The group undertakes research in areas of broadcast engineering with a scope across all aspects of broadcast production, contribution and distribution workflow. The research scope also extends from signal and protocol level, up to system, networking and services level.
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The research group as the ability to draw upon expertise of student work in the centre’s two broadcast programs:
(i) The BEng Broadcast and Communications Engineering undergraduate course, and;
(ii) The MSc Broadcast Engineering Course postgraduate.
Both of these courses are delivered to BBC and other industry-based students, consequently the student research base is strong and focussed on the demands of the industry.
The group also contributes to standards work, including IST/37, the UK group feeding into ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG11 - Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information (MPEG); other standards input on associated issues.
The group is also responsible for co-organising DataTV workshops – these workshops address the increasing importance and relevance of richly granular and semantically expressive data about TV and immersive audiovisual content in the media value chain.
Areas of Activity
- Broadcast production workflows
- Contribution and distribution networks
- Signal coding and compression
- Network and service protocols
- Content Management and security
- Semantics and metadata
- Object-based media
- AR, VR, XR applied to broadcast
- Standards work (see above)
- DataTV workshops (see above)
Staff working in this group
- Jeremy Foss (Group lead)
- Leo Wang