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QUALINET White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx)

QUALINET announces its recent White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx). It is online available here https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07032 for free. With the coming of age of virtual/augmented reality and interactive media, numerous definitions, frameworks, and models of immersion have … Continue reading

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Objective and Subjective QoE Evaluation for Adaptive Point Cloud Streaming

2020 Twelfth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) 26 – 28 May 2020 | Athlone, Ireland Conference website [PDF][Slides][Video] Jeroen van der Hooft (Ghent University), Maria Torres Vega (Ghent University), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin … Continue reading

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Performance Analysis of ACTE: A Bandwidth Prediction Method for Low-latency Chunked Streaming

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMM) Journal website [PDF] Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University, Networked Media), Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore) HTTP adaptive streaming with … Continue reading

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Hadi Amirpour awarded the Best Engagement Award at ACM MMSys 2020

Hadi Amirpour has been awarded the Best Engagement Award at ACM MMSys 2020. This year’s ACM MMSys was held as a fully virtual/online event and Slido was used for asking questions about keynotes and presentations including offline discussions with presenters. … Continue reading

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H2BR: an HTTP/2-based retransmission technique to improve the QoE of adaptive video streaming

Proceedings of the 25th ACM Workshop on Packet Video (PV’20) June 10 – 11, 2020 | Istanbul, Turkey Conference website [PDF][Slides][Video] Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, Austria) HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming (HAS) plays a key … Continue reading

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Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding based HTTP Adaptive Streaming over QUIC Using Retransmission

ACM SIGCOMM 2020 Workshop on Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ 2020) August 10–14, 2020 [PDF][Slides][Video] Minh Nguyen (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: HTTP/2 has been explored widely for … Continue reading

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CAdViSE: Cloud-based Adaptive Video Streaming Evaluation Framework for the Automated Testing of Media Players

2020 Twelfth InterProceedings of the 11th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys ’20) June 8 – 11, 2020 | Istanbul, Turkey Conference website [PDF][Slides][Video] Babak Taraghi (AAU, Austria), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) and Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, Austria) … Continue reading

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