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Video: IBC Tech Talks – AI in Production

Posted on 31st October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

However it’s applied in our industry, AI is here to stay. In the area of production, it is set to revolutionise working practice, by dispensing with many formulaic and repetitive tasks and making more effective use of human creative skills. Nowhere is this more significant than in live broadcasting where the economic advantages of AI can allow the coverage of events that would not otherwise be cost-effective. In these Tech Talks, three industry experts will describe and demonstrate the latest ideas and technologies in AI-assisted production, including one who will address the storytelling benefits for live football. Another international broadcaster will introduce the concept of smart production, where hardly anything is left to the human – even the script is generated automatically by mining information from sources such as social media.

A thought-provoking glimpse of how AI researchers see the future of production.

Speakers:

	Craig Wright Project Research Engineer BBC
	Joost de Wit Founder & CPO Media Distillery
	Hiroyuki Kaneko Senior manager NHK
	Pam Fisher Executive Director The Media Institute

Video: Visual Excellence in Production

Posted on 25th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

In this Tech Talk we shall hear from researchers and vision scientists, how they are ensuring the precision of HDR and colour in image capture.

Today’s imaging technology strives to produce a viewing experience which is, as far as possible, identical with that perceived by the human visual system. Strangely, one limiting factor in high dynamic range (HDR) design has been that existing measurements of the human vision have not been sufficiently accurate. Another of these issues is skin tone: humans are particularly sensitive to skin colour – regarding it as an indicator of well-being. The accurate portrayal of this subtle parameter is therefore particularly important. A further interesting image quality issue is slow motion – here we explore the development of an 8K UHD 240fps camera and slow motion capture and replay server.

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Speakers

	Lucien Lenzen Research Assistant Hochschule RheinMain
	Simon Thompson Project R&D Engineer BBC
	Patrick Morvan Senior R&D Engineer Technicolor
	Simon Gauntlett Director of Imaging Standards and Technology Dolby Laboratories

Video: IBC Tech Talks: Codec Wars

Posted on 10th October 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

From IBC, this is a fantastic line-up of 6 experts in the field of codecs who dive deep into the pros and cons of AV1, HEVC and discuss alternative codecs.

Three papers are presented showing the reality of the AV1 implementation to date, why there’s promise and why we’re not there yet.

The event moves on to a panel session which digs deep into HEVC licensing, challenger Codecs such as XVC and PERSEUS, and much about UHD and HEVC adoption.

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Featuring

	Chair – Ben Keen Analyst & Advisor – Technology, Media & Telecoms
	Ian Trow Presenting: AV1: Implementation, Performance and Applications Consultant, Business Development & Technology
	Jonatan Samuelsson Presenting: The XVC Video Codec – A Revolutionary Software-Defined Video Compression Format. Co-founder and CEO Divideon
	Andre Dias Presenting: An Overview of Recent Video Coding Developments in MPEG and AOMedia R&D Engineer BBC
	Ken McCann Director Zetacast
	Philippe Keutgen Technology Transfer and Partnerships Manager BBC
	Thierry Fautier Supporting Paper: Understanding the Video Codec Jungle: A Comparison of TCO and Compression Efficiency UHDF President Harmonic

Video: How BBC Northern Ireland Turned Decades Of Content Into A Secure, Accessible Petascale Archive

Posted on 19th September 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

BBC Northern Ireland produces a complete schedule of news and current affairs programming that it distributes over two television channels, two radio stations, and multiple online platforms.

BBC NI also delivers content from other BBC production centers to Northern Ireland audiences. In addition, its facilities also serve as a central digital archive for the Rewind Projects, hosting thousands of hours of existing content from all of the BBC’s different national sites.

To meet their challenge of storing, protecting, and making the content available for reuse, they turned to a workflow management solution from Cinegy built on the Quantum StorNext storage platform.

Attend this webinar and learn more about key elements of the BBC NI solution:

• Unified asset management environment spans multiple, discrete storage tiers for storing video and audio essences together with metadata

• Teams of users and applications in all areas have fast, simultaneous access to all media content on disk and tape

• Automated movement of data between disk and tape tiers for backup and archive

• High-speed, multi-stream transcoding delivers content quickly for accelerated production because data is visible on any computer

• Dual-redundant systems supports around-the-clock operations and provides back-end storage support to ensure DR protection

• A scalable solution that can grow as storage demands increase in the future

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