InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards

L3 - Coding of Audio, Picture, Multimedia and Hypermedia Information
The INCITS/L3 Technical Committee on Audio/Picture Coding serves as the U.S. TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29, "Coding of Audio, Picture, Multimedia and Hypermedia Information.

L3 activities and project development are conducted at the international level for the standardization of coded representation of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information - and of sets of compression and control functions for use with such information - such as: audio information, bi-level and limited bits-per-pixel still pictures; computer graphics images; moving pictures and associated audio, multimedia and hypermedia information for real-time final form interchange; and audio visual interactive scriptware.

The L3 Task Groups are:

  • L3.1-MPEG Development Activity,
  • L3.2-Still Image Coding, consisting of JPEG and JBIG

This technical committee is the U.S. TAG to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC29 and provides recommendations on U.S. positions to the JTC 1 TAG.


L3 Officers:
  • Chairman:  Arianne Hinds, Ricoh|IBM InfoPrint Solutions Company

  • International Representative:  Andrew Tescher, Microsoft Corporation
L3.1 Officers:
L3.2 Officers:





Comments and questions can be sent to the INCITS Secretariat at incits@itic.org