The ITU-T Study Group 16 (SG16) is a statutory group of the

ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It is responsible for coordinating Standardization, standards fo ...

(ITU-T) concerned with multimedia coding, systems and applications, such as video coding standards. It is responsible for standardization of the "H.26x" line of video coding standards, the "T.8xx" line of image coding standards, and related technologies, as well as various collaborations with the

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a list of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies. It is headquartered in Gen ...

, including on safe listening ( H.870) accessibility of e-health ( F.780.2), it is also the parent body of

VCEG The Video Coding Experts Group or Visual Coding Experts Group (VCEG, also known as Question 6) is a working group of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) concerned with standards for compression coding of video, images, audio ...

and various Focus Groups, such as the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health and its AI for Health Framework. Administratively, SG16 is a statutory meeting of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA), which creates the ITU-T Study Groups and appoints their management teams. The secretariat is provided by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (under Director Seizo Onoe). WTSA instructed ITU to hold the Global Standards Symposium as a part of the deliberations that is open to the public. The goal of SG16 is to produce Recommendations (international standards) for

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

, including e.g. video coding, audio coding and image coding methods, such as H.264, H.265, H.266, and

JPEG JPEG ( , short for Joint Photographic Experts Group and sometimes retroactively referred to as JPEG 1) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degr ...

, as well as other types of multimedia related standards such as F.780.2, H.810, and H.870 on safe listening, together with the

. It is also responsible for "the coordination of related studies across the various ITU-T SGs." Additionally, is also the lead study group on ubiquitous and Internet of Things (IoT) applications; telecommunication/ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities; intelligent transport system (ITS) communications; e-health; and Internet Protocol television (IPTV).

Trustworthy AI

Together with ITU-T Study Group 17 and AI for Good, the study group has been developing technology specifications under Trustworthy AI. Including items on

homomorphic encryption Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that allows computations to be performed on encrypted data without first having to decrypt it. The resulting computations are left in an encrypted form which, when decrypted, result in an output th ...

, secure multi-party computation, and

federated learning Federated learning (also known as collaborative learning) is a machine learning technique in a setting where multiple entities (often called clients) collaboratively train a model while keeping their data Decentralized computing, decentralized, ra ...

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ITU main site

ITU-T Study Group 16 web site
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structure of ITU-T Study Group 16

Official JPEG and JBIG web site

Official MPEG web site
* {{cite web, url=https://wftp3.itu.int/av-arch/video-site/, title=VCEG document archive site, accessdate=2009-03-30 International Telecommunication Union Scientific organizations established in 1997 United Nations organizations based in Europe ITU-T Study Groups Multimedia

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