Geneva, Switzerland – 25 January 2023. Today the international, non-profit, unaffiliated Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 28th General Assembly (MPAI-28) approving the Neural Network Watermarking (MPAI-NNW) Technical Specification, the MPAI Metaverse Model (MPAI-MMM) Technical Report, and the 2023 program of work on the Metaverse. MPAI-28 has approved for publication the following two documents: Neural Network Watermarking (MPAI-NNW). Draft Technical Specification providing methodologies to evaluate the performance of neural network-based…

Fifteen months ago, MPAI started an investigation on AI-based End-to-End Video Coding, a new approach is not based on traditional video coding architectures. Recently published results from the investigation show that Version 0.3 of the MPAI-EEV Reference Model has generally higher performance than the MPEG-HEVC video coding standard when applied to the MPAI set of high-quality drone video sequences. MPAI is now offering its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) sequence dataset for use by the video community in testing compression algorithms.…

XR Venues is an MPAI project (MPAI-XRV) addressing use cases enabled by Extended Reality (XR) technologies – the combination of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) – and enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. The word “venue” is used as a synonym for “real and virtual environments”. The XRV group has identified some 10 use cases and made a detailed analysis of three of them: eSports Tournament, Live theatrical stage performance, and Experiential retail/shopping. How did…

On the 3rd of January 2023 MPAI has posted the MPAI Metaverse Model (MMM) calling for comments and contributions until the 23rd of January. The MMM is a proposal for a method to develop Metaverse standards. It is based on an experience honed during decades of digital media standardisation that seeks to accommodate the extreme heterogeneity of industries all needing a common technology complemented by industry specificities. You can see the recording of the online presentation and the PowerPoint file:…

MPAI is pleased to announce that, after a full year of efforts, it has been able to publish the MPAI Metaverse Model, the master plan of a project designed to facilitate the establishment of standards promoting Metaverse Interoperability. Two online presentations of MPAI-MMM will be made on 2023/01/10 at two time slots convenient for Asia-EU and EU-America: 08:00 UTC: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcuuurTsuHdcbXCAy-we7soWkIqK5a2MK 18:00 UTC: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqtrjkuGdz0_nQWhLIJMvSHbfAkqP39 The industry is showing a growing interest in the Metaverse that is expected to create new jobs,…

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…