(Translation by Google) October 8, 2019 - France Télévisions and Telecom SudParis join forces to create a joint laboratory in the field of artificial intelligence applied to television content: IA TV.

For three years, based on the professional knowledge of France Télévisions researchers and the skills in the field of artificial intelligence applied to the audio-visual content of Telecom SudParis, the ambition of this laboratory is to deploy in the long term. a generic platform of deep learning for the optimal exploitation of the processes of creation, production and distribution of television contents.

Indeed these various processes include many works involving the analysis of textual data, visual and sound. In particular, many repetitive categorization / classification tasks must be carried out, both during the editing of the program (writing, filming, post-production) and at the time of its exploitation (exhibition, valorization, research, recommendation, qualitative analysis and studies of programming success).

Most often, the artistic or editorial choice requires a human intervention to react in connection with the news, to respect aesthetic considerations or simply to surprise. Optimizing these processes is an economic challenge for the major television channels.

Artificial intelligence tools, particularly deep neural network learning techniques, have revolutionized the field of classification of audiovisual content in recent years.

Their performances are spectacular in fields as diverse as the detection, tracking or recognition of objects, facial or voice recognition, textual data analysis, program categorization, and emotional calculation. or the recognition of gestures.

And these methodologies today seem to be able to provide powerful tools to meet the needs of audiovisual content analysis of television channels. Nevertheless, multiple technological locks remain to be lifted in order to be able to propose operational solutions, exploitable in an industrial context.

These are the scientific, technological and economic barriers that the IA TV joint laboratory aims to lift.

(Source: telecom-sudparis.eu)