The Joint Video Team (JVT) of ITU-T Q.6/16 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 held its 26th meeting during 13-18 January, 2008 at the Divan Hotel in Antalya, Turkey. The JVT meeting was held under the chairmanship of Dr. Gary Sullivan (Microsoft/USA) and Dr. Jens-Rainer Ohm (RWTH Aachen/Germany), and under the associate chairmanship of Dr. Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer HHI/Germany) and Dr. Ajay Luthra (Motorola/USA). The JVT meetings opened at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Sunday 13 January 2008 and closed at approximately 11:45 a.m. on Friday 18 January 2008. Approximately 124 people attended the JVT meetings and approximately 40 input documents were discussed. The meetings took place in a co-located fashion with a meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) – one of the two parent bodies of the JVT. The subject matter of the JVT meeting activities consisted of work on video coding.
