Thirty-six years ago today marked the birth of the MPEG-Audio group. The initial two characters of MPEG - M (oving) and the P (icture) - leave no doubt about the original public intentions in setting up the MPEG group which had met for the first time in Ottawa, ON on 10-12 May. My real intentions, however, were very clear in my mind since the very beginning (actually, they dated back several years before): an audio-visual system had to be specified…
…and exactly as many as 30 is the number of years that separates today from the closing day of the 29th MPEG meeting in Singapore when the MPEG-2 standard was approved. It was the 11th of November 1994. The approval of MPEG-2 was a watershed because it was the conclusion of a turmoil that had lasted three decades. MPEG succeeded in what, less than six years before, looked like mission impossible: a solution to the “next-generation TV” for the three…
I think that the publication of the MPAI Metaverse Model (MPAI-MMM) standard last week is an important step in making the metaverse a viable proposition because it provides practical means for an implementer to develop a metaverse instance (M-Instance) that interoperates with another similarly developed M-Instance. This post has the moderate ambition of just describing the high-level content of the standard looking at the Table of Contents. Foreword obviously deals with general matters, such as the AI Framework (MPAI-AIF) standard…
AI Modules (AIM) organised in AI Workflows (AIW) executed in the AI Framework enabling initialisation, dynamic configuration, and control of AIWs are a key element of the MPAI approach to AI-based Data Coding standards as depicted in Figure 1. AIMs communicate to other AIMs in the AIW the Data obtained by executing specific functions. The effectiveness of the functions performed by the AIMs is improved if they know more about the capabilities of the AIMs they are connected to and the Data they…
Collaborative Immersive Laboratory (XRV-CIL) is project designed to enable researchers in network-connected physical venues equipped with devices that create an immersive virtual environment to manipulate and visualise laboratory data with other researchers located at different places and having a simultaneous immersive experience. XR Venue (MPAI-XRV) is an MPAI project addressing a multiplicity of use cases enabled by Extended Reality (XR) and enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. MPAI-XRV specifies design methods for AI Workflows and AI Modules that automate complex…
One of the new Technical Specifications published by MPAI is Version 1.1 of Human and Machine Communication (MPAI-HMC). The title is definitely not reductive – the scope is not intended to be narrow. Indeed, Human and Machine Communication is a vast area where new technologies are constantly introduced – more so today than before, thanks to the rapid progress of Artificial Intelligence. It is also a vast business area where new products, services, and applications are launched by the day,…
