All IBC2018 articles – Page 4
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Technical PapersImmersive media over 5G - What standards are needed?
Mobile video will increase 9-fold between 2016 and 2021, accounting for 78% of total mobile data traffic by the end of the forecast period.
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Industry TrendsIBC2018 Tech Talks: Personalisation
Read TiVo, BBC and Rai technical papers and watch their presentations on ‘true’ personalisation and the art of matching diverse content types to users expression of interest.
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Technical PapersPersonalising linear radio: Model and user evaluation
ABSTRACT The paper introduces radio personalisation, as part of the strategy to keep radio relevant, taking into account new available technologies and audiences changing their media consumption habits. A novel model for proactive context-aware radio personalisation based on the hybrid content radio framework is discussed, and a prototype based on ...
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Technical Papers5G: The vision, the reality and the future
In the past few years, 5G has moved from being a vision, through an intense process of standards development, to extensive trials around the world.
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Industry TrendsIBC2018 Tech Talks: Growing your audience
Read technical papers from Viaccess-Orca, Ruwido and NHK and watch their IBC2018 Tech Talks presentations for insights into the use of AI for navigation, changing viewer behaviour and the bridging of broadcast and internet services.
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Technical PapersPersonalising the public linear radio
With competition from online streaming platforms, many broadcasters have viewed the idea of providing some form of personalisation of their services as a necessity to remain competitive.
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Technical PapersML extracts and semantic graphs
Effective entertainment discovery solutions require a deeper understanding of content, and one approach to harnessing this knowledge is extracting semantically-relevant metadata.
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Technical PapersThe future of media consumption
Media consumption is changing. To predict changes in user’s behaviour the majority of the industry is still relying on ownership of devices and usage of devices to predict media consumption behaviour.
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Technical PapersUser-centric companion screen architecture
Bridging broadcast and internet services can be difficult because the system architectures are typically different.
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Technical PapersImplementing AI-aided content distribution strategies in the GDPR era
AI has been used to make predictions and analyse data, the recent explosion in volume, variety, and velocity of viewership data collected from multiple connected devices is turning TV into a new frontier for predictive algorithms.
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Executive InterviewsInterview: Enrique Rodriguez, Liberty Global
Liberty Global’s Enrique Rodriguez looks forward to a world of gigabit broadband, video with everything, and artificial intelligence that’s actually intelligent, he told delegates during the IBC conference last week.
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Executive InterviewsInterview: Perrine Bichet, Proximus
IBC2018 speaker Perrine Bichet on the importance of creating a content strategy for the culturally and linguistically diverse and her move from content-focussed Canal+ to telco Proximus.
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Executive InterviewsBreaking into banks for a living
Hacking banks is not a pastime you’d normally associate with a leading executive of a major telco. However, it’s part of the day job for Konstantinos Karagiannis at BT Americas.
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Executive InterviewsInterview: Steve Youngwood
Accepting IBC’s 2018 International Honour for Excellence award on behalf of Sesame Street co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney, Sesame Workshop COO Steve Youngwood finds himself guided by timeless questions as the iconic organisation seeks to establish new shows and fresh content beyond the lasting success of its flagship.
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Industry TrendsRace to the finish line: AV1, H.264, HEVC, VP9 & VVC
IBC2018: The video industry will have to learn to juggle between AV1, H.264, HEVC and VP9 and future codecs like VVC. That’s the lesson from IBC where warring factions in the codec wars came to trade blows without landing a palpable hit.
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Industry TrendsIBC keynotes stress importance of partnerships
One of the recurring themes during the IBC2018 Conference was partnerships and the importance of striking deals to boost reach and the range of content that can be made available to viewers and consumers.
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Industry TrendsIBC grows in scope, reach and diversity
IBC2018: Positioned at the centre of the changing media, entertainment and technology industry, IBC has confirmed visitor attendance of 55,884, across the six day event.
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Industry TrendsGetting to grips with TV’s golden age
IBC2018: The state of scripted, the future of linear TV and the effectiveness of digital advertising were all topics of debate at a session devoted to debunking received wisdom in TV.
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Industry TrendsEndemol Shine embraces the AI revolution
IBC2018: One of the world’s biggest production companies is increasingly using artificial intelligence to power creativity and cut costs.
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Industry TrendsIBC2018 Preview: Tuesday
IBC2018: The exhibition and the features areas not to miss on the last day of IBC2018.
