Organisation internationale de normalisation

2.2Meeting opening and remarks by the chairmen

The meeting was opened at approximately 10:00 a.m. on Sunday 20 July 2008.

The JVT meeting will end by lunchtime on Friday 25 July at latest.

Our goal for this meeting is to finish all major JVT business by noon on Thursday 24 July, leaving only perhaps some minor "tidying up" work after that.
Document handling and other working practices were reviewed for the participants.
A document template was attached to various email announcements and could also be found at http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/JVT-ABxxx.dot. It contained important instructions and policy information. Participants had been instructed to read it and use it as the basis of their contributions.
Documents were made available for download at http://ftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/2008_07_Hannover.
The deadline was Wednesday 16 July 2008 for registrations and uploads.
The top areas of contributions were MVC and reports/suggestions for errata corrections.
At the opening session of the meeting, the JVT chairs reminded participants of the relevant IPR policy as described above, and reviewed the status and plans for the major projects under way in the JVT. The largest area of activity consisted of multi-view video coding (MVC) extensions of the ITU-T Rec. H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 Advanced video coding (AVC) standard. SVC work was categorized as "phase 1" or "phase 2", depending on whether the work related to the recently-designed initial SVC amendment or to a potential future further SVC extension.
Opening remarks:

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  IPR policy reminder
  
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  Professional profiles – follow up work on reference software and conformance
  
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  SVC phase II – work areas included investigation of bit depth, color gamut, and chroma format scalability and fine-granularity scalability
  
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  Multiview video coding (MVC) was a major project underway, with the goal of finishing the amendment text for ISO/IEC as an output of this meeting
  
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  Corrigendum work is needed, and was a major priority for this meeting
  

Further work and additional needs on the development, standardization, and maintenance of the base specification and the recently-completed SVC and professional profiles, and of associated reference software and conformance specifications was noted.

The chair remarked that there were few late document uploads this time, and that the submitted documents seem to be generally adhering to the JVT guidelines in terms of formatting, filenames, etc., which is a good development, although further improvement (particularly in the formatting conventions) is still needed. The JVT operating rules on that subject have helped.