Many of the latest AI-enhanced broadcast solutions focus on delivering efficiencies to different facets of sports and news production, writes David Davies.
The long-term implications of artificial intelligence are complex and potentially very significant, so it’s hardly surprising that questions of an ethical and existential nature have dominated recent industry discourse. But as critical as those topics undoubtedly are, it’s also important to remember that this phenomenal technological movement is also yielding a remarkable amount of innovation, including in broadcast production, distribution and delivery.
‘Deep and advanced’ conversations
As might be expected of such an established mainstay of live production solutions, AI is not a new topic for Chyron. From an early stage the company has been working on sports-related AI applications such as player-tracking and camera calibration, the latter involving the “tracking of the movement of the camera relative to the pitch without the actual tracking information coming from the camera itself,” explains Mathieu Yerle, Senior VP of Strategy, Product and Marketing at Chyron. “More recently, we have been looking at a different application of AI, still within sports, but based around training models to detect typical specific plays in different sports. There are various ways that can be used to accelerate user workflows, for example in producing automated or semi-automated instant replays where previously you would have a replay operator sitting and finding the best in-point, the best out-point, the best angle, and so on.” ...
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