Football coverage of the main game is always advancing, but this year there have been big changes in production as well as the continued drive to bring second screens mainstream. This conversation covers the state of the art of football production bringing together Mark Dennis of Sunset Vine, Emili Planas from Mediapro and Tim Achberger from Sportcast in a conversation moderated by Sky Germany's Alessandro Reitano for the SVG Europ Football Summit 2021. The first topic discussed is the use of automation to drive highlights packages. Mark from S V feels that for the tier 1 shows they do, human curation is still better but recognises that the creation of secondary and tertiary video from the event could benefit from AI packages. In fact, Mediapro is doing just this providing a file-based clips package while the match is ongoing.

"Enhance!" the captain shouts as the blurry image on the main screen becomes sharp and crisp again. This was sci-fi – and this still is sci-fi – but super-resolution techniques are showing that it's really not that far-fetched. Able to increase the sharpness of video, machine learning can enable upscaling from HD to UHD as well as increasing the frame-rate. Bitmovin's Adithyan Ilangovan is here to explain the success they've seen with super-resolution and though he concentrates on upscaling, this is just as relevant to improving downscaling. Here are our previous articles covering super resolution.

Webinar: Thursday 14th December 19:00 GMT / 11am PT Digging further into how AI can help broadcasters, this webinar shows how AI can generate a wealth of metadata which can improve your workflows and the value of your content. Join Dave MacDonald, Vice President of Global Sales for IBM Watson & Cloud Platform and Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, Editor at Streaming Media to talk about applying AI to broadcast.