>>>> IBC 2003 CONFERENCE PAPERS <<<<


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elcome to the Broadcastpapers presentation of whitepapers from IBC 2003. Delivered in September, the papers highlight current and continuing issues affecting the media and entertainment industries. Broadcastpapers would like to thank the Office of the IBC, especially Mike Crimp and Gina Sherman, for making this presentation possible.

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DIGITAL LIFESTYLES
Thursday 11 September 09:30 – 12:30, Chairman: David Gillies, BetaResearch, Germany

  • The All-Digital Home
    P Marshall, Digital TV Group, UK click here
  • ‘Buy a PVR, Get One Free’: Serving trick modes to conventional STBs
    C Davies, K Murray, NDS, UK click here
  • The Potential of Visual Navigation
    L Hooberman, S Seljeflot, BBC Creative R&D, UK;
    G Winter, BBC R&D, UK; M Glancy, BBC New Media & Technology, UK click here
  • Advanced TV Navigation System with Easy Program Selection Method
    M Fujiwara , T Isobe, NHK Engineering Services, Japan; N Uratani, T Morita, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan click here
  • TV-Anytime Phase 1: A decisive milestone in open standardisation for personal video recorders
    J P Evain, European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Switzerland; H Murret-Labarthe, CANAL+ Technologies, France click here
  • Share it! A rights-managed network of peer-to-peer set-top-boxes – System architecture
    J Walker, NDS, UK; O J Morris , Philips, UK; B Marusic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia click here
  • Optimizing Buffer Model for Synchronized Non-streaming Data Service on ATSC A/90
    G Bang, Y J Lee, J S Choi, J Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, South Korea click here

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VIDEO NETWORKING: THE WIDER AREA PICTURE
Thursday 11 September 14: 00 – 17:30, Chairman: Mark Wardle, BT Broadcast Services, UK

  • Broadcasting Packets to MPLS and Beyond – A convergence or a compromise?
    A Rayner, M Firth, BTexact, UK Click Here
  • Broadcast Quality Video over IP/Ethernet: Advanced Cable Architectures for Today
    R Levin, Harmonic, USA Click Here
  • Nuggets and MXF Making the Networked Studio a Reality
    L Barral , INESC, Portugal; B Devlin, Snell & Wilcox, UK; H Heber, ZDF, Germany; J P Lacotte, Thomson Grass Valley, France; U Ritter, Thomson Grass Valley, Germany; J Rooy, Thomson Grass Valley, The Netherlands; W Ruppel, T-Systems, Germany; J P Viollet, Enertec, France Click Here
  • The BBC in the Digital Age: Defining a corporation-wide systems architecture
    D Abunu, J Good, C Haughton-Brown, A R Lewis, BBC, UK Click Here
  • Scaleable Mobile Media Delivery: DVB-T and DVB-S to become the Bedfellows of UMTS
    J Oliver, D Tymen, UDcast, France Click Here

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DIGITAL TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION: STILL ROLLING ON

  • Recent Performance Improvements to the ATSC Transmission System
    Communications Research Centre, Canada Click Here
  • Operational DVB-T SFN Experience in Australia
    Broadcast Australia Click Here
  • New Brazilian Digital Television Tests
    TV Globo, Brazil & ABERT SET Group, Brazil Click Here
  • Results of the Mobile DTV Measurements in Singapore
    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Click Here
  • High Speed Internet over DVB-T: A business alternative to ADSL in rural area
    Thales Broadcast and Multimedia, France Click Here
  • Terrestrial Broadcast and Mobile Telco Co-operation: From mobile multimedia business models to NGN architecture
    1France Telecom R&D, 2Motorola labs, France Click Here
  • IP Datacasting: The road to converged services?
    IP Datacast Forum, Sweden Click Here

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TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTING PRODUCTION
Friday 12 September 14: 00 – 17: 00
Chairman: Colin Lippitt, Infinity Group, UK

  • The ASSET Architecture – Integrating Media Applications and Products through a Unified API
    M Cordeiro, P Viana, J Ruela, INESC Porto, Portugal; P Viana, ISEP, Portugal; M Body, B Cousin, INRIA, France; B Cousin, University of Rennes, France; D Bommart, HP, France; G Ferrari, M Strambini, SHS, Italy; W Bernet, E Müller, Dalet-ann, Germany;
    M Laurentin, B Algayres, FPDI, France; S Daulard, THOMSON, France; I Höntsch, T Marx, IRT, Germany Click Here
  • Collaborative Editing Opportunities in a Post Production Environment
    H Huang, R B Kannan, S Lee, Leitch Technology, USA Click Here
  • An Investigation into Current and Predicted Storage and Connection Technologies for High Performance Digital Movie Cameras
    P W Walland, Snell & Wilcox, UK Click Here
  • New Methods of Image Capture to Support Advanced Post-production
    G A Thomas, O Grau, BBC R&D, UK; M Koppetz, ARRI, Germany Click Here
  • A Distributed Live Subtitling System
    M Marks, BBC Research and Development Department, UK Click Here
  • Beyond the Digital Newsroom
    K Usher, Avid Technology Europe, UK Click Here

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WORKFLOW INNOVATION: THE METADATA ‘BIG BANG’
Saturday 13 September 09:30 – 12:30
Chairman: Mike Cox, Mirador Techniques, UK

  • Applying Metadata Technology in TV Production
    M J Williams, A R Kilner, Sony Broadcast & Professional Research Labs, UK  click here
  • Extracting Value from your Metadata with MXF and XML
    V Teixeira, MOG Solutions, Portugal; I Höntsch, IRT, Germany click here
  • Synchronized MPEG-7 Metadata Broadcasting over DVB Networks in an MHP Application Framework
    A López, D Gonzàlez, J Fabregat, A Puig, J Mas, M Noé, E Villalón, F Enrich, V Domingo; G Fernàndez, Ramon Llull University, Spain click here
  • Enabling Interoperable IT-Based Programme-Making Tools with AAF & MXF
    S H Cunningham, P N Tudor, BBC R&D, UK click here
  • MXF Interoperability and Implementation Testing
    I Höntsch, Institut für Rundfunktechnik, Germany click here
  • Real-life Experience of the Implementation of MXF for Collaborative Workflow Across Networks
    T Garvan, P Sykes, A Potts, Sony Business Europe, UK; T Kagawa, Sony Corporation, Japan click here
  • File Formats for Television: The Migration Dilemma
    B Edge, Thomson Grass Valley, USA click here

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CUTTING EDGE: THE LATEST FROM THE LABS
Saturday 13 September 14: 00 – 17: 00
Chairman: Nick Lodge, ProVision Communications, UK

  • Digital Audio Image Restoration: Introducing a new approach to the reproduction and restoration of analog optical soundtracks for motion picture film
    J Valenzuela, Technicolor Creative Services, USA click here
  • New Production Tools for the Planning and the On-set Visualisation of Virtual and Real Scenes
    O Grau, M Price, BBC R&D, UK; R Koch, J Woetzel, MIP, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany; F Lavagetto, L Spallarossa, DIST – Università di Genova, Italy; M Milne, FrameStore CFC, UK; E Murphy, Chinatown SRL, Italy; O Razzoli, Quest SRL, Italy; A Sarti, S Tubaro, DEI – Politecnico di Milano, Italy click here
  • Mixed Reality Productions of the Future
    V Lalioti, BBC R&D, UK; A Woolard, BBC Creative R&D, UK click here
  • Ultrahigh-Definition Video System with 4000 Scanning Lines
    M Kanazawa , K Mitani, K Hamasaki, M Sugawara, F Okano, Japan Broadcasting ; K Doi, Victor Company of Japan; M Seino, Ikegami Tsushinki, Japan click here
  • Extraction and Use of Face Metadata for Content Navigation
    R Porter, R Rambaruth, C Gillard, Sony Broadcast and Professional Research Labs, UK click here
  • Improving Visually Impaired and Elderly Viewers’ Access to Digital TV Electronic Programme Guides: The VISTA project
    J Freeman, Independent Television Commission; A Carmichael, University of Dundee; H Petrie, F Hamilton, City University, UK
    click here

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MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR PROGRAMME SOUND

  • Reproducing Commercial Multichannel Formats Through a Single Monitoring System
    Genelec, Finland click here
  • Acoustical Design Criteria for Multi-Channel Sound Control Rooms
    Design Group Europe (WSDG-E), Switzerland click here
  • Broadcasting the Theatre Experience to the Home
    1Leitch Technology International, Canada; 2Leitch Europe, UK; 3Digital Theater Systems (UK), Northern Ireland click here
  • A Proposal for Uniformity in TV-sound
    VRT Brussels, Belgium  click here
  • Changing the World: Change management to lead BBC world service from analogue to digital production
    BBC, UK click here
  • The Development of ATM Network Technology for Live Production Infrastructure
    BBC R&D, UK click here
  • Reducing Loudness Variation on Broadcast Services by Utilising New Measurement Techniques with Automatic Speech Detection
    Dolby Laboratories, UK

DIGITAL RADIO: THE FUTURE STARTS NOW
Sunday 14 September 14: 00 – 17: 00
Chairman: Lindsay Cornell, BBC Radio & Music, UK

  • T-DAB: Glorious past, paralysed present, future at the mercy of spectrum allocation?
    J Trappel, C Uhrmann, Prognos, Switzerland Click Here
  • Advanced Demodulation Technique for COFDM in Fast Fading Channels
    L Thibault, L Zhang, R Boudreau, Communications Research Centre Canada; D Taylor, Cogency Semiconductor; J Y Chouinard, Université Laval, Canada Click Here
  • Spectral Band Replication (SBR) Technology and its Application in Broadcasting
    F Henn, Coding Technologies, Sweden; R Böhm, S Meltzer, T Ziegler, Coding Technologies, Germany Click Here
  • Visual Radio: Should we paint pictures with words or pictures?
    I P Duncumb, P F Gadd, G Wu, J L Alty, Loughborough University, UK Click Here (pdf version only - 265KB)
  • Radio and the Internet
    J Cridland, Virgin Radio New Media, UK Click Here
  • Digital Radio Mondiale Starts Now: Broadcasting considerations for a successful implementation
    A Giefer, S Gosby, BBC World Service, UK Click Here
  • Testing and Results of a New, Efficient Low-Profile AM Medium Frequency Antenna System
    J K Breakall, Pennsylvania State University; M W Jacobs, Star-H Corporation; T F King, Kintronic Laboratories; A E Resnick, Broadcast Consultant, USA Click Here

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COMPRESSION: MORE FOR LESS?
Sunday 14 September 14: 00 – 17: 00
Chairman: Rob Koenen, MPEG-4 Industry Forum, USA

  • In-Depth Review of Advanced Coding Technologies for Low Bit Rate Broadcast Applications
    J Bennett, A Bock, TANDBERG Television, UK click here
  • Migration of New Multimedia Compression Algorithms to Broadband Applications
    P Casagranda, P Sunna, Rai – Radiotelevisione Italiana Crit – Centre for Research and Technology Innovation, Italy click here
  • Development of an Advanced Encoder for HDTV Broadcasting
    H Yasuda, S Miyazawa, Y Honma, Tokyo Broadcasting System, Japan click here
  • H264/MPEG-4 AVC Real Time Implementation on DSP
    A Dueñas, G Gomez, F Martin, PRODYS; J C Pujol , A Martín , C Peláez , F Díaz , Universidad CIII de Madrid, Spain click here

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THE REBIRTH OF CONTENT
Monday 15 September 09:30 – 12:30
Chairman: Andreas Mauthe, KOM – Multimedia Laboratory, Germany

  • Visual Information Library
    F Kolvenbach, Digital Film Center Europe, The Netherlands pdf version only (222KB) click here
  • Future Program Production: Implementing enterprise wide content management systems – some actual case studies
    J Heitmann, AV Media Technology, Germany click here
  • Digital Motion Picture Restoration System for Film Archives (DIMORF): A complex solution for film scanning, processing and recording
    M Bölecz, L Czúni, B Gál, A Hanis, L Kovács, B Kránicz, A Licsár, T Szirányi, University of Veszprém; I Kas, G Kovács, S Manno, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary click here
  • Film Scanning for Restoration and Archiving
    P Swinson, Cintel International, UK click here
  • Optical Disk Alternatives To Tape Archives
    T Taylor, Panasonic Broadcast Europe, Germany click here
  • Video-based retrieval system using MPEG-7 metadata
    B H Jung, M H Ha, K S Kim, KBS Technical Research Institute, Korea
    click here

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CONTROL AND MONITORING

  • Broadcast Multi-channel Audio Monitoring and Verification
    D Guerrero, Videotek, USA Click Here
  • Quality Control in an IT Age
    J Booth, Soho Images; J Emmett, BPR; C Hillier, Hillside Studios, UK Click Here
  • Service Management for Digital Broadcasting
    W J Cooper, S M Farrell, BBC Broadcast, UK Click Here

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INTERACTIVITY

  • Consumer Insights Associated with Interactive Television
    D Varan, Interactive Television Research Institute, Australia
    Click Here
  • Case Study: Automation of the BBC’s interactive TV playout system
    P Molander, S Wolf, itv | world, Sweden Click Here
  • Delivering Interactive Content Over Broadband Networks
    J T Morstøl, J Dolvik, TANDBERG Television, Norway Click Here
  • Cismundus: Convergence of digital broadcast and mobile telecommunications
    M Berg, Institut füer Rundfunktechnik, Germany; S Butterfield, Philips Research Laboratories, UK; J Cosmas , Brunel University, UK; P Casagranda, D Milanesio , Radiotelevisione Italiana, Italy; D Garrec, MGuiraudou, G Martinez, Motorola Labs, France; E Launay, France Telecom R&D, France; B Mazieres, TeleDiffusion de France, France
    Click Here

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