Ad hoc groups

1. Prepare FDIS of AMD1 of 23001-11 3rd edition for EVC
2. Investigate uses and improvements of display power reduction metadata
3. Improve WD and prepare CD of AMD2 of 23001-11 3rd edition for new display power reduction metadata
4. Study other 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. Prepare WD2 of ISO/IEC 23090-12 MPEG immersive video 2nd edition
2. Define common test conditions for MPEG immersive video 2nd edition
3. Carry out MPEG immersive video 2nd edition core experiments
4. Study new technologies for immersive video coding
5. Promote MPEG immersive video outside of MPEG

bart.kroon@philips.com, Bart Kroon (Chair)
dawid.mieloch@put.poznan.pl, Dawid Mieloch (Vice-chair)

Until the next MPEG meeting

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

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

Hannover: October 15, 09:00 - 18:00 CET

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Online: August 29, September 12, 26, October 10
All 11:30 UTC (90 min)
Two calls are joint with AG 5

Meeting ID: 957 8481 1689
Password: MPEGIVisua

1. Review the text of the updated Working Draft of ISO/IEC 14496-22 5th edition (WG03N0933).
2. Review the remaining parts of “Technologies under consideration for ISO/IEC 14496-22 5th edition Open Font Format” document (WG03N0888), work on developing and finalizing specification changes to overcome the 64K glyph limit and other changes, and provide recommendations for the WG3 on how these changes can be integrated in the “Open Font Format” standard.
3. 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 methodologies for interactive subjective quality assessment of immersive video;
2. Identify real-time renderers for the purpose of MPEG immersive video visual quality assessment;
3. Identify related activities in other standardization organizations.

bart.kroon@philips.com, Bart Kroon (chair)
jiaqi.zhang@zju.edu.cn, Jiaqi Zhang (vice chair)
joeljung@global.tencent.com, Joel Jung (vice chair)

Until the next MPEG meeting

Announcements: mpeg-vqa@lists.rwth-aachen.de
Offline discussion: https://mpeg.expert/software/MPEG/VQA/InVol/Contributions

mpeg-vqa-request@lists.rwth-aachen.de

Hannover: October 15
16:00 CET (1 h)
Joint with WG 4

20

Online: September 26, October 10
Both 11:30 UTC (1 h)
Joint with WG 4

Meeting ID: 957 8481 1689
Password: MPEGIVisua

1. Solicit technical and editorial feedback on the DIS.
2. Study the new developments in the ISOBMFF to replace the track grouping signaling that is currently addressed by the use of kind boxes and identifiers.
3. Transition from the old email reflector to the DASH email reflector

Rufael Mekuria (Unified Streaming)
Khaled Jerbi (Ateme)
Yasser Syed (Comcast)

Until the next MPEG meeting

dash@lists.aau.at (Note the switching to the DASH reflector).

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

No AhG Meeting

1. Solicit industry participation and contributions for ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralized 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 Decentralized Media Rights Application Format in the areas: a) Smart contracts and DLTs; b) Rights and metadata management; c) Content and creator IDs; and c) File formats and streaming protocols.

3. Enhance collaboration with liaisons (e.g., ISO/TC 307/WG3, ITU-T Q.22/SG16, INATBA, W3C DIDs, ISO/TC46/SC9/WG18 ISCC and EC) and conduct further dissemination activities (e.g., Digital Asset Management WG - Metaverse Standards Forum).

4. Study and improve the WD of ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralized Media Rights Application.

Panos Kudumakis and Mirko Zichichi

Until the 144th MPEG meeting

smart-contracts@lists.aau.at

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

Biweekly calls starting Wed 2 Aug. 2023, alternatively at 13:00 & 15:00 UTC (2 h)

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 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
3.	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
4.	To finalize the reference software annex to 23092-4 3rd edition
5.	To compile common test conditions for the evaluation of MPEG-G performance
6.	To collect additional test data useful to be used for assessing technologies related to the submissions to the CfP
7.	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
8.	To contribute to the further development of the Performance Benchmarking study and related publications.
9.	Investigate use cases and standard support from ISO TC34 SC16 and SC9 in collaboration with ISO TC 34 members
10.	Prepare further studies of distributed management of private and protection of genomics data that is adaptable to the patient’s requirements and applicable regulations and encourage outside contributions
11.	Prepare the definition of use cases and associated requirements relevant to mandate 10

Raymond Krasinski (Philips)
Paolo Ribeca (Bioss)

Until the next WG8 meeting

SC29-WG8-AHG@listes.epfl.ch

To subscribe, send email to SC29-WG8-AHG-subscribe@listes.epfl.ch

Yes

15

Virtual meetings to work on Ad Hoc Mandates will take place on Aug 16th at 16:00 CET and Sept 7th at 16:00 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, Oct 12th  at 2PM CET to 5 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 the next WG8 meeting

WG8-TC276WG5_AHG@listes.epfl.ch

To subscribe, send email to WG8-TC276WG5_AHG-subscribe@listes.epfl.ch

Yes

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, Oct 12th at 5 PM CET to 6 PM CET.

1. Review CfP responses
2. React to issues found with the CfP
3. Produce the CfP test report

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

Until the 144th MPEG meeting

mpeg-vcm@lists.aau.at

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

•	Option for conference call with two-week notice
•	Friday, Saturday: 0900 - 2200 (Local time)

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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, including the production of a white paper.

Audio Coding for Machines activity
4) Run the Market Needs analysis on Audio Coding for Machines (ACoM) activity.

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

Audio Coding for Machines
Date/time to be announced 4 weeks before

Technical report on MPEG-AI
  1.Define the MPEG vision on AI
    -How AI will be used? (compression, other tasks, configurations…)
    -Identify challenges for AI in compression
  2.Identify and document AI-related activities (Technologies and applicable use cases) within MPEG as candidate parts of the MPEG-AI project
  3.Collect associated working assumptions (seek inputs from other WGs)
Requirements
  4. Collect requirements (from mandate 2) related to AI for multimedia

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

September 6th 2023 13:00-14:00 UTC
Progress Vision & Draft TR

Sunday 15th October (Hannover) 9:00-10:00
Progress Vision & Draft TR

1. Prepare to respond to ballot comments for the CD TR.
2. Continue to refine the requirements documents both for Phase 1b and beyond Phase 1 of render-based 3D technologies.
3. Begin identification of topics that are potential candidates for inclusion in V2.0 of Part 27.
4. Continue to solicit industry engagement.

arianne.hinds@comcast.net,Arianne T. Hinds
pete@missionrockdigital.com,Peter Ludé
esjang@hanyang.ac.kr,Euee Jang

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpeg-render@lists.aau.at

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

Biweekly teleconference calls starting on Thursday 03 August 2023 for 90 minutes

UTC 14:00 to 15:30 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/85880552411?pwd=NzFFdzdGUlRVUmU4VzBmRXRXZ2dCZz09

Meeting ID: 858 8055 2411
Passcode: 256286

1. Maintain data sets and INCTM
2. Study performance of NNC on low-precision inputs
3. Collect further application and performance reports of NNC (e.g., VCM, AI-based PCC, implicit neural scene representations)
4. Continue interaction with SC42, SG16/Q5, 3GPP SA4, NNEF, ONNX and the AI/ML community
5. Finalise white paper for 2nd edition

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

Sunday afternoon before next WG 4 meeting (on-site)

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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 Phase 3 requirements and include references to MPEG-I requirements defined elsewhere in their own documents.
4. Progress the development of MPEG-I Part 1 Technical Report to regularly align with the progress of MPEG-I suite standards. 
5. Progress guidelines on the drafting of WG2 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

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

1 online meeting TBC at least 2 weeks in advance

1. Maintain and update the output document “Learning-based quality metrics and 2D video databases under study”; 
2. Maintain and update the output document “Dataset of compressed video for study of quality metrics”; 
3. Evaluate the correlation between the quality metrics and subjective quality scores in the dataset of compressed video for study of quality metrics;
4. Study the suitability of learning-based quality metrics for evaluating compression performance.

Yan Ye (Alibaba), Joel Jung (Tencent), Zhibo Chen (USTC), 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.	Coordinate ISO/IEC 23094-1 AMD 1 preparation and processing;
2.	Coordinate ISO/IEC 23094-4 AMD 1 preparation and processing;
3.	Coordinate management of the ETM software and its distribution;
4.	Discuss EVC related input documents to WG4 13th meeting.

Roman Chernyak (Tencent)
Min Woo Park (Samsung)

Until next WG04 meeting

mpeg-5@lists.aau.at

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

Sunday before next WG04 meeting

10

Option for conference call before next WG04 Mtg (two week notice)

- To review TuC and propose updates
- To solicit input on implementation guidelines and examples

Youngkwon Lim

Until the 13th MPEG Systems WG meeting

gen-sys@lists.aau.at

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

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 23090-28 and 23090-29 related documents and solicit contributions regarding systems technologies for them.

Youngkwon Lim, Lauri Ilola

until the 13th 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)

1. To study TuC, and solicit contributions to improve it
2. To solicit open source implementation of OpenMAX, MSE or Vulkan to be used as a starting point of implementation of VDI extensions.
3. Communicate with Khronos on the API extensions and other relevant topics related to VDI

Youngkwon Lim, Emmanuel Thomas, Thomas Stockhammer

Until the 13th MPEG Systems WG meeting

gen-sys@lists.aau.at

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

1. Study of 6G 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 6G.

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.

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. Carry out exploration experiments on codec agnostic tools for LVC
2. Carry out exploration experiments on coding tools for LVC
3. Carry out exploration experiments on INVR-based coding tools for LVC
4. Update the draft requirement document for LVC
5. Prepare the draft CfP for LVC

Mehrdad Teratani (Université Libre de Bruxelles), mehrdad.teratani@ulb.be 
Xin Jin (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School), jin.xin@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn

Until next MPEG meeting

mpeg-i-visual@lists.aau.at

https://lists.aau.at/mailman/listinfo/mpeg-i-visual

Hannover: October 15 (Morning and if needed in the Afternoon)

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Online: After mid of September (TBD)

1. Investigate state of the art in implicit neural 2D/3D video representation.
2. Carry out exploration experiments on implicit neural 2D video representation and compression.
3. Carry out exploration experiments on single-view and multi-view 3D video representation and compression.
4. Develop reference software for implicit neural 2D/3D video representation.
5. Gather 2D/3D video datasets available publicly to use as test material during the exploration phase.

yiyi.liao@zju.edu.cn,Yiyi Liao
gbang@etri.re.kr,Gun Bang

until next WG 4 meeting

mpeg-video@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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

15 Oct

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10 Oct (online)

1. Coordinate management of the LTM software and its distribution
2. Coordinate preparation of the text of DAM for ISO/IEC 23094-3
3. Coordinate preparation of the text of FDAM for ISO/IEC 23094-2
4. Coordinate preparation of the DoC of DAM for ISO/IEC 23094-2
5. Coordinate collection of information relative to deployment and availability of MPEG-5 LCEVC and update relative document (if required)
6. Discuss any LCEVC related input documents to WG4 13th meeting

wgh@dolby.com, Walt Husak (Dolby)
simone.ferrara@v-nova.com, Simone Ferrara (V-Nova)

Until next WG04 meeting

vcexp@lists.aau.at

Email to: vcexp-join@lists.aau.at

Meeting on Sunday 4pm before WG4 13th meeting

10

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

1. Complete specification of “independent mapping space”;
2. Identify mappings between entities from the Independent Mapping Space and Unity rendering data structures and interfaces;
3. Identify mappings between the  entities from the “independent mapping space” and x3D scene graph format;
4. Identify mappings between the abstract entities from the “independent mapping space” and glTF2.0 (start with m64462);
5. Define a normative data model to label scene graphs and assets with the entities of the Independent Mapping Space (cf. m64065).
6. Provide input to MPEG 144 on results toward identifying an independent mapping space, and mappings of this space to Unity, x3D and glTF2.0;
7. Provide input to MPEG 144 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. Develop a work plan that shares our progress and next steps with MPEG.
9. Refine the requirements identified for MPEG Phase 1 (WG2N00285) and for beyond Phase 1 (WG2N00269).
10. Continue to solicit industry engagement.
11. Collect test material and refine the test scenarios document; identify the list of individuals and entities that should be given attribution.

arianne.hinds@comcast.net,Arianne T. Hinds
pete@missionrockdigital.com,Peter Ludé
esjang@hanyang.ac.kr,Euee Jang

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpeg-render@lists.aau.at

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

Biweekly teleconference calls starting on Thursday 03 July 2023 from 14:00 to 15:30 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/85880552411?pwd=NzFFdzdGUlRVUmU4VzBmRXRXZ2dCZz09

Meeting ID: 858 8055 2411
Passcode: 256286

CMAF (Common Media Application Format)
1. Study the TuC and the preliminary WD, and solicit further input
2. Solicit further contributions on CMAF conformance and test vectors
3. Solicit feedback on the open issues on GitHub and GitLab 

MIAF (Multi-Image Application Format)
1. Study the DIS and solicit further input.
2. Solicit feedback on the open issues on GitHub and GitLab

Krasimir Kolarov; Cyril Concolato

until 144th 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, October 12, 2023, 15:00-17:00 UTC

The AhG mandates are as follows:
1.	Prepare output documents.
2.	Release VCMRS v0.6 (VTM-12.0) software (Aug 18th).
3.	Release a VCMRS version with VTM-20.0 basis software.
3.	Conduct Core Experiments.
4.	Continue developing VCM technologies.
5.	Continue investigating evaluation methodologies and metrics.
6.	Continue collecting test and training materials.
7.	Continue refining cross-check procedure.
8.	Solicit input for VCMRS description documentation.
9.	Collaborate with the WG2 FCVCM AhG and WG5 AhGs 8 and 9.

Shan Liu (shanl@global.tencent.com)
Chris Rosewarne (chris.rosewarne@canon.com.au)

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 all day.

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TBA if needed (with two week forewarning).

1. Study and improve Part 1 Draft text of DAM2 (WG03N 996) and CDAM3 (WG03N 998)
2. Study technologies under consideration (TuC; WG03N 928) and defect under investigation (DuI; WG03N 981)
3. Address the editor's note in DAM2 regarding Picture in Picture.
4. Investigate segment rate signaling, the operation model, and how it works with segment timeline addressing
5. Continue to work on conformance and reference software

Iraj Sodagar, Christian Timmerer, Ali C. Begen

Until the next MPEG meeting

dash@lists.aau.at

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

1. Work with the audio group WG06 on progressing the integration of MPEG-I audio into the MPEG-I SD taking into account WG06 N0XXX and the SD TuC WG3 N0974.
2. Study the technologies in DAM2 of ISO/IEC 23090-14 in WG03_N0942 for potential improvements
3. Progress the technologies in the TuC in WG03_N0974.
4. Dispose issues in internal and public git environment
5. Collect/coordinate test assets that support the development of the MPEG-I Scene description work according to WG3 N0934, possible using deep learning models.
6. Validate and execute the workflow in WG03_N0975 to create pull requests to Khronos through MPEG gitlab and github
7. Work on conformance and reference software based on procedures (WG03_N0934), progress the PI-DIS (WG03_N0972) and PWD (WG3_N0973), 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)
8. Extend the Gltf validator to address the MPEG_ extensions, and review the process for a possible submission of these to the https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Validator
9. Evaluate the requirements coverage in WG03_N0976 and work with MPEG-I Requirements AHG in order to identify requirements for phase 3 in context of Scene Description.
10. Collect information on ongoing scene description related work in the industry and in other groups and organizations and promote MPEG-I Scene Description, in particular to Khronos (WG03_N1002), Metaverse Standards Forum and 3GPP

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

Until MPEG#144

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 August 6, 2023 13:30 – 15:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CEST) 
  o From 14:15 UTC onwards WG06 joins for Audio.
  o Additional participation of WG06 will be discussed during this slot
• Call: Monday September 11, 2023, 2023 13:30 – 15:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CEST)
• Call: Monday October 2, 2023, 2023 13:30 – 15:00 UTC (15:30 – 17:00 CEST)
• F2f: Sunday October 15, 2023, 2023 14:00 – 18:00 local (13:00 – 17:00 UTC)

Note:
• 3GPP SA4#125, August 21-25, 2023 (Göteborg, Sweden)
• IBC 2023, September 15-18, 2023 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Thomas vacation, August 29 to September 6, 2023
• MPEG#144, October 16-20, 2023 (Hannover, Germany)

Logistics
• Zoom: http://iso.zoom.us/my/stockhammer, Passwd as of MPEG#143
• Chairs create issues in gitlab to collect comments.
• If MPEG#144 repository is not yet available, use MPEG#143 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.	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.
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 and possible change of license or alternatives.
6.	Study processes to improve cross-verification of MPEG file format standards and continue the discussion on m60397
7.	Explore alignment of DASH/CMAF/FF terminology, concepts and solutions, in particular the multi-track question
8.	Explore potential low-overhead HEIF-compatible storage format
9.	Study the codec-agnostic, lossless compression of uncompressed video, images and possibly other formats

Cyril Concolato (Netflix) and Miska Hannuksela (Nokia)

Until next meeting

mp4-sys@lists.aau.at
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-	1 meeting online on HEIF Exploration (2 weeks notice, End of Sept – Doodle Poll)
-	1 meeting on conformance (early September)
-	1 meeting for multi-track in the context of the joint DASH/FF/CMAF (2 weeks notice, early October – Doodle Poll)

1)	Study the CD of amendment 2 of immersive media metrics.
2)	Study the OMAF amendment WD on server-side dynamic adaptation.
3)	Study the TuC of OMAF and TuC of immersive media metrics.
4)	Study requirements of MPEG-I phase 2 especially in relation to OMAF.
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

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

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 
4.	Maintain Audio-related text, conformance data and reference software
5.	Study and promote Call for Interest on 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 13th WG 6 Meeting

mpeg-audio-call@audioresearchlabs.com

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Web AhG meetings as follows:

Joint with Scene Description to discuss common architecture: 
•	Zoom: http://iso.zoom.us/my/stockhammer, Passwd as of MPEG#143
•	Call: Monday Aug 7, 2023 13:30 – 15:00 UTC (1415-1500 for Audio issues)
•	Additional participation of WG06 will be discussed during this slot

Audio AhG meetings:
Thu Oct 12 and Fri Oct 13 2023, 1200-1600 UTC
https://iso.zoom.us/j/95386056642?pwd=eUMvRU5lSmlUTnowT3k3anRjMHRxUT09

•	Conduct activities to improve V-PCC Reference SW
•	Conduct the V-PCC experiments for future enhancements
•	Propose corrections for identified issues in the V-PCC specifications
•	Coordinate scientific and technical dissemination of V-PCC
•	Coordinate communications of V-PCC to fairs, exhibitions, workshops, webinars
•	Solicit contributions to encapsulate V-PCC in scene graph 
•	Release the V-DMC test model V5.0 (SW and documentation) during the editing period and align the Ref SW with the WD (V5.1)
•	Conduct the V-DMC experiments
•	Coordinate editing of the V-DMC WD
•	Coordinate activities on Mesh use cases and requirements
•	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

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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 as well as communications of G-PCC to fairs, exhibitions, workshops, webinars
6. Solicit additional data sets for all categories

Sébastien Lasserre, Ohji Nakagami, Toshiyasu Sugio

until the next MPEG WG7 meeting

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

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

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

AI-PCC Bi-weekly (Wednesdays) 8/9, 8/23, 9/6 (with Mathias), 9/20, 10/4 (Zoom), 10/15 at 10AM (in person)

1. Conduct development of part 33 on Conformance & Reference Software and associated software tools
2. Support MPEG-I SD Amd2 activities related to Haptics to finalize Amd2
3. Support File Format ISOBMFF part 32 extension for Haptics to progress to CD2
4. Support DASH extensions for Haptics 
5. Solicit contributions to improve current MPEG-I SD Haptic extensions to adress Phase 2 requirements
6. Solicit contributions for an evaluation platform supporting Phase 2 functionalities and associated evaluation methodology
7. Track bugs in the reference encoder and decoder code

Philippe Guillotel, Quentin Galvane, Iraj Sodagar

Until the next MPEG meeting

mpeg-haptics@lists.aau.at – use [Haptics] in email header

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Calls Aug. 23 + Sept. 13 + Oct. 4 + Oct 11
at 1500 UTC.

n/a

Dial-in details: https://iso.zoom.us/j/7945431076?pwd=b21hT3FWWlUxRVA5S0hZSFYzRGtSUT09

1. Start preparing reference software for the new technologies
2. Study and propose editorial improvements for current editions
3. Study the potential extension of MPEG-V Part 4 on Avatar

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

in person meeting Sunday 2pm (before the MPEG week)