26 CONNECTING AI AND MEDIA EXPERTS
European public service broadcasters are actively innovating with AI. Alexandre Rouxel introduces the EBU AI Hub, a new platform for EBU Members to accelerate innovation and ensure that AI tools are developed and deployed responsibly, addressing both technical and ethical challenges Among European public broadcast
organisations, there is a continued and increasing focus on how AI technology can be applied to better serve audiences in line with the public service remit. The EBU has created a new platform, the AI Hub, that facilitates the development and evaluation of customised AI solutions based on open-source models. The idea is to facilitate a collaborative ecosystem that enables AI and media experts to co-create and refi ne models tailored specifi cally for media applications. The AI Hub, developed by the EBU’s AIM (Artifi cial Intelligence and Metadata) group, leverages open-source AI models, an extremely active domain. Open-source models can play a crucial role in allowing members to adapt to rapidly evolving technological landscapes. Such models serve as robust starting points that can be fi ne-tuned for tasks ranging from content analysis to content creation, addressing the diverse needs of media applications. Importantly, the AI Hub provides private spaces for testing AI models with proprietary content. This guarantees comprehensive evaluations across a wide range of media content. The AI Hub is hosted in the cloud and incorporates a mechanism for evaluating AI tools based on user-driven feedback. It also provides a discussion forum to facilitate collaboration between AI users and designers. Initially, the hub is hosting three projects, focused on enriching radio experiences, face
recognition for television programmes, and fake news detection. The MetaRadio project enhances radio
programmes with rich metadata with a view to transforming the user experience. It uses advanced transcription and ‘diarisation’ technologies to enable multi-dimensional radio experiences with improved navigation and content discoverability. This project arose from an EBU collaboration with Radio France, who supported the development of an annotated dataset that was used for work on detecting key questions in radio programmes. Designed specifi cally for television content and with archival staff in mind, the facial recognition system prioritises identifying active participants while excluding incidental characters. It implements face-selection algorithms to focus on relevant faces in, say, a political debate while ignoring audience members who might appear in the background. Respect for privacy regulations is an important consideration for PSM organisations; the system operates in a way that ensures compliance with GDPR.
This system is the output of a collaboration between the EBU, Rai (Italy) and RTS (Switzerland). It uses a unique dataset of annotated video developed by the EBU based on content provided by the partners already mentioned, along with BBC and France Télévisions. The third tool included in the AI Hub at launch is a fake news analyser. It uses natural language processing and machine learning to analyse the linguistic properties of news articles and detect potentially misleading information. The tool assigns reliability scores based on lexical, grammatical and semantic features.
BUILDING BRIDGES OVER IP Matrox Video BY KEVIN EMMOTT
Avio 2, claimed to be the world’s fi rst open-standards-based, IPMX/ ST 2110-ready IP KVM system, is making its IBC debut. Delivering up to 4K and 4:4:4 colour space, Matrox says its video KVM over IP matrix enables fast switching and guarantees lag-free operation at high resolution.
Alexandre Rouxel, EBU
These three tools are all good examples of how AI can enhance the richness and accessibility of media content. EBU Members are invited to take advantage of the AI Hub for knowledge sharing and collaboration. With the three tools above, and others that will be added over time, it is hoped that the hub will facilitate faster adoption of state-of-the-art AI technologies in a responsible way. As the media industry continues to evolve, embracing open-source AI will be essential for maintaining competitiveness and driving future growth.
The AI Hub is on display at the EBU stand (10.D21).
Designed to provide 24/7
reliability, robust security and fl exible confi guration as a transmitter or receiver, Avio 2 is intended as a highly interoperable KVM solution that opens new workfl ows across environments including control rooms, broadcast studios and OB vans, and live event production. Built on the same architecture, the new Matrox Vion multipurpose AVoIP gateway
is aimed at simplifying IP video bridging, conversion and routing, enabling new IP-to-IP workfl ows on premises or for cloud. With support for 4:4:4 colour and SDI/HDMI I/O, Vion converts to and from formats and codecs, including RTSP-H.264 to NDI, NDI to IPMX, IPMX to SRT-H.265. It also transmits NDI over SRT. Along with fl exible, low-latency multichannel encoding, decoding, transcoding and processing, Vion
enables colour space conversions, changes to streaming protocols and bitrates, and transmission of multiple concurrent streams. 7.B15
Open sesame: The Avio 2 is an IPMX/ ST 2110-ready IP KVM system
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