[Update]: Confirmed by MPEG official website, the 100th MPEG meeting will be indeed held in Suzhou, China on April 16-20, 2012!

The China National Body (CNNB) first proposed to hold the 100th MPEG meeting in Suzhou, China on April 16-20, 2012 during this Kyoto MPEG meeting. This proposal has a good chance of being approved by MPEG plenary if there are no other competitors. Good luck to CNNB!

The plan of next eight MPEG meetings  (from 92nd to 100th) is listed as follows:

100th	Suzhou	China	2012/04/16-20
99th	?	?	2012/01/??-??
98th	?	U.S.A	2012/10/17-21
97th	Torino	Italy	2011/07/17-21
96th	Geneva	Switzerland	2011/03/21-25
95th	?	Korea	2011/01/24-28
94th	Guangzhou	China	2010/10/18-22
93rd	Geneva	Switzerland	2010/07/26-30
92nd	Dresden	Germany	2010/04/19-23

Keep updating on the plan of MPEG meetings!

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The 91st MPEG Meeting, hosted by Information Processing Society of Japan/ Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan (IPSJ/ITSCJ) , will be held at Kyoto Research Park on 18-22 January 2010, in Kyoto, Japan.

The official web site is accessible now at http://mpeg.espalier.co.jp/, and the registration information is listed as follows:
Delegates are requested to contribute a Facilities fee of JPY 40,000 (about US$400) before or on 2009-12-05.
Delegates who register after 2009-12-05 will be charged JPY 50,000.
Mandatory document handling fee (for the WG 11 meeting website management): JPY 2,000.

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The 90th MPEG/50th JPEG Meeting, hosted by Xidian University, will be held at Sheraton Hotel on 26-30 October 2009, in Xian, China.

The official web site is accessible now at http://see.xidian.edu.cn/conference/mpegjpeg/, and the early bird registration date is 30 September 2009.

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As well-known, JVT (a joint video team between MPEG and VCEG) has achieved great success in the standardization of the state-of-the-art video compression, including H.264/AVC, SVC, and MVC. The academic and industry want to continue the success in the collaboration between MPEG and VCEG. Some proposals from VCEG suggest the H.NGVC (or H.265) standardization should be collaboratively done with MPEG to produce a significantly advanced video coding standard and to avoid producing multiple similar standards, which confuse the market. VCEG agrees that conducting this work jointly with MPEG will be beneficial to avoid duplication of efforts in this area. Therefore, in this MPEG London meeting, a joint meeting between MPEG and VCEG discusses the future collaboration. However, the collaboration method arouses a lot of controversy, focusing on which one of the following practical experiences should be chosen:

• Practical experience 1: MPEG-2, a integrate part of video subgroup when under WG 11 a[......]

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In the last MPEG meeting, MPEG issued a Call for Evidence (CfE) on High-performance Video Coding (HVC). Nine responses to the CfE are received in this meeting (89th MPEG London). Those reponse proposals adopt typical coding tools in KTA, such as adaptive loop filter (ALF), extended macroblock size (EMS), larger transform size (LTS), internal bit depth increasing (IBDI), adaptive quantization matrix selection (AQMS), as well as new tools, such as modified intra prediction, modified de-block filter, decoder-side motion vector derviation (DMVD).
The objective experimental results show that 20% average bit reduction is achieved compared with H.264/AVC High Profile for all classes of test video sequences (Class A: 19%, Class B:25%, Class C:22%, Class D: 15% bit reductions, respectively). Subjective evalution is also conducted during this meeting. The purpose of subjective evaluation is identifying examples that give the best evidence and assessing whether the evidence is large enough. The s[......]

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The VCEG and MPEG’s meeting plan for 2009 is listed as follows.

Jan. 27-Feb. 6 2009,    Geneva, CH              37th VCEG meeting + 30th JVT meeting 

Feb. 2-6 2009,             Lausanne, CH           87th MPEG meeting              

Apr. 15-18 2009          Yokohama, JP           37th VCEG meeting                    

Apr. 20-24 2009,         Maui, Hawaii, USA   88th MPEG meeting + 31st JVT meeting   

Jun. 29-Jul. 3 2009,     London, UK               89th MPEG meeting                                   

Oct. 20-30 2009,         Geneva, CH              38th VCEG meeting + 32nd JVT meeting  , 

Oct. 26-30 2009,         Xian, CN                    90th MPEG meeting

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