My-eDirector 2012 is a three-year collaborative project, funded under the EU's Framework 7 programme, which is developing a system to generate personalised coverage of large events such as the Olympics. It will allow consumers to choose which people, or events, they wish to follow within real-time broadcast scenes, and automatically offer them the most appropriate camera view and related statistics. For example, a viewer might be shown an interesting long-jump during a long-distance athletics race.
A key part of the My-eDirector 2012 project is the research and development of new technologies for person identification and tracking. Unlike typical existing systems, the project is targeting large-scale, multi-actor, multi-target environments and high-activity scenes, and is taking into account the complications that arise within an outside broadcast environment.
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This R&D project aims to provide a unique interactive broadcasting service. Click Find out more here.
Both image-based and tag-based technologies are being addressed; in particular BBC R&D is investigating the possible use of RF-based real time location systems and GPS-based tracking for sports and other production use.
The tracking information will be used in the generation of rules for user-driven selection of cameras plus tailored streaming based on in-built profiling mechanisms. Ultimately, this will lead to the development of personalised broadcasting services over a variety of channels and networks, provide possibilities for new forms of user experience and offer novel revenue generating services for broadcasters and content providers.
Project Partners
BBC R&D is working alongside partners at ATOS Origin, Athens Information Technology, the National Technical University of Athens, INOV, Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London, and FBK Trento in this project. Funding support is provided by the European Union, in the IST Framework 7 programme.
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