Automated quality control in a file-based broadcasting workflow

Lina Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2064418

16 April 2014 Automated quality control in a file-based broadcasting workflow

Lina Zhang

Proceedings Volume 9159, Sixth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2014); 91591N (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2064418
Event: Sixth International Conference on Digital Image Processing, 2014, Athens, Greece

Abstract

Benefit from the development of information and internet technologies, television broadcasting is transforming from inefficient tape-based production and distribution to integrated file-based workflows. However, no matter how many changes have took place, successful broadcasting still depends on the ability to deliver a consistent high quality signal to the audiences. After the transition from tape to file, traditional methods of manual quality control (QC) become inadequate, subjective, and inefficient. Based on China Central Television's full file-based workflow in the new site, this paper introduces an automated quality control test system for accurate detection of hidden troubles in media contents. It discusses the system framework and workflow control when the automated QC is added. It puts forward a QC criterion and brings forth a QC software followed this criterion. It also does some experiments on QC speed by adopting parallel processing and distributed computing. The performance of the test system shows that the adoption of automated QC can make the production effective and efficient, and help the station to achieve a competitive advantage in the media market.

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Lina Zhang "Automated quality control in a file-based broadcasting workflow", Proc. SPIE 9159, Sixth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2014), 91591N (16 April 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2064418

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