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MPEG awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for DASH

MPEG, specifically, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3 (MPEG Systems), has been just awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for its ground-breaking MPEG-DASH standard. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is the first international de-jure standard that enables efficient streaming … Continue reading

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Take the Red Pill for H3 and See How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

ACM Mile-High video Conference 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA [PDF][Slides][Video] Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Stefan Pham (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Daniel Silhavy (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University, Turkey) Abstract: With … Continue reading

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Quality Optimization of Live Streaming Services over HTTP with Reinforcement Learning

IEEE Global Communications Conference December 07-11, 2021 | Madrid, Spain Conference website [PDF] Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), R. Falanji (Sharif University of Technology), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Alireza Erfanian (AAU, Austria), P. S. Mashhadi (Halmstad University), Christian Timmerer … Continue reading

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VCIP’21 Tutorial: A Journey towards Fully Immersive Media Access

VCIP 2021 Sunday, December 5, 2021 https://www.vcip2021.org/call-for-tutorials/ Lectures: Christian Timmerer, AAU, AT Tobias Hoßfeld, Univ. Würzburg, DE Raimund Schatz, AIT, AT Abstract: Universal access to and provisioning of multimedia content is now a reality. It is easy to generate, distribute, share, … Continue reading

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Days of Future Past: An Optimization-based Adaptive Bitrate Algorithm over HTTP/3

The ACM CoNEXT 2021 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) 07 December 2021  | Munich, Germany (Online) [PDF][Slides][Video] Daniele Lorenzi (University of Padua), Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Simone Milani (University of Padua), Herman Hellwagner … Continue reading

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FAUST: Fast Per-Scene Encoding Using Entropy-Based Scene Detection and Machine Learning

FAUST: Fast Per-Scene Encoding Using Entropy-Based Scene Detection and Machine Learning 30th IEEE Conference of the Open Innovations Association FRUCT 27-29 October 2021 https://www.fruct.org/ [PDF][Slides][Video] Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Prateek Agrawal, Christian Timmerer, and Radu Prodan Abstract: HTTP adaptive video streaming is … Continue reading

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Special issue on Open Media Compression: Overview, Design Criteria, and Outlook on Emerging Standards

Special issue on Open Media Compression: Overview, Design Criteria, and Outlook on Emerging Standards Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 109, no. 9, Sept. 2021 By CHRISTIAN TIMMERER, Senior Member IEEE Guest Editor MATHIAS WIEN, Member IEEE Guest Editor LU YU, … Continue reading

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