All Technical papers articles – Page 5
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Technical PapersAI: Video analysis and machine learning for live events coverage
This paper describes recent BBC research into potential production benefits of AI algorithms, using visual analysis and other techniques.
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Technical PapersThe infinite capacity media machine
The fast-paced developments of cloud computing are evolving new kinds of machine that will be applied to professional media production.
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Technical PapersServerless cloud computing to TV service operations
The serverless cloud model is particularly attractive for TV services, it can reduce operational overheads and lower barriers to entry.
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Technical PapersXVC: Revolutionary software-defined video compression
This paper presents background information on the state of video codec licensing and lays out a description of the XVC licensing framework, constructed to significantly improve the current video codec licensing situation.
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Technical PapersExtending media production to the cloud
Capitalising on the efficiency and scalability that the cloud offers, Avid undertook a number of cloud test drives with select media organisations in Europe and the US to develop a deeper understanding of cloud workflows.
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Technical PapersAn overview of recent video coding developments in MPEG and AV1
This paper analyses the overall compression capabilities of these two emerging technologies with respect to HEVC, including objective and subjective performance evaluation and the associated encoding and decoding complexities.
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Technical PapersAV1: Implementation, performance and applications
Now that the specification is finalised, the Alliance for Open Media has set high expectations for AV1. The prospect of a royalty free alternative to HEVC has many industry supporters, particularly those addressing streaming applications for a standard that is optimised for OTT delivery.
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Technical PapersHow will 5G really work?
5G Wireless Networks are being built to serve new applications. These applications must fund the development of the solutions and the infrastructure.
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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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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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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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Technical PapersAutomatic generation of audio descriptions for sports programs
NHK has developed a means of automatically generating auxiliary audio descriptions from metadata for use in live TV sports programs.
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Technical PapersTogether VR: Shared media experiences in 360-degree
Virtual Reality (VR) and 360-degree video are reshaping the media landscape, creating a fertile business environment.
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Technical PapersExperiments in immersion
Case study: The BBC has over forty VR, 360 video and immersive audio experiments, that teams across the corporation have developed, covering a broad range of topics.
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Technical PapersMedia orchestration between streams and devices
The upcoming MPEG Media Orchestration standard enables the temporal and spatial orchestration of multiple media and metadata streams.
