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Watch: TVBEurope’s Story of 2022
TVBEurope takes a look back at some of the most popular articles about the media technology industry in 2022
artificial intelligence
Media Delivery
Ericsson to invest ‘millions of pounds’ into 6G network research in the UK
The 10 year programme will include research into artificial intelligence, network resilience and security, cognitive networks and energy efficiency
Media Management
Quickplay, Vionlabs partner on AI-based metadata creation
The companies have integrated their technologies to increase viewer engagement and drive revenue
Media Delivery
Report: UK’s home entertainment sector to surpass £5 billion by 2025
Technology is helping to change the home entertainment landscape, with AI, automation and Blockchain increasing the potential of multi-experience audience interaction, states the report
Live Production
TVP Poland selects WSC Sports to enhance Qatar 2022 coverage
WSC Sports’ machine learning technology analyses, indexes and tags every piece of action that occurs during play
Live Production
Eleven Portugal partners with WSC Sports on AI-generated highlights
WSC Sports’ AI and machine learning technology auto-detects, indexes and tags each moment from a game in real-time so that highlights can be automatically...
Media Management
Virtual AI uses artificial intelligence to create schedules for linear and FAST channels
Op2mise from Virtual AI is an AI-driven technology that uses algorithms to take a data-driven approach to generating schedules that reflect a channel's characteristics
Live Production
LaLiga employs artificial intelligence to create real-time highlights
The WSC Sports platform analyses live sports broadcasts, identifies each and every event that occurs in a game, and creates and publishes customised videos
Audio
A change in pitch
Salsa Sound CEO Rob Oldfield tells Dan Meier about the possibilities of personalisation, AI and 5G for sound in sports broadcasting
Business
House of Lords committee opens inquiry into next-gen media technology
It will focus on the effects of technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence and others on the UK’s creative industries over the...
Media Management
Poll: AI-based encoding will be most dominant codec in next five years
Findings revealed from our 5G networks and the new coding standards webinar
Live Production
Canon aims to transform live sports with help from AMD’s Versal AI Core
The Versal AI Core devices provide machine learning-based video processing at the edge for Canon's camera systems
Live Production
For first time in Olympic broadcasting, as many signals will be sent via the cloud as standard delivery
OBS reveals details around its production workflows, use of 5G and AI, and how Beijing 2022 is the first Winter Games in UHD HDR
Live Production
Vislink debuts new camera for AI-powered sports production
Camera is designed for artificial intelligence powered live sports production and features UHD, high frame rates, and zooming capabilities
Media Management
Comcast Technology Solutions leverages AI to create actionable metadata
VideoAI can be used to automatically analyse video assets to identify and tag key onscreen moments (hard cuts, black frames, transitions, etc.) and more
Media Management
ITV switches to AI-based segmentation with PFT cloud solution
Changes manual process from 15-20 minutes to 3 minutes automatically
Media Management
AI ‘presents opportunity to augment existing coding methods with new tools’
InterDigital and Futuresource investigate emerging uses of AI across segments of the media industry
Media Management
RTVE, VSN employ artificial intelligence for catalogue content analysis
Process can extract a text transcript from the files in a matter of minutes, while the AI uses facial recognition it the video file...
Media Management
Discovery partners with AWS on track cycling insights, cloud
Two companies plan to work together to deliver new fan engagement experiences around the UCI cycling competition, including a new UCI Track Champions League...
Media Management
Cloudinary launches Innovation Lab to support and develop next-gen codecs
Company aims to offer a space to experiment with innovative concepts, including new image formats and video technologies driven by AI
Media Consumption
ITV becomes first UK broadcaster to launch shoppable TV
AI technology identifies and tags featured products during programmes and notifies viewers that products on-screen are available
Production & Post
Points of view: Artificial intelligence
Hackthorn Innovation's Steve Sharman explains why AI is set to move up the value chain to increasingly help optimise and automate parts of production...
Media Consumption
AI and an augmented reality Andy Murray keep fans connected to Wimbledon
Tournament is again working with IBM Watson on creating personalised highlights
Media Management
V-Nova’s VC-6 codec journeys into space
VC-6's AI-powered software library will be integrated into Unibap’s SpaceCloud computing platform onboard a spacecraft which is scheduled for launch this month
Live Production
Ross debuts AI-driven camera motion system
Visionry Ft uses facial positions to drive the pan, tilt and zoom axes of the robotic camera system in order to maintain the desired...
Production & Post
Infosys serves up AI highlights at French Open
Solution enables broadcasters to resize videos with AI and produce ready-to-publish clips for different social platforms that require specific aspect ratios
Sponsored
MRMC’s Polymotion Chat can create ‘the ultimate broadcast tracking solution’
Innovative AI system can be used for tracking subjects using PTZ cameras or robotic pan/tilt heads
Production & Post
BBC to trial creating and delivering object-based media at scale
Project will include developing AI-powered techniques to allow audio and video to be separated into objects and create metadata describing a scene
Business
MediaTech 360 Summit: 5G will challenge content creators to push the boundaries
The first day of the MediaTech 360 Summit covered 5G, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the pandemic and the future outlook for the media tech...
Media Management
NPO, RTL Nederland make AI pledge
Broadcasters pledge to adhere to ethical guidelines when using artificial intelligence
Business
MediaCityUK to HOST innovation centre
New centre will focus on building a "world-leading" reputation in data science, AI, and immersive technologies
Media Management
AWS tees off cloud partnership with PGA
AWS' media services will be employed to deliver video content for televised event coverage and OTT streaming for online viewers
Business
TVBEurope MediaTech 360 Summit speakers announced
The Summit will cover everything from the revolutionary rise of 5G in the media chain, funding the future of TV, artificial intelligence and machine...
Media Delivery
TVBEurope 2021 MediaTech Outlook: Transformational Technology section now available
Latest section looks at everything from industry standards to 5G, ad-tech, mixed realities, artificial intelligence and blockchain
Media Management
France Télévisions strengthens data and AI development for programme production
Broadcaster's DaAI department is monitoring and testing AI solutions as well as producing proofs of concepts to be able to incorporate the tools within France...
Media Management
iSIZE Technologies and Intel partner on AI-boosted bitrate savings
Partnership has enabled iSIZE to achieve up to 5 times speed performance on its BitSave precoding technology.
Media Management
Prime Focus Technologies secures another AI patent, CTV puts Phabrix in golf OB vans, and more
TVBEurope rounds up the latest products and solutions news from Prime Focus Technologies, CTV, Phabrix and MediaKind
Production & Post
Bird watching without binoculars
How the BBC's R&D team developed open source machine-learning framework network YOLO (You Only Look Once) for Autumnwatch.
Production & Post
How AI can transform TV
Parham Azimi, CEO of iconik, explains how broadcasters and media organisations can use AI to give them a head-start on any upcoming industry changes.
Media Management
NVIDIA’s new AI-based video compression tech reduces bandwidth to one-tenth of H.264
Company is deploying the tech in its new NVIDIA Maxine platform, which provides developers with a Cloud-based suite of GPU-accelerated AI video conferencing software...
Media Management
SMPTE publishes V-Nova’s VC-6 video production codec as new standard
The codec leverages AI to offer contribution, production and workflow solutions for 4K and 8K.
Media Management
Imagen, Newsbridge partner on AI-powered platform
Platform uses AI for facial recognition, which the companies say will enable users to search for content more efficiently.