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Three MPAI Technical Specifications are now IEEE Standards

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MPAI is pleased to announce that Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC), AI Framework (MPAI-AIF), and Context-based Audio Enhancement (MPAI-CAE) have been adopted without modification by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) Standards Association as IEEE Standards 3300-2022, 3301-2022, and 3302-2022, respectively. The sequence of steps that has led to this result has involved the granting to IEEE of the right to publish and distribute the text of IEEE Standards 3300-2022, 3301-2022, and 3302-2022 as derivative works of MPAI-MMC, MPAI-AIF, and MPAI-CAE. It has also…

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MPAI calls for new members to support its standard development plans

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Geneva, Switzerland – 23 November 2022. Today the international, non-profit, unaffiliated Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 26th General Assembly (MPAI-26). MPAI is calling for new members to support the development of its work program. Planned for approval in the first months of 2023 are 5 standards and 1 technical report: AI Framework (MPAI-AIF). Standard for a secure AIF environment executing AI Workflows (AIW) composed of AI Modules (AIM). Avatar…

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End-to-End Video Coding in MPAI

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Introduction During the past decade, the Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted increasing attention due to their flexible, extensive, and dynamic space-sensing capabilities. The volume of video captured by UAVs is exponentially growing along with the increased bitrate generated by the advancement of the sensors mounted on UAVs, bringing new challenges for on-device UAV storage and air-ground data transmission. Most existing video compression schemes were designed for natural scenes without consideration of specific texture and view characteristics of UAV videos. In MPAI…

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And now, whither MPAI?

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After establishing 25 months ago, adding 5 standards in its game bag, and submitting 4 of them to IEEE for adoption, what is the next MPAI challenge? The answer is that MPAI has more than one challenge in its viewfinder and that this post will report on the first of them, namely the next standards MPAI is working on. AI Framework (MPAI-AIF). Version 1 (V1) of this standard specifies an environment where non-monolithic component-based AI applications are executed. The new (V2)…

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Thirty years is many years…

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…and that is the number that separates us from the pre-digital age. Why should the 6th of November 1992 be the beginning of the digital age?? Well, because 30 years ago, this very day, MPEG approved its first – MPEG-1 – standard. I am sure that some of you would want to disagree, not with the anniversary, but with its significance. So let me insist and say that MPEG-1 is the dividing line between the digital age and whatever age…

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Seven good reasons to join MPAI

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MPAI, the international, unaffiliated, non-profit organisation developing AI-based data coding standards with clear Intellectual Property Rights licensing frameworks, is now offering those wishing to join MPAI the opportunity to start their 2023 membership two months in advance, from the 1st of November 2022. Here are six more good reasons why you should join MPAI now. In a matter of months after its establishment in September 2020, MPAI has developed 5 standards. Now it is working to extend 3 of them…

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