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All of Netflix’s HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized

The Netflix TechBlog

by Aditya Mavlankar , Zhi Li , Lukáš Krasula and Christos Bampis High dynamic range ( HDR ) video brings a wider range of luminance and a wider gamut of colors, paving the way for a stunning viewing experience. HDR was launched at Netflix in 2016 and the number of titles available in HDR has been growing ever since.

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Netflix Video Quality at Scale with Cosmos Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

Moorthy and Zhi Li Introduction Measuring video quality at scale is an essential component of the Netflix streaming pipeline. Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few.

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Hawkins: Diving into the Reasoning Behind our Design System

The Netflix TechBlog

Stranger Things imagery showcasing the inspiration for the Hawkins Design System by Hawkins team member Joshua Godi ; with art contributions by Wiki Chaves Hawkins may be the name of a fictional town in Indiana, most widely known as the backdrop for one of Netflix’s most popular TV series “Stranger Things,” but the name is so much more.

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CloudFront vs. CloudFlare: Choosing the Right CDN

DZone

Every internet user, knowingly or unknowingly, uses a CDN while watching a video, reading a newspaper, or enjoying a TV show. CloudFront CDN and CloudFlare CDN are two popular services available on the market. What Is a CDN? CDN stands for content delivery network.

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Detecting Scene Changes in Audiovisual Content

The Netflix TechBlog

Understanding these elements and how they relate to each other is crucial for tasks such as video summarization and highlights detection, content-based video retrieval, dubbing quality assessment, and video editing. In this blog post, we present two complementary approaches to scene boundary detection in audiovisual content.

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Building a Media Understanding Platform for ML Innovations

The Netflix TechBlog

An example of using Machine Learning to find shots of Eleven in Stranger Things and surfacing the results in studio application for the consumption of Netflix video editors. We must quickly surface the most stand-out highlights from the titles available on our service in the form of images and videos in the member experience.

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Scalable Annotation Service?—?Marken

The Netflix TechBlog

An example for storing both time and space based data would be an ML algorithm that can identify characters in a frame and wants to store the following for a video In a particular frame (time) In some area in image (space) A character name (annotation data) Pic 1 : Editors requesting changes by drawing shapes like the blue circle shown above.