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In a new insight paper commissioned by InterDigital, CCS Insights details why energy efficiency is increasingly important in the video and media ecosystem, and introduces InterDigital’s cutting edge P ...

Now Buffering: How to Solve the Top Hurdles Fans Face in Streaming Live Sports explores how the shift from traditional television to digital streaming is reshaping the way fans experience live sports. ...

As live sports migrates from traditional broadcast to digital platforms, streaming is redefining how leagues, networks, and tech providers engage audiences and generate revenue. This transition brings ...

Citing findings from a recent paper written by InterDigital and Futuresource examining the environmental impact of the video ecosystem, this webinar will outline trends driving energy growth in the vi ...

A global shift in the standard of living has caused significant growth in greenhouse carbon emissions (GHG), with the TV and video streaming industry accounting for 4% of total global emissions—double ...

Haptics represent a new modality of immersive communication, infusing the sense of touch and tactile sensations to complement the visual and audio information conveyed in immersive content. Drawing in ...

Our modes of communication are evolving to empower immersive content and increasingly incorporate haptics, or the sense of touch, into our connected experiences. This new modality extends our sensory ...

The Eyelashes dataset is the first publicly available dataset of 3D eyelashes containing a total of 56 subjects.The dataset is intended to be used for evaluation, validation, or training models to pre ...

Since the standard was finalised a decade ago, HEVC has been on a slow but steady journey to become one of the leading video codecs. HEVC’s adoption may not have been as rapid as the developers of the ...

The system behind global standards, such as 5G, is one of the great commercial success stories of the modern industrial age. The process of collaboration, which brings together innovators from around ...

Extended Reality (XR) is a broad term encapsulating a spectrum of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) experiences that capture audio, video, haptic, and kinesthetic da ...

The DisplayPower2k dataset is a set of power consumption measures for different OLED screens, and pixel-wise power map images, computed from 648 images.Additional energy-aware images and their corresp ...

Video codecs play an integral, yet often underappreciated, role in digital video. Since the 1980s, they have remained a crucial but sometimes overlooked element of the software stack. The most success ...

The FilmGrainStyle740k dataset is a set of image pairs of grain-free and grainy images. Images with grain were generated from the clean images, using some proprietary plug-in in the VFX and Film Editi ...

At InterDigital, we develop foundational technologies and solutions that enable us to enhance our communications and support a diverse range of virtual experiences for an array of connected ecosystems ...

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the earth’s atmosphere have grown exponentially since the 1950s leading to damaging ecological, physical and health impacts worldwide. Seven of these GHGs contribute ...

The FilmGrain Dataset is a set of image pairs with and without film grain (grainy / grain-free) at five different film grain intensity levels.It is intended to be used for training a deep learning mod ...

5G networks will become commonplace within the next five years, expected to deliver on multiple promises of gigabit speeds, ultra-low latency, higher reliability and improved density in device connect ...

Creation of the sequences:10 sequences were created using the Unity game engine to load and play several games. We captured the frame buffers using Unity Recorder and custom post-processing shaders in ...

Based on the foundation of current video coding and distribution standards, the France-based 3EMS project funded by the Brittany Region aims to deploy the first end-to-end 5G Versatile Video Coding (V ...

AI will become an essential part of our lives in the next few years, with the promise of delivering super-intelligent computers that exceed human analytical abilities. This is, however, several years ...

The Long Range (LoRa) protocol for low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) is a strong candidate to enable the massive roll-out of the Internet of Things (IoT) because of its low cost, impressive sensit ...

The world has witnessed significant change since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Life expectancy has more than doubled; travel across the planet can happen in less than a day; loved ones can be ...

Cloud gaming remains one of the mobile industry’s most exciting and highly anticipated use cases. The success of this next generation gaming method depends on low latency and high-speed data rates ove ...

Visual technologies – video, yes, but also cloud gaming, AR/VR, and immersive content – are a game of multiples: increasing numbers of users and providers, engaging with content that is ever-increasin ...

Streaming media continues to reach more areas of consumers’ daily lives and as these markets mature attention begins shifting to new opportunities; opportunities that bring additional value, but also ...

A research report by ABI Research predicts the transformation of a world where interaction with a single screen is the norm to a world of the “pervasive screen”, where multiple and various display typ ...

In contrast to existing datasets with very few video resources and limited accessibility due to copyright constraints, LIRIS-ACCEDE consists of videos with a large content diversity annotated along af ...

The LaFin: Large-scale Flickr interestingness dataset (hereafter “the Dataset”) is a collection of Flickr image IDs corresponding to about 123k Flickr images, equally balanced between interesting and ...

Automatic extraction of face tracks is a key component of systems that analyzes people in audio-visual content such as TV programs and movies. Due to the lack of annotated content of this type, popula ...

The Interestingness Dataset is a collection of movie excerpts and key-frames and their corresponding ground-truth files based on the classification into interesting and non-interesting samples. It is ...

The recent VR/AR applications require some way to evaluate the Quality of Experience (QoE) which can be described in terms of comfort, acceptability, realism, and ease of use. In order to assess all t ...

The VSD benchmark is a collection of ground-truth files based on the extraction of violent events in movies and web videos, together with high-level audio and video concepts. It is intended to be used ...

The Movie Memorability Database and related software is a collection of movie excerpts and corresponding ground-truth files based on the measurement of long-term memory performance when recognizing sm ...

The automatic recognition of human emotions is of great interest in the context of multimedia applications and brain-computer interfaces. While users’ emotions can be assessed based on questionnaires, ...

We provide a set of synchronized Light-Field video sequences captured by a 4x4 camera rig at 30fps. Each camera has a resolution of 2048x1088 pixels and a 12mm lens. The Field Of View (FOV) is 50˚ x 3 ...

The VideoMem or Video Memorability Database is a collection of sound-less video excerpts and their corresponding ground-truth memorability files. The memorability scores are computed based on the meas ...

The arrival of YouTube in 2005, followed by Apple’s first iPhone in 2007, and Google’s Android platform in 2008, serves as the preamble to what has become a two-screen video market. A decade and a hal ...

Gaël Seydoux, Research & Innovation Director at Technicolor, discusses Volumetric Technology live from the InterDigital booth at MWC19 in Barcelona. ...

Don Tian, Senior Principal Engineer at InterDigital, discusses the importance of video standards as it relates to 5G live from the InterDigital booth at MWC19 in Barcelona. ...

Volumetric content is the future generation of video that is generated by a set of multiple cameras, a Light Field Acquisition system. Join Arno Schubert, Project Manager at Technicolor Research and I ...

This joint demo of InterDigital Inc. and Technicolor Research & Innovation hosted by Jun Han, Principal Engineer at InterDigital, will showcase 360° video streaming from 13 pre-recorded camera views, ...

Check out this report detailing the State of Art (SoA) of optical hardware currently used in the field of 3D display technology, as well as emerging optical hardware technologies that feature Light Fi ...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a concept and a set of technologies for merging of real and virtual elements to produce new visualizations – typically a video – where physical and digital objects co-exist a ...

Over the last few years, we watched head-worn virtual and augmented reality devices move from research laboratories to store shelves as the newest platform enabling novel virtual experiences. The big ...

During MWC18, InterDigital's Yong He demonstrated an end-to-end 360 video live streaming platform with AR capabilities that is built upon a series of state-of-the-art video standards, including MPEG O ...

InterDigital's CCO Patrick Van de Wille takes us on a tour of the MWC 2018 InterDigital booth and provides insight into technology demonstrations, the InterDigital studio space, and other happenings t ...

With virtual reality (VR), the goal is to create experiences in which the user can be completely immersed; an alternative reality produced by a computer simulation and displayed to the user as a compl ...

Despite the relatively recent commercial availability of consumer devices, various market forecasts are expecting a rapid increase in the number of users and the market value of augmented reality (AR) ...

At NAB 2017, Ericsson demonstrated 8K 360-degree video experience utilizing InterDigital's 8K content. Check out the demo here! ...

Learn how the mechanics of vision can be leveraged to identify and remove details that cannot be perceived by a viewer in a specific viewing situation and much more in this Colin Dixon whitepaper. ...

An examination of the value chain that drives video is necessary to understand and examine the future of video distribution. Operators, broadcasters or platforms that either produce or aggregate conte ...