“MetaLabs” Wins at the Digital Media Awards 2010

The new NDRC collaborative partner Moving Media Ltd was the proud recipient of the award for ‘Best Newcomer with International Potential” at the Digital Media Awards on 25th February 2010, for ‘MetaLabs.tv‘. The award is sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and recognizes enterprises that show particular promise of becoming successful in international markets.

Moving Media Ltd are working with NDRC and DCU on a video analytics tool that creates rich timecoded metadata to drive online video search. The MetaLabs project has launched a phase of feasibility work that will build upon the video analysis work undertaken at the Centre for Digital Video Processing at DCU. NDRC are providing investment and commercial support to the MetaLabs project to bring this work closer to market.

NDRC CEO, Ben Hurley said “This award for NDRC’s partner Moving Media is recognition of the companies’ product potential, and we look forward to working with them to develop the MetaLabs project into the international marketplace.”

Moving Media CEO, Simon Factor said “Winning this award is a great step forward for our project and well timed, MetaLabs has been in development for 18 months now but our recent move into NDRC has taken the whole show to a new level. Working with our research partners at DCU and NDRC we are fast-tracking the commercialisation of R&D with a clear product development roadmap that is export driven.’

NDRC operates as an independent, centre of excellence dedicated to accelerating digital research from idea to income. Board members include senior representatives from Microsoft, Ericsson, Raglan Capital, Enterprise Ireland, the five founder members (DCU, NCAD, IADT, TCD, UCD) and DIT.

NDRC operates with the support of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

Through its project portfolio, NDRC collaborates with businesses and third level partners on digital technology projects with applications in the area of health, education, entertainment and the environment.  NDRC has 17 truly collaborative projects in its first investment phase.

Moving Media Ltd are a video encoding company, we convert broadcast video tape assets for online, archive and digital distribution. We assist video archives in planning, creating and implementing digital preservation and access strategies. Our clients include MTV, 2×2, Babelgum, Getty Images, Hello TV, Danish State Archive.

CLARITY and the Centre for Digital Video Processing have extensive experience in the area of Digital Video annotation and search.