Goals
The goals for this Strategic Programme are defined in the current EBU T&I Workplan 2019-2022 (updated early 2021) and can be summarized as follows:
- Assist Members in developing and using efficient production workflows
- Enable adaptable production workflows for audio, video and data
- Provide guidance on cloud-based production and newsroom systems
- Study processing for multi-versioned content for live and non-live applications
- Identify the evolution of post-production, news systems and archive systems
- Enable Members to transition toward UHDTV, including High Dynamic Range (HDR)
- Enable Members to transition to personalised sound experiences
- Promote the use of EBU R 128 and the use of new tools and metadata in Radio Production
- Improve accessibility though “Seeing, Hearing, Participating and Understanding” personalised services
- Continue to promote the use of R 128 for loudness control across all content, platforms and devices
- Leverage Artifical Intelligence (AI) to support all aspects of content production including the areas of:
- Fake News detection
- STT Benchmarking
- Serverless Cloud workflows
- Ensure knowledge sharing of the topics of metadata, machine learning, and computing architecture
- Investigate cloud agnostic microservice frameworks for media
- Ensure and improve the end-user Quality of Experience
- Provide a common Quality Control language and a database of QC terms and templates
- Study sustainability in production and develop recommendations and best practice
Project groups
Accessibility & Sustainability
Audio
- Audio Systems and workflows (personalised sound experiences, radio production and loudness)
Data & AI
- AI and Automatic Metadata Extraction
- AI Benchmarking
- Media Cloud & Microservices
- Metadata & Artificial Intelligence
- Metadata Models
Video & Quality Control
- Video Systems & Workflows
- UHDTV Strategy Support
- HDR Implementation Task Force
- Video Evaluation
- Quality Control
Workflows
Communities of practice
EBU Members are invited to join the following communities to share experiences, including problems and solutions:
- Implementing Open Innovation
- Media Archives
- Metadata Developer Network
- Non-Linear Editing Systems User Group
- TV Anytime User Group
Related initiatives
- AI and Data Initiative (AIDI) – a cross-disciplinary strategic EBU initiative