Pull quote:

We run compute on the cloud and have no real-time requirements. I was asked by the Chair, “How much complexity increase is acceptable?”

I was not prepared for the question, so did some quick math in my mind estimating an upper bound and said “At the worst case 100X.”

The room of about a hundred video standardization experts burst out laughing. I looked at the Chair perplexed, and he says,

“Don’t worry they are happy that they can try-out new things. People typically say 3X.” We were all immersed in the video codec space and yet my views surprised them and vice versa.