BBC Research and Development

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

Audio

Trial enables viewers to turn phones, tablets and laptops into extra speakers in order to surround themselves in the sounds of the game

Business

Annual awards will be presented during the 2021 NAB Show on 10th October

Audio

Enables sound engineers to produce immersive and personalisable content using the Audio Definition Model (ADM) format.

Research found that the devices in viewers' homes used more energy in total than in the BBC's distribution chain

Technology

Computationally intensive tasks have been "offloaded" to a powerful graphics card on a Cloud server

BBC Research & Development worked with EE and other partners to stage a trial of 4G Broadcast at the FA Cup Final at Wembley...

SES and Samsung Electronics demonstrated the first DVB transmission of High Dynamic Range UHD TV at the annual SES Industry Days in Luxembourg on...

Business