The NAB Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 NAB Show was presented to Vibhoothi, a research assistant at Trinity College, Dublin for the paper titled, “Unraveling the Power of Single-Pass Look-Ahead in Modern Codecs for Optimized Transcoding Deployment.”
This is the first time the Best Student Paper Award has been presented and was created in partnership with IEEE: Broadcast Technology Society.
The award was announced at the Opening Session of the NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference on Saturday, April 13. The paper will be presented at the “Generative AI Uses and Video Transcoding” session in the BEIT Conference on Monday April 15 at 11:30 a.m. in Room W222-W223 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Vibhoothi, research assistant, Trinity College, Dublin, receiving the 2024 NAB Best Student Paper Award from Paul Shulins, president, IEEE.
The Abstract from the paper is shown below:
“Modern video encoders have evolved into sophisticated pieces of software in which various coding tools interact with each other. In the past, single-pass encoding was not considered for Video-On-Demand (VOD) use-cases. In this work, we evaluate production-ready encoders for H.264 (x264), H.265 (HEVC), AV1 (SVT-AV1) along with direct comparisons to the latest AV1 encoder inside NVIDIA GPUs (40 series), and AWS Mediaconvert’s AV1 implementation. Our experimental results demonstrate single pass encoding inside modern encoder implementations can give us very good quality at reasonable compute cost. The results are presented as three different scenarios targeting High, Medium, Low complexity accounting quality-bitrate-compute load. Finally, a set of recommendations are presented for end-users to help decide which encoder/preset combination might be more suited to their use case.”
The 2024 NAB BEIT Conference Proceedings (including 52 technical papers from the 2024 NAB BEIT Conference) are now available for attendees and for general purchase.