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Several groups are currently investigating how deep learning may advance the state-of-the-art in image and video coding. An open question is how to make deep neural networks work in conjunction with existing (and upcoming) video codecs,…
The demand for high-quality, real-time video streaming has grown exponentially, with 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) becoming the new standard for many applications such as live broadcasting, TV services, and interactive cloud gaming. This…
There is nowadays a growing demand in vehicular communications for real-time applications requiring video assistance. The new state-of-the-art high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard is very promising for real-time video streaming. It…
In the last decade, video workflows in the cinema production ecosystem have presented new use cases for video streaming technology. These new workflows, e.g. in On-set Virtual Production, present the challenge of requiring precise quality…
Streaming video understanding requires models to robustly encode, store, and retrieve information from a continuous video stream to support accurate video question answering (VQA). Existing state-of-the-art approaches rely on key-value…
We propose TQCodec, a neural audio codec designed for high-bitrate, high-fidelity music streaming. Unlike existing neural codecs that primarily target ultra-low bitrates (<= 16kbps), TQCodec operates at 44.1 kHz and supports bitrates from…
In recent years, the field of learned video compression has witnessed rapid advancement, exemplified by the latest neural video codecs DCVC-DC that has outperformed the upcoming next-generation codec ECM in terms of compression ratio.…
Adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) over the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which raises numerous delicate questions, is nowadays almost the only approach to video streaming. This paper presents elementary solutions to three key issues:…
The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard has been recently finalized by the Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET). Compared to the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, VVC offers about 50% compression efficiency gain, in terms of…
Nowadays, an enormous amount of videos are streamed every day to countless users, all using different devices and networks. These videos must be adapted in order to provide users with the most suitable video representation based on their…
Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) relies on the effective coordination of slow-acting devices, such as OLTCs and CBs, and fast-acting devices, such as SVGs and PV inverters, typically implemented through a hierarchical multi-stage…
Recent developments in optical sensors enable a wide range of applications for multispectral imaging, e.g., in surveillance, optical sorting, and life-science instrumentation. Increasing spatial and spectral resolution allows creating…
The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard significantly improves compression efficiency over its predecessor, HEVC, but at the cost of substantially higher computational complexity, particularly in intra-frame prediction. This stage employs…
The widely used adaptive HTTP streaming requires an efficient algorithm to encode the same video to different resolutions. In this paper, we propose a fast block structure determination algorithm based on the AV1 codec that accelerates high…
Recent deep-learning-based video compression methods brought coding gains over conventional codecs such as AVC and HEVC. However, learning-based codecs generally require considerable computation time and model complexity. In this paper, we…
The knowledge of future throughput variations in mobile networks becomes more and more possible today thanks to the rich contextual information provided by mobile applications and services and smartphone sensors. It is even likely that such…
Modern smart vision sensors need on-device intelligence to process video streams, as cloud computing is often impractical due to bandwidth, latency, and privacy constraints. However, these sensory systems typically rely on ultra-low-power…
3D video coding is one of the most popular research area in multimedia. This paper reviews the recent progress of the coding technologies for multiview video (MVV) and free view-point video (FVV) which is represented by MVV and depth maps.…
In this paper, we consider multi-quality multicast beamforming of a video stream from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to multiple single-antenna users receiving different qualities of the same video stream, via scalable video coding…