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2026 4

  1. An ovwerview of the Connected Auronomous Vehicle – Technologies standard
  2. MPAI as a Service (MaaS) for a new generation of intelligent services
  3. Improved Health Services with AI
  4. A Walk inside the Autonomous User

2025 28

  1. A-User Formation: Building the A-User
  2. A-User Formation: Building the A-User
  3. Personality Alignment: The Style Engine of A-User
  4. User State Refinement: Turning a Snapshot into a Full Profile
  5. Basic Knowledge: The Generalist Engine Getting Sharper with Every Prompt
  6. Domain Access: The Specialist Brain Plug-in for the Autonomous User
  7. Prompt Creation: Where Words Meet Context
  8. Prompt Creation: Where Words Meet Context
  9. User State Refinement: Turning a Snapshot into a Full Profile
  10. Basic Knowledge: The Generalist Engine Getting Sharper with Every Prompt
  11. Domain Access: The Specialist Brain Plug-in for the Autonomous User
  12. Prompt Creation: Where Words Meet Context
  13. Visual Spatial Reasoning: The Vision‑Aware Interpreter
  14. Audio Spatial Reasoning: The Sound-Aware Interpreter
  15. Context Capture: The A-User’s First Glimpse of the World
  16. A-User Control: The Autonomous Agent’s Brain
  17. A new MPAI standard project for Autonomous Users in a metaverse
  18. Exploring the innovations of the MMM-TEC V2.1 standard
  19. Exploring the Up-sampling Filter for Video applications (EVC-TEC) standard
  20. An introduction to the Neural Network Watermarking Call for Technologies
  21. Soon MPAI will be five
  22. An overview of the Connected Autonomous Vehicle – Technologies (CAV-TEC) standard
  23. Communicating avatars in worlds
  24. An overview of the MPAI Metaverse Model – Technologies standard
  25. Component standards versus monolithic standards
  26. Data standards need Qualifiers
  27. Is it possible to mitigate data loss effects in online gaming?
  28. MPAI calls for a new generation of company performance prediction technologies

2024 14

  1. The birth of Audio in MPEG
  2. Thirty years is a long time…
  3. MPAI Metaverse Model: what is it? A look at the table of contents
  4. A new type of “data about data”
  5. MPAI propounds the development of Collaborative Immersive Laboratories (CIL)
  6. Introduction to MPAI’s Human and Machine Communication (MPAI-HMC) V1.1
  7. A standard for connected autonomous vehicles
  8. Achieving metaverse interoperability
  9. An MPAI standard for new dimensions of experience
  10. More members in the MPAI Standards Family
  11. A new brick for the MPAI architecture
  12. MPAI releases reference software leveraging AI Framework and Neural Network Watermarking for Generative AI applications
  13. Recent MPAI standards – presentations and video recordings
  14. Standards that innovate technology and standardisation

2023 35

  1. Connected autonomous vehicles can be connected to the metaverse
  2. Thirty years ago, in MPEG
  3. Visiting MPAI standards: the MPAI Metaverse Model foundations
  4. Visiting MPAI standards – Connected Autonomous Vehicles (MPAI-CAV) – Architecture
  5. XR Venues – Live Theatrical Stage Performance
  6. MPAI is running at full speed
  7. New AI-driven standards pioneer the future of immersive entertainment
  8. What is the Object and Scene Description (MPAI-OSD) Call for Technologies about?
  9. An overview of AI Framework (MPAI-AIF)
  10. What is the AI for Health Call for Technologies about?
  11. An overview of Avatar Representation and Animation (MPAI-ARA)
  12. An overview of Connected Autonomous Vehicle (MPAI-CAV) – Architecture
  13. What is the XR Venues – Live Theatrical Stage Performance Call for Technologies about?
  14. An overview of MPAI Metaverse Model (MPAI-MMM) – Architecture
  15. An overview of Multimodal Conversation V2
  16. The MPAI Standards Portfolio
  17. MPAI reaches a milestone: five Standards and three Calls for Technologies
  18. MPAI tackles metaverse interoperability
  19. Do we need standards for Connected Autonomous Vehicles?
  20. MPAI Calls for “Connected Autonomous Vehicle” Technologies
  21. Finally: a conference highlights the synergy of Metaverse and AI
  22. An Introduction to the MPAI Metaverse Model Architecture – Part III
  23. An Introduction to the MPAI Metaverse Model Architecture – Part II
  24. An Introduction to the MPAI Metaverse Model Architecture – Part I
  25. MPAI issues Call for Technologies: MPAI Metaverse Model – Architecture
  26. The MPAI Metaverse Model – Status Report
  27. Technical Report – MPAI Metaverse Model – Functionality Profiles
  28. The MPAI metaverse standardisation proposal
  29. A standards body for AI-based data coding
  30. Online presentation: MPAI’s AI-based End-to-End video codec has better compression than traditional codecs
  31. MPAI approves a new Technical Specification and a Technical Report
  32. MPAI is offering its high-quality drone sequences to the video coding community
  33. A look inside the MPAI-XRV project
  34. MPAI kicks off the MPAI Metaverse Model
  35. MPAI publishes the MPAI Metaverse Model (MPAI-MMM) for Community Comments

2022 47

  1. Three MPAI Technical Specifications are now IEEE Standards
  2. MPAI calls for new members to support its standard development plans
  3. End-to-End Video Coding in MPAI
  4. And now, whither MPAI?
  5. Thirty years is many years…
  6. Seven good reasons to join MPAI
  7. MPAI extends 3 and develops 2 new standards
  8. MPAI, third year and counting
  9. MPAI appoints MPAI Store, incorporated as Company Limited by Guarantee, as the MPAI Store in the MPAI Ecosystem
  10. Imperceptibility, Robustness, and Computational Cost in Neural Network Watermarking
  11. Avatars and the MPAI-MMC V2 Call for Technologies
  12. The MPAI 2022 Calls for Technologies – Part 3 (Neural Network Watermarking)
  13. Answering a few basic questions about MPAI
  14. The MPAI 2022 Calls for Technologies – Part 2 (Multimodal Conversation)
  15. MPAI adds documents and clarification to its currently open three Calls for Technologies
  16. The MPAI 2022 Calls for Technologies – Part 1 (AI Framework)
  17. August 1992 – the gates open to global digital television
  18. MPAI 101
  19. The second round of MPAI standardisation begins
  20. MPAI calls for technologies supporting three new standards
  21. What is new in MPAI Multimodal Conversation
  22. Functional requirements for 3 new standards published
  23. The next MPAI Call: for a pleasant and effective metaverse
  24. MPAI wants to do it again
  25. 34 years ago, these days…
  26. MPAI for affordable Artificial Intelligence
  27. Making sure that AI is “good” AI
  28. Patent pool being formed for four MPAI standards
  29. The MPAI Framework Licence approach to Standard Essential Patent (SEP) licensing
  30. Virtual Secretary for Videoconference
  31. MPAI publishes Working Draft of Use Cases and Functional Requirements of Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC) Version 2
  32. Video coding in MPAI
  33. MPAI-MMC to be adopted as IEEE standard
  34. MPAI issues a Call for Patent Pool Administrator on behalf of the MPAI-CAE and MPAI-MMC patent holders
  35. What is the probability a company defaults?
  36. Watermarking, Intellectual Property and Neural Networks
  37. MPAI talks to industry
  38. MPAI outlines plans for the MPAI Store Foundation
  39. Making interoperable Metaverses
  40. Do we want a Metaverse or the Metaverse?
  41. With 5 standards approved, MPAI enters a new phase
  42. Revisiting the “patents in standards” issue
  43. Digital humans and MPAI
  44. What MPAI does in a week
  45. A better experience for audioconference users
  46. Restoring damaged speech
  47. MPAI springs forward to an intense 2022

2021 51

  1. 31 December 2021 – MPAI takes stock of the work done
  2. Audio preservation saves memory
  3. A standard for “better” audio
  4. The why of the MPAI mission
  5. MPAI concludes 2021 approving new Context-based Audio Enhancement standard
  6. A book, a question and an answer
  7. Towards Pervasive and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
  8. Why an MPAI-CAV standard?
  9. Connected Autonomous Vehicles in MPAI
  10. Time to join MPAI
  11. Conversing with a machine
  12. Celebrating the anniversary of the first MPEG standard
  13. Workshop announcement: MPAI-CUI standard assesses business performance with AI
  14. MPAI-EEV at cruising speed
  15. MPAI calls for comments on one more candidate standard
  16. AI-based End-to-End Video Coding takes off
  17. Video coding remains a priority – adding a new goal
  18. MPAI celebrates its first anniversary approving 3 standards for publication
  19. Looking forward to MPAI’s 12th General Assembly
  20. Excerpts from an interview
  21. Video compression patents – an obtuse story
  22. The governance of the MPAI ecosystem
  23. MPAI standards
  24. The second MPEG steps
  25. The Genie that makes entertainment great
  26. A funeral oration over the dead body of MPEG
  27. One year ago – an idea is born
  28. The MPEG special forces: subgroups
  29. The very first steps of MPEG
  30. The birth of the MPEG star
  31. Would you buy a used car from…?
  32. Even the stars die – A summary
  33. MPAI basics
  34. Even the stars die – A guided tour
  35. Even the stars die – Preface
  36. India needs help
  37. MPAI starts development of AI-based company performance prediction standard
  38. Making AI systems explainable
  39. Toward the first anniversary of the MPEG death
  40. Ten slides to know all that you wanted to know about MPAI
  41. Three minutes to know all that you wanted to know about MPAI
  42. MPAI consolidates the development of three AI-based data coding standards
  43. Why the MPAI way is the only way
  44. MPAI: where it is, where it is going
  45. MPAI tackles AI-based risk analysis standard in a new Call for Technologies
  46. A unified approach to AI-based data coding standardisation
  47. MPAI receives technologies for its AI framework standard and calls for technologies supporting audio and human-machine conversation
  48. MPAI standards and AI explainability
  49. Having a conversation with a machine
  50. Opacity or transparency?
  51. AI-based Data Coding Standardization

2020 51

  1. What is the state of MPAI work?
  2. An introduction to the MPAI-AIF Call for Technologies
  3. MPAI issues a Call for Technologies supporting its AI Framework standard
  4. A new way to develop useful standards
  5. A new channel between industry and standards
  6. From media compression, to data compression, to AI-enabled data coding
  7. MPAI launches 6 standard projects on audio, genomics, video, AI framework, multiuser online gaming and multimodal conversation
  8. What is MPAI going to do?
  9. A new organisation dedicated to data compression standards based on Artificial Intelligence
  10. The MPAI machine has started
  11. At a technology and business watershed
  12. The two main MPAI purposes
  13. Leaving FRAND for good
  14. Better information from data
  15. An analysis of the MPAI framework licence
  16. MPAI – do we need it?
  17. New standards making for a new age
  18. The MPEG to Industry Hall of fame
  19. This is ISO – An incompetent organisation
  20. This is ISO – An obtuse organisation
  21. What to do with a jammed machine?
  22. Stop here if you want to know about MPEG (†)
  23. This is ISO – A hypocritical organisation
  24. The MPEG Hall of fame
  25. Top-down or bottom-up?
  26. This is ISO – a chaotic organisation
  27. A future without MPEG
  28. This is ISO – A feudal organisation
  29. Some have it straight
  30. The MPEG exception
  31. Why is there a battle around MPEG?
  32. Strategic planning for MPEG
  33. Leonardo: who I am, what I did so far and what I plan to do next
  34. The value of MPEG standards
  35. Design and build the future of MPEG
  36. Another view at MPEG’s strengths and weaknesses
  37. An “unexpected” MPEG media type: fonts
  38. MPEG and the future of visual information coding standards
  39. Can MPEG survive? And if so, how?
  40. Quality, more quality and more more quality
  41. Developing MPEG standards in the viral pandemic age
  42. The impact of MPEG on the media industry
  43. MPEG standards, MPEG software and Open Source Software
  44. The MPEG Metamorphoses
  45. National interests, international standards and MPEG
  46. Media, linked media and applications
  47. Standards and quality
  48. How to make standards adopted by industry
  49. MPEG status report (Jan 2020)
  50. MPEG, 5 years from now
  51. The driver of future MPEG standards

2019 52

  1. The true history of MPEG’s first steps
  2. Let’s put MPEG on trial
  3. An action plan for the MPEG Future community
  4. Which company would dare to do it?
  5. The birth of an MPEG standard idea
  6. More MPEG Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
  7. The MPEG Future Manifesto
  8. What is MPEG doing these days?
  9. MPEG is a big thing. Can it be bigger?
  10. MPEG: vision, execution, results and a conclusion
  11. Who “decides” in MPEG?
  12. What is the difference between an image and a video frame?
  13. MPEG and JPEG are grown up
  14. Standards and collaboration
  15. The talents, MPEG and the master
  16. Standards and business models
  17. On the convergence of Video and 3D Graphics
  18. Developing standards while preparing for the future
  19. No one is perfect, but some are more accomplished than others
  20. Einige Gespenster gehen um in der Welt – die Gespenster der Zauberlehrlinge
  21. Does success breed success?
  22. Dot the i’s and cross the t’s
  23. The MPEG frontier
  24. Tranquil 7+ days of hard work in Gothenburg
  25. Hamlet in Gothenburg: one or two ad hoc groups?
  26. The Mule, Foundation and MPEG
  27. Can we improve MPEG standards’ success rate?
  28. Can you “clone” MPEG?
  29. Who “owns” MPEG?
  30. Which future for MPEG
  31. Why MPEG is part of ISO/IEC
  32. The discontinuity of digital technologies
  33. A vision made real – Past, present and future of MPEG
  34. The impact of MPEG standards
  35. Still more to say about MPEG standards
  36. The MPEG work plan (March 2019)
  37. Looking inside an MPEG meeting
  38. MPEG and ISO
  39. Data compression in MPEG
  40. More video with more features
  41. Matching technology supply with demand
  42. What would MPEG be without Systems?
  43. MPEG: what it did, is doing, will do
  44. The MPEG drive to immersive visual experiences
  45. There is more to say about MPEG standards
  46. Moving intelligence around
  47. More standards – more successes – more failures
  48. Thirty years of audio coding and counting
  49. Is there a logic in MPEG standards?
  50. Forty years of video coding and counting
  51. The MPEG ecosystem
  52. Why is MPEG successful?

2018 20

  1. MPEG can also be green
  2. The life of an MPEG standard
  3. Genome is digital, and can be compressed
  4. Compression standards and quality go hand in hand
  5. Digging deeper in the MPEG work
  6. MPEG communicates
  7. How does MPEG actually work?
  8. Life inside MPEG
  9. Data Compression Technologies – A FAQ
  10. Copyright, troglodytes and digital
  11. It worked twice and will work again
  12. Compression standards for the data industries
  13. Erasmus and migration
  14. Caveat venditor
  15. 30 years of MPEG, and counting?
  16. The MPEG machine is ready to start (again)
  17. IP counting or revenue counting?
  18. Business model based ISO/IEC standards
  19. Can MPEG overcome its Video “crisis”?
  20. A crisis, the causes and a solution

2017 4

  1. The future of Europe: taming national states
  2. Compression – the technology for the digital age
  3. On my Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award
  4. Standards for the present and the future

2016 1

  1. Personal devices and persons

2015 2

  1. Egg and chicken – tax and expenses
  2. Getting out of the mess

2014 10

  1. Leonardo’s views on European Parliament’s “Google’s vote”
  2. Leonardo speaks at Chengkung University, Tainan (TW) – 2014/11/24
  3. Leonardo closes the 39th DMP meeting, Strasbourg (FR) – 2014/10/25
  4. Leonardo closes the 38th DMP meeting, Sapporo (JP) – 2014/07//10
  5. Leonardo speaks at 3DSA 2014, Seoul (KR) – 2014/05/28
  6. WimLabs launches video trading and crowdsourcing app – Torino 2014/05/25
  7. Leonardo speaks at Wired Next Fest – Milano 2014/05/18
  8. CEDEO and Panasonic demonstrate ICN app at the GreenICN project review – Brussels 2014/05/14
  9. Leonardo speaks at Kurukshetra 14 – Chennai (IN), 2014/01/31
  10. Leonardo closes DMP brainstormig day – San José, CA (US), 2014/01/11

2013 10

  1. WimLabs announces WimTVPro 3.0 for WordPress – Torino (IT), 2013/12/10
  2. Leonardo speaks at Millecanali, Milan (IT), 2013/11/07
  3. Leonardo speaks at University of Geneva – Geneva (CH), 2013/10/16
  4. Leonardo speaks at “Comunicare Digitale” – Lucca (IT), 2013/06/07
  5. Leonardo speaks at “Young people and Digital Creativity” Forum – Vigevano (IT), 2013/06/06
  6. Leonardo speaks on “Knowledge, vision and team work” at Italian IT Managers Club – Torino (IT), 2013/05/31
  7. WimLabs announces WimTVPro 2.5 – Torino (IT), 2013/05/30
  8. Leonardo chairs the MPEG workshop at HD Forum Conference 2013 – St Vincent (IT), 2013/05/10
  9. WimLabs presents its services and apps at SMAU – Torino (IT), 2013/05/08-09
  10. Leonardo speaks at BTS Gold 2013 – Cagliari (IT), 2013/03/04

2012 22

  1. Leonardo is awarded the Faraday medal – London (UK), 2012/11/22
  2. WimLabs announces WimTVPro – Torino (IT), 2012/11/15
  3. WimLabs exhibits at SMAU – Milano (IT)
  4. WimLabs exhibits at SMAU – Milano (IT), 2012/10/19
  5. WimLabs announces MAVD demo installation – Torino (IT), 2012/09/15
  6. WimLabs announces WimView for Android – Torino (IT), 2012/08/31
  7. WimLabs announces release of WimTrade – Torino (IT), 2012/07/31
  8. WimLabs announces release of WimLive – Torino (IT), 2012/06/29
  9. Leonardo speaks at IEEE BMSB – Seoul (KR), 2012/06/28
  10. WimLabs announces release of MAVD – Torino (IT). 2012/06/25
  11. Leonardo speaks at “Emerging Technologies, Social Worlds”, Rovigo (IT), 2012/06/22
  12. Leonardo speaks at ICT Institute of the Polytechnic of Milan, Milan (IT), 2012/05/31
  13. WimLabs announces release of WimVod – Torino (IT), 2012/05/29
  14. Leonardo speaks at Annual Meeting of the USA ATSC, 2012/05/08
  15. Leonardo publishes “Multimedia standards: interfaces to innovation”, 2012/05/03
  16. Leonardo runs the “MPEG 100 event”, Geneva (CH), 2012/05/02
  17. Leonardo closes the 34th DMP General Assembly, Geneva (CH), 12-05/01
  18. Leonardo speaks at XII Infopoverty World Conference, Milan (IT). 2012/03/23
  19. Leonardo speaks at Nagoya University, Nagoya (JP), 2012/03/09
  20. WimLabs presents its products and services at CeBIT, Hannover (DE), 2012/03/07
  21. Leonardo speaks at “TV and internet” , Rome (IT), 2012/02/27
  22. Leonardo closes the 33rd DMP General Assembly, San José, CA (US), 2012/02/09

2011 7

  1. Leonardo speaks at International Copyright Technology Conference, Seoul (KR), 2011-11-17
  2. Leonardo is interviewed by “Corriere della Sera”, 11-10-29
  3. Leonardo features at Rosselli Foundation exhibition, Torino (IT), 2011/10/22
  4. Leonardo speaks at Global 3D Technology Forum, Seoul (KR), 2011/10/12
  5. I3P hosts the 24th meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, Torino (IT), 2011/07/23
  6. I3P hosts the 31st DMP Geneal Assembly, Torino (IT), 2011/07/17
  7. WimLabs is established, Torino (IT), 2011/05/18

2010 5

  1. DMP holds the P21-2 workshop, Geneva (CH), 2010/07/31
  2. CEDEO introduces the beta release of its wim.tv platform, Turin (IT) – 20110/05/25
  3. The dmin.it Consortium is established, Milan (IT) – 2010/05/24
  4. The 26th DMP meeting and the P21-2 workshop are cancelled, 2010/04/24
  5. Leonardo closes the 25th DMP meeting – 2010/01/23

2009 11

  1. CEDEO hosts meeting of Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT) Ad Hoc Group – 2009/12/17
  2. Leonardo is interviewed on HADOPI Law, 2009/11/29
  3. Leonardo on “broadband” – 2009/11/09
  4. 09-10-26
  5. Leonardo closes the 24th DMP meeting, Xi’an (CN) – 2009/10/23
  6. Leonardo closes the 23rd DMP meeting, 2009/09/26
  7. The ad hoc group on Advanced IPTV Terminal (AIT) achieves results, 2009/09/11
  8. Leonardo is upset by approval of HADOPI, 2009/06/13
  9. Leonardo speaks at Patinnova 2009, 2009/04/29
  10. Leonardo closes the 22nd DMP meeting, Maui, HI (US) – 2009/04/25
  11. Carlo Piana submits a proposal for an “MXM Public Licence” to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), 2009/03/26