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Video: High Dynamic Range in AV1

Posted on 12th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

Google and the University of Warwick explain AV1, its current status and how it can support HDR with WMG’s trueDR at the IABM’s Future Trends Theatre at IBC 2018.

Matt Frost from Chrome Media takes the stage first giving an overview of AV1’s goals, objective quality tests and where we are in AV1’s timeline as well as answering many questions from the audience.

Next Alan Chalmers from the University of Warwick explains how they added HLG, HDR10 (PQ) to AV1. Also added are new, scene-referenced, HDR methods which Alan explains the works of and reasons for.

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Speakers

	Alan Chalmers Professor WMG & trueDR, University of Warwick
	Matt Frost Director, Product Management, Google Chrome Media

Video: Beyond Netflix: How specialist streaming services can compete against global players

Posted on 7th November 2018 by Russell Trafford-Jones

From the IBC 2018 conference, a discussion on how to compete against Netflix and the other global players. We hear from Britbox, Filmstruck, DAZN, ErosNow their ways of differentiating. Exclusive content rights is a key element in the strategy, but innovating around technical challenges is necessary to make it in the fray.

When the global players have to be everything to everybody, what gaps in her need does this leave? DAZN’s Chief Product Officer Ben Lavender explains their sports rights strategy and how they ensure sustainability. DAZN are constantly fighting to reduce latency. Ben describes the work they’ve done over the years to reduce latency by a third.

Ali Hussein gives us the Indian perspective whilst Soumya Siraman explains why the British experience of Britbox is a hit with her US customers. Kerensa Samanidis makes the point that FilmStruck’s ‘quality cinema’ principle will mean different things in different countries.

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Speakers

	Soumya Sriraman President Britbox
	Kerensa Samanidis General Manager Filmstruck (Turner)
	Ben Lavender Chief Product Officer DAZN
	Ali Hussein COO ErosNow

Chair

Maureen Kerr
Managing Director TMT Group, Corporate Finance
FTI Consulting

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

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