Since forming in October 2019, the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA at Universität Klagenfurt, run by Bitmovin co-founder Dr. Christian Timmerer, has been advancing research and innovation for adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming technologies. Over the past five years, the lab has addressed critical challenges in video streaming from encoding and delivery to playback and end-to-end quality…
*This post was originally published in June 2023. It was updated in May 2024 with more recent research publications and updates.* This post will summarize the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for video in 2024, including recent progress and announcements. We’ll also take a closer look at AI video research and collaboration between…
For the past few years, AI has been one of the top buzzwords at the NAB Show. While other hot topics like “web3” seem to have peaked and faded, interest in video AI has continued to grow and this year there were more practical solutions being showcased than ever before. A personal highlight for Bitmovin…
AI has been the hot buzz word in tech the past couple of years and we’re starting to see more and more practical applications for video emerging from the hype, like automatic closed-captioning and language translation, automated descriptions and summaries, and AI video Super Resolution upscaling. Bitmovin has especially focused on how AI can provide…
NVIDIA GTC Video Streaming Workflow Highlights NVIDIA GTC (GPU-Technology Conference) is an annual conference with training and exhibition for all aspects of GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated computing. GTC 2024 was held in March with the tagline “The Conference for the Era of AI” and as expected, generative AI was a huge focus this year. There…
Introduction At a recent internal hackathon, two of Bitmovin’s software engineers, Myriam Gantner and Thomas Sablattnig, explored whether AI could be used to process the large volume of data captured by Bitmovin Analytics into concise summaries and recommendations. The project was a success and is now being developed into a feature that is now available…
Bitmovin joined the centennial celebration of the NAB Show 2023 in Las Vegas and came home with the Best of Show Award for the newly launched Smart Chunking innovation. We’ve got hold of our CEO, Stefan Lederer, for a wrap-up and some insights. What were the biggest highlights for you this year? NAB is an…
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