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UK company 00617869, incorporated on 31 December 1958.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (The) is a UK company with status active founded in 1958.
Company number 00617869
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1 Sep 2014 to 31 Aug 2016
Video content is a primary business asset of the thriving UK and global creative industries, and represents a substantial proportion of today’s “big data” deluge. Beyond the creative industries, video comprises a major communications tool, occupying 60% of today’s Internet traffic. However, with millions of users creating, processing and (not always legal...
1 Jul 2014 to 30 Sep 2016
Video dominates global business and consumer Internet traffic and continues to grow (2012: 52%, 2017: 67%, Cisco VNI), demonstrating the massive impact of visual media production and media distribution services. Investments in these services can be severely compromised by poor visual quality, caused by mediocre encoding tools, lack of encoding and streami...
1 Jul 2014 to 30 Jun 2015
The VIDAS project investigates the feasibility of using visual quality metrics to assess content similarity in an automated manner. This has several applications, including: piracy detection (which could include the automation of take-down notices), de-duplication of stored files, version detection, malicious or sensitive content detection, and ‘pre-fligh...
1 Apr 2014 to 31 Dec 2015
The VisibleRights project will reverse the deeply-ingrained convention of rights clearance as a post-sale activity in the arena of media repurposing. Reversing the trend from reactive to proactive rights management opens up new collections, engages new content sources and substantially raises the volume of media available for licensing, discovery and reus...
1 Nov 2010 to 31 Jul 2011
Awaiting Public Summary
1 Nov 2010 to 31 Jul 2011
Awaiting Public Summary
