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Category: Artificial Intelligence

AWS at the 2020 NAB show [Updated 3/12/2020]

Due to the NAB Show 2020 cancellation, HAQM Web Services will host two online events in the coming weeks to showcase our planned content for the exhibition: NAB News & Updates Online Event – On April 20, AWS will host an online event to spotlight updates planned for the NAB Show. AWS M&E Online Conference – On May […]

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Second Spectrum chooses AWS for cloud, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and media services

Second Spectrum, the Official Optical Tracking and Analytics Provider of sports leagues such as the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the English Premier League, has chosen AWS as its preferred cloud, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) provider. Second Spectrum has also selected AWS media services to help deliver new kinds of live game-watching […]

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In the News: AWS powers real-time statistics for Guinness Six Nations

The Guinness Six Nations Championship is among the oldest surviving rugby traditions and is one of the best-attended sporting events in the world. To offer rugby fans deeper insight into match action than ever before, Six Nations and AWS introduced five new, real-time statistics for the 2020 Championship tournament kicking off on February 1. The […]

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How to translate large text documents with HAQM Translate

This post describes how to split large text documents into chunks small enough to be processed by HAQM Translate. I’ll show you how to split documents without splitting words or sentences so source text remains grammatically correct, and I’ll demonstrate this with sample code that uses the Python NLTK library for detecting sentence boundaries. What […]

Bundesliga and HAQM Web Services to develop next generation football viewing experience

In the news: Bundesliga revolutionizes the football viewing experience with AWS

Germany’s Bundesliga has selected AWS as its official technology provider to offer more in-depth insight into live Bundesliga games and create new personalized fan experiences. Bundesliga will use artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), analytics, compute, database, and storage services from AWS to deliver real-time statistics to predict plays and match outcomes, and recommend personalized experiences […]

Learn more: M&E chalk talk presentations from AWS re:Invent 2019

re:Invent Chalk Talks are a highly interactive content format, beginning with a short lecture delivered by an AWS expert, followed by a 45- or 50-minute Q&A session with the audience. While these sessions are not recorded, we wanted to share the decks with you as they contain valuable technical details. If there are any topics […]

[Updated 1/13] Watch now: M&E sessions from AWS re:Invent 2019

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. With AWS re:Invent 2019 complete, videos and presentation materials from the Media & Entertainment sessions are now being published. Check out our re:Invent playlist for the latest Media Solutions Track sessions ready for viewing, including: MDS201 Latest Media & Entertainment […]

Managing hybrid video processing workflows with Apache Airflow

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. Authored by Riccardo Vescovi, Head of Solution Engineering – Fincons; Donato Fraccalvieri, Solution Architect – Fincons; Gianluca De […]

Disney makes its archive accessible using deep learning built on AWS

Courtesy of Disney From over a century of drawings and concept work to live action and animated video content, Disney wants to not only preserve its archive, but also make it easily searchable for its writers and illustrators who may need it for reference or inspiration. The key to surfacing the right content at the […]

[Updated 11-December] Media2Cloud 2.0 now live: Increased control, SageMaker ground truth integration, and more partner support

MEDIA2CLOUD VERSION 2.0 RELEASED I’m happy to announce that Media2Cloud 2.0 has been officially released to help AWS customers simplify and expedite their ingest workflow into AWS.   The following blog post was published when we demonstrated the new version at IBC in September of this year. Now that the new version has officially launched, I […]