Data

PSMs are facing the need to raise the quantity and the quality of content they create to address linear and non-linear channels. To do so, they are adopting agile technologies to accelerate the production and the management of massive amounts of data. The three pillars of these evolutions are data management, computing architectures, and machine learning. EBU groups are addressing these three pillars by providing:

Development of open source tools;
Development of good practices and standards;
Dissemination.

Groups

AI and Metadata (AIM)

The umbrella group that oversees the Metadata and AI domain works, maximizing knowledge sharing and collaboration. This group meets monthly.

Media Cloud Microservice Architecture (MCMA)

MCMA is a serverless/micro-services strategy for media. It aims to help developers to move to "Function as a Service" architectures. Standardization of MCMA has started with SMPTE. This project provides open-source libraries.

AI-Benchmarking

The EBU and several Members have created and continue to develop a tool for benchmarking machine learning-based applications. After designing and publishing a tool to benchmark Speech-To-Text (STT) systems. The group is now working on facial recognition.

Metadata Models

The main activity of this group is to support Members in the domain of metadata, which plays an essential role in media. To do so, the group develops specifications and promotes innovation, such as the use of semantic technologies.

AI and Automatic Metadata Extraction

Work addressed in this group includes metadata schemas, the capabilities and performance of automatic metadata extraction tools, and the development of machine learning algorithms and related tools.

Communities

Metadata Developer Network

This community organizes the annual MDN Workshop for developers to share knowledge, learn from their peers, obtain feedback and collaborate on metadata-related and AI projects. The topics cover EBU Data & AI activities, metadata, machine learning and data processing architectures.

Deliverables

Currently, the following deliverables are planned (green indicates the deliverable has already been delivered). Note that deliverables are dependent on enough participation in the work and that the planning is subject to change. New deliverables are added regularly.