Those who have been following this blog should already know quite a few things about MPAI. It is fair to say, however, one cannot really be sure say to know everything about any topic, especially one as vast and articulated as MPAI. That is why I recommend you to watch a series of videos where you can see some of the major MPAI players introducing some of the areas MPAI is engaged in. The daunting side is that there are…
Geneva, Switzerland – 23 February 2022. Today the Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 17th General Assembly. Among the outcomes are: progress towards the establishment of a patent pool for its published standards and a roadmap to establish the MPAI Store Foundation. The MPAI Statutes define a standard development process whereby holders of standard essential patents (SEP) select their preferred patent pool administrator. The General Assembly was informed that SEP…
In my earlier post “Do we want a Metaverse or the Metaverse?” I drew from the MPEG experience and advocated the conversion of Metaverse “technology silos” into a wide choice of Metaverse experiences enabled by a standard Metaverse “technology layer”. Purpose of this paper is to show that the figure is not just a wishful vision because concrete steps are being made to make the figure an actionable vision. The question to ask now is: what technologies should be contained…
I draw the reader’s attention to the fact that the title uses a definite and an indefinite article. Yes, because there is a big difference between _a_ Metaverse and _the_ Metaverse. _A_ Metaverse implies that there are many instances of the thing, _the_ Metaverse means that there is one instance. If I take the definition of metaverse provided by the recode article "Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse", metaverse is “a virtual world where people…
Geneva, Switzerland – 26 January 2022. Today the Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 16th General Assembly, the first of 2022, approving its 2022 work program. The work program includes the development of reference software, conformance testing and performance assessment for 2 application standards (Context-based Audio Enhancement and Multimodal Conversation), reference software, conformance assessment for 1 infrastructure standard (AI Framework), and the establishment of the MPAI Store, a non-profit foundation…
Four years ago these days, I was writing a post on my blog titled A crisis, the causes and a solution. The subject was the issue of patents in MPEG standards. It was a time when I still had reasons to believe that something could be done about that issue. In this post I want to revisit the issue because that post and others following it are still among the most read posts on my blog. This means that people…
