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JPEG Trust Summit 2026 Announcement

2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

Context

The JPEG Trust Summit 2026 will bring together international experts from academia, industry, government, cultural heritage institutions, and standardisation bodies to advance trustworthy and interoperable solutions for media provenance and authenticity.

JPEG Trust is a series of international standards by the JPEG standardisation committee (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1) that provides a framework for establishing trust in media. This framework includes aspects of authenticity, provenance, attribution, intellectual property rights, and integrity through secure and reliable annotation of media assets throughout their life cycle.

Focused on the JPEG Trust series of standards (ISO/IEC 21617), the summit will provide a platform to explore legal frameworks, real-world implementation, cross-sector collaboration, and pathways towards adoption.

Practical information

Date: Thursday and Friday, November 12-13, 2026
Venue: Alan Turing Institute, Central London, United Kingdom
Registration: Seats are limited, you can express your interest to attend the event.

Program

The programme below is preliminary and may change as speakers’ contributions are confirmed.

Thursday, November 12, 2026 - Legal frameworks and policy making

10:30-11:00: Registration and networking
11:00-12:45: Trust in media
- Welcome address by JPEG and the Alan Turing Institute - Professor Touradj Ebrahimi, JPEG Convenor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and tbc, Alan Turing Institute
- Opening address - Baroness Beeban Kidron, House of Lords, United Kingdom
- Impact of false information, a keynote address - Inès Gentil, EU DisinfoLab
- Introduction to JPEG Trust - Professor Frederik Temmermans, Chair of the JPEG Trust AhG, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and imec
- Trust in media, a panel of experts in dialogue with the participants - Professor Frederik Temmermans and the speakers of this session
12:45-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-16:00: Legal frameworks and policy making
- Policies and priorities of the European Union, a keynote address - Giuseppe Abbamonte, Director for Media Policy, European Commission
- Policies and priorities of the People’s Republic of China, a keynote address - Juyuan Tang, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
- Policies and priorities in the United States of America, a keynote address - Kate Murray, US Library of Congress
- Trust in search, aggregation, generation, and streaming, a keynote address - tbc
- Legal frameworks and policy making, a panel of experts in dialogue with the participants - facilitator and panellists tbc
16:00-16:30: Break - opportunity for demonstrations and exchanges
16:30-18:00: The role of standards
- How a global standards body of the news media provides the technical foundation for that ecosystem, a keynote address - Brendan Quinn, Managing Director at International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC)
- Content provenance and authenticity and the JPEG Trust Framework, a keynote address - Leonard Rosenthol, Chair, C2PA Technical Working Group, Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe
- JPEG Trust in action, walking through a first deployment - Deepayan Bhowmik, Co-Director, Newcastle University Centre of Research Excellence in Data Science and AI, and Philippe Rixhon
- Wrap-up of the day in dialogue with the participants - Sabrina Caldwell, Co-Chair of the JPEG Trust AhG, Senior Lecturer, Ethics in Technology, University of New South Wales
19:30-21:30: Dinner

Friday, November 13, 2026 - Use cases and user adoption

09:00-09:45: Registration and networking
09:45-10:10: Welcome address
10:10-12:30: Use cases
- IP and frontier technologies, a keynote address - Ulrike Till, Director IP and Frontier Technologies Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Trust in visual content matters, a keynote address - Gilles Devicq, President, CEPIC, and Philippe François, Chief Imagery, Belga News Agency
- Trust in aerial photography matters, a keynote address - Andrew Tewkesbury, Solutions Consultant at Airbus Defence and Space
- Trust in cultural heritage matters, a keynote address - Antonella Fresa, Photoconsortium, International Consortium for Photographic Heritage
- Trust in editorial content matters - Lina Ghazal, Director of Public Affairs, PA Media
- Trust and evidence - a police agency, tbc
- Use cases, a panel of experts in dialogue with the participants - a facilitator, tbc, and the speakers of this session
12:30-13:45: Lunch break - opportunity for demonstrations and exchanges
13:45-15:45: User adoption
- An Open Rights Data Framework to declare and exchange interoperable and trustworthy rights information, a keynote address - Anna Vuopala, Finnish Ministry of Culture and Education, Copyright Infrastructure Task Force
- The EUIPO Copyright Knowledge Centre and the CopyrightView initiative, a keynote address - René Havermans, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
- Stop&Scan, the role of agentic AI and gamification to pause, verify, analyse, align, and reflect - Dr Alessandra Sala, AI and Multimedia Authenticity Standards collaboration (AMAS)
- User interface and trust pipelines, keys for standards adoption, a keynote address illustrated by a second deployment - Professor Frederik Temmermans
- Trust in education, a keynote address - Matthew Forshaw, Head of Skills for AI Assurance, UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- A strategy for user adoption, a panel of experts in dialogue with the participants - Matthew Forshaw and the speakers of this session
15:45-16:00: Closing
- Wrap-up of the summit and perspectives - Frederik Temmermans, Sabrina Caldwell, and Philippe Rixhon, Co-Chairs of the JPEG Trust AhG

Organizing committee

Deepayan Bhowmik
Philippe Rixhon
Frederik Temmermans
Sabrina Caldwell
Touradj Ebrahimi
Leonard Rosenthol
Kang Xin
Walt Husak

More information

Further information about JPEG Trust and its activities is available on the JPEG Trust website. Interested parties are invited to regularly consult the JPEG.org website for the latest news.

114th ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) Meeting

2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

Calling notice.

113th ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) Meeting

2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

Calling notice.

Media Representation Standards in the Age of AI - Delivering Trustworthy Digital Content for Humans and Machines - Workshop Announcement

2026-06-19T00:00:00Z

JPEG Workshop/2026 Cycle 1 IEEE SPS Chapter Initiative

Context

The advent of Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally transforming the way visual information is represented, compressed, transmitted, authenticated, and consumed. Learning-based media coding, generative AI, and machine-oriented representations are redefining the traditional boundaries of multimedia systems, while simultaneously raising new challenges related to trustworthiness, authenticity, interoperability, and regulatory compliance.

As AI becomes an integral part of media representation, international standards play a fundamental role in ensuring that emerging technologies remain interoperable, reliable, and widely deployable. Recent developments such as learning-based image and point cloud coding, coding for machines, and media authenticity frameworks illustrate how standardization is evolving to address both technical innovation and societal needs. The JPEG Committee has been leading this transformation through the development of next-generation standards such as JPEG AI, JPEG Pleno PCC, and JPEG Trust.

This workshop brings together researchers, industry experts, policymakers, and members of the international standardization community to discuss recent advances in AI-based media representation technologies and their implications for future multimedia systems.

The event is co-organized by the Portuguese Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) within the framework of the IEEE SPS Member-Driven Initiative Program.

Practical information

Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Time: 14:00 – 18:00 WEST (13:00 – 17:00 UTC)
Venue: ESTG, Polytechnic University of Leiria, Campus 2 Building D, Room DS 1.01
Link for Hybrid Attendance: Zoom
Registration (free but mandatory): Register
Workshop webpage: workshop webpage

Program

14:00 – 14:15: Opening Addresses
14:15 – 15:30: Session 1 - AI-Based Media Coding: Standards and Innovations
- João Ascenso, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal.
- Ivan Bajíc, Simon Frazer University, Canada.
- Jona Ballé, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany.
15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break & Networking
16:00 – 17:15: Session 2 - Trust, Metadata, and Authenticity in the AI Era
- Frederik Temmermans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
- Mário Campolargo, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.
- Carlos Pires, European Commission.
17:15 – 18:00: Session 3 – Round table – Trustworthy Content in the Age of AI: Opportunities, Risks, and Responsibilities
- Fernando Pereira (Moderator) - Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal.
- Touradj Ebrahimi – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Mário Campolargo – Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.
- Nuno Guimarães - ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.

The program includes a networking dinner, providing participants a unique opportunity to connect informally with JPEG experts and fellow researchers.

For more information, including a detailed version of the program, please consult the Workshop website.

Organising Committee

Nuno Rodrigues (IPLeiria/IT | PT)
Touradj Ebrahimi (EPFL | CH)
João Ascenso (IST-UL/IT | PT)
Frederik Temmermans (VUB | BE)
Eduardo Da silva (UFRJ | BR)
Antonio Pinheiro (UBI/IT | PT)
Stuart Perry (UTS | AU)
Peter Schelkens (VUB | BE)
Fernando Pereira (IST-UL/IT | PT)

More information

Interested parties are invited to join the JPEG activities. Information on how to participate is available on the JPEG Website in the Participate section. Information can be found on JPEG membership and the various Ad Hoc Groups. Regularly consult the JPEG.org website for the latest news.

111th Meeting – Online - JPEG DNA reaches Draft International Standard stage at the 111th JPEG meeting

2026-06-08T00:00:00Z

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JPEG DNA reaches Draft International Standard stage at the 111th JPEG meeting

The 111th JPEG meeting was held in virtual mode from 13 to 17 April 2026.

This meeting was marked by several major achievements. JPEG DNA reached the Draft International Standard (DIS) stage after a successful wet-lab experiment, including DNA synthesis/sequencing that allowed a test of reliability in real conditions. Furthermore, the DIS stage was also reached for JPEG XE, the first International standard for coding of visual events; JPEG Pleno Light Field Quality Assessment, which establishes a model for quality evaluation of encoded light fields; JPEG Trust Media Asset Watermarking, which provides watermarking support to media asset authenticity; and JPEG Trust reference software, which will provide a valuable tool for the development of applications using this family of standards. Furthermore, JPEG Pleno Light Field coding, 2nd edition, reached the Final Draft International Stage.

The following sections summarise the main highlights of the 111th JPEG meeting.

JPEG DNA

At its 111th meeting, the JPEG Committee reached a major milestone with JPEG DNA Part 1 (ISO/IEC 25508-1) advancing to the Draft International Standard (DIS) stage. This achievement marks the culmination of a multi-year standardization effort, beginning with the Final Call for Proposals at the 99th JPEG meeting and proceeding through the creation of the Verification Model at the 102nd meeting, the first Working Draft at the 103rd meeting, the Committee Draft, and the study DIS text produced at the 108th meeting. With DIS now reached, the core technical specification for the efficient coding of images into quaternary representations suitable for archival on DNA synthetic polymers is frozen for the first edition of the standard. The JPEG Committee expects publication of Part 1 an International Standard before the end of 2026.

The DIS milestone was accompanied by the successful completion of wet-lab experiments initiated at the 109th JPEG meeting and whose synthesis and sequencing phases were carried out between the 110th and 111th meetings. The sequenced results from the independent parties have now been delivered to the JPEG Committee and analyzed. The experiments confirmed that the information recorded in the DNA solution was successfully extracted and that the corresponding compressed images were correctly decoded, in accordance with the end-to-end workflow defined in the specification, including biochemical constraints, the recovery mechanism used to cope with the noise introduced by the synthesis and sequencing processes, and the procedures for reading the encoded image information back from the synthesized oligonucleotides. These results provide concrete validation that the current specification of JPEG DNA satisfies the conditions required for applications relying on the current state of the art in DNA synthesis and sequencing and represents the first end-to-end demonstration of the standard on real biological media.

JPEG XE

The joint effort between ITU-T SG21 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 on JPEG XE is ongoing, with JPEG XE Part 1 ready to become the first of a series of standards for coding of visual events. During its 111th meeting, the JPEG Committee made substantial progress on the ongoing development of the additional JPEG XE Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5. Technical discussions advanced the work on Part 2, which will define Profiles and Levels, as well as a normative buffer model to ensure safe and interoperable decoder operation across implementations. Further enhancements were made to the code of the open source reference software, which will be published under Part 3 as a proof‑of‑concept and conformance testing implementation. Preparatory work commenced for Part 4, which will establish the structure and scope of formal conformance testing and will become the focus during the coming months. Finally, consensus was reached about Part 5, where the JPEG Committee converged on an ISOBMFF‑based file format design supporting efficient storage, streaming, and precise event timestamping. The JPEG Committee, mandated for the joint effort between ISO/IEC/JTC1/SG29 and ITU-T SG21, remains committed to the development of a comprehensive and industry-aligned standard that meets the growing demand for event-based vision technologies. This collaborative approach underscores a shared vision for a unified, international standard to accelerate innovation and interoperability in this emerging field. The JPEG XE joint AHG (ITU-T SG21 and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 WG1) was reestablished to continue the JPEG XE standards development. If you are interested, please consider joining this public joint AHG.

JPEG Trust

There have been major advances in all parts of JPEG Trust. Recently, a 2nd edition of JPEG Trust Part 1 - Core Foundation, was published to accommodate assertions for attributions (based on The Dublin Core metadata element set, ISO 15836-1:2017) and declarations of rights (based on the W3C ODRL Information Model 2.2). JPEG Trust Part 2 – Trust profiles and reports extends the framework specified in Part 1 with extended functionalities for Trust Profiles and Trust Reports; it has now entered the DIS stage. JPEG Trust Part 3 – Media asset watermarking, incorporating specific tools and associated assessment methodologies for usage scenarios that rely on invisible watermarking of media assets, has now been released for DIS balloting. The DIS for JPEG Trust Part 4 – Reference Software was also released for balloting; this Part will be extended in the future with additional implementations and test datasets.

A first JPEG Trust Summit is planned on 12-13 November 2026 in London. More information on upcoming events related to JPEG Trust can be found here.

JPEG Pleno

The JPEG Pleno Light Field activity analyzed the DoCR for the Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) of the 2nd edition of ISO/IEC 21794-2 (“Plenoptic image coding system (JPEG Pleno) Part 2: Light field coding”). This 2nd edition integrates AMD1 of ISO/IEC 21794-2 (“Profiles and levels for JPEG Pleno Light Field Coding”) and includes the specification of a third coding mode entitled Slanted 4D Transform Mode and its associated profile. It is expected that at the 112th JPEG meeting this new edition will become an International Standard (IS).

The JPEG committee made significant progress in JPEG Pleno Light Field Quality Assessment (Part 7) activities. Key developments were achieved, including the review and finalization of the DIS text for ISO/IEC 21794-7, which was approved for registration at this meeting. Core experiments on light field quality assessment were presented and discussed, contributing to the validation of subjective testing frameworks and the further development of objective metrics, including improvements to learning-based approaches.

JPEG XS

JPEG XS, the image and video compression format for transmitting visually lossless, high-quality pictures with minimal latency and low resource consumption, is currently in a mature state. Two amendments, JPEG XS Part 1 and Part 2, are expected to be published in July of 2026. JPEG XS AMD1 provides a new syntax to allow embedding of user-defined metadata at the slice-level in addition to the frame-level that was already possible. JPEG XS Part 2 amendment AMD1 provides additional levels and sublevels, as well as a new frame buffer level, to better support proxy-stream extraction use cases. At its 111th meeting, the JPEG Committee prepared another amendment (AMD2) for JPEG XS Part 2 to define a new raw Bayer profile, called CMainBayer, that supports reducing the implementation complexity compared to the MainBayer profile. It will be an inclusive profile, meaning that existing HighBayer and MainBayer implementations will be capable of decoding the newly proposed CMainBayer profile. A core experiment was issued to verify the proposed parameters and the impact on the coding performance and the potential resource savings. The plan is to issue the DAMD2 text at the next JPEG meeting in July 2026.

JPEG RF

At its 111th meeting, the JPEG committee continued its active exploration of technologies for radiance field representations. Significant progress was achieved, particularly in the areas of quality assessment and visualization methods for radiance fields, where an exploration study was presented and discussed, contributing to a deeper understanding of how radiance field content should be rendered and evaluated in subjective experiments. These discussions support the development of reliable and practical assessment frameworks in preparation for a future Call for Proposals. JPEG also initiated a new exploration focusing on the identification of suitable objective quality metrics and subjectively annotated datasets, as well as the evaluation of metrics’ performance for radiance field content. This work builds on prior efforts covering coding methods, subjective assessment protocols, and trajectory design, and aims to support the development of standardized evaluation methodologies.

In parallel, outreach activities continued to expand community engagement and support the preparation of dissemination materials, while work progresses toward revising the JPEG RF Common Test Conditions. The outcome of these efforts will guide future standardization in radiance field coding.

JPEG AI

At its 111th meeting, the JPEG Committee continued advancing JPEG AI. The Committee reviewed progress in key JPEG AI Core Experiments, including energy-consumption analysis, and bit-exact reconstruction, with results showing promising implementation trade-offs across CPU, GPU, and FPGA platforms. The FPGA implementation was identified as the most energy-efficient, while GPU execution provided the lowest latency. JPEG also reported progress on compressed-domain machine analysis, where JPEG AI latent representations enabled earth-observation segmentation with nearly ten times fewer model parameters. Further work will continue through new Core Experiments on energy consumption, bit-exact reconstruction, and objective and subjective evaluation. This activity reinforces JPEG AI’s role as the first International Standard for end-to-end learning-based image coding and as a technology relevant to both human visualization and machine-oriented applications.

"At the 111th meeting, five JPEG standardization projects reached DIS stage, a testimony to the commitment of its experts who work tirelessly towards the development of efficient standardized solutions that guarantee interoperability between emerging imaging products and services.” said Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi, the Convenor of the JPEG Committee.

About JPEG

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is a Working Group of ISO/IEC, the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission, (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1) and of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T SG21), responsible for the popular JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG Systems and more recently, the JPEG XS, JPEG Pleno, JPEG XL, JPEG AI, JPEG Trust, JPEG DNA and JPEG XE families of imaging standards.

The JPEG Committee nominally meets four times a year. The next JPEG Meeting, the 112th, will be held in Leiria, Portugal, from the 5th to 10th of July 2026. More information about JPEG and its work is available at jpeg.org or by contacting of the JPEG Communication Subgroup. If you would like to stay informed about JPEG activities, please subscribe to the jpeg mailing lists.

Future JPEG meetings are planned as follows:

No. 112 will be in Leiria, Portugal, from 5 to 10 July 2026
No. 113 will be in Hangzhou, China, from 18 to 23 October 2026

A zip package containing the official JPEG logo and logos of all JPEG standards can be downloaded here.

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JPEG Trust Summit 2026 Announcement

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Practical information

Program

Thursday, November 12, 2026 - Legal frameworks and policy making

Friday, November 13, 2026 - Use cases and user adoption

Organizing committee

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114th ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) Meeting

113th ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) Meeting

Media Representation Standards in the Age of AI - Delivering Trustworthy Digital Content for Humans and Machines - Workshop Announcement

JPEG Workshop/2026 Cycle 1 IEEE SPS Chapter Initiative

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111th Meeting – Online - JPEG DNA reaches Draft International Standard stage at the 111th JPEG meeting

JPEG DNA reaches Draft International Standard stage at the 111th JPEG meeting

JPEG DNA

JPEG XE

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JPEG XS

JPEG RF

JPEG AI

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