Releasing the largest British Sign Language dataset for research

A new dataset of British Sign Language footage to help academic researchers interested in automated sign language recognition has just been released.

Blog post on 19 Nov 2021

DVC-P: Deep video compression with perceptual optimizations

Continual developments in compression is needed to deliver bandwidth-intensive video formats such as ultra-high definition or panoramic video - we are exploring new approaches which use artificial intelligence techniques.

Blog post on 12 Nov 2021

AudioWatch - Live audio monitoring for Autumnwatch 2021

Continuing our use of AI in the production of the BBC's nature programmes, we've investigated how artificial intelligence techniques can be applied to audio.

Blog post on 4 Nov 2021

Developing automated user generated content filtering tools for news events

User generated content can be a great addition to a news story, but it can be hard to curate an overwhelming amount of material. We are developing tools to help...

Blog post on 3 Nov 2021

IRFS weeknotes #328

Weeknotes from the IRFS team, featuring timelines of news and sketches of robots.

Blog post on 4 Oct 2021

Explaining Artificial Intelligence Part 4: A Practical Toolkit

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in more BBC products and everything else online, we think it’s important to deliver AI-powered systems that are responsibly and ethically designed.

Blog post on 22 Sep 2021

Explaining Artificial Intelligence. Part 3 - what does AI look like?

We are working towards better images and media to represent AI

Blog post on 16 Aug 2021

Ethics of recommendation systems in public service media

We are collaborating with the Ada Lovelace Institute to explore the ethical implications of recommendation systems in public service media.

Blog post on 5 Aug 2021

Explaining Artificial Intelligence. Part 2— what, where and how

We are working on how to make AI easier to understand, in this second part we look at some methods and examples of how to do this

Blog post on 23 Jul 2021

Explaining Artificial Intelligence. Part 1 — why is this important?

We are working on how to make AI easier to understand, in this introduction we explain why we think this is important

Blog post on 5 Jul 2021

Creating automatic video summaries with text queries

Can we auto summarise a video to help producers and editors work efficiently?

Blog post on 1 Jul 2021

Reimagining image compression in the era of machine learning

Recent developments mean that compression can be considered a computer vision problem. Neural compression is an opportunity for us to experiment and rethink.

Blog post on 7 Jun 2021

A machine’s guide to birdwatching

Explaining AI by showing what a computer really knows about birdwatching

Blog post on 27 May 2021

Automating a Springwatch bird quiz using machine learning techniques

Using metadata generated from our work with the programme, we've created a quiz which automatically generates questions from the data.

Blog post on 25 May 2021

Auto colourisation: Chasing rainbows with transformers

Adding colours from example images to black and white content using attention-based neural networks.

Blog post on 4 May 2021