MPAI, the AI-focused standards development practice founded by legendary former MPEG leader Leonardo Chiariglione, has published a new standard that is receiving plaudits among the video technology research community as the first video up-sampling filter to tackle super-resolution. MPAI—which stands for Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence—has published version 1.0 of EVC-UFV (Enhanced Video Coding Up-sampling Filter for Video Applications). The nascent standard is being used to train video up-sampling filters based on super-resolution techniques, to reduce complexity of designed filters without significant performance loss. The problem EVC-UFV is trying to solve is the lack of consistency (standardization) among many super-resolution algorithms and SDKs shipped by chipset makers. If software from the likes of Nvidia and Intel is…