Compression of neural networks for multimedia content description and analysis

Artificial neural networks have become an important tool for extraction of descriptors from multimedia content, classification, encoding of multimedia content and other applications. An example is provided by the video descriptors defined in ISO/IEC 15938-15. The efficient transmission and deployment of neural networks for multimedia applications require methods to compress these large data structures. This new part 17 of ISO/IEC 15938 defines tools for compression of neural networks for multimedia applications and representing the resulting bitstreams for efficient transport.