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
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.
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.
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.
Tedial: smartWork NoCode Media Integration Platform
Drawing on its long-standing IT innovation heritage, Tedial’s empowering non-technical users by delivering an easy-to-use toolset that distills complex workflows into simplified processes. Built with microservices and Kubernetes, Tedial’s award-winning, unique smartWork NoCode Media Integration Platform provides future-proofing and scalability and is designed with the NoCode paradigm to enhance flexibility and minimise risk in operations. Following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) it can be deployed on-premises, on any cloud or in a hybrid architecture for incredible flexibility.
Simplestream: Channel Studio
Simplestream’s Channel Studio lets OTT and streaming operators repurpose existing backlog of video-on-demand (VOD) assets and create virtual ‘live’ channels with optional server-side ad insertion, and/or on-screen graphic overlays. A seamless playback experience sits at the core of new opportunities for monetisation, with increased audience engagement and higher live viewing figures as a result. Channel Studio allows operators to distribute content anywhere, including leading FAST platforms.
