Researchers in UT-Austin’s LIVE (UT-LIVE), Directed by Professor Al Bovik, have singularly pioneered the use of visual neuroscience to create picture and video quality measurement and monitoring tools that control the quality and bandwidths of a large percentage of all streaming videos, television, and social media. Their breakthrough inventions include the iconic Structural Similarity (SSIM), Multi-scale SSIM (MS-SSIM), and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) “reference” visual quality tools, which delivered dramatic leaps in performance when introduced, and are still dominant today. These tools are used today to control the quality of most streaming and social media pictures and videos in the US and beyond. Bovik and his team also disrupted the field by inventing the first accurate and practical “blind” visual quality models (BRISQUE and NIQE), using models of neuro-statistical distances, at the neural level, between distorted and distortion-free visual signals. These tools are also globally marketed and used in numerous industry applications, including inspection of streaming and social video uploads, control of cameras, and remote video transcoding in the Cloud.
Imagine Communications: Imagine Aviator
Aviator is a cloud-native platform that enables broadcasters, MVPDs and digital-first providers to plan, make and monetize premium-quality, ad-supported linear and Connected TV (CTV) content from a single, unified platform. This ground-breaking platform draws on Imagine’s broad experience in ad tech, video infrastructure and playout automation to create an entirely new approach to setting up, running and monetizing channels simply, quickly and cost-effectively.
FilmTrack: BaM Shortlist – Monetize
Accedo One: Hybrid Monetization for Video
Hybrid monetization has become a particularly hot topic as of late, fuelled primarily by macroeconomic uncertainty caused by major global events. Some of the big players, such as Netflix and Disney, have already announced the introduction of ad-funded tiers to supplement their existing subscription offerings. At the same time, reports show that an increasing number of users are willing to accept some advertising in return for lower subscription fees.
Vubiquity: BaM Shortlist – Manage
With growing consumer demand for content across an increasing array of platforms, territories and languages, suppliers are creating and localizing massive amounts of new content and resurfacing existing libraries. This immense content volume requires high-quality metadata for accurate and compelling content description to power search, discovery and recommendation.
Mo-Sys bMR: a flexible route to LED content studios
Mo-Sys partnered with on-air graphics specialist Erizos Studios to develop bMR (broadcast mixed reality). This solution uniquely combines Erizos’ expertise in broadcast graphics and MOS based news/sports workflows, with Mo-Sys’ innovation in LED virtual studios and precision camera tracking.
Grass Valley: LiveTouch X
LiveTouch X provides the professional replay performance required for live events with ultra-low latency from anywhere on the planet. Clips can be marked from live feeds and sent to production or playout in under a second! Industry standard highlights organization by Page, Bank, and Slot with clip numbering makes UI simple to navigate, with highlights and playlists available at a single button press.
CEDAR Audio: The CEDAR DNS 4 dialogue noise suppressor
There are many occasions when it’s expensive or even impossible to go back and ‘do it all again’. By providing the ability to suppress noise with minimal effort, near-zero latency and no unpleasant artefacts, the DNS 4 can be more than just a noise reduction unit; it speeds workflow and can save on costs.
Accedo: Tata Play Binge Mobile App
Amidst India’s rapidly evolving video landscape it is becoming increasingly difficult for consumers to discover the content of their choice. Currently, in India there are many OTT apps, each with vast content libraries consumers have to download, register, subscribe, use and renew separately. Key features like content recommendations based on watching history, resume watching incomplete content etc are also specific to each app.
Vislink: 5G 4Live
Vislink 5G 4Live functions as a combined 5G network solution that integrates roaming camera 5G transmitters with a hybrid portable/private 5G network infrastructure. This provides production teams with a complete 5G private network deployment that is tailored to deliver high up-link bandwidth, low latency and uncontended connectivity at the edge.