2022-03-24-wg-agenda.md

WebML WG Teleconference – 24 March 2022 - 15:00-16:00 UTC+0

‼️ This meeting happens 1 hour later than usual in the US and Canada due to Daylight Saving Time adjustment. Most of the US and Canada moved their clocks forward on Sunday, 13 March. This is two weeks earlier than Europe. Most European clocks will move 1 hour forward on Sunday, 27 March.

See the timezone table ...

San Francisco (U.S.A. - California)	Thu, 24 March 2022	08:00	UTC-7 hours ‼️
Boston (U.S.A. - Massachusetts)	Thu, 24 March 2022	11:00	UTC-4 hours ‼️
London (United Kingdom - England)	Thu, 24 March 2022	15:00	UTC+0 hours
Berlin (Germany)	Thu, 24 March 2022	16:00	UTC+1 hours
Helsinki (Finland)	Thu, 24 March 2022	17:00	UTC+2 hours
Shanghai (China)	Thu, 24 March 2022	23:00	UTC+8 hours
Tokyo (Japan)	Fri, 25 March 2021	00:00	UTC+9 hours
Corresponding UTC (GMT)	Thu, 24 March 2022	15:00 UTC

Other locations: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220324T15

Logistics

• Chair: Anssi
• Scribe: ? (see howto, volunteers welcome!)
• IRC: irc://irc.w3.org:6667/#webmachinelearning
• IRC web client: https://irc.w3.org/?channels=#webmachinelearning
• Call-in details: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/internal-webmachinelearning/2020Apr/0000.html
• Minutes: https://www.w3.org/2022/03/24-webmachinelearning-minutes.html

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ℹ️ Announcements

• Revised Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning and associated workshop update
  • Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning https://webmachinelearning.github.io/ethical-webmachinelearning/
  • Background on review & brainstorm session on Ethical Web Marchine Learning https://www.w3.org/2022/03/ml-ethics/

ℹ️ Security considerations - last call for review

Review the PR that is the group's response to security questions from Chrome Security team.

• issue: General Security Questions: webmachinelearning/webnn#241
• PR: Update Security Considerations per review feedback: webmachinelearning/webnn#251
• All security-tracker issues: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues?q=label%3Asecurity-tracker+

ℹ️ Context-based graph execution methods for different threading models

Review the new proposal for context-based graph execution methods that is an improved design and considers feedback received from the group for the earlier proposal.

• issue: Should WebNN support async APIs? webmachinelearning/webnn#230
• PR: Context-based graph execution methods for different threading models webmachinelearning/webnn#257

ℹ️ Integration with real-time video processing

Introduce and discuss the background blur sample that uses mediacapture-transform, WebGL and WebGPU/WebNN processing pipelines, introduce WebNN Chromium prototype that implements WebNN/WebGPU interop API

• issue: Integration with real-time video processing webmachinelearning/webnn#226
• prototype: Video processing with insertable streams main thread version, worker version
  • Note: WebGPU/WebNN processing pipeline requires WebNN Chromium protype https://github.com/huningxin/chromium-src/releases/tag/webnn_102.0.4955.0

ℹ️ Candidate Recommendation proposed new features

CR expectation is that the spec is considered technically complete and fit for purpose. Review the new proposed CR issues targeting this milestone. Discuss any blockers or new information that might suggest we need to adjust our scope and/or timeline.

Proposed new CR issues:

• WebNN should support int8 quantized models webmachinelearning/webnn#128
• WebNN / WebGPU interop gpuweb/gpuweb#2500

(All "cr" issues https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/labels/cr)

ℹ️ Proposed new use cases

Review the proposed new use cases.

• Performance Adaptation webmachinelearning/webnn#207
• Ethical Content Filtering webmachinelearning/webnn#253

ℹ️ Open issues and pull requests

Discuss/resolve open issues and review open PRs pending review, time permitting.

• Open issues: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues
• Open PRs: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/pulls