Terms of reference: Development of international standards for coded digital representation of audio and associated metadata with the following programme of work
- Serve as responsible body within ISO/IEC for recommending a set of standards consistent with the scope of work:
- Cooperate with other standardisation bodies dealing with similar or complementary applications;
- Define relevant input audio material and information target presentation devices;
- Develop efficient audio encoding-decoding algorithms based on responses to Calls for Proposals;
- Identify metadata to describe properties of audio signals and algorithms to extract this metadata;
- Develop algorithms for and metadata to facilitate high-quality audio rendering for presentation;
- Propose standards for the coded representation of audio information;
- Propose standards for the coded representation of audio metadata;
- Propose standards for the coded representation of audio metadata and audio rendering information;
- Provide source code implementation of proposed standards;
- Assess complexity of audio coding-decoding algorithms;
- Define, organize and conduct subjective testing to assess the quality of assess the quality of proposed and standardized audio technology;
- Solicit inputs from and engage in liaison with external bodies;
- Perform explorations of possible new technology within the scope of work.