COPA EUROPE had several ambitions to go beyond the state of the art in several areas:
- Data-driven, transmedia content production for emerging broadcasting properties (eSports)
COPA EUROPE translates raw match live coverage into transmedia audience-facing graphics and visual summarizations. These are incorporated as augmented graphical elements, as well as in secondary displays toward enriching the streaming content prior, during and after the conclusion of the broadcast with additional information, extracted from the data processing.
- Tokenization of digital assets with blockchain technology
COPA EUROPE defines a new non fungible token which represents media content and ownership. Moreover, it explores different aspects of the access rights to the token which allows to express notions such as copyrights, sharing of the tokens and minting to express royalty payment for token owners.
- Federated Learning for practical, real-life applications
The innovation in COPA EUROPE is on new FL schemes and compression algorithms, and on scalability and reliability. The activities on FL are integrated in standardization efforts of the MPEG group, which is currently working on new standards for compression of neural networks for multimedia content description and analysis, which also includes FL.
- High quality video compression and adaptive distribution
COPA EUROPE defines a video pivot format based upon one of the video standards and proposes it to standardisation as the internal format to be used for decentralized video streaming platforms.
- User perceived, subjective video quality assessment
The use of learning-driven Quality of Experience video sequence comparison metrics resulting from the use of Convolutional Neural Networks frameworks leads to alternative error metrics useful for processes such as video compression.
Based on the previous ambitions, COPA EUROPE has delivered a set of concrete and added value exploitable results:
ER1 System for predicting actions in esports video content
ER2 System for detecting actions in sport video content
ER3 Multi-format Video reception gateway
ER4 HLS streaming module
ER5 FL and Clustered FL for Recommender Systems
ER6 League of Legends tools for event acquisition and annotation
ER7 Esports data driven graphics production tool
ER8 Transmedia storytelling manager
ER9 XR viewing application
ER10 XR Studio
ER11 Blockchain services for the tokenization of media content
ER12 Marketplace Contents App
ER13 Portal to associate LiveU-generated live streams with Blockchain and manage them
ER14 Transmit over 5G
ER15 Media Asset Management System
ER16 Latent Semantic Indexing
ER17 QoE analysis
ER18 RTP to SRT streaming converter
ER19 Blockchain-based marketplace
ER20 Platform Analytics
ER21 Blockchain database
ER22 System for predicting actions in League of Legends
All these results have derived in several potential impacts:
- Strategic impact: Sports media rights policies and directives, Sports policy, Policy on Blockchain Technologies, Regulation and sport status of eSports in the EU.
- Economic impact: Relationship between traditional Media and Entertainment stakeholders and the emerging eSport industry, so as to drive growth that can place European companies in a leadership position globally, as superior innovators in both future broadcasting solutions and fan engagement.
- Societal impact: Enhance transmediality of (e)Sports participatory cultures. Furthermore, tools are developed to encourage voluntary participation in such communities, with emphasis placed on quality, productive contributions.
