MPEG’s VCM and FCM target machine vision compression

The immediate implication is that compression is no longer being optimized only for people watching video, but for machines consuming it in surveillance, autonomous vehicles, industrial inspection, and drone footage. That shifts the codec discussion from display quality toward AI workflow efficiency. The ecosystem angle is clear in the split between MPEG’s VCM/FCM standards for machine vision and V-Nova’s LCEVC, which tries to serve both AI and human viewing requirements. Watch for which of these approaches gains traction in machine-vision deployments versus traditional H.264 and HEVC pipelines.