Sport - BBC R&D

Designing UHD HDR for Euro 2020: Islands in the sun

Our UHD HDR workflow for covering the Euro 2020 Football Championships - and our plans to remove the SDR 'islands'.

Blog post on 16 Jul 2021

WHP 345

White Paper WHP 345: European Athletics Championships: Lessons from a Live, HDR, HFR, UHD and Next-Generation Audio sports event

Frans de Jong, Dagmar Driesnack, Andrew Mason, Matthieu Parmentier, Paola Sunna, Simon Thompson

Lessons from a trial at a live sports event

White paper published Nov 2019

WHP 347

White Paper WHP 347: Computer Vision for Sports: Current applications and research topics

Graham Thomas, Rikki Gade (Aalborg University), Thomas Moeslund (Aalborg University), Adrian Hilton

Research into a selection of current commercial applications using computer vision for sports analysis.

White paper published Aug 2019

High Dynamic Range in Live TV Production - 2019 FA Cup Trials

Developing a single workflow to deliver stunning pictures to our UHD HDR iPlayer trial and the conventional SDR services.

Blog post on 12 Aug 2019

Producing the FIFA World Cup and Wimbledon in Ultra High Definition

'It's okay leaving me...' - It's a tale of two cities in this in depth look at the BBC's latest UHD and HDR production trials.

Blog post on 23 Jul 2018

A Summer of Football and Tennis in Ultra HD

A review of our Internet based UHD trials at the World Cup and Wimbledon this summer, and what's next for UHD.

Blog post on 19 Jul 2018

World Cup 2018 in UHD HDR on BBC iPlayer

Technical details of the BBC’s planned Ultra High Definition Coverage - in High Dynamic Range.

Blog post on 31 May 2018

WHP 314

White Paper WHP 314: Classification of player pose from video image

Hannah Birch, Robert Dawes

A method to automatically identify the pose and orientation of a football player from a video still image to speed up 3D modelling.

White paper published Apr 2016

Higher Frame Rate Television at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

We recently demonstrated higher frame rate (HFR) technology at its public Commonwealth Games showcase in Glasgow.

Blog post on 28 Aug 2014

The IP network behind the R&D Commonwealth Games 2014 Showcase

A glimpse behind the scenes into the state-of-the-art network enabling all the advanced technologies being shown at the BBC R&D Commonwealth Games 2014 Showcase.

Blog post on 31 Jul 2014

New Content Experiences at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

New audio and visual experiences on offer at BBC R&D's Commonwealth Games showcase in Glasgow.

Blog post on 30 Jul 2014

TV White Spaces at the Commonwealth Games 2014

How the gaps between Freeview TV transmissions could be used to deliver multimedia content to portable devices.

Blog post on 29 Jul 2014

IP Delivery is the Future for TV Delivery - BBC R&D at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Delivering Ultra High Definition TV over the Internet as part of our Commonwealth Games 2014 series of trials.

Blog post on 28 Jul 2014

The Commonwealth Games 2014 Opening Ceremony in Glorious UHD!

BBC Research & Development talk about their upcoming UHD broadcast for the Commonwealth Games

Blog post on 23 Jul 2014

BBC R&D at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

An outline of the projects we're showcasing at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Blog post on 22 Jul 2014

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