The Trinity team is delighted to report that Vibhoothi, research assistant in Emerald, won the NAB Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 NAB Show. The Best Student Paper Award was presented by Vibhoothi at the “Generative AI Uses and Video Transcoding” session on Monday, April 15 (see NAB press coverage).

Vibhoothi, research assistant in Emerald, Trinity College, Dublin, receiving the 2024 NAB Best Student Paper Award from Paul Shulins, president, IEEE.

In this work, we evaluate production-ready encoders for H.264 (x264), H.265 (HEVC), AV1 (SVT-AV1) along with direct comparisons to the latest AV1 encoder inside NVIDIA GPUs (40 series), and AWS Mediaconvert’s AV1 implementation. Our experimental results demonstrate that the single pass encoding inside modern encoder implementations can give very good quality at reasonable compute cost, even for high-end production use cases. 

This work is part of the TCD effort within Emerald to show how the use of modern video codecs can effectively reduce bandwidth and energy consumption across the visual media pipeline. 

In the coming months, TCD will be working with Disguise Systems to integrate some of these key findings into their virtual production workflow.