IBC is preparing to honour the highest achievements in technological innovation and social impact with the announcement of the short-listed entries in the five IBC Innovation Awards categories for 2024: Content Creation, Content Distribution, Content Everywhere, Environment & Sustainability and Social Impact.
The expanded IBC Innovation Awards recognise the best in collaborative efforts to develop new solutions to real-world technical challenges and to address social and environmental issues. The 2024 winners were announced in a ceremony hosted by presenter and former news anchor Sasha Qadri, which took place in the Auditorium Complex at the RAI on Sunday, 15 September.
ESPN, with the National Football League, Disney/ Pixar and Beyond Sports for creating the first fully animated, real-time NFL alternative broadcast set in the Toy Story universe.
Olympic Broadcasting Services and partners for live broadcast production with more than 200 smartphones contributing video for the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony and a sea-based 5G network for sailing competitions in Marseille.
Aspire for working with Vislink and FocalPoint VR to develop a virtual reality over RF wireless solution for the inaugural season of Aspire’s Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL).
Claro for creating a new approach to pay TV in Brazil, integrating streaming channels and applications, delivering entertainment to consumers with a complete pay TV offer.
NBCUniversal Operations and Technology with Amagi and partners for their pioneering project to transform the way its TV Channels are delivered to consumers worldwide.
The National Hockey League (Canada and US) in partnership with Verizon, AWS, Zixi, Vizrt, Net Insight and Evertz, for producing a 5G and Edge compute framework for assembly, control and delivery of live broadcast.
LaLiga for working with Play Anywhere and Ease Live to enable true fan interactivity for itself and its worldwide broadcast and streaming partners.
Red Bull Media House for bringing together real-time GPS tracking, data management and advanced visualisation to transform viewing experience across live broadcast, web widgets and AR mobile app.
Franceinfo (France Télévisions) for working with PimpMyCompany to aggregate text/audio/video/photo messages from various platforms and broadcasting them live on air.
France Télévisions for reducing CO2 emissions by over 600 tons via a pioneering 100% glass-to-glass cloud production and private 5G network.
Greening of Streaming for addressing growing industry concerns about the energy impact of the streaming sector, with international reach and over 30 member organisations.
Anton/Bauer for Salt-E Dog which harnesses the power of sodium chemistry to enable sustainable television production practices.
Disney Star, Star Sports for working with India Signing Hands to bring cricket to almost 67 million hard of hearing and 34 million visually impaired fans watching IPL 2024.
CultureQ for a new technology platform developed by indigenous-owned tech company KIWA Digital, with Kado Muir Dilji Group, Toro Studios and AWS New. Zealand, that enables indigenous peoples globally to revitalise their language and culture at scale, while retaining sovereignty.
Sesame Workshop for its Watch Play Learn Distribution Hub which allows government agencies and aid organisations to preview and request videos for children in crisis settings.
Other Submission Entries Include:
+ League of Legends World Finals – Reimagined
+ Modernising broadcast systems and workflows with Elgato and Bitfocus
+ AIDitor
+ Vidispine Web Render Engine
+ EPIC, futureproof news production through the use of modular journalism
+ Centreville TV teams with Seagate to address real time access challenges while securing its work content off-site
+ NBC Election coverage and Digital twins
+ Editorial Copilot AI to craft stories with heart
+ Home Run Derby – StatCast Edition: Live virtual 3D event coverage
+ Angelique Kidjo ‘40th Anniversary’ live concert stream
+ Bundesliga In-Match Analysis
+ Smart Studio
+ Self-operating fast-turnaround studios
+ NINA Smart Mini Battery with low capacity alarm
+ TVMonaco’s seven-month journey to a state-of-the-art facilityQuantum
+ Transforming media production for a greener world: TUI’s journey with Projective
+ Audience First: Building more public value by overcoming data silos at WDR
+ 4C Production
+ The future for software-based 4wire
+ AI presenter on Asharq News
+ Transforming sports digital coverage with integrated solutions
+ UHD and 5G end-to-end proof of concept in Spain
+ Melodie
+ Thunderbolt 5 Technology
+ WaterBear x Nikon: The History of the Carabiner
+ Adobe Premiere extention for Trouvé by Perfect Memory
+ AI Media Studio
+ Hollyland Lark M2
+ Premier League Universe from Starhub
+ Cinesearch Social Impact
+ Mainstreaming’s edge video delivery network
+ Wasabi AIR
+ World-first use of OneWeb LEO technology to transmit the Champions League from the Faroe Islands
+ CNN FAST Channel collaborative model
+ Netgem end-to-end media processing and streaming platform
+ Midstream multi CDN switching
+ Helios LED processing platform & 100G input module
+ World’s first: migrating of bespoke Linux STBs to Google’s Android TV
+ Innovative remote production and VAR for Denmark’s premier football leagues
+ Everyone TV & YouView for the development of Freely
+ Streaming platform waipu.tv relies on Seagate MACH.2
+ The collaborative strategic planning process at NRK
+ Optimising content performance and ad sales at Talpa Network
+ RB Cloud
+ Globo, Interra Systems, Phase and Google Cloud team up
+ IKO Media Group brings gaming & esports content to TV
+ The media supply chain project at A+E Networks EMEA
+ Revedia Digital
+ Advanced live horse streaming for ATG
+ POST Luxembourg: The road to optimised QoS
+ Custom streaming enhancement for 17LIVE Market Japan
+ Verizon Network Edge Delivery for Fios TV+
+ Playkids TV from Sandbox
+ Proximus TV: Platform of the future
+ OctoADS
+ The Delivery Workspace from Limecraft and DPG
+ PTZOptics Hive Studio
+ Redefining the streaming experience for viewers worldwide
+ mivoz: The first non-disruptive AI speech2speech solution
+ Backblaze – event notification
+ CaptionHub Live
+ NDI 6
+ Netgem’s SuperApp
+ Evergent collaborates with Baltic Go3 OTT platform
+ ADVisor leveraging Video AI to improve operational efficiency
+ AI dubbing project by Dubformer CRITIC
+ Accsoon Tri-Band wireless video transmission
+ Driving digital success with a shift to cloud-native
+ Menaflix
+ SmallRig’s DreamRig program
+ World’s first: migration of bespoke Linus STBs to Android TV
+ JW Player – broadcast live
+ HKT’s Now TV, Viaccess-Orca and Amino for Hong Kong
+ Playkids TV from Sandbox
+ ViewLift powering LIV Golf
+ Radix Android TV Manager
+ Goal Arena: The Bundesliga Konferenz
+ VTrap
+ Sustainability@Irdeto Program
+ Globo’s Waste Management Program
+ From Blue to Green: Canford’s journey
+ Pess Energy - Flywatt, the clean and mobile power source
+ Portuguese Football Federation and Pixellot
+ Game Changers: Inspiring climate activism
+ AI for audio description: Enhancing Brazilian broadcast TV
+ Women in Streaming Media, Speaker Engagement
+ Sustainability@irdeto Program
+ Zille Audio Description Editor
+ Harmonic Care Program
+ Bridging the Digital Divide with La Piste de la Francophonie
+ Green Production Unit - RTBF
+ Rise Mentoring Programme
+ Our Eco-Good DNA - Filiago
+ Canon’s World Unseen Brand Campaign
+ MAORI+
+ AI counselor – U+tv
+ Inclusive Emergency Alerting - EQ4ALL
+ Chakravyuh
+ IPTV usability improvement using on-device AI – LG UPlus
+ Polyglot Radio
+ Canon’s Miraisha Programme
+ Public Warning Chatbot - one2many (an everbridge company)
+ Alternatif Bank – Addressable TV campaign
+ Vivendum Production Solutions – Action4Good
+ Focus Smart Gaming from Sandbox
+ First Steps Cinematography
+ Let’s Talk QC! - Quezon City Government
+ Vantiva joins forces with VisualOn
+ ScreenCraft Works
+ Jet-Stream’s commitment to data protection
+ ‘For You, We Are Here’ - GDRFA-Dubai
+ Women of Science documentary
+ BECiNE
+ Operation Quest - Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
+ AI for disability - Alaqat Qatar
2024 Best Technical Paper Award
The coveted Best Technical Paper was awarded to 'Advancements in Radiance Field Techniques for Volumetric Video Generation: A Technical Overview' for its work in the new and exciting area of Neural Radiance Fields.
Joshua Maraval, Nicolas Ramin, and Lu Zhang received the Best Technical Paper Award, presented at the IBC Innovation Awards ceremony.
It and the 23 other successful Technical Papers were chosen from 327 submissions and were presented as part of the IBC2024 Conference from 13-15 September.