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Ad hoc groups

During MPEG meetings, each MPEG sub working group creates ad hoc groups to progress the work on specific topics within a smaller group until the next MPEG meeting. The work is usually progressed by email and conference calls.

Ad hoc groups of MPEG 154

NameAHG on compressed video for study of quality metrics (CVQM)
GroupAG 5 - MPEG Visual Quality Assessment
Mandates
1. Produce the output document “CVQM - Dataset of compressed video for study of quality metrics (version 3)”,  including results and analyses from CVQM-UHD subjective quality assessment experiments, as well as necessary data files;
2. Work towards producing an update to the report “Learning-based quality metrics and 2D video databases under study (v3)”;
3. Study further extensions of the CVQM dataset, e.g. by including AIGC and HDR content;
4. Study the correlation between objective quality metrics and subjective quality scores using the CVQM dataset as well as suitable public datasets;
5. Study the suitability of learning-based quality metrics for evaluating compression performance.
Chair(s)
Yan Ye, Zhibo Chen, Benjamin Bross, Mathias Wien
Duration
until the next AG 5 meeting
Reflector(s)
mpeg-vqa@lists.rwth-aachen.de
Subscribe
https://lists.rwth-aachen.de/postorius/lists/mpeg-vqa.lists.rwth-aachen.de/
Meeting
Meetings are held online and are to be announced at least two weeks before the AHG meeting date.
Room Size

NameAhG on Guidelines for Subjective Visual Quality Evaluation
GroupAG 5 - MPEG Visual Quality Assessment
Mandates
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;
4. Release and maintain the guidelines for naming conventions for raw video data.
Chair(s)
Mathias Wien, Lu Yu, Joel Jung
Duration
until the next AG 5 meeting
Reflector(s)
mpeg-vqa@lists.rwth-aachen.de
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Meeting
Meetings are held online and are to be announced at least two weeks before the AHG meeting date.
Room Size

NameAhG on Authenticity for Media
GroupWG 2 - MPEG Technical Requirements
Mandates
1. Update ISO/IEC CD 26080-1 Media Authenticity Part 1: Vocabulary. 
2. Summarize progress on technical work on media authenticity within the WGs.
3. Align the vocabulory with ISO/IEC 22989:2022 and ISO/IEC 23053:2022.
Chair(s)
Yuan Zhang (China Telecom) zhangy666@chinatelecom.cn
Christof Fersch (Dolby) christof.fersch@dolby.com
Jonathan Pfaff (HHI)  jonathan.pfaff@hhi.fraunhofer.de
Duration
Until next MPEG meeting
Reflector(s)
mpeg-req@lists.aau.at
Subscribe
https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-req
Meeting
Arrange on need basis with 2 weeks notification
Room Size
20

NameAhG on Carriage of Green Metadata
GroupGeneral/All
Mandates
1.	solicit contributions and continue improving ISO/IEC 23001-11 Ed.4
2.	support publication of ISO/IEC 23001-19
3.	continue to consolidate ISO/IEC 23001-10 Ed. 3
4.	study the transport of MPEG-GREEN Access Units over MPEG-2 systems (ISO/IEC 13818-1 aka. Rec. ITU-T H.222.0) and solicit contributions that improve ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3/N 1517
Chair(s)
Olivier Le Meur, Christian Herglotz
Duration
Until next MPEG meeting
Reflector(s)
gen-sys@lists.aau.at – use [green] in email header
Subscribe
http://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/gen-sys
Meeting
Several online sessions before the next MPEG meeting if necessary
Room Size

Ad hoc groups from other meetings:
MPEG 154, MPEG 153, MPEG 152, MPEG 151, MPEG 150, MPEG 149, MPEG 148, MPEG 147, MPEG 146, MPEG 145, MPEG 144, MPEG 143, MPEG 142, MPEG 141, MPEG 140, MPEG 139, MPEG 138, MPEG 137, MPEG 136, MPEG 135

Download the current ad hoc group rules for MPEG AGs and WGs here: