The exhibition is underway, and our stand is open to IBC visitors. Today: our work on IP Studio profiled, HDR comes into view, and there's a VR masterclass at the show.
After the wraps are taken off and the stands on the show floor are available to visit today. We have a presence, in the Future Zone, stand 8F20 - that’s Hall 8, on stand 20, but we're appearing on other stands, as well as presenting papers in the conference all weekend too - . If you do spot us anywhere at IBC then do (#) or . We will pick out some of the best images!
Peter Brightwell presents on our work on IP
— Ian Wagdin (@wagger)
±«Óãtv R&D's work on IP Studio is in the spotlight today. Pete Brightwell presents our work on the project at conference at lunchtime today, and he's interviewed in today's IBC Daily (p6) about IP production from capture to distribution and the AMWA Networked Media Incubator Project:
"That is a big part of our work, as we take stock of where we are now in the IP world and the expected evolution," said Brightwell. "We are working within the Incubator group on the next generation of APIs for the industry."
Also at midday, Alex Rawcliffe will be talking about industry support for interoperability in IP based systems - . You can meet the team responsible for our IP Studio project at our stand for the duration of the show, and you find out about the work we've done so far.
Final bit of setup for the VR demo on our stand in 8F20 Future Zone
— Chris Northwood (@cnorthwood)
It's announced today that ±«Óãtv R&D has two of the top eight technical papers at IBC this year. The papers - ‘’ and ‘’ were reviewed by a committee of 20 industry specialists after being selected from 330 synopses submitted by industry experts globally. R&D’s work championing as an approach to broadcasting in an world has spawned several prototypes illustrating its potential benefits for both and . R&D’s work in 360 was celebrated at in June. Both papers are - Alia Sheikh talks about her paper session in this video:
One of 2016's Best Papers, on directing attention in 360 video:
— ±«Óãtv R&D (@±«ÓãtvRD)
VR is also a big theme of today's conference - has produced a , and so we're hoping will make an appearance there! Earlier in the day there's also a session at IBC Conference on which interests us - one worth checking out. We'll have more details on later this week on the daily blog, but if you're at the show go and in Amsterdam!
Why R&D/@NHKgiken developed our Hybrid Log-Gamma HDR solution (Fri/Mon, needs registration)
— ±«Óãtv R&D (@±«ÓãtvRD)
A pair of talks on and Wide Colour Gamut are some of today's other highlights. High dynamic range (HDR) television increases the difference between black and white beyond the contrast range of conventional television which means water can glisten, stars can twinkle, and sunlight can be golden, all whilst maintaining detail in the shadows. , and at lunchtime about how and why we developed with NHK. If you can't make the session today, Andrew repeats the talk on Monday.
EBU and ±«Óãtv demo'ing Live IP Production on Mellanox Ethernet switching at IBC @EBUTECH
— Richard Hastie (@rmhastie)
If you're interested in the Friday afternoon session on with speakers discussing language versioning and subtitling, then you'll be interested in some of the work ±«Óãtv R&D and ±«Óãtv News Labs are presenting at IBC this week. On Saturday Mike Armstrong explains how speech to text, audio fingerprinting and metadata helped us to . And on Monday Susanne Weber shows how we have used machine translation and speech synthesis to . can be read , and Susanne talks about her work in this video:
Foreign language video auto translation@±«ÓãtvNewsLabs present a prototype - Monday
— ±«Óãtv R&D (@±«ÓãtvRD)
We'll be updating this page across the day as we spot more highlights, but (#) or and we'll share the best!
On tomorrow's IBC blog: object based experiences, 360 video, CAKE, and more...
My pick of Friday, frame by frame film scanning + what a beautiful stand!
— Jasmine Cox (@wearesorryfor)