Words can come from a tree!
Our thought of the week! Words do not grow on trees… Frustration? Writing can be that. Looking for the right angle,having to start all over again.. Happiness? Writing can be that too. Words can come from a tree.
How Vintage Cloud Uses Clarifai’s Visual Recognition API for Film Archives
The history of film goes back over 100 years – to the 1890s, in fact. Since that time, it’s estimated that more than half a million movies have been created. It wasn’t until 1925 that John Logie Baird gave his first demonstration of television – and it’s probably conservative to say that over 40 million…
Live OTT is Challenging
Once focused entirely on stored, file-based video, many OTT providers are embracing live content. Sports is driving this trend. What OTT can offer the market is high-quality coverage of a wide variety of global events delivered to any number of end devices, often with compelling features such as multiple camera angles, complementary statistics and social…
Facial recognition transforms the value of content archives
The last time you passed through the airport, did you use the automatic passport scanner? In that case, you’ve benefited from facial recognition technology. If you’ve ever shopped at a Tesco petrol station in the UK, and found that the digital signage is showing you advertising that’s strangely relevant to your interests – again, you’ve…
Virtual reality museum puts Rembrandt in high-def
Using photogrammetry, the Kremer collection has captured versions of more than 70 Old Masters and can now provide what it says is an unparalleled museum experience. — AFP picAMSTERDAM, Oct 27 — The Kremer Collection has spent the past two decades loaning out its collection of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art to museums and galleries…
IBC2017 round-up: Halls 1, 4 and 5
In the first of a series of articles that distil the main themes and talking points from the IBC2017 Exhibition, Ian McMurray summarises the key trends from Halls 1, 4 and 5. Key Trends at IBC 2017 in halls 1,4 and 5 In any one year, IBC is a snapshot of the state of the nation…
Bridge Technologies Enhances Capabilities of Unique microVB to Eliminate Expensive Truck Rolls
Demonstrating once again the breadth and depth of its understanding of the challenges faced by network operators, Bridge Technologies today announced a wide-ranging
The World’s 1st Molecular Robot Has Just Been Created by UK Scientists
By Philip Perry We marvel at movies like Ant Man, Inner Space, and Fantastic Voyage, where someone or something can shrink down to the nanoscale and navigate a microscopic world. Although shrinking something down with some type of laser or energy field is all but impossible today, we are beginning to exact more and…
Finland’s Yle Selects NOA FrameLector and jobDB for the Digital Archiving of Over 100,000 Titles
Vienna, Austria— 11th October 2017 Yle, the public broadcaster of Finland, has chosen NOA technology for the digitization and conservation of its more than 100,000-title-strong video archive. Yle selected the NOA solution, which replaces the enterprise’s on-demand in-house designed digitization system, after carrying out an EU-wide tender. As per the accord, NOA…
Technology that Brings Us Together Also Drives Us Apart
By TheFuture · On October 9, 2017 “I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise.” – Chuck Noland, “Cast Away,” 20th Century Fox, 2000First, it was Al Gore inventing the Internet. Then, Tim Berners-Lee came up…