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…

“Digital human”  has recently become a trendy expression and different meanings can be attached to it. MPAI says that it is “a digital object able to receive text/audio/video/commands (“Information”) and generate Information that is congruent with the received Information”. MPAI has been developing several standards for “digital humans” and plans on extending them and developing more. Let’s have an overview. In Conversation with Emotion a digital human perceives text or speech from and video of a human. It then generates…