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 second meeting during 21-28 July, 2010 at the itu-t premises in Geneva, ch

Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ITU-T SG16 WP3 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 2nd Meeting: Geneva, CH, 21-28 July, 2010

Document: JCTVC-B200

Title:	Meeting report of the second meeting of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), Geneva, CH, 21-28 July, 2010
Status:	Output Report Document (possibly non-final)
Purpose:	Report
Author(s) or Contact(s):	Gary Sullivan Microsoft Corp. 1 Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA Jens-Rainer Ohm Institute of Communications Engineering RWTH Aachen University Melatener Straße 23 D-52074 Aachen	Tel: Email: Tel: Email:	[phone] [e-mail] [phone] [e-mail]
Source:	JCT-VC management

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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 second meeting during 21-28 July, 2010 at the ITU-T premises in Geneva, CH. The JCT-VC meeting was held under the chairmanship of Dr. Gary Sullivan (Microsoft/USA) and Dr. Jens-Rainer Ohm (RWTH Aachen/Germany).

The JCT-VC meeting sessions began at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday 21 July. Meeting sessions were held on all days (including weekend days) until the meeting was closed at approximately 11:40 a.m. on Wednesday 28 July. Approximately 220 people attended the JCT-VC meeting, and approximately 120 input documents were discussed. The meeting took place in a co-located fashion with a meeting of ITU-T SG16 – 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 focus of the meeting was to review the work that was performed in the interim period since the first JCT-VC meeting in implementing the Test Model under Consideration (TMuC), review results from Tool Experiments (TE), review technical input documents and define steps towards the establishment of the Test Model (TM) as planned for the third meeting. The review revealed that the current implementation of TMuC software exhibits similar improvement in compression performance as was previously seen from some of the best performing proposals in the CfP results.

The JCT-VC produced three important output documents from the meeting: An updated version of the "Test Model under Consideration" (TMuC) document, a description of encoder techniques for the TMuC design, and a documentation of the default settings of the TMuC software, as to be used in the upcoming TEs. Furthermore, 12 documents describing the planning of TEs were drafted. Among these, TE12, which is intended to evaluate the TMuC on a tool by tool basis, plays the most prominent role for the upcoming TM definition.

For the organization and planning of its future work, the JCT-VC established ten "Ad Hoc Groups" (AHGs) to progress the work on particular subject areas. The next JCT-VC meetings will be held during 7-15 October 2010 in Guangzhou, China, and during 20-28 January 2011 in Daegu, Korea, both under the auspices of JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11. The reflector to be used for discussions by the JCT-VC and all of its AHGs is the JCT-VC reflector: [e-mail]. For subscription to this list, see http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/jct-vc.