Organization
AOMedia Steering Committee
The AOMedia Steering Committee consists of representatives from Steering Committee organizations. It is responsible for the leadership and general management of AOMedia, including setting its mission, vision and objectives.
| Name | Organization | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Matt Frost | Chair | |
| Anne Aaron | Netflix | Vice-Chair |
| Brian Grinstead | Mozilla | Treasurer |
Codec Working Group
The Codec Working Group (CWG) is tasked with creating next-generation royalty-free video coding technology. The first deliverable from the CWG was the AV1 Bitstream & Decoding Process specification, and corresponding libaom reference code, published in June 2018.
Current main focus areas:
- Maintenance of the AV1 specification.
- Maintenance & improvement of the AV1 reference software (libaom).
- Exploration of new image & video codec technologies, beyond AV1.
| Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Adrian Grange, Google Andrey Norkin, Netflix |
Co-Chair | wg-codec-chair@aomedia.org |
| Urvang Joshi, Google Krishna Rapaka, Amazon Leo Zhao, Tencent |
Software Coordinator | wg-codec-swc@aomedia.org |
Testing Subgroup
The Testing Subgroup is responsible for all aspects of testing the performance, coding gains and complexity of the AOMedia video codecs, including: defining the common test conditions, defining and executing subjective tests, tracking the performance of the video codec under development, and maintaining the AOMedia testing infrastructure.
| Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan Lei, Meta Yeping Su, Google |
Co-Chair | sg-codec-testing-chair@aomedia.org |
Incubator Subgroup
The Incubator Subgroup is a place to discuss and get feedback on early-stage ideas, beyond the capabilities of existing codecs, before they are ready for consideration for inclusion in a specification.
| Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Xin Zhao, Tencent Debargha Mukherjee, Google |
Co-Chair | sg-incubator-chair@aomedia.org |
Software Implementation Working Group
The Software Implementation Working Group (SIWG) is responsible for creating software encoder implementations that are optimized to deliver excellent video compression at complexities compatible with deployment in an extensive range of video delivery use-cases. The work of the SIWG leverages the SVT-AV1 codebase, together with the research work done in the Codec Working Group, to develop production-ready encoders for all AOMedia video codecs.
| Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Ioannis Katsavounidis, Meta Roman Chernyak, Tencent |
Co-Chair | wg-sw-implementation-chair@aomedia.org |
| Hassene Tmar, Meta | Software Coordinator | wg-sw-implementation-swc@aomedia.org |
Storage and Transport Formats Working Group
The Storage and Transport Formats Working Group (STFWG) is responsible for the development and maintenance of specifications and associated reference code in the following areas:
- Storage and transport formats for media data and time-aligned media-associated metadata
- Signaling for the combination of media, including synchronization
- Signaling for the protection of media
- Signaling for the rendering of media
- Management of ITU-T T.35 AOMedia Matadata payloads for codec-agnostic, time-aligned media-associated metadata
This includes the development and maintenance of specifications such as the AV1 image format (AVIF), the carriage of AV1 video streams in ISOBMFF & CMAF, and the carriage of AV1 in an MPEG-2 TS.
| Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Cyril Concolato, Netflix | Chair | wg-stf-chair@aomedia.org |
| Leo Barnes, Apple | Subgroup Chair, Image Containers | |
| Thomas Daede, Vimeo | Subgroup Chair, Immersive Audio Container |
Volumetric Visual Media Working Group
The Volumetric Visual Media (VVM) working group develops specifications for the efficient coding and the support of streaming of Immersive/Volumetric Visual Media considering broadcast, download, and interactive applications. The group focuses mainly on developing compression technologies that could be integrated with any scene graph representation.
The group is currently focusing on static 3D polygonal mesh compression, and static 3D point cloud compression.
| Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Khaled Mammou, Apple Shan Liu, Tencent |
Co-Chair | wg-vvm-chair@aomedia.org |
| David Flynn, Apple Chao Huang, Tencent Igor Vytyaz, Google |
Software Coordinator | wg-vvm-swc@aomedia.org |
Audio Codec Working Group
The Audio Codec (AC) working group develops specifications for the efficient coding of digital audio data, in support of the streaming and storage of such data, and to enable interactive applications. The group focuses mainly on developing coding tools, with a desire to target the gaps in spatial audio coding in current market offerings.
The group is currently getting started with development.
| Name | Role | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Harris, Meta | Chair | wg-ac-chair@aomedia.org |