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ITU-T SG21 · QUESTION 5
Standards give structure.
Intelligence takes form.
From a concept or a technology to a connected body of standards.
Explore nine themes connecting AI-enabled multimedia applications.
Shared technical foundations for different systems.
Capabilities
Standardization
Frameworks & needs
Define the scope
Data & formats
Organize information
Tests & metrics
Compare capabilities
Applications
- 01Identify needs
- 02Agree approaches
- 03Support collaboration
Ask about standards, terminology and applications. Follow the source references in each answer.
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Nine themes, one knowledge map
Foundation Models Evaluation & Assessment
Explore how foundation models are tested, compared and assessed, from general capabilities to multimodal tasks.
Foundation Model Platforms & Engineering Capabilities
Explore the engineering capabilities of foundation model platforms across data preparation, training, deployment and operation.
AI Agents
Explore agents, their collaboration and applications through perception, memory, planning and tool execution.
Hardware & Computing Power Benchmark
Understand computing benchmarks and energy-efficiency measurements through processors, clusters and interconnect architectures.
Embodied AI
Connect model capabilities with perception and action in the physical world, and explore system frameworks, data and testing.
Generative AI & Multimedia Processing
Explore text, audio and multimodal generation applications, alongside retrieval augmentation and media processing systems.
Digital Human Systems
Understand digital human systems and interactions, from appearance, voice and motion to platforms and interfaces.
Federated Learning & Distributed AI
Explore model collaboration across participants and the architecture and evaluation of device-edge-cloud systems.
Vertical Industry & Knowledge Engineering
Explore industry scenarios through domain data and knowledge organization, connecting practical problems to standardization.
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Diagrams · animations · videosEvaluation & assessment · Concept diagram
Dimensions and workflow of model evaluation
Evaluation & assessment · Process animation
How inputs, tasks, metrics and evaluation results connect
Evaluation & assessment · Introduction & case video
Model evaluation methods and practical testing scenarios