Geneva, Switzerland – 20 April 2022. Today the international, non-profit, unaffiliated Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 19th General Assembly. Among the outcomes is the publication of the working draft of the Use Cases and Functional Requirements of the planned Version 2 of the Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC) standard. The MPAI process envisages that a standard be developed based on a Call for Technologies referring to two documents Functional Requirements and…

Video coding has been one of the first standardisation areas addressed by MPAI (the first was Content-based Enhanced Audio Coding or MPAI-CAE). One MPAI Video Coding area is focused on the use of AI tools to improve the classic block-based hybrid coding framework and offer more efficient video compression solutions. This was motivated by the rough estimate that MPAI did from its survey on published AI-based video coding results leading to a potential improvement of up to 30%. Figure 1…

On the day MPAI Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC) reached its full 6 months since its approval, the IEEE hosted the kick-off meeting of the P3300 working group tasked with the adoption of the MPAI technical specification as an IEEE standard. Earlier, MPAI and IEEE had signed an agreement whereby MPAI grants IEEE the right to publish MPAI-MMC as an IEEE standard. At its first meeting, the WG has approved the working draft of IEEE 3300 and requested IEEE to ballot the…

A definite answer to such a question is noto going to come anythime soon, and many have attempted to develop algorithms providing an answer. MPAI could not miss the opportunity to give its own answer and has published the MPAI-CUI standard, or Compression and Understand of Financial Data. This contains one use case: Company Performance Prediction (CPP). What does CUI-CPP offer? Imagine that you have a company and you would like to know what is the probability that your company…

Watermarking has been used for a long time. One of its uses in the physical world is paper money where a hard to imitate watermark assures users that a banknote is authentic. In the digital domain, watermarking can be used to carry information about ownership in a file or stream. The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) selected a strong (i.e., hard to remove) digital watermark to identify an MP3 soundtrack that had been released “after” and attempted to define a…