

Email to: mpeg-i-visual-join@lists.aau.at

F2F: Sunday before the next WG4 meeting

20

Online: 19 April 2023 (11:00-13:00 UTC)

1. Investigate state of the art in implicit neural 2D/3D video representation.
2. Carry out exploration experiments on implicit neural 2D/3D video representation and compression.
3. Gather 2D/3D video datasets available publicly to use as test material during the exploration phase.

Yiyi Liao (Co-chair, yiyi.liao@zju.edu.cn)
Gun Bang (Co-chair, gbang@etri.re.kr)

until next WG 4 meeting

mpeg-video@lists.rwth-aachen.de

https://lists.rwth-aachen.de/postorius/lists/mpeg-video.lists.rwth-aachen.de/

April. 23, Sunday before the next WG meeting

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April. 18 (virtual)

1. Prepare WD5 of ISO/IEC 23090-12 MPEG immersive video Ed. 2
2. Prepare verification tests for MPEG immersive video
3. Define common test conditions for MPEG immersive video
4. Carry out exploration experiments relating to MPEG immersive video
5. Improve rendering quality of MPEG immersive video
6. Contribute to the support of MPEG immersive video in MPEG scene description
7. Promote MPEG immersive video outside of MPEG
8. Study new technologies for immersive video coding

Bart Kroon (Philips) (chair)
Dawid Mieloch (PUT) (vice-chair)
Joel Jung (Tencent) (vice-chair)

Until the next MPEG meeting

Announcements: mpeg-i-visual@lists.aau.at
Offline discussion: http://mpegx.int-evry.fr/software/MPEG/MIV/InputDocuments

Email to: mpeg-i-visual-join@lists.aau.at

MIV F2F meeting: Sunday before next WG 4 meeting

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MIV + AG5: February 7 (VT plan), March 21 (progress on renderer and Balloons)
MIV + SD: February 13 (14:30 - 16:00 UTC) @ SD link
MIV: February 21, March 7, April 4, 18, 19
All calls are 15:00 – 16:30 UTC unless specified otherwise

Meeting ID: 957 8481 1689
Password: MPEGIVisua

1.	Study technologies that enhance performance of video coding for machine tasks.
2.	Identify and collect test materials that are suitable for machine tasks and can be used for MPEG video coding for machines (VCM) standardization activities. 
3.	Define common test conditions, evaluation framework, and methodologies.
4.	Coordinate software development, anchor generation, and core experiments.
5.	Coordinate with WG2 and WG5 on common interests and activities such as test materials, etc.
6.	Prepare an initial Working Draft for VCM

Co-chairs: Shan Liu (Tencent), Chris Rosewarne (Canon)

Until next WG4 meeting

mpeg-wg4-vcm@lists.rwth-aachen.de

https://lists.rwth-aachen.de/postorius/lists/mpeg-wg4-vcm.lists.rwth-aachen.de/

Sunday before the next WG4 meeting

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1. Maintain and update the output document “Learning-based quality metrics and 2D video databases under study”; 
2. Compile and maintain the list of video databases suitable and available to be used in AG 5’s study, including those from remote expert viewings; 
3. Evaluate the correlation between the learning-based quality metrics and subjective quality scores in the databases;
4. Study the suitability of learning-based quality metrics for evaluating compression performance.

Yan Ye (Alibaba), Joel Jung (Tencent), Mathias Wien (RWTH Aachen University)

until the next AG 5 meeting

mpeg-vqa@lists.rwth-aachen.de

https://lists.rwth-aachen.de/postorius/lists/mpeg-vqa.lists.rwth-aachen.de/

Meetings are held online and are to be announced at least two weeks before the AHG meeting date.

1. Maintain the output document on “Guidelines for verification testing of visual media specifications”;
2. Maintain the output document on “Guidelines for remote expert viewing sessions”;
3. Consider extensions and refinements of the guidelines for remote expert viewing for more test types.

Mathias Wien (RWTH Aachen University), Lu Yu (Zhejiang University), Joel Jung (Tencent)

until the next AG 5 meeting

mpeg-vqa@lists.rwth-aachen.de

https://lists.rwth-aachen.de/postorius/lists/mpeg-vqa.lists.rwth-aachen.de/

Meetings are held online and are to be announced at least two weeks before the AHG meeting date.

1.	To contribute to the execution of the Core Experiments identified in Description of Core Experiments on Graph Genomes and work towards detailing the support for clinical data interchange
2.	To contribute to the improvements of the Text FDIS 23092-6
3.	To contribute to the development of a 3rd edition of 23092-1, 23092-4 and 2nd edition 23092-5 to support Part 6 and the new technologies identified by the answer to the call for technology
4.	To contribute to the development of a 3rd edition of 23092-3 on the relationship of Part 3 metadata and protection to Part 6 annotations and related metadata through CE6 and update to the APIs to support Part 6
5.	To finalize the reference software
6.	To compile common test conditions for the evaluation of MPEG-G performance
7.	To collect additional test data useful to be used for assessing technologies related to the submissions to the CfP
8.	To disseminate the information and coordinate the activities carried out by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 8 to other ISO TCs, GA4GH and other organizations
9.	To contribute to the further development of the Performance Benchmarking study and related publications including the White Paper on part 6.
10.	Investigate use cases and standard support from ISO TC34 SC16 and SC9 in collaboration with ISO TC 34 members
11.	Prepare further studies of distributed management of private and protection of genomics data that is adaptable to the patient’s requirements and applicable regulations
12.	Prepare the definition of use cases and associated requirements relevant to mandate 11

Raymond Krasinski (Philips)
Paolo Ribeca (Bioss)

Until the next WG8 meeting

SC29-WG8-AHG@listes.epfl.ch

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Yes on Zoom meeting only

No room needed

A virtual meeting to discuss the Performance Assessment paper will take place on Feb 23rd at 17:00 CET. As needed, other virtual meetings for the coordination of the development of the reference SW and performance benchmark may be scheduled on zoom with the appropriate advanced notice. An Ad Hoc virtual meeting on Zoom preceding the next MPEG meeting will take place on Thursday, April 20th at 1PM CET to 6 PM CET.

1.	Investigate the possible compatibility between TC 276 ISO 23494 [Biotechnology – Provenance information model for biological material and data] and 23092-3
2.	Investigate the technical approach to implement the mutual support of ISO 23494 and ISO/IEC 23092 standard series
3.	Identify the steps and the normative requirements to implement such support

Jaime Delgado (UPC)
Joerg Geiger (Uni-Wuerzburg)

Until next WG08 meeting

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Yes

No room needed

As needed, virtual meetings for the execution of the mandates may be scheduled on zoom with the appropriate advanced notice. An Ad Hoc preceding the next MPEG meeting will take place on Thursday, April 20th at 6 PM CET to 7 PM CET.

1. Support other Working Groups with the preparation of draft requirements and use case descriptions in a unified way.
2. Gather such requirements and use case descriptions for final refinement and approval by WG2.
3. Progress the development of MPEG-I Part 1 Technical Report to regularly align with the progress of MPEG-I suite standards. 
4. Progress guidelines on the drafting of WG2 requirements.
5. Progress MPEG-I Phase 2 requirements.

Mary-Luc Champel, Xiaomi (champelmaryluc@xiaomi.com)
Igor D.D Curcio, Nokia (igor.curcio@nokia.com)

Until next meeting

mpeg-req@lists.aau.at

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1 online meeting TBC at least 2 weeks in advance

1. Coordinate management of the LTM software and its distribution
2. Coordinate collection of information relative to deployment and availability of MPEG-5 LCEVC and update relative document (if required)
3. Discuss any LCEVC related input documents to WG4 11th meeting

Walt Husak (Chair), Simone Ferrara (Vice-Chair)

Until the next WG4 meeting

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Meetings are held online and are to be announced at least two weeks before the AHG meeting date.

1. Conduct AI exploration experiments for PCC
2. Analyze and collect relevant dataset for AI based PCC
3. Explore new AI solutions for PCC
4. Collect requirements and use cases for AI based solutions for 3D graphics coding
5. Improve the evaluation material for the CfP (use cases, requirements, content, evaluation methods)

Dong Tian, Alexandre Zaghetto, Vladyslav Zakharchenko

Until the next MPEG WG7 meeting

mpeg-3dgc@gti.ssr.upm.es

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Several online sessions to be planned

1.	Coordinate the collection of comments for the DoC on ISO/IEC 23090-31 Haptics Coding
2.	Prepare the updates for the next phase of the ISO/IEC 23090-31 Haptics Coding
3.	Update Reference Software according to CD comments
4.	Track bugs in the reference encoder and decoder code. 
5.	Collect contributions for the conformance and reference software for ISO/IEC 23090-31 Haptics Coding.
6.	Monitor implementation of the two haptics-related glTF extensions, MPEG_haptics and MPEG_material_haptics.
7.	Collect material for the WD on the carriage of haptics in ISOBMFF regarding CD changes.

Philippe Guillotel, Quentin Galvane, Iraj Sodagar

Until the next MPEG meeting

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Several online sessions before the next MPEG meeting.

Bi-weekly calls Dial-in details will be provided.

1. Solicit contributions on IoMT technologies and use cases for additional characteristics to be used by external services/systems
2. Prepare additional examples for the usage of the technologies in Part 5 for serving the IoMT use-cases
3. Solicit contributions on IoMT technologies for the usage of AI in conjunction with IoMT
4. Solicit contribution for improving WD2.0 for Parts 1, 2, 3 3rd Ed and Part 6

Mihai Mitrea, Sang-Kyun Kim

Until the next MPEG WG7 Meeting

MIoTW@lists.aau.at

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Several online sessions before the next MPEG meeting.

https://iso.zoom.us/j/92992119841?pwd=eksrd2Z4d09uS1VYYTB1MTZLc085UT09