Whether it’s noise-cancelling microphones in the 1930s, the first transatlantic television transmission in the 1950s, Ceefax in the 1970s, digital radio in the 1990s and HD TV in the 2000s, or the challenge to ‘broadcasting’ brought about by the internet and interactive media, BBC Research & Development has led the way with innovative technology and collaborative ways of working.
More about BBC R&DWe work on technology to improve every stage of a programme’s life, from how it is captured, edited and processed, through how it leaves our studios on a multitude of new and emerging platforms, to how it appears on our audiences’ screens, large and small.
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Research Area
This area covers learning how to recognise and isolate objects within audio and video files automatically, such as individual sound sources or the motion of an actor or athlete, as well as how best to record and store media so it is durable and compatible with other systems.
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Our research in this area helps keep costs down and make production more efficient by developing the kinds of technology that might radically improve the way programmes are made in the future.
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This research aims to develop new ways to distribute our programmes, while ensuring audiences receive them in the best possible quality, wherever they are, whenever they want them and whatever device they are using.
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This area sees us experimenting with new types of programmes and, with the BBC about to open more than 70 years’ worth of archives, how audiences might find and interact with them.
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How our audiences experience BBC programmes is our focus here. In this area we anticipate their future expectations and ensure new technology, however complex, is easy to use and accessible for everyone.
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Adaptive Transform Skipping for Improved Coding of Motion Compensated Residuals
Generic Quantiser for Transcoding of Hybrid Coding
Real Time Transcoding of MPEG-2 Video Bit Streams
Multi-Loop Quality Scalability based on High Efficiency Video Coding
Improving Screen Content Coding in HEVC by Transform Skipping
Adaptive Transform Skipping for Improved Coding of Motion Compensated Residuals
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