WINNOW – An Advanced Platform for Content Classification

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Interra Systems' BATON is the leading M/L and AI enabled automated QC platform that provides comprehensive quality and compliance checks for VOD content, in the cloud / on-premises, for linear and streaming workflows. The hybrid QC solution implements organizational QC policy to support a combination of automated and manual QC checks – the result is a well-integrated and efficient broadcast workflow. BATON is used by global broadcast, cable, telco, satellite, IPTV, over-the-top (OTT), and post-production markets and archiving companies working with file-based content. BATON is the trusted choice for all their file-based QC needs, available both on-premise and in the cloud.

BATON supports a wide range of media formats and offers comprehensive quality checks, including extensive subtitles and CC verification, audio language identification, PSE correction, loudness detection and correction. BATON’s powerful Media Player for frame-accurate review, rich QC analytics and smart workflow tools are the best in class in the industry.

BATON's scalable architecture lets users expand their BATON set up as their QC needs grow. BATON's high availability feature guarantees business continuity even if some of the hardware components break down.

Interra Systems' widely-acclaimed technical support ensures that customers are always up and running.

 

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BATON® Captions is an automated solution for all kinds of captioning needs, allowing broadcasters and media professionals to address requirements from caption generation to QC, auto corrections, review, and editing. Leveraging cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and automatic speech recognition technology, BATON Captions brings simplicity and cost savings to the creation, management, and delivery of captions for traditional TV and video streaming.

Utilizing this high-performance solution, media companies can dramatically expedite the caption creation and verification processes for both live and VOD content, as well as while ensuring that when content is delivered in multiple video quality levels within OTT video streams, the captions maintain a high quality.

BATON Captions reports on any drop or inaccuracy in captions and audio, as well as compliance issues, providing broadcasters with automated options for correcting alignment and text. Captions can be checked against actual audio essence, corrected, and exported to any industry-supported caption format. Through auto time stamping with state-of-the-art speech recognition technology, BATON Captions adds accurate time to dialogs in scripts, resulting in faster, more efficient caption generation.

Through web-services-based API support, BATON Captions can easily be integrated with third-party tools. Broadcasters have the option of deploying the captioning solution on premises or in the cloud for added flexibility. The application comes with a feature-rich review and editing platform with frame-accurate playback options. Offering support for a host of subtitle and closed caption formats, BATON Captions helps drive globalization of content for broadcasters and other media professionals.

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BATON® LipSync is an automated tool for lip sync detection and verification. BATON LipSync leverages image processing and machine learning (ML) technology and deep neural networks to automatically detect audio and video sync errors. Using BATON LipSync, broadcasters and service providers can accurately detect audio lead and lag issues in media content in order to provide a superior quality of experience (QoE) to viewers.

BATON LipSync application is capable of performing facial detection, facial tracking, lip detection, lip activity detection, and speech identification. Sync errors can be debugged further in the BATON Media Player (BMP) through a feature-rich interface that plots out-of-sync audio and video errors on a skew timeline for better visualization. After errors are detected, BATON LipSync provides a comprehensive report of all the LipSync issues.

Available content can be checked in any language independent of the region and area. Offering support for most industry formats, BATON LipSync meets media professionals’ complex requirements for delivering high-quality multiscreen video. BATON LipSync can be seamlessly integrated into any existing content processing workflow, or it can be used as a stand-alone application.

BATON LipSync answers a critical industry need by replacing a time-consuming, expensive manual process with faster and more accurate machine-assisted detection.

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Interra Systems’ BMP is a powerful, feature-rich media player for media professionals to play, inspect, and verify audio-video content. BMP supports the widest range of formats and it can easily be integrated with broadcast workflows at any stage for in-depth examination of media, while facilitating collaboration across multiple teams and projects. The visual and technical information provided by BMP ensures that content looks and plays exactly the way it was intended. Supporting SDI playout, and a wide range of audio, video, elementary and container formats, along with extensive support for closed captions and subtitle formats, BMP offers video professionals one of the most comprehensive media players on the market. BMP is offered both as a standalone media player and as an integrated part of BATON.

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Interra Systems' ORION is a real-time content monitoring system that enables service providers to deliver error-free, superior quality video. ORION provides real-time monitoring of IP-based infrastructures that looks at all aspects of video streams such as QoS, QoE, closed captions, ad-insertion verification, reporting and troubleshooting. ORION performs critical monitoring functions on hundreds of services simultaneously from a single platform, providing an operator with a single point of visibility and access to important information such as, status, alerts, alarms, visible impairments, error reports, triggered captures and more. ORION effortlessly monitors streaming content scaling single to multiple monitoring units/ sites across different geographical locations.

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Top industry award winners, ORION and ORION-OTT are the most comprehensive content monitoring solutions for assurance of high quality IP/linear and OTT streams for Live and VOD content. The newly revamped ORION Central Manager (OCM) provides an aggregated view of linear and OTT services based on monitoring data collected by probes for efficient troubleshooting.

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Interra Systems’ ORION-OTT is a comprehensive monitoring solution for LIVE services and VOD assets, in the cloud or on-prem. It offers a high performance, scalable solution to verify ABR videos for monitoring both QoS and QoE. ORION-OTT also provides passive monitoring of origin server performance and end-user devices understand recurrent issues and their causes.

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VEGA Media Analyzer (VMA) is an industry leading media analysis platform for standards compliance, debug, and interoperability of encoded streams. VMA enables navigation down to the deepest levels of a media file to generate error reports and analysis. This significantly reduces R&D and QA time in delivering standards-compliant video.  VMA supports all popular video compression and container standards and includes features such as video comparison and quality checks. These features help deliver high quality, standards-compliant media while reducing R&D and QA time.

VEGA Media Analyzer

is the most in-depth and reliable file-based media analyzer that brings complex HEVC information in simple visuals. VMA features includes complete parsing and decoding, frame by frame navigation, analytical graphs, H.264 and HEVC encoding comparison, and powerful error reporting. VMA leverages Interra Systems' industry-proven quality checks to help its users create high quality media streams.→ Learn more

VEGA AVSync

performs a detailed analysis on audio-video synchronization. It identifies out of sync points in the media content and provides relevant debug information to enable accurate assignment of Presentation Time Stamps. VEGA AVSync is designed to expedite testing and delivery of standards-compliant encoder, multiplexer and decoder systems.→ Learn more

VEGA Command Line Interface

is the most in-depth and reliable command-line media analyzer that debugs media streams on Linux platform. VEGA CLI assures standard compliance and interoperability with navigation down to the deepest levels of an encoded stream. The cloud-based solution leverages Interra Systems' industry proven quality checks to help its users create high quality media streams.→ Learn more

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WINNOW is a powerful software for classifying audio-visual content into semantic concepts. WINNOW uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies for identification of key elements in content in accordance with regulations in different countries, regions, and organizations. WINNOW is empowered with advanced classification capabilities to ensure the content is automatically classified using a rule-based framework. WINNOW provides extensive and accurate content management features, which help in improving workflow efficiency.

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Introducing our Media Monitoring Systems (MMS) Broadcast Edition as a fully automated platform for broadcast monitoring, legal recording TV programming, allowing overall quality control, building complete (searchable) audiovisual archives with different purposes (audit, reissuing), news development, building multiplatform clips sharing on social networks with metadata to SEO optimization and commercial market research.

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Detecting Possibilities: Multimodal Indexing AI

Newsbridge’s Multimodal AI processes audiovisual content like Big Data, in near real time.
* Auto-index your media assets via Multimodal Indexing AI & Speech-To-Text.
* Manage Customizable Thesaurus with associated Deep Learning mechanisms.
* >95% success rate for correct detection. Eliminate false positives by cross-analyzing all media sources (audio, images, metadata, etc.).

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Limecraft Edge our signature application to take care of backup (offload), audio synchronisation, colour grading, encoding of browse and edit proxies, as well as ingest into one or more locations. It processes thousands of files at the same time. It handles all common consumer and professional file formats. It is extremely reliable and it will make sure you'll never loose a single shot.

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As a Telestream Certified Premium Reseller, we can provide the full Telestream range. We can also consult and offer solutions and workflow designs that are best suited to your output – whether that’s broadcast, ABR multiscreen content, remote production solutions, live events, sports applications or edit at home capabilities.

We also provide installation services, onsite or remote equipment training and technical support, so new solutions are optimally integrated into existing workflows, and you can be sure everything’s up and running as smoothly as it was designed to be. See a few of Telestream’s most popular solutions below, and get in touch with our team to find out more about Telestream and our services.

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PlayBox Technology has incorporated its most advanced playout engine which is the result of over 15 years of experience in developing playout solutions for the world's

leading broadcasters.

 

PlayBox Technology Channel-in-a-Box provides an integrated playout solution for Broadcasters and OTT service providers in a 1RU or 3RU server, regardless if you are working with IP or SDI.

The CIAB will enable you to playout an IP stream or an SDI in SD, HD or UHD. PlayBox Technology’s CIAB takes care of all your scheduling needs and uses simple, clean and engaging HTML5 for your transmission graphics needs including crawlers and rollers.

 

As you would expect from PlayBox Technology, it offers sophisticated and easy to use automation. We have designed a user friendly ingest which also gives you the ability to FTP your media straight to the Channel In A Box, saving you time.

It is available as a complete turnkey solution for single channel or multichannel HD SDI/SD. Available as both full turnkey solutions and software-only for single and multi-channel operations.

 

Channel in a Box (CIAB) is compatible with a wide range of compression types, including: MPEG-2, DV, DVCPro, DVCPro HD, AVC/H.264, HAVC/H.265, XAVC and more.

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Search, find, tag, comment, and preview… for the whole team.

ShareBrowser enables your users to organize and search for media and projects across EVO storage as well as local, offline, and other SAN/NAS network disks.

Assets can be catalogued, tagged, and commented, so everyone on the team can easily find, preview, and share media and projects.

ShareBrowser is perfect for post-production teams that collaborate around a shared storage workflow, giving everyone a central, searchable database.

ShareBrowser shows you your storage workspaces in one spot — including cloud services like Dropbox, Hightail, and Adobe Creative Cloud.

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nxtedition is a complete production solution for video and audio - used by broadcasters, publishers, corporates and other industries to create video channels for broadcast and streaming, as well as audio for radio broadcasting, streaming and podcasting.nxtedition encapsulates all the following activities into a single user interface offering to be first, fast and accurate with the stories people want - be that news, sport, entertainment, or production.• Production Planning• Scriptwriting• Media Asset Management• Metadata Management• Reporting• Graphics• Subtitling• Prompter• Transcoding• Rundown Creation• Studio Automation• Ingest Recording• Channel Playout• Music Rotation• Live Streaming In And Out• Publishing To Web, App And Social Medianxtedition - innovative storytelling grounded in realism.

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WINNOW is a powerful software for classifying audio-visual content into semantic concepts. WINNOW uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies for identification of key elements in content in accordance with regulations in different countries, regions, and organizations. WINNOW is empowered with advanced classification capabilities to ensure the content is automatically classified using a rule-based framework. WINNOW provides extensive and accurate content management features, which help in improving workflow efficiency.

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Interra Systems' BATON is the leading M/L and AI enabled automated QC platform that provides comprehensive quality and compliance checks for VOD content, in the cloud / on-premises, for linear and streaming workflows. The hybrid QC solution implements organizational QC policy to support a combination of automated and manual QC checks – the result is a well-integrated and efficient broadcast workflow. BATON is used by global broadcast, cable, telco, satellite, IPTV, over-the-top (OTT), and post-production markets and archiving companies working with file-based content. BATON is the trusted choice for all their file-based QC needs, available both on-premise and in the cloud.

BATON supports a wide range of media formats and offers comprehensive quality checks, including extensive subtitles and CC verification, audio language identification, PSE correction, loudness detection and correction. BATON’s powerful Media Player for frame-accurate review, rich QC analytics and smart workflow tools are the best in class in the industry.

BATON's scalable architecture lets users expand their BATON set up as their QC needs grow. BATON's high availability feature guarantees business continuity even if some of the hardware components break down.

Interra Systems' widely-acclaimed technical support ensures that customers are always up and running.

 

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Iris Anywhere is the next generation of GrayMeta's popular Iris Desktop, which provides true, frame-accurate playback of mastered and encoded content with the broadest range of support for audio / video formats and codecs.

Iris Anywhere allows playback and QC of master assets stored in the cloud or on-premise via a browser.  It provides real time QC scopes and monitoring tools.

Accessing the master and source files directly means we are removing the need to create proxy files and are delivering direct access, playback and QC of the master and original files directly to your browser.  No need for additional browser plug-ins or server middleware.

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VIDA is the first content operating system and the next stage in SaaS library management combining the best of cloud-native content operations with predictive, intelligent tools that support today’s media workflows. From clip sales and production collaboration to library management and connected platform distribution, VIDA’s flexible ecosystem supports the scalability and agility required to meet industry demand for library content. With exceptional customer service, best-in-class technology infrastructure and quality-first solutions, VIDA ensures you get the most value out of your library – at every stage.

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Digital Nirvana’s MetadataIQ is known for accelerating the speed of content creation while simplifying and automating the metadata generation process. MetadatorIQ is a secure, scalable platform to automate the process of metadata generation for production, pre-production, and live content residing in AVID. It aids in a secure and efficient generation of metadata Avid based assets. The 100% automatic generation and ingestion of relevant metadata along with locators into AVID helps editors to accurately identify relevant content, thereby saving time and effort.

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With nearly a decade of developing AI and computer vision tools for the world’s number one interactive video platform at WIREWAX, and with another two decades of experience in the video and broadcast space, the team identified ways to leverage the platform’s award-winning image processing technologies in the big media sector too.

Lightning fast; face and object recognition, segmentation, fingerprinting, speech recognition and many other unparalleled tools available in the suite has changed the game for the broadcast and media industry.

Being able to scan entire archives of video assets and create a powerful, digital understanding of videos, programmes and movies with this core technology has enabled large TV and movie studios to leverage data and digital tools and services like never before.

 

We’ve not met a media business on the planet that doesn’t have a digitised asset problem. Lack of metadata, no understanding of content, zero monetisation capabilities and gigantic and disorganized archives. Not to mention expensive asset management, overpriced syndication and VOD preparation, and notoriously slow and extortionate manual services.

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Synchronized’s Smart-Thumbnails service fully automates the process of image selection, editing and publishing thumbnail images via metadata enrichment whilst also allowing editorial teams complete and precise control over the editorial rules governing the aesthetic of the content and OTT platform. The service delivers significant gains in productivity, saving our clients time and money whilst improving the final quality of image selection.

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Our AI enrichment modules allow sparse data sets to be enhanced and then built upon to deliver great content discovery experiences to end-users. Once you have a data flow setup on the Utelly Platform it is a straightforward configuration change to enable any of the supported enrichments. It is also possible to add your own custom enrichments within the data flow framework we have designed.

 

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It is vital to keep consumers engaged with content in and around your products. By understanding user engagement patterns and coordinating targeted campaigns, Utelly's CRM integrations will help to ensure the full potential of your offerings is realized by your users. Building on top of user-profiles and activity patterns, our platform integrates with your chosen CRM tools to engage users with personalized content. Explore user profiles to understand affinity to content types, genres, topics, and much more. Build compelling messaging with personalized content. Retarget based on a user search history, previous recommendations, and interaction with content. Ensure your catalog's potential is maximized and reduce user churn. Understand your customer base and their preferences. Use this knowledge to drive content strategy.

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Smart-Labeling automatically qualifies video segments with tags and editorial labels.

• Enables classification of video-content and sub-content.


• Enables personalised user-experiences through playlist generation.


• Enables Contextual Advertising.


• Improves Search Engine Optimisation.


• Improves Content Recommendation Engine.

 

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Public Figures automatically deep link video catalogs based on personality detection.

Public Figure

• Enables navigation through personalities in video catalogs


• Enables enriched user-experiences


• Improves Search Engine Optimisation


• Improves Content Recommendation Engine

 

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Synchronized Smart-Video Platform is a machine learning turnkey solution, central hub for all in-video auto-generated time-coded metadata, objects and assets for broadcasters, OTT and IPTV services.Its Artificial Intelligence engine understands the content and context of a video and automatically enriches it with metadata making the video fully interactive, flexible and as powerful as hypertext.