Reports

Reports articles

IBC2024 Tech Papers: Novel Image Sensor with Area-Based Optimisation of Shooting Conditions for Immersive Content Productions

This paper describes a novel scene-adaptive imaging technology designed to enhance the image quality of wide-angle immersive videos such as 360-degree videos. It addresses the challenge of balancing resolution, frame rate, and dynamic range due to sensor limitations by dynamically adjusting shooting conditions within a single frame on the basis local subject characteristics.

Read more

Evaluating the energy impact of different dimensions of UHD

The UHD standard introduces improvements in video quality across several dimensions. Although the first to be adopted commercially was the increase in resolution, features such as high framerate and dynamic range, wide color gamut and increased bit-depth offer important gains in the quality of experience of the end user. Nevertheless, each of these improvements comes with an associated cost in terms of storage, bandwidth and energy consumption.

Read more

IBC2024 Tech Papers: An Efficient and Sustainable End-to-End Video Streaming Architecture

SMART-CD is a French collaborative project aimed at providing an energy optimised video streaming solution that allows operators and users to understand and control their environmental impact. By developing clear consumption metrics and optimisation technologies for the various steps in the end-to-end distribution chain, the consortium contributes to the greening of video streaming.

Read more