2025 BEITC Proceedings

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  • From Start Up to Digital Distribution Powerhouse: Case Study on Migo’s Content Management and Delivery for Emerging Markets - $15

    Date: October 9, 2021
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    This paper explores the content strategy and technology behind Migo’s disruptive OTT service designed for emerging markets. 

    Bea Alonso | Dalet | Barcelona, Spain



  • Generative AI: Supercharging Humans, Transforming Creativity - $15

    Date: April 14, 2023
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    “Generative AI” is the next-level process of using machine learning algorithms to create new content based on “intelligence” gathered through training on a large corpus of text (even code!), images, audio, and video files. The broad category of Generative AI utilizes many different types of models, including Large Language Model (LLM). LLM is an AI model trained on a large corpus of text to predict the likelihood of a given sequence of words using statistical techniques. Companies such as OpenAI and Midjourney or open-source communities such as Stable Diffusion have invested millions of dollars in productizing groundbreaking AI papers and pre-training on large datasets available on the Internet. Once available, individuals and companies can utilize these large, pre-trained models to solve domain-specific problems, through transfer learning, without the significant computational overhead.

    This paper describes some of the early applications of Generative AI and LLMs models in media broadcasting and streaming. One of the demonstrated applications is the ability to generate actionable video descriptors/tags, such as identifying a scene where a woman is standing in front of the Eiffel Tower or on a moving train.

    Naveen Narayanan | Quickplay | Toronto, Ontario, Canada



  • Getting Streams Cloud-Ready and CDN Compatible: Politics and Protocols - $15

    Date: October 9, 2021
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    What you need to know about streaming today and best practices for preparing streams for your CDN. 

    Rick Bidlack | Wheatstone Corporation | New Bern, North Carolina, United States



  • Giving Your FAST Channels a Leg Up Using SCTE Technologies   - $15

    Date: April 3, 2024
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    SCTE has a set of Technical and Engineering Emmy winning technologies that can be carried through to IPTV streaming manifest technologies including DASH and HLS. Popular FAST services use a manifest driven streaming technology dependent on its ad revenues through a simple ad replacement approach. It has a high-volume demand, but its ARPU is low compared with other services. To increase its revenues, FAST services need to expand to other streaming platforms and to utilize more sophisticated ad strategies. SCTE technologies can provide this and scale the deployment of these services through utilizing the SPN information in SCTE 224 to create audience-based manifests that can integrate with manifest manipulators/SSAI systems while reducing its amount of decisioning within it to support syndication and more complicated ad techniques.

    Yasser Syed | Comcast Cable, Comcast CTS | Philadelphia, Pa., United States
    Stuart Kurkowski | Comcast Cable, Comcast CTS | Philadelphia, Pa., United States



  • Green, AI-Based Video Compression - $15

    Date: April 23, 2022
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    Paper on how AI can reduce the carbon footprint of live ATSC 3.0 broadcasts and OTT streaming with encoding schemes on top of deployed codecs, while maintaining interoperability with consumer products

    Xavier Ducloux | Harmonic Inc | San Jose, California, United States
    Jean-Louis Diascorn | Harmonic Inc | San Jose, California, United States
    Thierry Fautier | Harmonic Inc | San Jose, California, United States



  • Ground Assault: Obsoleting of Facility Protections - $15

    Date: April 23, 2022
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    Grounding system enhancements have been rare while broadcast system enhancements have been plentiful.  Grounding has simply not kept up putting facilities at risk of increased expenses and down time.

    Tom LaBarge | GroundLinx Technologies, LLC | Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States
    Nancy Swartz | GroundLinx Technologies, LLC | Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States
    John H. Belk | GroundLinx Technologies, LLC | Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States