Hong Kong Business News

Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung visited the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) at Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) in Kwun Tong today to learn more about the department's new directions in the use of technology in television production and meet management and staff representatives.
 
Mrs Yeung first met Director of Broadcasting Eddie Cheung and other staff of the directorate, and was briefed on the department’s latest work and programme production. She also met the staff representatives to hear their concerns and views.
 
The civil service chief said that as a government department and a public broadcaster, RTHK has an important role to play in providing people with diversified radio, television and new media services, enabling citizens to understand the latest developments in the country and in Hong Kong.
 
She encouraged RTHK to continue to make good use of technology, produce more quality programmes and tell the good stories of Hong Kong to the world.
 
Mrs Yeung then visited the AI Lab, which was officially launched this month, where colleagues explained to her the latest applications of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in programme production and how RTHK is exploring its use in programme production.
 
Additionally, production staff and interns demonstrated the use of AI software in restoring old footage, improving the quality and removing static noise from historical photos and videos, language translation, text-to-image or video generation, as well as clothing conversion.
 
Mrs Yeung also watched a demonstration of a motion capture system, which uses AI to recognise different facial expressions and sensors to capture full body movements, and gloves to track finger movements connected to an unreal engine with high-performance computing to produce images of RTHK Television's AI presenter, Aida.
 
Earlier, RTHK used the system to produce a series of promotional clips for its 2024 Paris Olympic Games programmes, largely reducing production time to two hours for each clip.
 
Mrs Yeung was pleased to learn that the system has given the production staff more room for creativity and improved work efficiency.
 
Afterwards, she inspected the new studio equipped with a large digital video wall and saw a demonstration of how the studio's LED screen, which is equipped with virtualisation and augmented reality technology, can be used to integrate virtual environments, real footage and studio scenes into the programme production process, thus making the images more realistic and achieving versatile production and better visual effects.

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