The JPEG format for encoding still images was standardized during the 1980s and 1990s. It uses the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), which was developed at the end of the 1970s, and Huffman encoding.

In July 2020, the latest video coding format, known as versatile video coding (VVC), was standardized jointly by the MPEG *1 and the ITU-T *2. At NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, we are ...