Editing Moving Picture Experts Group (section)

== History ==
MPEG was established in 1988 by the initiative of Dr. [[Hiroshi Yasuda]] ([[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone|NTT]]) and Dr. [[Leonardo Chiariglione]] ([[CSELT]]).<ref>{{citation|first=Hans Georg |last=Musmann|title=Genesis of the MP3 Audio Coding Standard|url=http://users.ipfw.edu/reddpv01/mp3Genesis.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117173334/http://users.ipfw.edu/reddpv01/mp3Genesis.pdf|access-date=2011-07-26|archive-date=2012-01-17|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chiariglione was the group's chair (called Convenor in ISO/IEC terminology) from its inception until June 6, 2020. The first MPEG meeting was in May 1988 in [[Ottawa, Canada]].<ref name="about-mpeg">{{cite web|title=About MPEG|url=http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/about_mpeg.htm|access-date=2009-12-13|publisher=chiariglione.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=MPEG Meetings|url=http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/meetings.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725162313/http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/meetings.htm|archive-date=2011-07-25|access-date=2009-12-13|publisher=chiariglione.org}}</ref><ref name="chiariglione-history">{{cite web|author=chiariglione.org|date=2009-09-06|title=Riding the Media Bits, The Faultline|url=http://ride.chiariglione.org/faultline.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725163453/http://ride.chiariglione.org/faultline.htm|archive-date=2011-07-25|access-date=2010-02-09}}</ref>

Starting around the time of the MPEG-4 project in the late 1990s and continuing to the present, MPEG had grown to include approximately 300–500 members per meeting from various industries, universities, and research institutions.

On June 6, 2020, the MPEG section of Chiariglione's personal website was updated to inform readers that he had retired as Convenor, and he said that the MPEG group (then SC&nbsp;29/WG&nbsp;11) "was closed".<ref>{{Cite web|title=MPEG {{!}} The Moving Picture Experts Group website|url=https://mpeg.chiariglione.org/|access-date=2020-07-01|website=mpeg.chiariglione.org}}</ref> Chiariglione described his reasons for stepping down in his personal blog.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A future without MPEG |first=Leonardo |last=Chiariglione |url=https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-future-without-mpeg/ |website=Leonardo Chiariglione Blog|date=6 June 2020 |access-date=2020-07-01|language=en-US}}</ref> His decision followed a restructuring process within [[ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29|SC 29]], in which "some of the subgroups of WG 11 (MPEG) [became] distinct MPEG working groups (WGs) and advisory groups (AGs)" in July 2020.<ref name=FutureSC29>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-24|title=Future of SC 29 with JPEG and MPEG|url=https://jtc1info.org/future-of-sc-29-with-jpeg-and-mpeg/|access-date=2020-11-14|website=[[ISO/IEC JTC 1]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Prof. Jörn Ostermann of [[Leibniz University Hannover]] was appointed as Acting Convenor of SC&nbsp;29/WG&nbsp;11 during the restructuring period and was then appointed Convenor of SC&nbsp;29's Advisory Group&nbsp;2, which coordinates MPEG overall technical activities.

The MPEG structure that replaced the former Working Group 11 includes three Advisory Groups (AGs) and seven Working Groups (WGs)<ref name=SC29atJTC1>{{cite web |url=https://www.iso.org/committee/45316.html |title=ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29: Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information |access-date=14 November 2020 |website=[[ISO/IEC JTC 1]] }}</ref>
* SC 29/AG 2: MPEG Technical Coordination (Convenor: Prof. Joern Ostermann of [[Leibniz University Hannover]], Germany)
* SC 29/AG 3: MPEG Liaison and Communication (Convenor: Prof. Kyuheon Kim of [[Kyung Hee University]], Korea) 
* SC 29/AG 5: MPEG Visual Quality Assessment (Convenor: Dr. Mathias Wien of [[RWTH Aachen University]], Germany)
* SC 29/WG 2: MPEG Technical Requirements (Convenor: Dr. Igor Curcio of [[Nokia]], Finland)
* SC 29/WG 3: MPEG Systems (Convenor: Dr. Youngkwon Lim of [[Samsung]], Korea)
* SC 29/WG 4: MPEG Video Coding (Convenor: Prof. Lu Yu of [[Zhejiang University]], China)
* SC 29/WG 5: MPEG Joint Video Coding Team with [[ITU-T Study Group 16|ITU-T SG16]] (Convenor: Prof. Jens-Rainer Ohm of [[RWTH Aachen University]], Germany; formerly co-chairing with Dr.&nbsp;[[Gary Sullivan (engineer)|Gary Sullivan]] of [[Microsoft]], United States)
* SC 29/WG 6: MPEG Audio coding (Convenor: Dr. Schuyler Quackenbush of Audio Research Labs, United States)
* SC 29/WG 7: MPEG 3D Graphics coding (Convenor: Prof. Marius Preda of [[Institut Mines-Télécom]] [[Telecom SudParis|SudParis]])
* SC 29/WG 8: MPEG Genomic coding (Convenor: Dr. Marco Mattavelli of [[EPFL]], Switzerland)

The first meeting under the current structure was held in August 2024, with MPEG 147 <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mpeg.org/structure/technical-coordination/ |title=MPEG 147: Press Release/Primary Source |date=August 2, 2024 |access-date=August 4, 2024 |website=mpegstandards.org}}</ref>