JVET-Q0001 JVET AHG report: Project management (AHG1) [J.-R. Ohm, G. J. Sullivan]

This AHG report was discussed Wednesday 8 January 2020 at 0940 (chaired by GJS & JRO).

This document reports on the work of the JVET ad hoc group on Project Management, including an overall status report on the VVC standardization project and the progress made during the interim period since the preceding meeting.

The work of the JVET overall had proceeded well in the interim period with a huge number of input documents submitted to the current meeting. Intense discussion had been carried out on the group email reflector, and all output documents from the preceding meeting had been produced.

Output documents from the preceding meeting had been made available at the "Phenix" site (http://phenix.it-sudparis.eu/jvet/) or the ITU-based JVET site (http://wftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvet-site/2019_10_P_Geneva/), particularly including the following:

• The meeting report (JVET-P2000) [Posted 2020-01-06]
• Versatile Video Coding (Draft 7) (JVET-P2001) [Posted 2019-10-12, last update 2019-11-13]
• Algorithm description for Versatile Video Coding and Test Model 7 (VTM 7) (JVET-P2002) [Posted 2019-11-10]
• Methodology and reporting template for coding tool testing (JVET-P2005) [Posted 2019-11-28]
• Supplemental enhancement information messages for coded video bitstreams (Draft 2) (JVET-P2007) [Posted 2019-10-31, last update 2019-11-15]
• Conformance testing for Versatile Video Coding (Draft 1) (JVET-P2008) [Posted 2019-11-28]
• JVET common test conditions and software reference configurations for HDR/WCG video (JVET-P2011) [Posted 2019-10-23]
• Description of CE 1..5 (JVET-P2021..25) [all first posted 2019-10-11/12, further updates during the CE definition period of 3 weeks after the meeting]. The following CE description documents had later updates (more than 4 weeks after the meeting):
  • • JVET-P2021 [last updated 2019-12-28]
    • JVET-P2022 [last updated 2019-11-21]
    • JVET-P2023 [last updated 2019-12-18]

The sixteen ad hoc groups had made progress, and reports from those activities had been submitted.

Software integration of VTM was finalized approximately according to the plan.

Various problem reports relating to asserted bugs in the software, draft specification text, and reference encoder description had been submitted to an informal "bug tracking" system. That system is not intended as a replacement of our ordinary contribution submission process. However, the bug tracking system was considered to have been helpful to the software coordinators and text editors. The bug tracker reports had been automatically forwarded to the group email reflector, where the issues were discussed – and this is reported to have been helpful.

Roughly 500 input contributions to the current meeting, not counting the AHG and CE summary reports and cross-checks, had been registered for consideration at the meeting. Almost half of these documents were submitted on aspects of high-level syntax, whereas submissions on low-level coding tools (including CEs) has significantly decreased.

A preliminary basis for the document subject allocation and meeting notes for the 17th meeting had been made publicly available on the ITU-hosted ftp site.