Digital video has become ubiquitous in our society thanks to a plethora of multimedia devices and services that support emerging new formats such as 8K Ultra High Definition (UHD). At the same time, the real and dazzling progress of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining ground in our society. In this context, the aim of the ARTEMiiS project is to reconceptualize basic video coding principles by integrating tailored AI-driven decision making into the heart of the video coding process. The main objective of ARTEMiiS is to propose a unique solution based on AI and address the three fundamental objectives of video coding: encoding complexity reduction, improvement of coding efficiency, and subjective quality enhancement. ARTEMiiS technologies will be validated with the next-generation international Versatile Video Coding (VVC/H.266) standard. The ambitious aim is to make ARTEMiiS technologies the leading academic open-source AI-centric video coding tool set worldwide.

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