NAB Show: Quantum Showcases Video Enrichment and Analytics Solution Using CatDV Software With Nvidia AI

Quantum Corp. will be showcasing a solution, which can analyze and enrich video content used in broadcast, post-production, sports, and other media workflows, at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, NV, running April 23-27.

This solution integrates CatDV asset management and automation platform and leverages Nvidia A2 Tensor Core GPU infrastructure, and the Nvidia AI platform. Nvidia Deepstream, Riva, and Maxine software development kits (SDKs) are part of the Nvidia AI platform that provides AI and ML capabilities to the company’s CatDV software.

“Quantum CatDV has been leveraging Nvidia GPU systems for years as part of our media transformation implementations. With this solution, customers can now add Nvidia’s world-class, proven AI and ML technologies to their content workflows. The solution serves as a centralized platform to enable users to find the hidden value in content libraries and amplify human curation like never before,” said Dave Clack, VP and GM, cloud software and analytics.

This solution gives customers an on-premises alternative to cloud-delivered AI services that fully utilizes high-performance GPU hardware in a proven asset management and automation platform. Customers can automate common content-tagging and enhancement tasks such as object recognition within video frames, speech-to-text transcription, video and audio super-resolution, and other tools to add valuable metadata to video and image files, saving time and money, and unlocking hidden value in their media content libraries.

This enhanced video enrichment capability was first demonstrated at Nvidia GTC in March, with an example of a sports broadcaster challenge: find all instances of referee yellow cards across hundreds of hours of soccer footage. Once objects or actions within video frames were identified, this content was then compiled into a ‘supercut’ within CatDV, with fully indexed and correlated timeline markers for human expert review, saving potentially hundreds of hours of work.

“At GTC 2022, Nvidia named Quantum as an inaugural partner in the Nvidia AI Accelerated Program, which helps developers build AI applications that customers can deploy with confidence,” said Kari Briski, VP, software product management, AI and HPC SDKs, Nvidia Corp. “Quantum’s customers will be able to enjoy world-class AI and ML with this new content enrichment automation solution, powered by Nvidia.”

Quantum AI content enhancement automation solution is comprised of:

• CatDV Enterprise with CatDV Automation Workers

• AI/ML integration based on Nvidia DeepStream video analytics, Riva automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech technology, and Maxine video and audio quality enhancement SDKs

• Nvidia A2 Tensor Core GPU infrastructure pipeline integration for CatDV proxy generation, transcoding, and AI acceleration

• Additional optional custom AI/ML development to meet customer needs or to enable customer’s development teams on the common platform

• StorNext shared file storage environment integration

• Optional company’s NVMe storage to accelerate content movement within the GPU pipeline

• Optional firm’s archive to ActiveScale, Scalar tape, or S3-compatible storage

The company is engaged with customers and partners for early deployment opportunities for the solution.