The Catalan Media Corporation, CCMA hosted the fifth general assembly of the Immersive Accessibility Project at its TV3 headquarters in Sant Joan Desp near Barcelona last week. All nine partners, comprising i2CAT, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, University of Salford, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Corporacio Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals SA, Institut für Rundfunktechnik Gmbh, Motion Spell, Anglatecnic SL and … Continue reading “ImAc Consortium meets to discuss the next steps”
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ImAc Project at ARSAD 2019
Conference, March 19-20, 2019 Location: Barcelona, Spain Last week, the international seminar on audio description ARSAD was held in Barcelona. It is a meeting point for all stakeholders interested in audio description research and practice. Anna Matamala, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a member of the ImAc consortium, is the organizer of this … Continue reading “ImAc Project at ARSAD 2019”
ImAc Project at CSUN 2019
Conference, March 11-15 Location: Anaheim, California This week, Pilar Orero from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Sonali Rai from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) presented the work completed so far within the Immersive Accessibility Project at the 34th annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. The annual conference which is widely regarded … Continue reading “ImAc Project at CSUN 2019”
ImAc Pilot: Transmedia Catalonia (UAB) and APANAH to collaborate for user testing
The research group Transmedia Catalonia (UAB), part of the ImAc consortium, signed a collaboration agreement last Thursday, 27th February with APANAH, an association from Alicante based in Elda for deaf people and their families. APANAH is a non-profit association, whose main goal is the educational, professional and social integration of deaf people through oral communication. … Continue reading “ImAc Pilot: Transmedia Catalonia (UAB) and APANAH to collaborate for user testing”
Prototype: Integration with Amazon Alexa
When developing tools for accessibility it is essential to ensure that the applications that you build are also fully compatible with other already existing technologies that consumers are already using. A key requirement identified within the ImAc project was the need for voice control. We have therefore built a prototype to demonstrate how existing voice … Continue reading “Prototype: Integration with Amazon Alexa”
Scenarios, requirements and potential solutions for Audio Subtitles, an ecological access service
Subtitles are the most common and versatile accessibility service across broadcast and broadband media services. Subtitles have expanded from between languages to same language subtitles, subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, and verbatim transcriptions. Likewise, subtitles can also become a hybrid access service when generated based on Easy-to-Read guidelines, or when are read … Continue reading “Scenarios, requirements and potential solutions for Audio Subtitles, an ecological access service”
Anglatecnic finalises in November the first phase of the ImAc platform tools for accessibility content production
The ImAc platform embraces the 360° / VR media, the user requirements (the ImAc project follows a bottom-up approach via a user-centric methodology) and the TTML-based format, but without losing its backward compatibility and interconnection with existing systems. This is important in order to have an effective and smooth introduction of new technologies into the … Continue reading “Anglatecnic finalises in November the first phase of the ImAc platform tools for accessibility content production”
IMAC at Languages & The Media 2018
Immersive Accessibility (ImAc) project funded by the European Union’s Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020 was presented at this year’s Languages & The Media conference in Berlin (October 3-5th 2018). The theme of this year’s Languages & The Media was “The Fourth Industrial Revolution – Reshaping Languages in the Media”. The conference examined various developments, innovations … Continue reading “IMAC at Languages & The Media 2018”
Experimental: Responsive Subtitles for 360º video
Responsive Subtitles [1] are an approach to subtitling that adopts techniques used in responsive web site design. The traditional approach to formatting subtitles uses fixed size blocks of text displayed for set periods of time, which although is sufficient for a standard television set up is far from ideal for immersive displays and 360o video. … Continue reading “Experimental: Responsive Subtitles for 360º video”
ImAc presented at the IFA 2018 – RBB
The annual Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin is one of the world’s largest fairs for consumer electronics, addressing both professional visitors and the general public. This year, the ImAc project was presented at the “Digitalen Welt der ARD” in hall 2.2. Visitors were invited to watch 360° demo videos using the latest version of the … Continue reading “ImAc presented at the IFA 2018 – RBB”