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Immersive video offers the freedom to navigate inside virtualized environment. Instead of streaming the bulky immersive videos entirely, a viewport (also referred to as field of view, FoV) adaptive streaming is preferred. We often stream…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Shaowei Xie , Qiu Shen , Yiling Xu , Qiaojian Qian , Shaowei Wang , Zhan Ma , Wenjun Zhang

In this paper, we would like to investigate optimal wireless streaming of a multi-quality tiled 360 virtual reality (VR) video from a server to multiple users. To this end, we propose to maximally exploit potential multicast opportunities…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Kaixuan Long , Ying Cui , Chencheng Ye , Zhi Liu

A 360 virtual reality (VR) video, recording a scene of interest in every direction, provides VR users with immersive viewing experience. However, transmission of a 360 VR video which is of a much larger size than a traditional video to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Kaixuan Long , Chencheng Ye , Ying Cui , Zhi Liu

This paper investigates adaptive streaming of one or multiple tiled 360 videos from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to one or multiple single-antenna users, respectively, in a multi-carrier wireless system. We aim to maximize the video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Lingzhi Zhao , Ying Cui , Zhi Liu , Yunfei Zhang , Sheng Yang

Remote communication has rapidly become a part of everyday life in both professional and personal contexts. However, popular video conferencing applications present limitations in terms of quality of communication, immersion and social…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Shishir Subramanyam , Irene Viola , Jack Jansen , Evangelos Alexiou , Alan Hanjalic , Pablo Cesar

For $360^{\circ}$ video streaming, FoV-adaptive coding that allocates more bits for the predicted user's field of view (FoV) is an effective way to maximize the rendered video quality under the limited bandwidth. We develop a low-latency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yixiang Mao , Liyang Sun , Yong Liu , Yao Wang

In contrast to traditional videos, the imaging in virtual reality (VR) is 360{\deg}, and it consumes larger bandwidth to transmit video contents. To reduce bandwidth consumption, tile-based streaming has been proposed to deliver the focused…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Chiao-Wen Lin , Chih-Hang Wang , De-Nian Yang , Wanjiun Liao

We propose a robust scheme for streaming 360-degree immersive videos to maximize the quality of experience (QoE). Our streaming approach introduces a holistic analytical framework built upon the formal method of stochastic optimization. We…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Arnob Ghosh , Vaneet Aggarwal , Feng Qian

360-degree video streaming provides users with immersive experience by letting users determine their field-of-views (FoVs) in real time. To enhance the users' quality of experience (QoE) given their limited bandwidth, recent works have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Ming Tang , Vincent W. S. Wong

In a decade, the adaptive quality control of video streaming and the super-resolution (SR) technique have been deeply explored. As edge devices improved to have exceptional processing capability than ever before, streaming users can enhance…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Minseok Choi , Won Joon Yun , Joongheon Kim

Consumer Virtual Reality (VR) has been widely used in various application areas, such as entertainment and medicine. In spite of the superb immersion experience, to enable high-quality VR on untethered mobile devices remains an extremely…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Songzhou Yang , Yuan He , Xiaolong Zheng

Volumetric video streaming offers immersive 3D experiences but faces significant challenges due to high bandwidth requirements and latency issues in transmitting detailed content in real time. Traditional methods like point cloud streaming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Boyan Li , Yongting Chen , Dayou Zhang , Fangxin Wang

Media streaming has been adopted for a variety of applications such as entertainment, visualization, and design. Unlike video/audio streaming where the content is usually consumed sequentially, 3D applications such as gaming require…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Shaoyu Chen , Budmonde Duinkharjav , Xin Sun , Li-Yi Wei , Stefano Petrangeli , Jose Echevarria , Claudio Silva , Qi Sun

In this paper, we study the server-side rate adaptation problem for streaming tile-based adaptive 360-degree videos to multiple users who are competing for transmission resources at the network bottleneck. Specifically, we develop a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Junni Zou , Chenglin Li , Chengming Liu , Qin Yang , Hongkai Xiong , Eckehard Steinbach

Volumetric media, popularly known as holograms, need to be delivered to users using both on-demand and live streaming, for new augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences. As in video streaming, hologram streaming must…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Jounsup Park , Philip A. Chou , Jenq-Neng Hwang

The streaming of 360$^\circ$ videos is one of the most bandwidth-demanding virtual reality (VR) applications, as the video must be encoded in ultra-high resolution to ensure an immersive experience. To optimize its transmission, current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Henrique Domingues Garcia , Marcelo Menezes de Carvalho

The advent of 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has significantly enhanced the quality of volumetric video representation. Meanwhile, in contrast to conventional volumetric video, 3DGS video poses significant challenges for streaming due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Han Gong , Qiyue Li , Zhi Liu , Hao Zhou , Peng Yuan Zhou , Zhu Li , Jie Li

Volumetric video has emerged as a prominent medium within the realm of eXtended Reality (XR) with the advancements in computer graphics and depth capture hardware. Users can fully immersive themselves in volumetric video with the ability to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Kaiyuan Hu , Yongting Chen , Kaiying Han , Junhua Liu , Haowen Yang , Yili Jin , Boyan Li , Fangxin Wang

Wirelessly streaming high quality 360 degree videos is still a challenging problem. When there are many users watching different 360 degree videos and competing for the computing and communication resources, the streaming algorithm at hand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Anis Elgabli , Mohammed S. Elbamby , Cristina Perfecto , Mounssif Krouka , Mehdi Bennis , Vaneet Aggarwal

Video streaming, in various forms of video on demand (VOD), live, and 360 degree streaming, has grown dramatically during the past few years. In comparison to traditional cable broadcasters whose contents can only be watched on TVs, video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xiangbo Li , Mahmoud Darwich , Magdy Bayoumi , Mohsen Amini Salehi