INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION

ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11

CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND AUDIO

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N3956

March 2001

Source: / Leonardo Chiariglione – Convenor
Title: / Report of 56th WG 11 meeting
Status:

1  Opening

The fifty-sixth WG11 meeting was held in Singapore on 01/03/05-09 at the kind invitation of Singapore Productivity and Service Bureau (PSB), the Singapore National Body.

2  Roll call of participants

The attendance list is given in Annex 1.

3  Approval of agenda

The attendance list is given in Annex 1.

4  Allocation of contributions

The list of submitted contributions is given in Annex 1.

5  Communications from Convenor

There were no communications

6  Report of previous meetings

The reports of La Baule and Pisa were approved.

7  Processing of NB Position Papers

The following documents were presented, discussed and responses drafted where appropriate:

M7110 / China NB Comments on the requirements of Advanced FGS
M6998 / FNB Comment
M7034 / French NB Support to 2D BIFS Profiles under Consideration
M7062 / FNB comments for the Singapore meeting
M6984 / UK NB Position on Document Handling
M6985 / UK NB Position on MPEG-21 Call For Proposals
M6986 / UK NB Input to the Guide for Meeting Hosts
M6987 / NB posiiton on the disposition of meeting funds.
M6996 / UK NB Position re progression of the MPEG-21 PDTR
M7095 / UK National Body position on the development of the MPEG-7 Experimental Model, (XM)
M6954 / USNB Contribution: Position on Advanced FGS
M6955 / USNB Contribution: WG 11 Document Policy
M6956 / USNB Contribution: Proposed Liaison letter
M6957 / USNB Contribution: Digital Cinema CfP clarification

8  MPEG Phase 2

No MPEG-2 related work was done at the meeting.

9  MPEG Phase 4

9.1  Requirements

9.2  Systems

Work progressed on the different areas of interest with several WDs and Studies of documents under ballot being produced.

The Request for Part 8 of 14496(N4080) and the Text of ISO/IEC 14496-8/CDN4081 were approved.

9.3  Visual

9.3.1  Standard

No specific work done at the meeting.

9.3.2  Extension 1

The workplan for Studio Profile Verification Tests was approved as follows:

Tests / July through October 2001
Results / October 2001

9.3.3  Extension 2

The workplan for Streaming Video Profiles Verification Tests was approved as follows

Tests / September 2001
Results / October 2001

9.4  Audio

Work progressed on the different areas of interest, however, no MPEG-4 Audio-related documents were proposed for approval.

9.5  Conformance Testing

9.5.1  Standard

The integrated document “Text of ISO/IEC 14496-4:2001” (N4024) integrating IS and Amd1 of MPEG-4 conformance was approved

9.5.2  Extension 1

The Request for Amendment 1 of ISO/IEC 14496-4:2001 (N4088) and the progression of “Text of ISO/IEC 14496-4:2001/PDAM1” (document N4127) were approved.

9.6  Reference software

9.6.1  Standard

The “Text of COR1 to ISO/IEC 14496-5” (N3858 from Pisa) and the corresponding Pisa resolution (2.2.1, 15th document) were cancelled, to be replaced by the integrated version of part 5 including the IS, Amd1 and COR1 of MPEG-4 reference software.

The integrated document “Text of ISO/IEC 14496-5:2001” (document N4025), to be ballotted as an FCD, was approved.

9.6.2  Extension 1

The Request for Amendment 1 of ISO/IEC 14496-5:2001 (N4089) and the “Text of ISO/IEC 14496-5:2001/PDAM1” (N4046) were approved. The latter is composed of the following parts:

·  N3858, “Text of ISO/IEC 14496-5:2000/PDAM2” from Systems

·  N3901, “ISO/IEC 14496-5:2000/PDAM2 (Studio Profile Reference Software)” from Video and

·  N3906, “ISO/IEC 14496-5:2000/PDAM3 (Streaming Video Profiles Reference Software)” from Video

9.7  DMIF

No work was done at the meeting.

9.8  Optimised software

The Text of 14496-7 PDTR (N4057) was approved.

9.9  4 on IP Framework

The Request for Part 8 of 14496(N4080) and the Text of ISO/IEC 14496-8/CD(N4081) were approved.

9.10  Hardware Reference

Two responses to the CfP were received.

9.11  Explorations

Work on MP4 Extensions continued.

9.12  Workplan

This was approved.

10  MPEG Phase 7

10.1  Requirements

A new version of MPEG-7 Requirements was approved as N4035

10.2  Systems

The Disposition of comments of CD 15938-1 (N4099) and the Text of FCD 15938-1 (N4001) were approved

10.3  Description Definition Language

The Disposition of comments of CD 15938-2 (N4102) and the Text of FCD 15938-2 (N4002) were approved

10.4  Visual

The Disposition of comments of CD 15938-3 (N4061) and the Text of FCD 15938-3 (N4062) were approved

10.5  Audio

The Disposition of comments of CD 15938-4 (N3993) and the Text of FCD 15938-4 (N4004) were approved.

10.6  Description Schemes

The Disposition of comments of CD 15938-5 (N3965) and the Text of FCD 15938-5 (N3966) were approved.

10.7  Reference software

The Disposition of comments of CD 15938-6 (N3988) and the Text of FCD 15938-6 (N4006)were approved

10.8  Conformance Testing

A working draft was produced.

10.9  Workplan

This was approved.

11  MPEG phase 21

11.1  Requirements

Work in this area is covered by the Technical Report.

11.2  Technical Report

A study was produced.

11.3  Digital Item Declaration

A new WD was produced.

11.4  Digital Item Indentification and Description

A WD was produced.

11.5  Rights Data Dictionary and Rights Expression Language

A new Call for Proposals was issued.

11.6  Other MPEG-21 parts

No toher parts were identified.

11.7  Workplan

This was approved.

12  Overall WG11 workplan

This was approved.

13  Explorations

13.1  Video

A Revised Call for Proposals on New Tools for Video Compression Technology (N4065) was approved.

13.2  Digital Cinema

A Revised Digital Cinema Call for Proposals (N4066) was approved.

14  Liaison matters

Input documents were considered and responses issued as required. Further liaison documents were issued to related organisations to inform them of the progress of our work.

15  Administrative matters

15.1  Schedule of future MPEG meetings

The following schedule was agreed:

No. / yy / mm / dd / City / Country
56 / 01 / 03 / 05-09 / Singapore / SG
57 / 01 / 07 / 16-20 / Sydney, NSW / AU
58 / 01 / 10 / 22-26 / Washington, DC / US
59 / 01 / 12 / 03-07 / Pattaya / TH
60 / 02 / 03 / 18-22 / ? / KR
61 / 02 / 07 / 22-26 / Klagenfurt / AT
62 / 02 / 10 / 21-25 / Shanghai / CN
63 / 02 / 12 / ? / ? / ?

15.2  Promotional activities

A set of Powerpoint slides (MPEG 101) were produced.

16  Organisation of this meeting

16.1  Tasks for subgroups

Tasks were assigned to subgroups.

16.2  Joint meetings

The following joint meetings were held:

Group 1 / Group 2 / What / Where / Day / Time
Req / MDS / MPEG-21 Dit I&D / MDS / Mon / 15:00-16:00
Video / Test / Verification tests / Video / Mon / 16:00-16:45
Video / Test / Video Cfp / Video / Mon / 16:45-17:30
Video / Systems / MP4Video in Sys / Systems / Mon / 18:00-19:00
Req / Video / Visual Profiles / Video / Tue / 09:00-10:00
Req / Test, Video / Digital Cinema / Req / Tue / 10:00-11:00
Req / Systems / IPMP across MPEG / Req / Tue / 11:00-13:00
Req / Systems / Systems Profiles / Sys / Tue / 14:00-15:00
MDS / ISG / MPEG-21 S/W / MPEG-21 / Tue / 14:00-15:00
SNHC / Systems / AFX and MUW / Systems / Tue / 15:00-16:00
Req / Aud-Vid-MDS-Sys / MP7 Conformance / Plenary / Wed / 11:00-12:30
Req / MDS / MP7 Req / MDS / Wed / 13:30-14:15
Video / Systems / Vbv / Systems B-O / Wed / 15:00-16:00
Video / Test / Digital Cinema / Video / Wed / 16:00-17:00
Systems / Audio / MP4 byte alignment / Systems B-O / Wed / 16:00-17:00
Systems / Req / DigiCinema Requir / Req / Thu / 09:00-10:30
SNHC / Systems / BIFS CfP / SNHC / Thu / 10:00-11:00
Audio / Systems / BiM & BAM / Audio / Thu / 10:00-11:00
Systems / Req / BIFS profiles / Req / Thu / 11:00-12:00
Video / ISG / Complexity DigiCine / Video / Thu / 11:00-12:00
ISG / Video, Req / Vcv definition / Req / Thu / 12:00-13:00
Video / Systems / BiM / Video / Thu / 14:00-15:00
ISG / MDS / XM / MDS / Thu / 14:00-14:30
SNHC / Systems / IM1 / Systems / Thu / 14:00-15:00
ISG / Systems / XM / ISG / Thu / 14:30-15:00

17  Planning of future activities

The following ad hoc groups were established:

4110 / Ad Hoc Group on IM1
4108 / Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 BIFS
4107 / Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Conformance
4109 / Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-4 Textual Format
4106 / Ad Hoc Group on MPEG-7 data binary representation
4022 / Ad Hoc Group on AFX CE
4023 / Ad Hoc Group on AFX SW
4048 / AHG Describing Terminal Capabilities for UMA
4011 / AHG on Audio Call for Proposals
4013 / AHG on Audio part of MPEG-4 Conformance
4016 / AHG on Audio part of MPEG-7 Conformance
3982 / AHG on Audio, Video, and MDS harmonization
4017 / AHG on Consideration of Lossless Audio Coding Technology
4075 / AHG on Digital Cinema Proposals
3985 / AHG on Editing the MPEG-21 WDs
3980 / AHG on Editing the MPEG-7 MDS XM and FCD
3983 / AHG on Metadata Integration
4113 / AHG on MP4 Extensions
4012 / AHG on MPEG-2 AAC Clarifications
3986 / AHG on MPEG-21 Core Experiments
4050 / AHG on MPEG-21 PDTR 1.2 Study
4014 / AHG on MPEG-4 Audio 2001 Edition
4111 / AHG on MPEG-4 Content on MPEG-2 Systems and IP Network
4112 / AHG on MPEG-4 IPMP Extensions
4071 / AHG on MPEG-4 Visual Fine Granularity Scalability
4070 / AHG on MPEG-4 Visual Studio Profile
4047 / AHG on MPEG-7 Applications & Promotion to Industry
4015 / AHG on MPEG-7 Audio
4073 / AHG on MPEG-7 Core Experiments and Future Work
4105 / AHG on MPEG-7 DDL
3984 / AHG on MPEG-7 IPMP Descriptors
3981 / AHG on MPEG-7 MDS Core Experiments
4104 / AHG on MPEG-7 Systems
4072 / AHG on MPEG-7 Visual Study of FCD
4053 / AHG on requirements for the Persistent Association of Digital Item identifiers to content
4052 / AHG on Rights Data Dictionary and Rights Expression Language
4049 / AHG on Study of MPEG-7 Mobile Applications
4074 / AHG on Video Compression Technology Proposals
3991 / AHG on XM Development

18  Resolutions of this meeting

These were approved

19  A.O.B

There was no other business

20  Closing

The meeting closed on 2001/03/09T22:55


Annex 1

Attendance list

Name / Org / Ctry
1.  / Ernest Y WAN / CISRA / AU
2.  / David WALSH / CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences / AU
3.  / Jane HUNTER / DSTC Ltd / AU
4.  / Ian BURNETT / University of Wollongong / AU
5.  / Rik WAN DE WALLE / HENT UNIVERSITY / BE
6.  / Gauthier LAFRUIT / IMEC / BE
7.  / Jan BORMANS / IMEC / BE
8.  / Alexandru SALOMIE / VRIJE UNIGERSITEIT BRUSSEL / BE
9.  / Spencer CHENG / Cloakware Corporation / CA
10.  / Alain MIGNOT / SGDL Systems Inc. / CA
11.  / P. HAIGHTON / Videospheres Inc. / CA
12.  / Touradj EBRAHIMI / EPFL / CH
13.  / Simon ROBINS / GENIMEDIA SA / CH
14.  / WANG Baoai / Chinese Electronics Standardization Institue / CN
15.  / LU HanQing / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academic of Science / CN
16.  / GAO Wen / Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academic of Sciences / CN
17.  / LI Shipeng / Microsoft Research China / CN
18.  / WU Feng / Mircrosoft Research China / CN
19.  / Andreas HOELZER / FhG Erlangen / DE
20.  / Gabriele SPENGER / FhG Erlangen / DE
21.  / Juergen HERRE / FhG Erlangen / DE
22.  / Ralph SPERSCHNEIDER / FhG Erlangen / DE
23.  / Karl-heinz BRANDENBURG / FhG Ilmenau / DE
24.  / Frank KLEFENZ / FhG Erlangen / DE
25.  / Bernhard GRILL / FhG Erlangen / DE
26.  / Patrick NJIKI-NYA / Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) / DE
27.  / Thomas WIEGAND / Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) / DE
28.  / Thomas HINZ / PHILIPS SEMICONDUCTORS / DE
29.  / Michael WOLLBORN / Robert Bosch GmbH / DE
30.  / Jens-Rainer OHM / RWTH Aachen / DE
31.  / Andreas HUTTER / SIEMENS-AG-Muenchen / DE
32.  / Carsten HERPEL / Thomson Multi Media / DE
33.  / Jens SPILLE / Thomson Multimedia / DE
34.  / Angelika KNOLL / T-Nova-Berkom Berlin / DE
35.  / Bernhard FEITEN / T-Nova-Berkom Berlin / DE
36.  / Ingo WOLF / T-Nova-Berkom-Berlin / DE
37.  / Stephan HERRMANN / TU-Muenchen / DE
38.  / Jose Martinez Sanchez / Grupo de Tratamiento de Imagenes / ES
39.  / Francisco MORAN BURGOS / Univ. Politenica Madrid / ES
40.  / Mauri VAANANEN / Nokia / FI
41.  / Roberto CASTAGNO / NOKIA / FI
42.  / Lilian LABELLE / Canon CRF / FR
43.  / Dominique YON / CISAC / FR
44.  / Cyril CONCOLATO / ENST / FR
45.  / Jean-Claude DUFOURD / ENST / FR
46.  / Yuval FISHER / Envivio / FR