The Moving Picture Experts Group

Video Coding for Machines

Standard: 
Part number: 
34
Activity status: 
Exploration
Technologies: 

Motivations

Traditional video coding standards are optimized for human consumption of video. Since today most video is analyzed by machines and human consumption is mostly related to verification of machine analysis results - if at all - a new standard might enable lower bitrates without lowering the performance of machine analysis.
Objectives:
The MPEG activity on Video Coding for Machines (VCM) aims to standardize a bitstream format generated by compressing both a video stream and previously extracted features. The bitstream should enable multiple machine vision tasks