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…

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…