2025 Retrospective on Cellular, Wi-Fi, and Video Compression Standards and What We’re Watching in 2026

Ofinno’s Standards Readouts feature expert insight and analysis that translates complex standardization progress into actionable insights to help navigate the future 5G/6G, next-gen Wi-Fi, and media compression technologies. Overview 2025 brought meaningful progress across the cellular, Wi-Fi, and video compression standards communities. In 3GPP, Release 19 reached its functional freeze while Release 20 initiated 6G … Read more

The Next-Generation Video Coding Race Heats Up

Ofinno’s Standards Readouts feature expert insight and analysis that translates complex standardization progress into actionable insights to help navigate the future 5G/6G, next-gen Wi-Fi, and media compression technologies. Overview In October, the 40th meeting of the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) in Geneva brought together many of the key players in video compression to shape … Read more

The MPEG Dynamic Mesh Coding Standard

Chao Cao Author In recent years, 3D content has become increasingly ubiquitous, enabling immersive experiences across several platforms and devices. 3D meshes, which offer a versatile and efficient representation to accurately represent immersive 3D content, are widely used across a wide range of industries. A new Dynamic Mesh coding standard is currently under development as … Read more

The MPEG Immersive Video Coding Standard

Vinod Kumar Malamal Vadakital Author Overview The MPEG immersive video standard (MIV) is one among a suite of MPEG-I standards which is focused on the coded representation of immersive media. MIV started as an exploration activity after the standardization of the Omnidirectional Media Format (OMAF) version 1. The mandate was to investigate coded immersive video … Read more

Architecture of Deep Neural Network-based Video Compression

Young-Yoon Lee Author In our previous article, we introduced the status of Deep Neural Network-based Video Coding (DNNVC) approaches in the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG), one of the most important standardization groups for video compression technologies. In principle, video compression systems seek to minimize the end-to-end reconstruction distortion under a given bit rate budget, … Read more