All Technical papers articles
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: How AI is advancing media production
The media world is focussing huge concern on the capabilities and potential implications of AI which threatens to outperform humans, not only in laborious production tasks but also in the creative arts. This session examines three aspects of the power of AI to influence the future of media creation. It ...
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: Live production - next generation technology trials
This session shares the experiences of two broadcasters as they trialled new technologies into their production workflows. The session took place at IBC2023 at the RAI, Amsterdam on Friday 15 September. These three papers are available to download via the links below.
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: Live production using 5G networks - ambitious case studies
Broadcasters everywhere are excited at the potential of 5G networks to facilitate flexible wireless TV production. New spectrum allocations, the ease of integrating IP and the reducing cost of 5G equipment, have encouraged several national broadcasters to push the bounds of experimental production. In this session, on Friday 15 September ...
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: 5G technology - convergence with broadcast
In this session, panelists addressed broadcast delivery at scale combined with seamless unicast delivery to ensure coverage and service augmentation and ask: but how close are we? Experts presented their solutions at the RAI, Amsterdam on Friday 15 September. These three papers are available to download via the links below.
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: Streaming - improving delivery efficiency
Multicast has promised to solve the scale issue of delivering very popular television over the internet for a long time. In this session, speakers presented the first paper from BT Research, both a proof-of-concept architecture and field trial results are presented for a means to assist unicast delivery using multicast, ...
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: Recent advances in immersive and volumetric media
Extended reality technologies have now reached a maturity where standards are being proven, applications (especially in sport) are being explored through sophisticated prototypes, and practical network performances are being assessed against the critical expectations of the human senses. This Techincal Paper session at IBC2023 took an exciting look at three ...
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: Advances in video coding and processing
This extended session took place at IBC2023 on Saturday 16 September, at the RAI Amsterdam. There were four authors presenting current research spanning a range of important video processing topics – encoding, super-resolution and sustainability. These five papers are available to download via the links below.
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Technical PapersIBC2023 Technical Paper Sessions: Enhancing the user experience
In this session, which was held at IBC2023 on Saturday 16 September in Amsterdam, we explored how two important media technologies are being improved through user experimentation: on-demand audio-visual content usage and virtual human deaf signing. These three papers are available to download via the links below.
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Technical PapersIBC2023: Technical Papers Presentation Sessions
IBC’s annual Technical Papers made a triumphant return this year, and were presented in thematic sessions delivered across IBC2023 by the industry brains behind the studies. AI, live production workflows, sustainability, audiovisual content, 5G, on-demand content, VR, and live streaming will be just some of the progressive topics raised in ...
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NewsIBC2023: Final Days for 2023 Technical Paper Submissions
All sectors and disciplines across the media, entertainment and technology industry are invited to submit entries for IBC’s acclaimed Technical Papers, as submissions enter the final days ahead of the IBC2023 Conference.
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Technical PapersIBC2022 Tech Papers: Predicting energy usage of high dynamic range video on mobile devices
IBC2022: This Technical Paper describes the method used to accurately measure the energy usage of a mobile device playing video content.
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Technical PapersIBC2022 Tech Paper: Post-pandemic adoption of cloud-hosted environments for video editing & tv production
IBC2022: This Technical Paper explores ITV’s investigation into harnessing the opportunites of the cloud.
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: More Formats - More Conversions
Whilst the enhanced video formats of Ultra High Definition (UHD), Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) present in spectacular quality - they also bring a myriad of format conversion challenges, whether that is up-converting legacy content for use in new productions or down-converting HDR/WCG to suit traditional ...
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: 5G, Delivering on the promise
Scratch below ”5G is faster” and you’ll uncover a technically sophisticated framework with detailed architectural solutions designed to support many new use cases and business models.
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: Advances in Video Coding
In this session we showcase significant coding gains arising from both traditional and Artificial Intelligence based techniques. Quantisation is at the heart of compression and in this masterclass paper, you will learn how practical advances in rate-distortion optimisation continue to drive encoder gains, across codecs.
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: AI in Media Production - Creating new markets for linear content
For decades, broadcasters have been producing linear programmes, such as news, magazines or documentaries, which contain valuable audio-visual information about a vast variety of individual topics. The problem is that these individual topics are often neither addressable nor findable. Could AI and machine learning, segment or chapterise this archived material ...
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: Advances in Audio - Using some remarkable signal processing
Every broadcaster knows that the most common complaint from viewers is that programme dialog is hard to discern against a background of atmospheric sounds, mood music and competing voices. It is especially a problem of age, where 90% of people over 60 years old, report problems.
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: Optimising Streaming - Savings of Scale
Streaming is ubiquitous and both bandwidth and storage hungry. In this session we focus on improvements to both of these challenges, a must for cost saving at scale. For IBC Digital 2021, our first paper investigated, tested and provided an open-source solution that optimises viewer experience when adaptively streaming context ...
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: Facial Recognition - Various facets of a powerful media tool
Facial recognition is one of today’s most controversial media technologies. In 2021, claims were that it can reliably recognise subjects wearing sunglasses or medical masks, and that it can even differentiate between identical twins. Not all of its many possibilities are sinister, however. In this session we shall see how ...
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VideoIBC Digital 2021: The Cloud - For Live and Production Workflows
Cloud-based production is revolutionising the working practice of journalists and entertainment media producers, allowing increased flexibility of location and opportunities for innovation and speed of creation. In this 2021 session we explore two advances which contributed to the efficiency of the workflow.
