Partners
ccr - Centre for Communications Research
The CCR was established in 1987 at the University of Bristol, as an interdisciplinary University Research Centre. It is recognised as a Research Centre of international standing and has won premium awards for its publications on mobile radio, DSP, optical communications and satellite navigation systems. The CCR through participation in 3CR projects is maintaining its long history of successful collaboration with industry besides enhancing its reputation for world-class research.
Camea
Camea is located in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1995 and its core business is image and signal processing. It brings to 3CR international expertise in computer graphics acceleration using digital signal processing/field programmable gate array technology, specifically graphics accelerator boards.
ITV
For more than 50 years ITV has remained the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster. Today it is a multi-channel, multi-platform, content-driven business focused on the needs of viewers and advertisers. Through its subsidiary Granada Bristol, it provided 3CR with thousands of hours of media and associated metadata, and practical skills and knowledge of content creators. Granada Bristol had an archive of around 100,000 hours of media in disparate formats and was keen to solve some of the problems currently experienced when managing, storing and manipulating large quantities of digital media. Content producers will experience significant benefits from a set of intelligent tools that allow them to work more efficiently and creatively.
Maniac Films
Maniac Films specialises in digital video production in the sports and music arenas, using technology to gather and produce high quality digital media. Maniac Films brings to 3CR its experience and background in sporting event filming and logistics, video productions and new media including web and mobile delivery platforms.
Matrix Data
Matrix Data, specialists in data management, provided 3CR with an underlying database with its semantic approach to metadata cataloguing and classification. Matrix Data wants to see the creation of a ground breaking multimedia database which incorporates semantic, video and audio content analysis tools. Content producers will have a set of tools for the automatic recognition of images and audio, and for shot selection and editing television programmes.
Murgitroyd & Company
Murgitroyd & Company are among the largest firms of European Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, and have extensive experience of working with international organisations from all industrial sectors. Murgitroyd have worked with 3CR to develop an IP management infrastructure process and provide advice to 3CR on complex IP issues.
ProVision Communication Technologies
ProVision Communications is a technology leader in wireless communication and brings to 3CR its expertise in the practical aspects of wideband wireless technologies to assist in the development of a sophisticated multi-antenna demonstration network. It also has expertise in robust and efficient video encoding and decoding together with implementation and integration skills in realising a wireless LAN demonstration platform.
QinetiQ
QinetiQ is a defence research and development organisation and is a leading business solutions provider. QinetiQ brings to 3CR its expertise in RF systems engineering and advanced signal processing, in particular, high performance radio designs and algorithms for enhanced data throughput for wireless local area networks.
STMicroelectronics
STMicrolectronics is the world’s leading company in consumer microelectronics. It brings to 3CR resources, its consumer digital audiovisual system components and its HAVANA home networking technology to provide a demonstration and benchmarking platform for new wireless networking technology.
Thales
Thales in the UK draws together in one company such famous businesses as Racal, Thomson, CSF, Shorts Missile Systems, Thorn EMI and Pilkington Optronics. Thales through its corporate research laboratory Thales Research & Technology (UK) brings its networking expertise, providing resources from its networking laboratory and a wireless heterogeneous ad-hoc network testbed.Thales wants to enhance its technical competence and steering role in the convergence of broadcast and networking and to strengthen its relationships with leading players in the field.
Toshiba
Toshiba is a world leader in high technology and a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products. As such, Toshiba brings to 3CR its considerable background and technical expertise in mobile communications, computing, digital media and semiconductors.Toshiba continues to develop the leading-edge of R&D into ultra high speed Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and their applications with useable throughputs in excess of 1Gbps.
Turner Broadcasting
Turner Broadcasting is a major producer of news and entertainment products around the world. Turner is interested in supporting two areas of 3CR's research programme that are closely aligned to their future technology needs in particular the ICBR and Visualise projects.
U4EA
U4EA brings to 3CR its leading edge Quality of Service technology to be used in the delivery of multimedia content over wired and wireless networks.As wireless media is expected to become the primary consumer choice of network, U4EA welcomes the opportunity to participate in gaining an in depth understanding of the relevance and application of QoS solutions in advanced wireless media.
University of Bristol
The University of Bristol has an international profile based on world class cutting edge research. The University’s Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science departments bring to 3CR their wealth of research know-how within the fields of communication, content and computing.The University wants to enhance its pre-competitive research strategy with industry partners in computer vision, graphics and advanced communication technologies and is also committed to the transfer of knowledge into industry.
