Patent application presented at the VCM standard committee meeting in Geneve, Switzerland

Video compression technology enables streaming video applications from YouTube to Netflix to transmit high quality video. As video accounts for about 80 percent of all Internet traffic, better video compression is a prominent issue worldwide. 

Technology developed by researchers from  Florida Atlantic University ’s  College of Engineering and Computer Science , in partnership with research sponsor  OP Solutions, LLC ,   promises to improve the process of streaming media. FAU and OP Solutions have announced that i ndustry groups within the field have accepted university-developed intellectual property as part of the next generation video codec Versatile Video Coding (VVC). 

The FAU-developed technology in ten United States patents, owned by OP Solutions, is now part of the VVC codec, and these patents will be included in an Access Advance pool license. In addition to OP Solutions, Access Advance’s VVC pool currently represents 32 licensors, including Alibaba, Dolby, General Electric, Mitsubishi, Mediatek, Panasonic, and Toshiba, and the number of companies participating in the VVC pool is expected to grow significantly.  

FAU team consisting of Drs. Hari Kalva and Borko Furht, Dr. Velibor Adzic, former FAU student, and five graduate students is now developing technology and patent applications for the new standard Video Coding for Machine (VCM). In July 2023, they presented a new technology and patent application on "DCT-Based Filtering for Improving Machine Task Performance (m64444)" at the VCM standard committee meeting in Geneve Switzerland. The main inventor in this patent application is the NRT graduate student Juan Merlos. VCM technology and the forthcoming VCM standard attempts to bridge the gap between feature coding for machine vision and video coding for human vision.