ImAc-Novel resources for the broadcasting industry
On 25 March 2020, during the EBU BroadThinking conference, ImAc partners successfully presented the production tools – specifically the web editors – and the ImAc player to the audience. BroadThinking 2020 is a key event for broadcast specialists working on online services and online content delivery and is organised on a yearly basis by EBU … Continue reading “ImAc production tools and player demonstrated at EBU BroadThinking”
The subtitle web editor developed by our partner Anglatècnic in the ImAc project, was presented at the “Master in Audiovisual Translation and New Technologies” event organized by ISTRAD (Higher Institute of Linguistic Studies) in Sevilla (Spain). Javier Rebollo, from AMPERSOUND Translate Media, is a professional translator and subtitler who previously participated in the ImAc professional … Continue reading “ImAc attended the “Master in Audiovisual Translation and New Technologies” event organized by the Higher Institute of Linguistic Studies (ISTRAD) and the University of Cadiz”
In a joint effort with the EU H2020 VR-Together (https://vrtogether.eu/) and Hyper360 (http://www.hyper360.eu/) projects, ImAc will co-organize the “First International Workshop on Tools for Creating XR Media Experiences”, co-located with the IEEE ICME 2020 conference (https://www.2020.ieeeicme.org/), to be held in London (July 2020). Detailed information about the workshop can be found at its website: https://icme2020workshopxr.wordpress.com/ … Continue reading “ImAc co-organizes the “First International Workshop on Tools for Creating XR Media Experiences””
Workshop Organizers Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Verizon Media | XR Access Initiative About the Workshop The XR Access Initiative, partnered with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona to conduct a workshop on accessibility in augmented and virtual reality and 360 video at IMX 2020. It will feature papers from researchers about the best practices and solutions for designing … Continue reading “IMX Conference Workshop on XR Accessibility”
The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) is the European Commission’s primary source of results from the projects funded by the EU’s framework programmes for research and innovation (https://cordis.europa.eu/). Its mission is to bring research results to professionals in different fields to foster open science, contribute to the creation of innovative products and services … Continue reading “ImAc featured in the January 2020 Issue of the Research*EU Magazine”
The Immersive Accessibility Project is a European project which aims to find the best way to incorporate audio description and spoken subtitles into virtual reality and 360° video content, for people who are blind, or partially sighted, deaf and hard-of hearing. To do so, we’ve developed the ImAc player which has different types of audio … Continue reading “ImAc Cross National Pilots in the UK- RNIB”
Every year, the European Union of Broadcasting (EBU) organizes a meeting of experts on access services. The objective is to debate, share experiences and challenges during a plenary session. Over the years, it has become the best meeting point for the organizations that are members of EBU and work in accessibility services. This event, took … Continue reading “ImAc at “EBU Accessibility Services Experts Meeting 2019””
Every year Barcelona organizes an event with science, technology, knowledge and culture. This year marks the thirteenth annual Science Festival, which was on the 26th and 27th October. It offers people around 200 activities in 24 venues to find out about the research conducted in Barcelona and its area of influence. See info here: https://www.barcelona.cat/barcelonaciencia/en/13th-science-festival-0 The … Continue reading “ImAc at the Barcelona Sc13nc3 Fest 2019”
On Thursday 10th October the Greek EMP Alexis Georgoulis organized the event “Perspectives on the Cultural Accessibility of Persons with Disabilities” at the European Parliament. People with disabilities are systematically excluded from the scope of important pieces of legislation, such as the Audio-visual Directive where only the progressive realization of accessibility requirements is provided. This … Continue reading “ImAc was present at the European Parliament”
As the Lead Study Group on Ubiquity and on Multimedia Terminals, Systems and Applications, the ITU-T SG 16 effort in standardizing accessibility promotes the concept of Total Conversation and aims to ensure that all sectors of the global community have equal access to communications and online information. This effort is centred in Question 26/16 “Accessibility to Multimedia … Continue reading “ImAc contributes to ITU Study Group 16”