#19: AWS Innovation with Eurosport

Episode Number: 19
Date: January 19, 2022
Speakers: Host Sara Armstrong (Sr. Manager for Worldwide Prototyping) and Kevin Oleniczak (Prototyping Manager) from AWS, speak with Marc Amiot (VP of Information Technology) from Eurosport.

In the world of sports broadcasting, the perfectly-selected replay is the payoff for the audience. On this episode of Innovation Ambassadors, we’re showcasing the journey of Eurosport, a company leveraging Machine Learning (ML)-powered video processing service and working with Amazon Web Services on a prototype that classifies frames and segments of sporting events to identify exciting moments worthy of a replay.

Host Sara Armstrong (Sr. Manager for Worldwide Prototyping) and Kevin Oleniczak (Prototyping Manager) from AWS, speak with Marc Amiot (VP of Information Technology) from Eurosport about what it takes to automate the generation of replay clips from sporting events through a cost-effective and low-latency cloud architecture. You'll hear how they automate and integrate these capabilities into a production ecosystem that scales to support various tournaments, serving fans across Europe.

This episode explores the AWS services that Eurosport leveraged to power their replay generation pipelines for live and video-on-demand content. Listen in and dive into the Media Replay Engine (MRE) open source framework, used to build automated video clipping and replay (highlight) generation pipelines for live and video-on-demand content.

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