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Improving broadcast accessibility for hard of hearing individuals : using object-based audio personalisation and narrative importance (2020)
Thesis
Ward, L. Improving broadcast accessibility for hard of hearing individuals : using object-based audio personalisation and narrative importance. (Thesis). University of Salford

Technological advances in broadcasting can be the impetus for advances in accessibility services. For the 11 million individuals in the United Kingdom with some degree of hearing loss, the advent of object-based broadcasting and it’s personalisation... Read More about Improving broadcast accessibility for hard of hearing individuals : using object-based audio personalisation and narrative importance.

State-of-the-art and challenges in media production, broadcast and delivery (2013)
Book Chapter
Thomas, G., Engström, A., Macq, J., Niamut, O., Shirley, B., & Salmon, R. (2014). State-of-the-art and challenges in media production, broadcast and delivery. In O. Schreer, J. Macq, O. Niamut, J. Ruiz-Hidalgo, B. Shirley, G. Thallinger, & G. Thomas (Eds.), Media Production, Delivery and Interaction for Platform Independent Systems: Format-Agnostic Media. Hoboken: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118706350.ch2

This chapter describes the fundamental technical aspects of current TV production. It provides an overview of the ways in which technical limitations inherent in image capture have become a part of the ‘grammar’ of storytelling. It talks about curren... Read More about State-of-the-art and challenges in media production, broadcast and delivery.

Media production, delivery and interaction for platform independent systems : format-agnostic media (2013)
Book
(2014). O. Schreer, J. Macq, O. Niamut, J. Ruiz-Hidalgo, B. Shirley, G. Thallinger, & G. Thomas (Eds.), Media production, delivery and interaction for platform independent systems : format-agnostic media. Hoboken: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118706350

The underlying audio and video processing technology that is discussed in the book relates to areas such as 3D object extraction, audio event detection; 3D sound rendering and face detection, gesture analysis and tracking using video and depth inform... Read More about Media production, delivery and interaction for platform independent systems : format-agnostic media.

Platform independent audio (2013)
Book Chapter
Shirley, B., Oldfield, R., Melchior, F., & Batke, J. (2014). Platform independent audio. In O. Schreer, J. Macq, O. Niamut, J. Ruiz-Hidalgo, B. Shirley, G. Thallinger, & G. Thomas (Eds.), Media Production, Delivery and Interaction for Platform Independent Systems : Format-Agnostic Media (130-165). Hoboken: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118706350.ch4

This chapter defines problem space from an audio perspective reviewing some of the current challenges faced in channel-based audio broadcast. The first section introduces some of the drivers for change in the broadcast environment, followed by explan... Read More about Platform independent audio.