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Montreux Jazz Festival Digital Archives
During the celebration of the 40th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival last year, founder Claude Nobs underlined the urgency of properly preserving the 40 years' worth of Festival material that has accumulated since its conception. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Montreux Sounds SA have decided to join forces to create a unique and first of a kind high resolution digital archive of the Montreux Jazz Festivals.
EPFL hosts one of the most renowned and largest centers of excellence in digital media processing thanks to a strong team of faculty members and researchers behind many pioneering technologies in use in today’s professional as well as consumer digital media products.
The goal of this ambitious project is, on the one hand, to exploit the know-how and expertise of EPFL to create the most technologically advanced high resolution digital media archive ever produced, and on the other hand, to take this opportunity to set the ground for conception of novel and advanced technologies for tomorrow’s digital media.
Because of the magnitude and the diversity of media involved, such an archive will require peta-byte class storage systems (1 peta bytes = 1’000’000 giga bytes) and involves expertise in the following areas: signal processing, image and video processing, compression, video analysis and annotation, audiovisual content enhancement, visualization, man-machine interface, and media security.
Several research laboratories at EPFL together with their researchers, doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students, will be involved in this project during the next few years. In addition to scientific, technological and educational impacts of such an endeavor, development of this archive will enable a reliable, long lasting, secured, and seamless access to a true and unique cultural resource for both professional and educational purposes, ensuring that the Montreux Jazz Festival, Claude Nobs' lifetime achievement, and its rich history remain an important part of our regional identity for generations to come.
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