Reports

Tech Papers 2021: This paper shows how BBC uses metadata, AI, and Object-Based Media to segment linear programmes into stories, enabling search, personalisation, and interactive experiences.

Tech Paper 2021: This paper reviews 5G media distribution, covering Release 16 advances in streaming and broadcast, and Release 17 work on new codecs, edge integration, and multicast–broadcast extensions.

Tech Papers 2021: This paper explores creating 5G edge media solutions, covering edge architecture, MEC, hybrid cloud, network slicing, media use cases, implementation insights, and future challenges.

Tech Papers 2021: This paper explores 5G Broadcast and New Radio for efficient media delivery, highlighting deployment models, challenges, and future requirements.

Tech Paper 2021: This paper explores the technical challenges of generating ST 2110 video-over-IP streams on standard IT hardware and how they were addressed in a practical software implementation.

Tech Paper 2021: This paper presents an ST2110 network-attached reference display using COTS hardware, enabling virtualized GPU-based video production with synchronized audio/video streams and simplified remote management.

Tech Papers 2021: This paper details NHK's "Face Detector," a real-time face recognition system for live broadcasting that can identify individuals and superimpose their names, even with masks or from various angles, using an AI model trained on just one image per person.

Tech Papers 2021: The paper proposes merging 3D rendering from game engineering with multimedia streaming to create a new system architecture for complex, multi-user immersive Extended Reality (XR) experiences. This approach aims to address technological gaps and paradigm conflicts currently hindering the widespread development of XR products.

Tech Papers 2019: This paper explores user acceptance of emotion-aware voice assistants, finding high interest (up to 80%) and strong potential for stress relief, entertainment, and sleep support.

Tech Paper 2019: This paper introduces the Immersive Audience Experience Evaluation Toolkit, an online questionnaire used to measure and compare audience perceptions across various immersive media formats, providing insights for creators and funders.