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Executive Summary of the ITU-T Study Group 16 Meeting
(Geneva, Switzerland, 7-17 October 2019)

Numbers and other links

• Reviewed 120 Contributions and handled 320 TDs.     
• Started 26 new work items.
• Consented Recommendations: 24 at this meeting (20 in 2019-03)
• Recommendations Decided/Determined/Approved: none at this meeting.
• Recommendations agreed for Deletion: none at this meeting.
• New Questions: Q12/16 had their inaugural sessions; a new Q23/16 was proposed.
• Other texts approved: (Total: 7) 2 Recommendations; 4 Technical Papers and 1 Supplement (No appendices, implementors guides, technical reports or other documents).
• List of confirmed and planned interim meetings: see related link; one meeting of WP2/16.
• Final text of the 22 outgoing Liaison Statements: see LS database.
• The meeting had 161 registered participants during the meeting period (compared to 160 at the previous meeting). Remote participation services were provided to 21 delegates for participation at a few specific sessions (13%; up from 12%); some delegates joined both remotely and physically. The final list of participants is available in TD311-R1/Plen.

Major accomplishments

• A new ITU-T Focus Group on AI for autonomous and assisted driving (FG-AI4AD) was created at this meeting. The new FG will support standardization activities for services and applications enabled by AI systems in autonomous and assisted driving. It will focus on the behavioural evaluation of AI responsible for dynamic driving tasks, so as to ensure that performance of AI on roads meets, or exceeds, the performance of a competent and careful human driver, and, consequently, to build public trust in these technologies [TD315-R1/Plen]. More details are found in the FG-AI4AD home page.
• New Question12/16 on "Visual surveillance systems and services" proposed at the previous SG16 meeting held its inaugural sessions after completing the approval process. The meeting also agreed with the proposal for a new Question 23/16 on "Digital culture-related systems and services", which needs review by TSAG before being formally adopted. Nevertheless, work will already start by taking on work items that were previously handled in Q21/16. The text is found here.
• ITU Workshop on "The Future of Media", collocated with the ITU-T SG16 meeting, took place on 8 October 2019. The workshop shared expert insight into the state of the art in multimedia as well as the new possibilities and associated challenges appearing on the horizon. Its main objective was to discuss the implications of the latest advances in multimedia for the international standardization work of IEC, ISO and ITU. It also contributed to the celebration of World Standards Day 2019, themed "Video standards create a global stage".
• WTSA-20 preparations: Discussions were held at plenary level ad hoc meetings concerning the SG16 mandate (including its title, points of guidance and lead roles) for the study period 2021-2024; the current trend is to align the wording of its mandate with the current and foreseen future standardization trends, as an evolution of multimedia and e-services. The text of the various Questions was discussed at Rapporteur and working party level; here, the current trend is to maintain the same number of Questions (considering proposed new Q23/16 and the merger of Q7/16 into Q6/16). More details can be found in the liaison statement sent to TSAG in SG16-LS165. Discussions will continue in the interim period aiming at completion at the last SG16 meeting in this period, scheduled June-July 2020.
  
• Video and image coding: Completed work on ITU-T H.265 V7 "High efficiency video coding" [TD337-R1/Plen]. Experts also completed an update to H-Series Supplement 19 with code points for different sets of video signal properties and their combinations that are widely used in production and video content workflows. The information in this Supplement will help producers of various content processing tools avoid processing mistakes that can cause video quality degradation due to having incorrect assumptions made about video property combinations [TD339/Plen]. Amongst other improvements, this revision adds tables to describe the carriage of these combinations in baseband transmission formats.
• Safe listening: the collaboration with WHO continued with a future planned revision of ITU-T H.870 (ex F.SLD) "Guidelines for safe listening devices/systems", a joint ITU/WHO technical standard on the desired behaviour of safe listening music players. [TD232/WP2]. Work is also being progressed towards a conformance testing spec for H.870 [HSTP-CONF-H870].
• Personal connected health devices: An update was completed for two specifications of the Continua Design Guidelines for personal connected health devices in ITU-T H.810 (Introduction) and H.813 (Healthcare Information System interface) [TD321/Plen, TD322/Plen]. Work was also completed in ten conformance testing specifications for the Continua Design Guidelines, that reflect maintenance activity of the specifications since the SG16 meeting in March 2019:
  • ITU-T H.830.15 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Services interface Part 15: FHIR Observation Upload: Health & Fitness Service sender" [TD324/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.830.16 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Services interface Part 16: FHIR Observation Upload: Health & Fitness Service receiver" [TD325/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.842 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Personal Health Devices interface Part 2: Optimized Exchange Protocol: Personal Health Gateway" [TD326/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.844 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Personal Health Devices interface Part 4: Continua Design Guidelines: Personal Health Gateway" [TD327/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.845.17 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Personal Health Devices interface Part 5Q: Power status monitor" [TD328/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.846 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Personal Health Devices interface Part 6: Personal Health Gateway" [TD329/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.849 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Personal Health Devices interface Part 9: Transcoding for Bluetooth Low Energy: Personal Health Devices" [TD330/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.850 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Personal Health Devices interface Part 10: Transcoding for Bluetooth Low Energy: Personal Health Gateway - General requirements" [TD331/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.850.6 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Personal Health Devices interface Part 10F: Transcoding for Bluetooth Low Energy: Personal Health Gateway - Pulse oximeter" [TD332/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.850.7 "Conformance of ITU-T H.810 personal health system: Personal Health Devices interface Part 10G: Transcoding for Bluetooth Low Energy: Personal Health Gateway - Continuous glucose monitoring" [TD333/Plen]
  ​The meeting also approved a revision to Technical Paper ITU-T HSTP-H812-FHIR V2 "Interoperability design guidelines for personal health systems: Services interface: FHIR Observation Upload for trial implementation", which was updated following some changes in the baseline HL7's FHIR specifications (still in a trial use phase) [TD323/Plen].
• Sleep monitoring: ITU-T H.862.0 (ex F.HF-SLM) on requirements and framework for ICT sleep management service models was Consented at this meeting. This Recommendation defines a service model and requirements concerning sleep monitoring and sleep status check services to ensure interoperability of sleep management services [TD366/Plen].     
  
• ​​Intelligent transport systems (ITS): With the approval by SG16 of its ToR, the first meeting of the ITU-T SG16 and ISO/TC22/SC31/WG8 Joint Project Team on vehicle domain service (JVDS) took place collocated with SG16 under the co-chairmanship of SG16's Hideki Yamamoto (OKI Electric, Japan) and ISO TC22/SC31's Kaname Tokita (Honda, Japan). The group is planning many interim activities to progress four newly created work items; participation in the group is open to experts from either parent group. More information is found in its home page; and in the JVDS collaboration site.
• IPTV: Experts completed work on new ITU-T H.753 (ex H.IPTV-SBM) "Scene-based metadata for IPTV services" [TD357/Plen], which will enable the use of standardized metadata by different content providers and distribution platforms during content distribution and service provisioning. It also completed updates to ITU-T H.764 (V2) "IPTV services enhanced script language", an ECMAscript specialization for IPTV systems [TD358/Plen].
• Digital multimedia transport: Common text ITU-T H.222.0 | ISO/IEC 13818-1 is used in most terrestrial and satellite system for transport of audiovisual content. At this meeting, two minor updated were Consented to its 2018 version: Corrigendum 1 to correct the value of stream_type [TD334/Plen]; and Amendment 1 specifying carriage of JPEG XS in MPEG-2 TS [TD335/Plen].
• Content delivery networks (CDNs & ICNs): Work completed on the following CDN specifications:     
  • ​ITU-T F.743.10 (ex F.CDN-MEC) "Requirements for mobile edge computing enabled content delivery networks" [TD361/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.644.2 (ex H.VCDN.1-NV) "Virtual content delivery network: Network virtualization"​​ [TD364/Plen]
• ​​Visual surveillance: Meeting officially for the first time, Question 12/16 completed two revised Recommendations:
  • ITU-T F.743 (V2) "Requirements and service description for video surveillance" [TD336-R1/Plen]
  • ITU-T H.626 (V2) "Functional architecture for video surveillance system" [TD338/Plen]
• Civilian​ unmanned aerial vehicles: Work was completed on Recommendation F.749.11 (ex F.CUAV-MEC) that describes the requirements when using mobile edge computing for of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles applications [TD362/Plen].
• Digital culture: Besides agreement to establish new Question 23/16 focused on ICT standards for digital culture, two new Recommendations were completed:
  • ITU-T F.740.1 (ex F.ISOMReqs) "Requirements for an information service of objects in museums" [TD363/Plen]
  •  ITU-T H.629.1 (ex F.DRIDS) "Scenarios, framework and metadata for digitalized artwork images display system" [TD365/Plen]
• DLT: The new Question on distributed ledger technologies was very active at this meeting, and agreed to approve as technical papers two deliverables of the (now closed) FG-DLT:
  • ITU-T HSTP.DLT-RF "Distributed ledger technologies: Regulatory framework" [TD369/Plen]
  • ITU-T HSTP.DLT-UC "Distributed ledger technologies: Use cases" [TD368/Plen]
• Immersive live environments: ILE work further progressed with the conclusion of one more Recommendation: ITU-T H.430.4 (ex H.ILE-MMT) on service configuration, media transport protocols and signalling information of MPEG multimedia transport (MMT) for ILE systems" [TD359/Plen].     
• Accessibility and human factors: Work was completed on a revision of the Technical Paper ITU-T FSTP-ACC-RCS (V2) with an overview of remote captioning services, to include privacy considerations in the provisioning of such services [TD370/Plen]. The collaboration with ISO/IEC JTC1 SC35 (User Interfaces) progressed with an update draft for planned twin H.ACC-GVP on guidance on the visual presentation of audio information, including captions and subtitles (ISO/IEC 20071-23) [TD207/WP2] and a new work item ITU-T F.ACC-AVSL on visual presentation of audio information in sign languages that will progressed as a joint text [TD252/WP2]; in addition, there are two other items planned as future twin texts, H.ACC-GAD and H.ACC-GAP.

Collocated activities:

• ITU-T Study Group 16 (7-17 October 2019)
• JCA-MMeS (14 October 2019)
• ITU-T SG16 hosted the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) from 1-11 October 2019, as part of its ongoing collaboration with ISO/IEC JTC1 / SC29 / WG11 (MPEG) for the development of enhanced capabilities for video coding.
• First meeting of the Joint Project Team of ITU-T SG16 and ISO TC22/SC31/WG8 on Vehicle Domain Services (JVDS) on 14-15 October 2019.
• ITU IRG-AVA on 9 October 2019
• ITU-T JCA-AHF on 10 October 2019
• ITU Workshop on "The Future of Media" (8 October 2019)
• Plenary meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29, the parent group of WG1 (JPEG) and WG11 (MPEG), on 12 October 2019
• MPEG128 (ISO/IEC JTC1 / SC29 / WG11) meeting (7-11 October 2019)     

Dates of next SG16 meeting and interim Working Party meetings

• The next SG16 meeting is currently planned to take place in Geneva, Geneva, 22/23 June – 2/3 July 2020, with MPEG in CICG.

• April 2021 in Geneva, collocated with MPEG.

Map of meeting reports & Liaison Statements (as seen by the SG16 Plenary)

 List of Participants: SG16-TD245-R1/Plen

Summary of Questions' Results

Question 1/16 summary

Question 1/16 was addressed in two sessions under the acting chairmanship of Messrs Noah Luo (P.R. China) and Paul Coverdale (P.R. China) to coordinate of responses to liaison statements of general nature and response to documents intended for SG16 management team and all Questions. A report on e-agriculture was reviewed and noted. Four reply liaison statements were prepared. No interim activities are planned.

Question 5/16 summary

Question 5/16 examined nine contributions covering use cases, coordination within SG16 and general topic and plan for future work, and agreed to create a new work item, F.AI-SCS on use cases and requirements for speech interaction of intelligent customer services. The Question also reviewed liaison statements from JPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1), TSAG, FG DPM, FG ML5G and SG13 and two outgoing liaisons were prepared to JPEG and ML5G. The Question plans on holding one face-to-face or electronic meeting before the next SG16 meeting in June 2020.

Question 6/16 summary

The primary goals for Question 6/16 at this meeting of SG16 were to review the progress of Q6/16, JVET, JCT-VC, and JPEG work. Q6/16 forwarded one revised Recommendation for AAP Consent on topics related to the coding of video and still images (H.265 V7 High efficiency video coding). Q6/16 also submitted revised H-series Supplement 19 for Approval, which describes prevalent industry usage of video signal type code points. A substantial portion of the image coding work of Question 6/16 is conducted jointly with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 (JPEG), and a substantial portion of the video coding work of Question 6/16 is being conducted jointly with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) in two joint collaborative teams known as the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) and the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). Meetings of JVET and JCT-VC were held in a collocated fashion with this meeting of SG16 under its auspices. JVET is tasked with development of Versatile Video Coding (VVC), a future video coding standard with substantially improved coding efficiency relative to HEVC (H.265), and JCT-VC is tasked with maintenance and enhancement of HEVC (H.265), AVC (H.264) and CICP (H.273). A meeting of MPEG was also held in a collocated fashion during the current meeting of SG16. Q6/16 is planning to hold two Rapporteur meetings, two JVET meetings, and two JCT-VC meetings before the next SG16 meeting in June/July 2020 and to hold meetings of JVET and the JCT-VC in a collocated fashion with the next SG16 meeting in June/July 2020 under its auspices. The Question prepared three outgoing Liaison Statements. The Question discussed plans for the next study period; while its focus remain video compression, it is planning to enlarge its scope to also cover with maintenance items of MPEG systems from Question 11/16 and audio-related work from Question 7/16, in addition to open scope for compressions of different classes of signals.

Question 7/16 summary

Question 7/16 did not hold any sessions during this SG16 meeting. It is planned that this Question will be closed for the next study period and the still relevant activities would be transferred to the continuation of Question 6/16.

Question 8/16 summary

Question 8/16 discussed four contributions and several Liaison Statements during its six sessions during SG16 meeting. As the result, Q8/16 completed work on Recommendation ITU-T H.430.4 (ex H.ILE-MMT) on service configuration, media transport protocols, and signalling information of multimedia transport for immersive live experience (ILE) systems. In addition, Q8/16 prepared one new and two reply outgoing liaison statements. The Question plans on holding two interim meetings. Finally, the Question description of Q8/16 was updated in preparation for WTSA-20.

Question 11/16 summary

Question 11/16 worked on the revisions of the H.323v8-series and the H.TPS-series. Q11/16 reviewed final text for a new Corrigendum and a new Amendment to the common text ITU-T Rec. H.222.0 | ISO/IEC 13818-1. Q11/16 proposed two recommendations for Consent. The Question does not plan to hold any interim Rapporteurs meeting and did not prepare any outgoing liaison statements. Concerning WTSA-20 preparations, only minor updates were deemed necessary towards the next study period.

Question 12/16 summary

Question 12/16 reviewed nine contributions in seven sessions during the SG16 meeting. Q12/16 completed the work for two revised Recommendations for video surveillance, F.743 on requirements and service description and H.626 on functional architecture. The Question also progressed several work items including F.FRAVSReqs, F.VRVS, F.SDC and F.BVSSI, and started a new work item H.VSECArch on architecture for edge computing platform supporting a video surveillance system. The Question produced two reply liaison statements at this meeting. The Question agreed on nominating Mr Haitao Zhang (BUPT, China) to be the associate Rapporteur of Q12/16. Interim activities planned for Q12/16 experts are two e-meetings and one physical meeting at the end of March 2020. The Question also drafted updates to its terms of reference for the new study period.

Question 13/16 summary

Question 13/16 progressed the work on seven draft Recommendations: H.761 (V4), H.764 (V2), H.IPTV-EUIF.1, H.IPTV-LSFA, H.IPTV-SBM, H.IPTV-TDES.6, H.IPTV-TDES.7, H.IPTV-TMRAPI. The group completed two Recommendations for Consent: new ITU-T H.753 (ex H.IPTV-SBM) on scene-based metadata for IPTV services and revised ITU-T H.764 specifying the IPTV services enhanced script language. No new work items were started under the Question at this meeting, and three outgoing liaison statements were prepared. The group plans to hold one interim physical meeting in a joint rapporteur group meeting (end March 2020) and two e-meetings. The group also discussed the Question scope and terms of reference in preparation for the next study period.

Question 14/16 summary

At this meeting, Question 14/16 mainly discussed the modification of Question text for preparation of the next study period. The updated text includes topics on emerging technologies relevant to digital signage systems and services such as AI, natural language translation, motion recognition, UHD including 4K/8K, VR/AR/MR/XR and IMT 2020/5G. No outgoing liaison statements were prepared and the Question does not plan any interim activities.

Question 21/16 summary

Question 21/16 experts met for eight sessions during this meeting to review dozens of contributions for work items in progress, five draft new Recommendations for consent. The Question agreed to start seven new work items, and completed work on five new Recommendations: ITU-T F.749.11 (ex F.CUAV-MEC) "Requirements of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles enabled mobile edge computing", F.743.10 (ex F.CDN-MEC) "Requirements for mobile edge computing enabled content delivery networks", F.740.1 (ex F.ISOMReqs) "Requirements for an information service of objects in museums", ITU-T H.644.2 (ex H.VCDN.1-NV) "Virtual content delivery network: Network virtualization", and H.629.1 (ex F.DRIDS) "Scenarios, framework and metadata for digitalized artwork images display system". No outgoing LSs were prepared. Q21/16 plans to hold an interim meeting together with other SG16 Questions. Q21/16 drafted an updated Question scope and terms of reference for the next study period, and reviewed favourably a proposal to split its work on digital culture into a new Question to offload some of its current work and create focus on this emerging area (already, one Consented and one new work item at this meeting). The Question thanked departing Mr Xiaoyang Ye for his work and welcomed Ms Liang Wang (ZTE, China) as its new Rapporteur.

Question 22/16 summary

At this meeting, Question 22/16 reviewed seven contributions and four liaison statements (TSAG, SG17, SG5 and FG DLT). The three proposed new work items were accepted (H.DLT-VERI, H.DLT-INV, H.DLT-TFR). As requested by TSAG, Q22/16 reviewed the two deliverables from the FG-DLT on DLT use cases and DLT regulatory framework, and proposed them for approval at this meeting as technical papers HSTP.DLT-UC, HSTP.DLT-RF, respectively. Question 22/16 also has prepared some updated to its terms of reference, in preparation for the next study period. No outgoing liaison statements were prepared, and one interim meeting is proposed, together with other WP2/16 Questions in the March 2020 timeframe. Ms Suzana Moreno (BNDES, Brazil) was welcomed as Associate Rapporteur of Q22/16 at this meeting.

Question 24/16 summary

During its five sessions, Question 24/16 reviewed three contributions and progressed several work items, including F.HF-SLM and F.EMO-NN. A new work item was adopted, F.MDI "Metadata for disaster information presentation with human factors". F.HF-SLM on requirements and framework for ICT sleep management service models was completed and Consented as ITU-T H.862.0. The Question also received two incoming liaison statements for information: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35, and APT ASTAP (joint with Q21/16). Two interim Rapporteur meetings are planned to be held in March and April 2020 in Korea. The Question produced no outgoing liaison statements at this meeting. The Question discussed its scope of work for the next study period and drafted some initial updates.

Question 26/16 summary

Question 26/16 reviewed 17 contributions with the participation of various delegates with disabilities. Discussions continued on H.702(V2), F.930 (V2), FSTP-ACC-AS, FSTP-ACC-ALD, HSTP-ACC-UC, FSTP.ACC-AM, and FSTP-TRS-KPI. The revision of Technical paper FSTP-ACC-RCS "Overview of remote captioning services" was completed and submitted for Approval. Cooperation with ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35 "User interfaces" continued, with an update draft for planned twin H.ACC-GVP on guidance on the visual presentation of audio information, including captions and subtitles (ISO/IEC 20071-23) and a new work item ITU-T F.ACC-AVSL on visual presentation of audio information in sign languages that will progressed as a joint text; in addition, there are two other items planned as future twin texts, H.ACC-GAD and H.ACC-GAP. A meeting of the IRG-AVA was organized under the auspices of Q26/16, which counted with the participation of about 15 delegates, and discussed audiovisual media accessibility topics of common interest to SG16 and ITU-R SG6. Q26/16 will hold discussions in the interim period of two ad hoc groups, one on the discussion of IoT for PwDs, and another on closed signing. The Question plans one interim meeting in March 2020, together with other WP2/16 Questions. Preliminary discussions were held on updates to the text of the Question towards WTSA-20.

Question 27/16 summary

Question 27/16 reviewed three contributions and five other documents, in addition to liaison statements. There were three contributions discussed at the meeting, one related to F.VS-AIMC, which was updated, and two related to the joint work on JVDS. One major area of activity was the collocated first meeting of the new ITU-T SG16 and ISO TC22/SC31/WG8 Joint Project Team on Vehicular Domain Services (JVDS), approved by SG16 at its opening plenary. Four new work items were established, which will be progressed under the JVDS: H.VDS-UC (General information and use case definitions), H.VDS-APR (Application layer and sequence requirements), H.VDS-NWR (Internet and transport layer requirements), H.VDS-PHYR (Network interface layer requirements). A reply LS was prepared, concerning collaboration between FG-VM and JVDS. Q27/16 plans four interim Rapporteur meetings before the next SG16 meeting to progress JVDS work. The terms of reference for the Question were discussed in preparation for WTSA-20.

Question 28/16 summary

Q28/16 met to discuss safe-listening, brain informatics, UHD medical imaging and personal connected health standards. It produced 22 output documents, including one liaison statement. It completed ten Recommendations in the Continua Design Guidelines (H.810-H.850) for Consent and two for Approval (since these only included changes to non-normative parts), in addition to a revised technical paper. Safe listening topics progressed, with updates to draft ITU-T H.870 (V2) and discussions on conformance and interoperability laboratory recognition for it. Q28/16 agreed to create five new work items on using AI for health and telemedicine. The Question will hold three interim meetings and a number of e-meetings, to progress its work items. Initial discussion was held on updates to the text of the Question towards WTSA-20.

Recommendations Consented by SG16 on the closing Plenary

Recommendations Approved by SG16 on the closing Plenary (according to A.8 §5)

Recommendations Decided by SG16 on the closing Plenary

Other texts approved by SG16

NOTE 1 - No Appendices, Implementors' Guides or Technical Reports were approved at this SG16 meeting.
NOTE 2- Changes in H.830.16 and H.849 only refer to non-normative portions of the texts, hence they are proposed for Approval, instead of Consent

The following text was also approved:

Recommendations agreed for deletion by SG16

None at this meeting.

Updates in the SG16 management team and Rapporteurs

(Click her​e for the complete list of SG16 Questions and Rapporteurs/Associate Rapporteurs)

Resignations and departures:

• ​Mr Khusan Isaev (Uzbekistan), SG16 Vice-chairman and Rapporteur for Q1/16
• Mr Xiaoyang Ye (ZTE, China), Rapporteur for Q21/16

New Appointments:

• Ms Yuan Zhang (China Telecom, China) as Rapporteur for new Q12/16 "Visual surveillance systems and services" and Mr Haitao Zhang (BUPT, China) as its Associate Rapporteur
• Ms Liang Wang (ZTE, China) as Rapporteur for Q21/16 "Multimedia framework, applications and services"
• Ms Suzana Moreno (BNDES, Brazil) as Associate Rapporteur for Q22/16 "Distributed ledger technologies and e-services"
• Mr Hong CHEN (BUPT, China) as acting Rapporteur for provisional new Q23/16 "Digital culture-related systems and services"
• Mr Bryn BALCOMBE (ADA Innov. Lab,UK) as chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group on AI for autonomous and assisted driving (FG-AI4AD), and Ms Yuan Zhang (China Telecom, China) as its vice-chairman.

Representatives and other roles:

• ​Mr Hideki Yamamoto (OKI) as co-chairman of the Joint Project Team with ISO/TC22/SC31/WG8 on vehicle domain service (JVDS)
  NOTE – The co-chair representing ISO/TC22/SC31/WG8 is Mr Kaname Tokita (Honda, Japan).

Open positions:

• Q1/16 Rapporteurship (Multimedia coordination)
  

Annex A: Draft new Question 23/16
​"Digital culture-related systems and services"

(New Question, ex Q.DC)

Motivation

The application of ICT technology in the field of culture can effectively maintain the cultural diversity, and support the exchange and sharing of cultures around countries in the world. Recent catastrophic events in the cultural sphere have made the need for such applications more urgent.
Digital culture is the general term of products and services which aim at maintaining cultural diversity and improving the effectiveness of cultural communication. Digital culture-related systems and services refer to a structure set of capabilities intended to support culture related applications with the advanced digital multimedia technologies.
Digital culture mainly includes cultural resource digitization and cultural content expression.
Culture resource digitalization uses digital technologies to support collection, classification and storage of culture resources which include tangible and intangible cultural heritage, culture relics, artworks, museum collections and other culture related resources. Digital collection of cultural relics/artworks, reasonable classification of intangible cultural heritage and digital identification of museum collections are typical study items in this field.
Culture content expression uses multimedia technologies to support the creation, dissemination and representation of digital culture products such as animation, game, reading, music etc. Digital gallery, digital museum and digital cultural space in community are typical applications which represent digital culture content on general or dedicate terminals with advanced multimedia technologies.
With the rapid development of technology, the next generation mobile communications, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, big data, internet of things (IoT) and virtual reality have also been introduced into digital culture-related systems and services. These technologies bring various type of culture experience and multimodal interaction applications, but they also increase the systematic complexity and interoperability difficulty at the same time, so normative definition, requirements, and architecture are needed for digital culture-related systems and services.
Study Group 16, as the lead study group for multimedia coding, systems and applications, will coordinate the technical standardization of multimedia systems and services for digital culture-related applications in ITU‑T. This Question will develop corresponding Recommendations and other deliverables.

Study items

Study items to be considered include, but not limited to:

Tasks

 Tasks include, but are not limited to:

Relationships

Recommendations

• ​​E, F, G, H, I, Q, T, V, X, Y-series Recommendations under the responsibility of SG16

Questions

• ​Questions 5/16, 6/16, 7/16, 21/16, 24/16

Study Groups

• ​​ITU-T SGs 12, 13, 17 and 20

Other bodies

• ​​ISO, ISO/IEC JTC1