All Transformative Tech articles – Page 4
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Novel coding methods for storage bit-cost, transcoding complexity, and transmission efficiency trade-off optimization of multi-profile video delivery system
This paper specifically targets a system to improve the trade-off between the storage bit-cost of the different representations, the transcoding complexity and transmission efficiency (i.e. bitrate-quality trade-off at transmission) of the requested representation by the end-client while guaranteeing that the delivered output bitstream remains compliant with the legacy decoding system ...
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Live music in virtual immersive spaces
This paper presents approaches the BBC has been trialling for delivering live events into virtual immersive spaces. Trials are being run to explore the use of low-latency volumetric capture technology of the artists, to allow virtual attendees, through their avatars, to interact with the performer and each other. Other trials ...
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Novel Image Sensor with Area-Based Optimisation of Shooting Conditions for Immersive Content Productions
This paper describes a novel scene-adaptive imaging technology designed to enhance the image quality of wide-angle immersive videos such as 360-degree videos. It addresses the challenge of balancing resolution, frame rate, and dynamic range due to sensor limitations by dynamically adjusting shooting conditions within a single frame on the basis ...
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Large Multimodal Model-based Video Encoding Optimization
This paper demonstrates that our LMM-based approach not only significantly reduces the computational complexity required for sampling based per-title video encoding—by an astounding 13 times—but also maintains the same level of bitrate saving. These findings not only pave the way for more efficient and adaptive video encoding strategies but also ...
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Nerf based 3D generative video conferencing system
This paper introduces a generative 3D video conferencing system using pre-trained Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) models for high-fidelity 3D head reconstruction and real-time rendering.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: VVglTF: Efficient Streaming of Volumetric Video with glTF
This paper discusses the benefits of VVglTF.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Content Steering: A Standard for Multi-CDN Streaming
This paper reviews the history of this standard’s creation, explains its operation principles, and discusses its various features, utilities, and benefits.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Advancements in Radiance Field Techniques for Volumetric Video Generation: A Technical Overview
This paper offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art volumetric video methods based on neural radiance fields, including their respective advantages and drawbacks.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Project Timbre: How well do mobile networks work for live audio streaming?
The paper focuses on assessing the real-world quality of experience and investigates how this correlates with existing definitions of mobile coverage, which may be more general in nature.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Content Distribution at Mega concurrency Scale
This paper explores architectural strategies, resources allocation guidelines and cloud-native workflows that are time-tested to support mega-scale live streams and examines common failure scenarios and anti-patterns, identifies infrastructure bottlenecks and proposes fallback strategies to enhance resilience and reliability at massive concurrency scales.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Interoperable provenance authentication of broadcast media using open standards-based metadata, watermarking and cryptography
This paper analyses the posting of broadcast news content to a social media platform, the role of open standards, the interplay of cryptographic metadata and watermarks when validating provenance, and likely success and failure scenarios.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Live Production using the Audio Definition Model at the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
This paper discusses workflows and processes to produce, distribute and deliver Next Generation Audio (NGA) experiences in live production scenarios.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: AI for audio description: A natural voice for accessibility
This study describes the development and implementation of an AI-based natural voice synthesis and automated mixing workflow for audio description (AD) in Brazilian television drama content, with a real demonstration case of success.
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Daily NewsSony’s 4K camcorder duo on track for AI
At IBC, Sony has introduced two 4K handheld professional camcorders with AI-based subject recognition autofocus, tracking, and auto framing. The HXR-NX800 NXCAM and PXW-Z200 XDCAM have 1in CMOS sensors, a new 20x optical zoom lens, variable neutral-density (ND) filters, and assignable lens rings.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: The Power of Data-Driven Insights: Advancing Ad Targeting With Generative AI
This paper outlines a novel architecture blueprint that use large language models (LLMs) to enhance ad targeting effectiveness through personalized messaging.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: Multi-Label Indexing Technology for News with AI-based Text Processing
This paper explores how broadcast media organisations can utilize systems that automatically label news articles.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: An Efficient and Sustainable End-to-End Video Streaming Architecture
SMART-CD is a French collaborative project aimed at providing an energy optimized video streaming solution that allows operators and users to understand and control their environmental impact. By developing clear consumption metrics and optimisation technologies for the various steps in the end-to-end distribution chain, the consortium contributes to the greening ...
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: A user-centric approach to facial recognition for TV content
This paper addresses the need for a consistent evaluation framework designed specifically for video content.
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Technical PapersIBC2024 Tech Papers: 3GPP SA4 - THE MEDIA AND XR POWERHOUSE FOR 5G AND 6G
This paper addresses a summary of completed Rel-18 technologies for media and XR related technologies and provides an overview on what is happening and expected in Rel-19, and possibly even beyond in the 6G era.
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