All IBC Accelerators articles
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Industry TrendsIBC2023 Accelerators: Kickstarter Day highlights the value of collaboration
The IBC2023 Accelerators programme has got underway in earnest, following the annual ‘Kickstart’ day on Feb 8th. The event saw a select group of industry leaders come together to hear the ‘longlist’ of pitches for inclusion in the 2023 Accelerator programme, prefaced with introductory presentations and culminating in the Awards ...
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IBC Accelerators 2022 (Part 3): Innovation everywhere
The IBC 2022 Accelerator programme aims to support the media & entertainment industry to solve some of the biggest challenges in the market today, and this final cluster of projects is taking on some of the most diverse and complex of the lot.
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IBC Accelerators 2022 (Part 2): Cloud is where the magic happens
Cloud technologies are sometimes regarded as vague and indefinable beasts. But the reality is that they can be as precise, scalable and robust as you need them to be.
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IBC Accelerators 2022 (Part 1): Using 5G to support live and virtual events
One of the biggest overarching themes evident in the IBC Accelerators for 2022 is 5G. Mark Mayne talks to participants from Strathclyde University and Vodafone about their projects.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: RT 3D Interactive Content Creation for Multi Platform Distribution
The 2021 IBC Co-Champions from one of the previous year’s most popular IBC Accelerator Projects in Animation Production: New Immersive Real-Time Workflows retained their coalition to create a new, unique and exciting Challenge for 2021.
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IBC Kickstarts 2022 Accelerator Programme at the IET
IBC held its first in-person event for two years last week when the IBC Accelerator Kickstart Day took place at Savoy Place, the home of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the original home of the BBC, on 7 April.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: Sustainability in Live Production
”Climate change driven by carbon dioxide release is having negative effects the world over, with melting sea ice, regular extreme weather events and global warming harming the oceans and other delicate ecosystems. In 2021, the concentration of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere will reach 417 parts per million - 50% ...
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IBC Accelerators 2021: 5G & remote production in live sport
The onset, rollout and continuing evolution of 5G has huge potential to help broadcasters accelerate their digitisation and transformation strategies and strengthen their market position right across the content value chain from production to distribution.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: AI Bias detection
With hundreds of thousands of hours of content being produced by, and for newsrooms daily, the quest to automate many labour-intensive and laborious physical tasks within production workflows continues to challenge broadcasters and news agencies.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: Immersive Audio and Sound Imagery
2020 was a year none of us could have imagined, without live music, we had missed all the live experiences, and those who perform had missed that live connection of an audience in person even more.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: Smart Remote Production and Real Time Animation
Accelerating the Animation Pipeline with minimal equipment, this IBC Challenge leverages the latest technological developments of Markerless Motion Capture and Speech-Driven Facial Animation to drive CG Performances in the Unreal real-time render engine.
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IBC2021 Accelerators: 5G LBXR
With the phenomenal growth of esports and the dramatic improvements in AR and VR technologies in recent years, an Accelerator looking at the role of 5G in Location-Based entertainment experience in extended realities is a timely one.
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Thought Leadership
Comment: Introducing the IBC2021 Accelerators
The IBC Accelerator Media Innovation Programme provides a framework that enables agile collaboration. Leaders Muki Kulhan and Mark Smith explain all about the eight remarkable projects already underway.
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IBC Podcast: An Introduction to the IBC 2021 Accelerator Media Innovation programme
Episode 12 of the IBC Podcast features an introduction to the 2021 IBC Accelerator Media Innovation programme with Mark Smith and Muki Kulhan plus an interview with Shibasish Sarkar, group CEO, Reliance Entertainment
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IBC to host Accelerators Kickstart event
IBC is hosting a virtual ‘Kickstart’ event for its collaborative media innovation programme, where challenges will be pitched and project groups will begin to be formed.
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IBC launches virtual event: IBC Showcase
IBC has unveiled plans for IBC Showcase, a virtual event that is set to take place in September.
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IBC2020 Accelerators: 5G Remote Production
Eight national and international broadcast networks have joined an IBC Accelerator that aims to assess the current reality and future potential of 5G in remote production.
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IBC2020 Accelerators: New & immersive real-time workflows for CG animation production
A new IBC Accelerator is looking at ways of leveraging XR tools and real-time content engines to change workflows for the production of animation. Ian Volans investigates.
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IBC2020 Accelerators: Live Content Moderation
Al Jazeera, RTÉ, Reuters and AP have partnered on an IBC Accelerator which seeks to enable media organisations to protect the integrity of their content and brands while achieving significant efficiencies, writes Ian Volans.
