SC 29 Structure

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29

Title Coding of Audio, Picture, Multimedia and Hypermedia Information

Area of Work Standardization of coded representation of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information - and sets of compression and control functions for use with such information - such as: - Audio information - Bi-level and Limited Bits-per-pixel Still Pictures - Digital Continuous-tone Still Pictures - Computer Graphic Images - Moving Pictures and Associated Audio - Multimedia and Hypermedia Information for Real-time Final Form Interchange - Audio Visual Interactive Scriptware Excluded: Character Coding

Requirements and Guidelines The standards address requirements and guidelines covering: i) data compression methods and techniques used to transform digital data into equivalent, "compressed" representations ii) image and information interchange requirements within and across applications and services such as telecommunications and broadcast networks iii) product development, R & D activities including microchips and systems aspects iv) algorithm proposals, subjective tests, system packages and implementations for the applications v) encoding for representation of multimedia/hypermedia information objects, and audiovisual interactive scriptware vi) testing the conformance and compliance of requirements and implementations

Web Web 1 https://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/sc29   Web Master: SC 29 Secretariat Web 2 http://www.iso.org/jtc1sc29

Officers Chairman Mr. Kohtaro Asai Secretariat Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) Secretary Ms. Mayumi Koike