International organisation for standardisation

No.	Title	TBP
Available
12187	Update to test procedure for the Call for Proposals on 3D Video Coding	Y	11/07/22
12188	3DV depth estimation and view synthesis software package	Y	11/08/15

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   – JCT report
   

Source: Jens Ohm and Gary Sullivan, Chairs

Summary

The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ITU-T WP3/16 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 held its sixth meeting during 14–22 July 2011 at the Polytecnico di Torino, Torino (Turin), IT. The JCT-VC meeting was held under the chairmanship of Dr. Gary Sullivan (Microsoft/USA) and Dr. Jens-Rainer Ohm (RWTH Aachen/Germany). For rapid access to particular topics in this report, a subject categorization is found in section 2.11 of this document.

The JCT-VC meeting sessions began at approximately 0900 hours on Thursday 14 July 2011. Meeting sessions were held on all days (including weekend days) until the meeting was closed at approximately 1315 hours on Friday 22 July. Approximately 254 people attended the JCT-VC meeting, and approximately 700 input documents were discussed. The meeting took place in a collocated fashion with a meeting of WG 11 – one of the two parent bodies of the JCT-VC. The subject matter of the JCT-VC meeting activities consisted of work on the new next-generation video coding standardization project now referred to as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).

The primary goals of the meeting were to review the work that was performed in the interim period since the fifth JCT-VC meeting in implementing the 3rd HEVC Test Model (HM3) and editing the 3rd HEVC specification Working Draft (WD3), review the results from interim Core Experiments (CE), review technical input documents, further develop Working Draft and HEVC Test Model (HM), and plan a new set of Core Experiments (CEs) for further investigation of proposed technology.

The JCT-VC produced three particularly important output documents from the meeting: the HEVC Test Model 4 (HM4), the HEVC specification Working Draft 4 (WD4), and a document specifying common conditions and software reference configurations for HEVC coding experiments. Moreover, 13 documents describing the planning of future CEs were drafted.

For the organization and planning of its future work, the JCT-VC established 22 "Ad Hoc Groups" (AHGs) to progress the work on particular subject areas. The next four JCT-VC meetings are planned for 21–30 November 2011 under ITU-T auspices in Geneva, CH, 1–10 February 2012 under WG 11 auspices in San José, USA, 2–9 May 2012 under ITU-T auspices in Geneva, CH, and 11–20 July 2012 under WG 11 auspices in Stockholm,SE.

The document distribution site http://phenix.it-sudparis.eu/jct/ was used for distribution of all documents.

The reflector to be used for discussions by the JCT-VC and all of its AHGs is the JCT-VC reflector:

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