Faculty of Science and Technology, 2008

The screen business encompasses all creative and management aspects related to film, television, and new media content, from concept to production and distribution. Companies in this industry face increasing competition due to market globalisation. To stay competitive, they are turning to contemporary technology-enabled business improvement methods, such as business process management. Processes in the screen business, particularly film production, generally consist of highly interdependent steps that manipulate heterogeneous data and involve a variety of stakeholders in a distributed and mobile work environment. Despite its potential benefits, the use of workflow systems for automating film production processes is largely unexplored. This paper presents a case study that highlights some of the key challenges that lie ahead on the road to Web-scale workflows for film production. Film Production Automation: Requirements The screen business is characterized by business processes with high demands for creativity and flexibility. These processes span a value chain consisting of four major phases: development, pre-production, production, and post-production. The production phase involves many stakeholders and it is usually the most expensive phase. For example, most cast and crew are contracted during production. Furthermore, additional costs are associated to the rental of the shooting equipment, such as cameras, cranes, and action vehicles. The production process includes daily shooting activities over a period of weeks or months. Shooting activities include acting, camera and sound recording. These activities are interdependent and involve heterogeneous data, e.g. logs and technical notes, time-sheets for cast and crew, daily shooting progress report, next-day's shooting schedule, and revisions of cast, crew and locations. At present, shooting is a highly manual activity. It involves processing rather large amounts of data on a daily basis and coordinating many geographically distributed stakeholders, which is time-consuming and errorprone. Not surprisingly, delays in the schedule are fre

IEEE Internet Computing, 2008

The screen business encompasses all creative and management aspects related to film, television, and new media content, from concept to production and distribution. Companies in this industry face increasing competition due to market globalisation. To stay competitive, they are turning to contemporary technology-enabled business improvement methods, such as business process management. Processes in the screen business, particularly film production, generally consist of highly interdependent steps that manipulate heterogeneous data and involve a variety of stakeholders in a distributed and mobile work environment. Despite its potential benefits, the use of workflow systems for automating film production processes is largely unexplored. This paper presents a case study that highlights some of the key challenges that lie ahead on the road to Web-scale workflows for film production.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013

The management of the massive amount of data in video-and multimedia workflows is a hard and expensive work that requires much personnel and technical resources. Our flexible and scalable open source middleware framework offers solution approaches for the automated handling of the ingest and the workflow by an automated acquisition of all available information. By using an XML format to describe the processes, we provide an easy, fast and well-priced solution without the need for specific human skills.

Distributed and Parallel Databases, 2002

Zarządzanie Mediami, 2022

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The Workshop on …, 2006

Journal of Digital Imaging, 2002

In an attempt to maximize productivity within the medical imaging department, increasing importance and attention is being placed on workflow. Workflow is the process of analyzing individual steps that occur during a single event, such as the performance of an MRI exam. The primary focus of workflow optimization within the imaging department is automation and task consolidation, however, a number of other factors should be considered including the stochastic nature of the workload, availability of human resources, and the specific technologies being employed. The purpose of this paper is to determine the complex relationship that exists between information technology and the radiologic technologist, in an attempt to determine how workflow can be optimized to improve technologist productivity. This relationship takes on greater importance as more imaging departments are undergoing the transition from filmbased to filmless operation. A nationwide survey was conducted to compare technologist workflow in filmbased and filmless operations, for all imaging modalities. The individual tasks performed by technologists were defined, along with the amount of time allocated to these tasks. The index of workflow efficiency was determined to be the percentage of overall technologist time allocated to image acquisition, since this is the primary responsibility of the radiologic technologist. Preliminary analysis indicates technologist workflow in filmless operation is enhanced when compared with film-based operation, for all imaging modalities. The specific tasks that require less technologist time in filmless operation are accessing data and retake rates (due to both technical factors and lost exams). Surprisingly, no significant differences were reported for the task of image processing, when comparing technologist workflow in film-based and filmless operations. Additional research is planned to evaluate the potential workflow gains achievable through workflow optimization software, improved systems integration, and automation of advanced image processing techniques.

Journal of Grid Computing, 2013

This work proposes a novel workflow composition approach that hinges upon ontologies and planning as its core technologies within an integrated framework. Video processing problems provide a fitting domain for investigating the effectiveness of this integrated method as tackling such problems have not been fully explored by the workflow, planning and ontological communities despite their combined beneficial traits to confront this known hard problem. In addition, the pervasiveness of video data has proliferated the need for more automated assistance for image processing-naive users, but no adequate support has been provided as of yet. The integrated approach was evaluated on a video set originating from open sea environment of varying quality. Experiments to evaluate the efficiency, adapt-

CONCLUSION An image-enabled workflow engine can be a valuable addition to a complex imaging department. It can improve efficiency, enable access to special computational tools, provide a rich database of information for research and practice management. BACKGROUND PACS and RIS are designed to receive images from imaging devices, display them, assist in communicating an interpretation of those images, and generating a bill. Today, other systems may create new images from the acquired images, or mark suspicious areas. Orchestrating the information is a challenge.

2012

This paper deals with the need for design management support within the Audiovisual Industry, due to the increasing variety of video file formats and codecs available to professionals. The amount o ...