IBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: Live production - next generation technology trials

During the FIFA World Cup 2022, Globo along with its technical partners, ran trials to test and showcase (i) the use MPEG-5 Part 2 – LCEVC to deliver legacy receiver compatible HDR over DTT, (ii) DASH live streamed 4K HDR video with immersive and personalized 5.1+4H audio, encoded with VVC, LCEVC and MPEG-H audio, and (iii) evaluation of the interactivity and personalization features provide by the authored MPEG-H Audio content in a Big Screen setting. NHK describes the trials, tools, and systems they put in place to incorporate Next Generation Audio into their live workflows. This also includes a detailed disclosure of a loudness measurement system, developed using both objective and subjective testing. This session is supported by two further papers; AWS assesses the sustainability of cloud-based media platforms providing a useful overview of initiatives underway in the industry. And a further paper from NHK which details their experience in building an NGA playout and recording system.

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Speaker

Taishi Iwasaki, Research Engineer - NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

Taishi IWASAKI is a research engineer in Advanced Television Systems Research Division, Science & Technology Research Laboratories, at Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). His research interests include the development of technology for personalised audio experience using next-generation audio, its practical application in broadcasting systems and acoustics in VR/AR contents.

He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Waseda University in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He joined NHK in 2018, where he was in charge of the development and arrangement of broadcasting systems such as cameras for studio production, news gathering and weather viewing. 

Moderator

Stephan Heimbecher, Director Technology and Production Infrastructure, SWR

Stephan Heimbecher joined SWR Südwestrundfunk in November 2021 and now leads the new ARD Competence Centre Production & Infrastructure. Since June 2021 he also acts as the chairman of the EBU Strategic Programme Smart Media Production. 

His roles span from Imagine Communications’s Senior Director Advisory Services EMEA & APAC, looking after Imagine Advisory Services, which stand by broadcast clients as a partner during technical and non-technical business transitions – e.g. in the context of IP Migration, and Founder & Managing Director of his own consultancy firm, Heimbecher – In media’s res. 

He has worked at Sky Deutschland (formerly Premiere) as Director Innovations & Standards in Technology, where he took care of representing Sky on national and international committees, technical work with major Hollywood studios plus technical innovation management tasks within Sky Deutschland. At Sky Stephan was significantly involved in the launch of some technical innovations including Sky+ (PVR), Sky HD, Sky 3D and at last Sky UHD. 

The electrical engineering graduate began his career as research associate at the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) where he worked on audio coding. Since 1997 he has dedicated his work at IRT to the standardisation of Digital TV before joining Top5 MediaConnection in 2001 (a company of the former KirchGruppe) as manager within the consulting department.  

In the course of his career Stephan was active in different Industry Groups and Standards Bodies and also chaired various working groups, including DVB (Member of the Steering Board), German TV Platform (Member of the Board, working group chairman), FAME (Co-chairman) and UHD Alliance (Chairman of the Broadcast Group).

Access and download the papers:

IBC2023 Tech Papers: Next Generation TV in Brazil during the Football World Cup 2022

IBC2023 Tech Papers: NGA live-production workflows: Personalised audio experience in broadcasting

IBC2023 Tech Papers: Media and Entertainment Sustainability on the Cloud