Ad hoc groups

1. Prepare and finalize summary report on CVQM-UHD subjective quality assessment experiments;
2. Aggregate, consolidate and extend information about quality metrics provided in m74357 and prepare a draft report as input contribution to the next meeting;
3. Study the feasibility of extending CVQM to include HDR content;
4. Study the correlation between objective quality metrics and subjective quality scores using the CVQM dataset as well as suitable public datasets;
5. Study the suitability of learning-based quality metrics for evaluating compression performance.

Yan Ye, Zhibo Chen, Benjamin Bross, Mathias Wien

until the next AG 5 meeting

mpeg-vqa@lists.rwth-aachen.de

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Meetings are held online and are to be announced at least two weeks before the AHG meeting date.

1. Maintain the output document on “Guidelines for verification testing of visual media specifications”;
2. Maintain the output document on “Guidelines for remote expert viewing sessions”;
3. Consider extensions and refinements of the guidelines for remote expert viewing for more test types.
4. Finalize a guideline for the naming conventions for raw video data.

Mathias Wien, Lu Yu, Joel Jung

until the next AG 5 meeting

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Meetings are held online and are to be announced at least two weeks before the AHG meeting date.

1. Solicit further industry participation and contributions  (e.g., technologies and APIs) for ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralized Media Rights Application Format in the areas: a) Smart contracts and DLTs; b) Rights and metadata management; c) Content and creator IDs; and c) File formats and streaming protocols.

2. Study and solicit contributions for enhancing M75629 with respect to integration and compliance with ISO/IEC 23000-12 Interactive Music Application Format & ISO/IEC 21000-23 Smart Contracts for Media for automated payment of royalties to artists and rights holders in use cases such as remixing, karaoke and collaborative music creation.

3. Enhance collaboration with liaisons (e.g., ISO/TC 307, ITU-T SG21, INATBA, W3C DIDs, ISCC and EC) and conduct further dissemination activities (e.g., Digital Asset Management WG - Metaverse Standards Forum).

4. Study and improve the WD of ISO/IEC 23000-23 Decentralized Media Rights Application.

Panos Kudumakis and Mirko Zichichi

Until the 154th MPEG meeting

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Biweekly calls starting Wed 4 Feb. 2026 alternatively at 14:00 & 16:00 UTC (2 h).

1.	Work on Amd1 of MPEG-I immersive audio
2.	Study and progress the integration of MPEG-I immersive audio into WG 3 MPEG-I scene description 
3.	Study and progress file format for MPEG-I immersive audio
4.	Maintain audio-related text, conformance data and reference software
5.	Prepare verification test for MPEG-I immersive audio
6.	Study and progress media authenticity for MPEG audio technologies
7.	Study and progress MPEG-4 audio immersive interchange format

Thomas Sporer (FhG-IDMT) thomas.sporer at idmt.fraunhofer.de
Christof Fersch (Dolby) christof.fersch at dolby.com 
Sujeet Mate (Nokia) Sujeet.mate at nokia.com
Moritz Fuchs (FhG-IIS) moritz.fuchs at iis.fraunhofer.de

Until next WG 6 Meeting

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WG6 AhG meetings as follows:

Joint meeting with WG3 scene description to discuss common architecture: 
•	See Scene Description AhG meeting schedule

•	Tue 2025-12-02 9:00-11:00 UTC (Verification Test Preparation, Zoom)
•	Tue 2025-12-02 11:00-12:00 UTC (Any other topics; may be canceled without input, Zoom)
https://iso.zoom.us/j/2162331649?pwd=MVdzd1l0ejRPNXNubmVYZnd5bjlyZz09

•	Documents to be discussed in the AhG meeting on 2025-12-02 shall be registered and uploaded before 2025-11-28, 23:59 UTC.
•	Documents to be discussed at the 22nd WG 6 meeting shall be registered until 2026-01-12, 23:59 UTC and uploaded until 2026-01-14, 23:59 UTC.

1.	Prepare and coordinate CfP submissions
2.	Collaborate with ITU-T SG21/Q.6 VCEG
3.	Identify industries and use cases for ACoM Phase 2

Sang-Wook Kim (CAU)  swkim4 at cau.ac.kr
Thomas Sporer (FhG-IDMT) thomas.sporer at idmt.fraunhofer.de

Until next WG 6 Meeting

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WG6 zoom AhG meetings on ACoM as follows:

Tue 2025-11–11 09:00-11:00 UTC (topic: CfP, Open questions, no inputs papers necessary)

Tue 2026-01–13 09:00-11:00 UTC (topic: CfP evaluation)

Zoom link https://iso.zoom.us/j/9218290580?pwd=y48Fq1IZyBEBJmva3Mq1ZKNZlbDnre.1

•	Documents to be discussed in the AhG meeting on 2026-01-13 shall be registered and uploaded before 2026-01-10, 23:59 UTC.
•	Documents to be discussed at the 22nd WG 6 meeting shall be registered until 2026-01-12, 23:59 UTC and uploaded until 2025-01-14, 23:59 UTC.

1. solicit contributions and continue improving ISO/IEC 23001-11 Ed.4
2. solicit contributions and continue to consolidate and improve of ISO/IEC 23001-19
3. continue to consolidate ISO/IEC 23001-10 Ed. 3
4. study the transport of MPEG-GREEN Access Units over MPEG-2 systems (ISO/IEC 13818-1 aka. Rec. ITU-T H.222.0) and solicit contributions that improve ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3/N 1517
5. monitor the publishing process of ISO/IEC 23001-11 Ed.3 AMD2

Olivier Le Meur, Christian Herglotz

Until next MPEG meeting

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Several online sessions before the next MPEG meeting if necessary