Archived Projects

R&D Projects which have concluded but which have online content available are listed here.

These sites are a mixture of externally hosted sites, project specific microsites, and areas of the previous generation of the R&D website which have been maintained. Over time some of this content will be migrated to our new site platform.

Digital Radio

Digital Audio Broadcasting
The Eureka 147 Digital Audio Broadcasting system is a new digital radio broadcast standard.
Digital Radio Mondiale
The digital radio system for short, medium and long-wave - digital radio for frequencies below 30MHz.
Eureka 147
Eureka 147 DAB Standard
MOT
The MOT protocol is used in DAB for transferring file oriented data in DAB "data" channels.
TPEG
The Transport Protocol Experts Group has developed a protocol that provides rich support for Traffic and Travel Information services and is well suited to Digital Radio.

Digital TV

Arena
Aims to provide tools to measure use of new television formats, including their interactive elements.
DAVIC
Digital Audio Visual Council
Digital TV
The Digital Television Project
DVB Home
The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 250 members in over 35 countries.
Enabling Content Acquisition
In-depth introduction to the topics of navigation and supply of schedule metadata.
MOTIVATE
MOTIVATE is investigating mobile reception of digital terrestrial TV.
myTV
Delivering power to the user to view programmes when and how they want.
MPEG
R&D has been a long time supporter and participant in the MPEG Group
Pro_MPEG
Realising the full potential offered by MPEG-2 as an open, international standard for compressed digital content.
Share It!
Content sharing in home-to-home networks.
TV Anytime Forum
Developing specifications to enable audio-visual and other services based on mass-market high volume digital storage.
VALIDATE
Aims for an end-to-end trial of digital terrestrial television.

Studios

3D4YOU
Research on 3D stereoscopic and multi-camera 3D reconstruction
ATLANTIC
Methods for mixing, editing and switching the MPEG-coded bit-stream
ASSAVID
Developing tools for Automatic Segmentation and Semantic Annotation of Sports Video. (The ASSAVID website in no longer available.)
i3DLive
Developing tools for multi-camera capture of live action, which allows a virtual camera to synthesise views from any angle.
iview
Research on systems that capture and replay live events
Matris
MATRIS - Markerless real-time Tracking for Augmented Reality Image Synthesis
Media Dispatch
Aims to promote a standard way of exchanging media files and their metadata between loosely coupled storage systems.
MetaVision
Developing a production system which captures additional image information at the camera to assist in post-production.
Music Production Planning
Currently, the processes involved in music production planning are inflexible and time-consuming. Our new system uses automation to allow the Director and Script Supervisor to work more creatively and effectively.
ORBIT
Pilot to show how inexpensive IT equipment can replace many of the facilities currently requiring relatively expensive specialised production apparatus.
ORIGAMI
Developing new tools to allow the creation of high-quality scenes incorporating both real and virtual objects.
Production Magic
Production Magic encompasses a range of technological developments for the inclusion of synthetic 3D elements in TV production, as well as techniques for extracting 3D information from images to assist the production process or create new forms of content.
PROMETHEUS
Developing tools for 3D content production and display.
Tapeless Production
Automated tapeless production.
THISL
Project developing the retrieval of multimedia information (primarily written or spoken text) using a spoken language interface. We are applying this technology to the archiving and retrieval of news.

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Networks

AURORA
Aims to develop automatic archival restoration systems for film and television programmes when television programmes are recovered from the archives. (The AURORA website in no longer available.)
SAMBA
Developing a Mobile Broadband System to bring high capacity communications to mobile users using a wireless network.
ATMAN
No info available for this project

Multimedia

AXMEDIS
Researching and development a suite of content managment tools for multiple platforms and for the home user (viewer), in particular how this could bring added value to the user whilst respecting rights-holders.
DIRAC
Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (180x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced.
MEDUSA
Study of the issues that will face users in the move from Stereo to Multichannel sound
DIRAC
Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (180x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced.

Online Delivery

Kamaelia
A Python library for concurrent programming using a simple pattern of components that send and receive data from each other.
PRISM
Researchers from the PRISM project are working on a trading infrastructure for content creation and access that could change the face of broadcasting and the way people receive content on their PCs, television and mobile device.
Production Gateway
In the context of the BBC’s desire to be a tapeless organisation by 2010, the BBC initiated the Production Gateway project in January 2005, to obtain better clarity on the benefits, costs and risks of developing and implementing a solution to enable digital content exchange with external partners.