Geneva, 30 September 2020. Today, Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence – MPAI – has been established as an international non-profit organisation in Geneva, Switzerland, at a conference call attended by 33 members from 15 countries. One driving force behind MPAI is the need to have an organisation, responsive to industry needs, that devel­ops data cod­ing standards for a range of applications with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as its core enabling techn­ology. In the past, the sheer reduction…

For 30+ years, digital media have been the powerful driver that has fostered research, industry and commer­ce. This happened because the engine that has sustained the development – MPEG – has been capable to expand its coverage and provide new standards to a growing group of client industries. Academia and research, all facets of industry, and billions of users have benefited from this bonanza. A good game lasts little. Well, not last so little as we are talking of a…

So far I have discussed the shortcomings of the organisation called ISO: feudalism, chaos, hypocrisy, obtuseness and incompetence. Fortunately, we are not stuck with ISO. The good side of our age is that, if you are unhappy of a situation (here I am talking of standards), you have the chance to do better. On the 19th of July 2020, I did exactly that when my post New standards making for a new age launched the idea of MPAI – Moving…