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Standard development procedure from July 1^st, 2012

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  It is recommend to issue iterative CD ballots until specs become mature enough not to receive any technical comments to DIS and to be able to FDIS ballot.
  

– Video report

Source: Jens Ohm and Gary Sullivan, Chairs

1. Organization of the work

An opening Video SG plenary was held Monday during 14:15–15:15, at which the status of work was reviewed and activities for the current meeting were planned.

1. AHGs and Breakout Topics

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.1m27323 Ad hoc on Internet Video Coding [Mohammed Raad, Ronggang Wang]

Following the activities of the AHG, a breakout group was established (to be chaired by M. Raad, substituted by R. Wang when necessary). Further analysis was planned for during the week regarding:

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  Assessment of tools proposed on top of ITM3
  
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  Performance ITM (with new tools) versus AVC anchor and newly proposed alternative (VP8) in terms of SNR/visual performance.
  

Regarding the alternative method, which had not originally been proposed in the CfP, it was suggested that a more detailed analysis should be performed for one more meeting cycle, with a decision for actions to be made at the next meeting. Besides the performance, the general status in terms of licensing, conditions of transfer to MPEG, software, and copyright requires clarification and better understanding.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.2m27322 Ad hoc on Web Video Coding [Krasimir Kolarov, David Benham, Gaëlle Martin-Cocher, Jesus Sampedro, Dave Singer, Thomas Wiegand]

No additional specific action was planned – FCD progression for 14496-29 is currently on hold.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.3m27320 Ad hoc on MPEG－7 Visual [Miroslaw Bober, Stavros Paschalakis]

No specific action planned – more maintenance work is still needed to update the XM software, to be done depending on available resources of involved experts.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.4m27321 Ad hoc on Compact Descriptors for Visual Search [Miroslaw Bober, Giovanni Cordara, Danilo Pau, Gabriel Takacs]

Following the activities of the AHG, a breakout group was established (chaired by M. Bober, substituted by G. Cordara when necessary). The following action items were assigned to the BoG:

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  Due to the unclear licensing situation of SIFT, the CD should be delayed by one meeting cycle
  
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  Finalizing the review of CE results and other inputs and make suggestions for updates of TM and WD.
  
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  Most urgent: Investigate alternatives to SIFT keypoint detection from CE4, in terms of technical properties such as performance and suitability for implementation, and relationship with remaining parts of the processing chain
  
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  Further investigation will be necessary whether the alternatives resolve the IP issue; this can not be achieved in the BoG, but new information about “hard facts” proving that it would not resolve the issue, brought by experts to the next meeting, would be welcome.
  
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  To be clarified whether both “H” and “S” modes, which have evolved to perform very similar, are both to be retained in TM and WD.
  

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.5m27324 Ad hoc on MFC [Walt Husak]

Progress to PDAM was planned – aligning work with JCT-3V. This was further discussed in a joint meeting on Tuesday.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.6m27328 Ad hoc on Reconfigurable Media Coding [Christian Tulvan, Mickael Raulet]

Few video related documents were identified in this area – consideration was deferred to the Wednesday video plenary.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.7m27341 Ad hoc on Study of interlace coding in MPEG HEVC [Arianne Hinds, Yasser Syed, Jean-Marc Thiesse]

For joint meeting with Requirements SG.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.8m27342 Ad hoc on still image coding using MPEG HEVC [Touradj Ebrahimi, Jörn Ostermann]

For joint meeting with Requirements SG.

2. Room allocation

The CDVS break-out meets Monday in Room 18 (following days in room 4). The IVC breakout met Monday in Room 7, the following days in Room 15. Viewing was possible in T072 (ITU Tower building).

3. Ballots

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.9m27981 Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC 23001-4:2011/DAM 1 [SC 29 Secretariat]

FDAM had already been issued in Shanghai.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.10m27983 Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC 14496-10/AMD 1 [SC 29 Secretariat]

Noted.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.11m27985 Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC 13818-2/DAM 1 [SC 29 Secretariat]

FDAM had already been issued in Shanghai.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.12m27994 Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC DIS 23008-2 [SC 29 Secretariat]

FDIS N13333 was issued (responsible: JCT-VC).

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.13m27995 Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC DIS 23002-5 [SC 29 Secretariat]

FDIS N13340 was issued (responsible M. Mattavelli, M. Raulet).

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.14m27996 Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC 14496-10:2012/DAM 2 [SC 29 Secretariat]

FDAM N13327 was issued (responsible: JCT-3V).

4. Liaisons and NB responses

It was planned to answer most HEVC related liaisons via a template which is reporting about version 1 completion and its profiles, support for UHDTV, as well as the newly started amendments for range and multiview extensions.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.15m28001 Liaison Statement from DVB [DVB via SC 29 Secretariat] (HEVC)

Answered by template.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.16m28002 Liaison Statement from ITU-T SG 16 [ITU-T SG 16 via SC 29 Secretariat] (var. collaboration)

No need to answer – points were discussed in joint meeting(s) with VCEG in Shanghai.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.17m28004 Liaison Statement from SCTE [SCTE via SC 29 Secretariat] (HEVC)

Answered by template – also requests support for interlaced-scan content (planned to be responded by Requirements SG).

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.18m28005 Liaison Statement from ITU-R SG 6/WP 6C [ITU-R SG 6/WP 6C via SC 29 Secretariat] (HEVC)

Answered by template.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.19m28006 Liaison Statement from ITU-R SG 6/WP 6C [ITU-R SG 6/WP 6C via SC 29 Secretariat] (HEVC / duplicate)

Duplicate.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.20m28009 Liaison Statement from ITU-R SG 6 [ITU-R SG 6 via SC 29 Secretariat] (HEVC/interlace, IAF)

Answered by template – also requests support for interlaced-scan content (planned to be responded by Requirements SG).

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.21m28010 Liaison Statement from 3GPP [3GPP via SC 29 Secretariat] (HEVC)

Answered by template.

4.2.0.1.1.1.1.1.22m28298 Liaison Statement from EBU to SC 29/WG 11 [EBU via SC 29 Secretariat] (HEVC/testsequences)

It was agreed to thank EBU for assisting with the availability of test sequences.

One Australian NB comment on IVC were to be answered per resolution. Miscellaneous NB comments on HEVC were to be answered in a separate document.

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