Media Ambit

What it is:

[ me·dia am·bit ] noun:

Media Ambit is just a convenient name for a set of ETM = Extended Technical and Semantic Metadata about moving images, sounds, and timed text; embedded in files or externally centralized.

Ambit’s Role for AI-based Automated Workflows:

  • AI-based and robot-assisted human decision-making tools.
  • Robots-learning-from-people (Machine Learning) tools.
  • Ambits repositories and machine services optimized for automation, web services, and workflows.
  • Automated and manual control of optimized video and audio processing/conversion
  • Automated and manual quality assurance and quality control tools
  • Measure, annotate and automatically modify files to match target ambits.
  • Notify machines, people and dashboards in automated workflows
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RGB, YUV & Media Ambit

RGB is the convenient and simple designation of additive color model used for more than 100 years in colorimetry,  photography, cinematography, color TV and other areas. Does it means something particular?

Not at all!

There are so many variants of hardly compatible systems, using RGB as convenient label for light levels, screen pixels, analog or digital signals, or even the group of sub-channels within multi-channel video data processor.

Adding subscript and superscript indices, extra explanatory letters and  exponential values are not necessarily helpful.

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Color Bars Reference Levels

Color Bars is the most used Test Pattern.

At first it was defined in analog RGB signal format, then in analog composite NTSC/PAL/SECAM formats, then in analog component format (YPbPr aka YUV), and finally – in digital component RGB and YUV formats.

In accordance with ITU-R Recommendation BT.471 the nomenclature (type specification) of any color bars test pattern should consist of RGB levels as a percentage of Reference White in the following sequence:
White Bar / Black Bar / Max Colored Bars / Min Colored Bars.

For 100/0/75/0 “EBU Bars” the MathCAD RGB_Bars matrix in percents looks like this:

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Unified HDR Reference White

What is the problem & the opportunity?

Well established workflows exist from production through packaging, presentation to final content distribution. Each discipline in the chain has come to rely upon tried, tested, and above all, unified standards. Standards that are well understood, work together and that allow for free interchange of content at each juncture without technical issue and the fear of unknowns.

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