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Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) of ITU-T SG16 WP3 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 12th Meeting: Geneva, CH, 14–23 Jan. 2013

Document: JCTVC-L_Notes_dED

Title:	Meeting report of the 12th meeting of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), Geneva, CH, 14–23 Jan. 2013
Status:	Report Document from Chairs of JCT-VC
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:	Chairs

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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 twelfth meeting during 14–23 Jan. 2013 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). For rapid access to particular topics in this report, a subject categorization is found (with hyperlinks) in section 1.14 of this document.

The JCT-VC meeting sessions began at approximately 1000 hours on Monday 14 Jan. 2013. Meeting sessions were held on all days (including weekend days) until the meeting was closed at approximately 1410 hours on Wednesday 23 Jan. 2013. Approximately 262 people attended the JCT-VC meeting, and approximately 450 input documents were discussed. The meeting took place in a collocated 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 known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) and its extensions.

The primary goals of the meeting were to review the work that was performed in the interim period since the eleventh JCT-VC meeting in producing the 9th HEVC Test Model (HM9) software and text and editing the 9th HEVC specification Draft (which had been issued as a Study of ISO/IEC Draft International Standard document), review the results from one interim Core Experiment (CE) on range extensions and six Tool Experiments (TE) on scalable extensions, review technical input documents, establish the 10th draft of the HEVC specification (to be issued as ISO/IEC Final Draft International Standard document, also to be submitted for Consent in ITU-T), and the tenth version of the HEVC Test Model (HM10). Besides the finalization of version 1 of HEVC, important topics of the meeting were the review of progress made towards definitions of HEVC Scalable Video Coding extensions and range extensions into higher bit depths and non-4:2:0 colour sampling. Advancing the work on development of conformance and reference software for HEVC and its extensions is also a significant goal.

In addition to experiment plan descriptions, the JCT-VC produced 11 other particularly important output documents from the meeting: the HEVC Test Model 10 (HM10) document description, the HEVC specification draft 10 a.k.a. Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) and AAP Consent text, a draft of HEVC reference software for HM 10, the Disposition of Comments (DoC) on the ISO/IEC DIS ballot, draft 2 for HEVC conformance testing, draft 2 for HEVC range extensions, a Scalable HEVC (SHVC) test model draft 1 (SHM 1), an SHVC working draft 1, and three documents specifying common test conditions and software reference configurations for experiments – one for HEVC coding efficiency experiments, one for HEVC range extension experiments, and one for scalable coding experiments.

For the organization and planning of its future work, the JCT-VC established 17 "ad hoc groups" (AHGs) to progress the work on particular subject areas. The next six JCT-VC meetings are planned for 18–26 Apr. 2013 under WG 11 auspices in Incheon, KR, 25 July – 2 Aug. 2013 under WG 11 auspices in Vienna, AT, 24 Oct. – 1 Nov 2013 under ITU-T auspices in Geneva, CH, 9–17 Jan. 2014 under WG 11 auspices in San José, US, 27 March – 4 Apr. 2014 in Valencia, ES, and 17–25 June 2014 in Geneva, CH.

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:

[e-mail] hosted at RWTH Aachen University. For subscription to this list, see
http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/jct-vc.

Administrative topics

1.1Organization

The ITU-T/ISO/IEC Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) is a group of video coding experts from the ITU-T Study Group 16 Visual Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC JTC 1/ SC 29/ WG 11 Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). The parent bodies of the JCT-VC are ITU-T WP3/16 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11.

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 twelfth meeting during 14-23 Jan. 2013 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).