ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, entitled Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information, is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It develops and facilitates international standards, technical reports, and technical specifications within the field of audio, picture, multimedia, and hypermedia information coding. SC 29 includes the well-known JPEG and MPEG experts groups, and the standards developed by SC 29 have been recognized by nine Emmy Awards.

The international secretariat of SC 29 is the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) of Japan.[1]

History

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 was established in 1991, when the subcommittee took over the tasks of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 8. Its title, "Coded representation of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information", has not been changed since its inception. Within its first year, SC 29 established four working groups, a secretariat, and working group conveners, and held its first plenary in Tokyo, Japan. Its founding chair was Hiroshi Yasuda of NTT, who continued to serve in that capacity through 1999. Subsequent chairs have been Hiroshi Watanabe of NTT (2000–2006),[2] Kohtaro Asai of Mitsubishi Electric (2007–2017),[3] Teruhiko Suzuki of Sony (2018–2020),[4] and Gary Sullivan of Dolby Labs (2021–present, originally from Microsoft before moving to Dolby in 2023).[5][6]

In 2003, SC 29 was the inaugural recipient of the Lawrence D. Eicher Award, an award that has been given by ISO to only one technical committee or subcommittee each year, which "recognizes the significant contribution and superior performance of an ISO technical committee (TC) or subcommittee (SC) to the development of ISO International Standards".[7][8]

As of January 2023, SC 29 is responsible for 610 currently published standards and updates of standards, including standards for JPEG (ISO/IEC 10918-1), JPEG-2000 (ISO/IEC 15444-1), MPEG-1 (ISO/IEC 11172-1), MPEG-2 (ISO/IEC 13818), MPEG-4 (ISO/IEC 14996), MPEG-4 AVC (ISO/IEC 14496-10), JBIG (ISO/IEC 11544), MHEG-5 (ISO/IEC 13522-5), etc.[9][10]

Emmy Award recognitions

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 has received nine Emmy Awards in recognition of the standards it has developed.

Scope

The scope of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 includes the development of standards for "efficient coding of digital representations of images, audio and moving pictures" and other digital information, along with supporting media systems and associated quality of experience and performance metrics.[9]

Structure

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 has eight active working groups (WGs), each of which carries out specific tasks in standards development within scope of the subcommittee.[24] It also contains five advisory groups (AG) for coordination and to provide expertise on particular subjects. Working groups and advisory groups can be created or disbanded by decisions of the subcommittee and are ordinarily chartered for renewable three-year terms. The focus of each working group is described in the group's terms of reference. The active advisory groups and working groups of SC 29 are:[9]

Group Working area Convenor
AG 1Chair support team and managementDr. Andrew Tescher (Microsoft, United States)
AG 2MPEG Technical coordinationProf. Joern Ostermann (University of Hannover, Germany)
AG 3MPEG Liaison and communicationProf. Kyuheon Kim (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
AG 4JPEG and MPEG coordinationProf. Peter Schelkens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
AG 5MPEG Visual quality assessmentDr. Mathias Wien (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
WG 1JPEG Coding of digital representations of imagesProf. Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL, Switzerland)
WG 2MPEG Technical requirementsDr. Igor Curcio (Nokia, Finland)
WG 3MPEG SystemsDr. Youngkwon Lim (Samsung, Korea)
WG 4MPEG Video codingProf. Lu Yu (Zhejiang University, China)
WG 5MPEG Joint Video Coding Team(s) with ITU-T Study Group 16 (a.k.a. JVET)Prof. Jens-Rainer Ohm (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
WG 6MPEG Audio codingDr. Schuyler Quackenbush (Audio Research Labs, United States)
WG 7MPEG 3D graphics and haptics codingProf. Marius Preda (Institut Mines-Télécom SudParis, France)
WG 8MPEG Genomic codingDr. Marco Mattavelli (EPFL, Switzerland)

Collaborations

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 works in close collaboration with a number of other organizations or subcommittees, both internal and external to ISO or IEC, in order to avoid conflicting or duplicative work. Organizations internal to ISO or IEC that collaborate with or are in liaison to SC 29 include:[25][26][27]

  • ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2, Coded character sets
  • ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6, Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
  • ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 24, Computer graphics, image processing and environmental data representation
  • ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, Document description and processing languages
  • ISO/TC 36, Cinematography
  • ISO/TC 37, Terminology and other language and content resources
  • ISO/TC 37/SC 4, Language resource management
  • ISO/TC 42, Photography
  • ISO/TC 46/SC 9, Identification and description
  • ISO/TC 130, Graphic technology
  • ISO/TC 171, Document management applications
  • ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics
  • ISO/TC 223, Societal security
  • ISO/TC 276, Biotechnology
  • IEC TC 9, Electrical equipment and systems for railways
  • IEC TC 100, Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment

Some organizations external to ISO or IEC that collaborate with or are in liaison to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, include:[25]

Member countries

Countries pay a fee to be a member of an ISO/IEC JTC 1 subcommittee.[28]

The 27 "P" (participating) members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States.[1]

The 18 "O" (observing) members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 are: Argentina, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Morocco, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, and Turkey.

Published standards

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 currently is responsible for 610 currently published standards within the field of coded representation of audio, picture, multimedia, and hypermedia information, including:[9][29][30][31][32]

ISO/IEC Standard Title Status Description WG
ISO/IEC 10918-1Information technology – Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: Requirements and guidelinesPublished (1994)Specifies:[33]
  • Processes for converting source image data to compressed image data
  • Processes for converting compressed image data to reconstructed image data
  • Coded representations for compressed image data

Provides guidance on how to implement these processes in practice;

1
ISO/IEC 10918-5Information technology – Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)Published (2013)Specifies the JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)[34]1
ISO/IEC 11544Information technology – Coded representation of picture and audio information – Progressive bi-level image compressionPublished (1993)Defines a bit-preserving (lossless) compression method for coding image bit-planes and is particularly suitable for two-tone (including black and white) images[35]1
ISO/IEC 15444-1Information technology – JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding systemPublished (2004)Defines a set of lossless and lossy compression methods for coding bi-level, continuous-tone, grey-scale, palletized color, or continuous-tone color digital still images[36][37]1
ISO/IEC TR 29199-1Information technology – JPEG XR image coding system – Part 1: System architecturePublished (2011)Provides a technical overview and informative guidelines for applications of JPEG XR image coding as specified in Part 2 of ISO/IEC 29199[38]1
ISO/IEC 29199-2Information technology – JPEG XR image coding system – Part 2: Image coding specificationPublished (2012)Specifies a coding format, known as JPEG XR, which is designed primarily for use for continuous-tone photographic content[39]1
ISO/IEC 11172-1Information technology – Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1,5 Mbit/s – Part 1: SystemsPublished (1993)Specifies the system layer of the coding of video and audio as specified in Parts 2 and 3 of ISO/IEC 11172 known as MPEG-1, which supports the synchronization of multiple compressed streams on playback, the interleaving of multiple compressed streams into a single stream, the initialization of buffering for playback start up, continuous buffer management, and time identification[40]11
ISO/IEC 13818-1Information technology – Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information – Part 1: SystemsPublished (1996)Specifies the system layer of coding, and is meant to support the combination of video and audio coding methods defined in Parts 2 and 3 of ISO/IEC 13818, known as MPEG-2[41]11
ISO/IEC 13818-2Information technology – Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information – Part 2: VideoPublished (1996)Specifies a compression format for interlaced and progressive video[42]11
ISO/IEC 13818-3Information technology – Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information – Part 3: AudioPublished (1995)Specifies an MPEG-1 Audio backward compatible audio compression format[43]11
ISO/IEC 13818-7Information technology – Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information – Part 7: Advanced Audio CodingPublished (1997)Specifies an audio compression format, known as AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)[44]11
ISO/IEC 14496-1Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 1: SystemsPublished (1999)Specifies the system level functionalities for the communication of interactive audio-visual scenes[45]11
ISO/IEC 14496-2Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 2: VisualPublished (1999)Provides the specification of:[46]
  • Video coding tools, object types, and profiles
  • Coding tools, object types, and profiles for mapping of still textures into visual scenes
  • Coding tools, object types, and profiles for human face and body animation
  • Coding tools, object types, and profiles for the animation of 2D warping grids with uniform and irregular topography
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ISO/IEC 14496-3Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 3: AudioPublished (1999)Specifies a format for audio object[47]11
ISO/IEC 14496-10 (available free)Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 10: Advanced Video CodingPublished (2003)Specifies advanced video coding for the coding of audio-visual objects, known as AVC (Advanced Video Coding)[48]11
ISO/IEC 14496-22Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 22: Open Font FormatPublished (2009)Specifies the Open Font Format (OFF),[49] the ISO derivative of the OpenType font format11
ISO/IEC 23003-1Information technology – MPEG audio technologies – Part 1: MPEG SurroundPublished (2007)Describes the MPEG Surround standard which is meant for multi-channel audio compression[50][51]11
ISO/IEC 23003-3Information technology – MPEG audio technologies – Part 3: Unified speech and audio codingPublished (2012)Specifies a unified speech and audio codec that is capable of having coding signals with an arbitrary mix of speech and audio content[52]11
ISO/IEC 13522-5Information technology – Coding of multimedia and hypermedia information – Part 5: Support for base-level interactive applicationsPublished (1997)Specifies the semantics and final-form interchange syntax for MHEG-5 objects[53]12 (Disbanded)

See also

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