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XR Venues – Live Theatrical Stage Performance

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Scope MPAI has issued a Call for Technologies seeking proposals for MPAI-XRV – Live Theatrical Stage Performance, an MPAI standard project seeking to define interfaces of AI Modules (AIM) facilitating live multisensory immersive stage performances. By running AI Workflows (AIW) composed of AIMs, it will be possible to obtain a more direct, precise yet spontaneous show implementation and control of multiple complex systems to achieve the show director’s vision. Setting An implementation of MPAI-XRV – Live Theatrical Stage Performance includes:…

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MPAI is running at full speed

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Established in September 2020, MPAI has published five standard this week bringing the total to nine. Let’s see what they are about. MPAI Metaverse Model (MPAI-MMM) – Architecture is the first technical metaverse standard published by a standard body. MPAI MMM specifies technologies enabling two metaverse instances M-InstanceA and M-InstanceB to interoperate if they: rely on the same Operation Model, use the same Profile, and either use the same technologies, or use independent technologies while accessing Conversion Services that losslessly transform data…

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New AI-driven standards pioneer the future of immersive entertainment

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The founder of MPEG, Leonardo Chiariglione, inspired by the prospects of AI, is leading an initiative – MPAI (Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence) – to drive AI standards that will supercharge next-generation immersive entertainment venues.  They have already developed a range of AI standards for audio enhancement and more natural forms of human-machine conversation and others which have subsequently been adopted by the IEEE. The MPAI community is now focused on developing standards for XR Venues…

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What is the Object and Scene Description (MPAI-OSD) Call for Technologies about?

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Object and Scene Description (MPAI-OSD) is a project for a standard specifying technologies for object description and their localisation in space. Such technologies are used across several use cases of several MPAI standards. Figure 1 gives two examples that assume the types of output to Audio and Visual Scene Descriptors. Figure 1 - Audio and Visual Scene Description The nextFigure 2 provides one solution to the problem of assigning identifiers to the Objects – extracted from an audio-visual scene, especially…

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An overview of Avatar Representation and Animation (MPAI-ARA)

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“Digital humans” are computer-created digital objects that can be rendered with a human appearance and called Avatars. As Avatars have mostly been created, animated, and rendered in closed environments, there is no surprise that there has been very little need for standards. In a communication context, say, in an interoperable metaverse, digital humans may not be constrained to be in a closed environment. Therefore, if a sender requires that a remote receiving client reproduce a digital human as intended by…

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An overview of Connected Autonomous Vehicle (MPAI-CAV) – Architecture

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Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) promise to replace human errors with a lower machine errors rate, give more time to human brains for rewarding activities, optimise use of vehicles, infrastructure, traffic management, reduce congestion and pollution, and help elderly and disabled people have a better life. MPAI thinks that standards can accelerate the coming of CAVs as an established reality. The first MPAI standard is “Connected Autonomous Vehicles – Architecture”. It specifies a CAV Reference Model broken down into Subsystems for…

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