DAVID

DAVID will be present at the NAB Exhibition 2015 in Las Vegas (April 13-16, 2015) – the premier annual technology event for the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. The project was selected to present at NAB Labs Futures Park (booth N9629), where research results important for the future of the field are exhibited.

• DIGITAL of JOANNEUM RESEARCH demonstrates new, essence based damage detection tools for Digital BETACAM™ dropouts, field order errors and progressive / interlaced / pull-down errors, integrated in the essence quality checking system VidiCert, addressing archive migration and video production quality control applications. Novel results for noise suppression and Digital BETACAM™ dropout repair are presented.
• HS-ART Digital will show its semi-automatic video field issues repair tool for the first time at NAB. Furthermore the new Digital BETACAM™ dropout repair and noise filters, integrated into the DIAMANT-Film Restoration software, will be shown. The noise filter addresses the whole video and film post production market working with digital born material as well as with digitized content.
• Cube-Tec will present a high-speed solution to solve interoperability problems with MXF media files in a fully automatic way. This new technology is called MXF Legalizer and is part of the Cube Workflow Framework. MXF Legalizer checks MXF files for standards conformance. In addition MXF format variants that are known to be the reason for interoperability issues in typical file-based broadcast chains are also fixed. Expandable rule-based decision logic is used to convert MXF files into the selected target MXF flavour.
• The IT Innovation Centre of the University of Southampton will demonstrate a Business Process Risk management framework prototype (BPRisk) that allows users to manage preservation workflows with respect to risks that threaten the long-term preservation of digital AV content. BPRisk includes risk modelling and workflow simulation to expose key vulnerabilities. This enables decision-makers to target and justify investment in effective risk management strategies.

DAVID will be present at the FIAT/IFTA 2014 conference with the workshop:

Digital Video Damage in Archives: Understand, Prevent, Detect, and Repair – Results from the DAVID Project

Peter Schallauer, Jean-Hugues Chenot, Jörg Houpert, Christoph Bauer

In this workshop we will look for answers to the following questions: What types of damage are common in digital archive content and workflows and what are its consequences on the re-usability of that content? Which solutions are there to detect and repair MXF errors, e.g. in D10 files and workflows? Which solutions are there to detect and repair video essence damage, e.g. Digital BETACAM dropouts, noise, various field errors, and for improving the picture quality beyond its original state, e.g. de-blurring and super-resolution? And finally, how to prevent digital damage in the future?

The DAVID project partners are looking forward to meet you in Amsterdam!

DAVID will participate in the IBC Exhibition (Amsterdam, Sept. 12-16, 2014) – the premier annual Technology event for the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. The project was selected to present at IBC’s Future Zone (booth 8.F22), where research results important for the future of the field are exhibited.

• DIGITAL of JOANNEUM RESEARCH demonstrates new, essence based damage detection tools for Digital BETACAM™ dropouts, field order errors and progressive / interlaced / pull-down errors, integrated in the essence quality checking system VidiCert, addressing archive migration and video production quality control applications. Novel results for noise suppression and Digital BETACAM™ dropout repair are presented.
• HS-ART Digital will show its semi-automatic video field issues repair tool for the first time at IBC2014. Furthermore the new noise repair filter, integrated into the DIAMANT-Film Restoration software, will be shown. This filter addresses the whole video and film post production market working with digital born material as well as with digitized content.
• Cube-Tec will present a high-speed solution to solve interoperability problems with MXF media files in a fully automatic way. This new technology is called MXF Legalizer and is part of the Cube Workflow Framework. MXF Legalizer checks MXF files for standards conformance. In addition MXF format variants that are known to be the reason for interoperability issues in typical file-based broadcast chains are also fixed. Expandable rule-based decision logic is used to convert MXF files into the selected target MXF flavour.
• The IT Innovation Centre of the University of Southampton will demonstrate how we are able to identify where significant risks arise in preservation workflows, using risk-enhanced business process modelling, enabling decision-makers to target and justify investment in effective risk management strategies. We will show for the first time a development version of this new simulation-based planning GUI.

DAVID held its first test workshop in Vienna at 20th and 21st of May. Participants from audiovisual archives and productions participated in the user testing and evaluation of DAVID project results in the area of MXF D10 File Repair, DigiBETA Dropout Detection, Sampling Structure Error Detection, Noise Repair, Field Error Repair and Preservation Risk Management.

DAVID will be present at the NAB Exhibition 2014 in Las Vegas (April 7-10, 2014) at booth N1633 (north hall) in the NAB Labs Futures Park.

The following results will be shown:

• Understanding and managing the risk of digital AV media damage
• MXF error analysis and repair for fault detection in media workflows
• Video essence damage detection and repair modules (field defects, Digital BETACAM dropouts, noise)