Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), a committee that maintains various JPEG image-related standards, has started exploring a way to involve AI to build a new compression standard. In a recent meeting held in Sydney, the group released a call for evidence to explore AI-based methods to find a new image compression codec. The program, aptly named JPEG AI, was launched last year; with a special group to study neural-network-based image codecs. [Read — Study: AI expert Gary Marcus explains how to take AI to ‘the next level’] Under the program, it aims to find possible solutions towards finding a new…
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