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Open AccessPerformance analysis of H2BR: HTTP/2-based segment upgrading to improve the QoE in HAS
HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) plays a key role in over-the-top video streaming with the ability to reduce the video stall duration by adapting the quality of transmitted video segments to the network conditions. ...
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MCOM-Live: A Multi-Codec Optimization Model at the Edge for Live Streaming
HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is the predominant technique to deliver video contents across the Internet with the increasing demand of its applications. With the evolution of videos to deliver more immersive expe...
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ECAS-ML: Edge Computing Assisted Adaptation Scheme with Machine Learning for HTTP Adaptive Streaming
As the video streaming traffic in mobile networks is increasing, improving the content delivery process becomes crucial, e.g., by utilizing edge computing support. At an edge node, we can deploy adaptive bitra...
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Communication and Coordination for Drone Networks
Small drones are being utilized in monitoring, delivery of goods, public safety, and disaster management among other civil applications. Due to their sizes, capabilities, payload limitations, and limited fligh...
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Rule-based Stream Reasoning for Intelligent Administration of Content-Centric Networks
Content-Centric Networking (CCN) research addresses the mismatch between the modern usage of the Internet and its outdated architecture. Importantly, CCN routers use various caching strategies to locally cache co...
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Social media for crisis management: clustering approaches for sub-event detection
Social media is getting increasingly important for crisis management, as it enables the public to provide information in different forms: text, image and video which can be valuable for crisis management. Such...
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Sensory effects for ambient experiences in the World Wide Web
More and more content in various formats becomes available via the World Wide Web (WWW). Currently available Web browsers are able to access and interpret these contents (i.e., Web videos, text, image, and aud...
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Combined Mobile Ad-Hoc and Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Routing
The main assumption of many routing protocols for wireless mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) is that end-to-end paths exist in the network. In practice, situations exist where networks get partitioned and tradit...
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The Interplay of Technology Development and Media Convergence: Examples
This chapter explores the position that media convergence is characterized by interplaying “technology push” and “application pull” forces in the media world. Several examples will be discussed to illustrate h...
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Scalable Video Coding Impact on Networks
This paper describes the CELTIC project on ”Scalable Video Coding Impact on Networks” with the focus of designing a streaming system based on the Scalable Video Coding extension of the H.264/AVC standard. The ...
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Metadata-Based Content Management and Sharing System for Improved User Experience
In the past years the amount of multimedia content on the Internet or in home networks has been drastically increasing. Instead of buying traditional media (such as CDs or DVDs) users tend to buy online media....
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Enhancing the User Experience with the Sensory Effect Media Player and AmbientLib
Multimedia content is increasingly used in every area of our life. Still, each type of content only stimulates the visual and/or the hearing system. Thus, the user experience depends only on those two stimuli....
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Efficient SVC-to-AVC Conversion at a Media Aware Network Element
H.264/SVC, the Scalable Video Coding extension of the H.264/AVC video coding standard, features spatial, quality and temporal scalability. Backwards compatibility with legacy decoding devices is maintained thr...
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Bounded non-deterministic planning for multimedia adaptation
This paper proposes a novel combination of artificial intelligence planning and other techniques for improving decision-making in the context of multi-step multimedia content adaptation. In particular, it desc...
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Scalable Video Coding in Content-Aware Networks: Research Challenges and Open Issues
The demand for access to advanced, distributed media resources is nowadays omnipresent due to the availability of Internet connectivity almost anywhere and anytime, and of a variety of different devices. This ...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface)
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Natural-Language-Based Conversion of Images to Mobile Multimedia Experiences
We describe an approach for viewing any large, detail-rich picture on a small display by generating a video from the image, as taken by a virtual camera moving across it at varying distance. Our main innovatio...
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An Evaluation of Mobile End Devices in Multimedia Streaming Scenarios
This paper compares handhelds based on the iPhone and Android operating systems in multimedia streaming scenarios. We simulate typical Internet network impairments, i.e. packet delay and packet loss, and evalu...
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Signal, image and video processing (SIVP) special issue on “multimedia semantics, adaptation and personalization” Editorial
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Das MPEG-21 Multimedia-Framework
Der MPEG-21-Standard wird seit Anfang 2000 innerhalb der Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) [8] entwickelt und stellt im Wesentlichen Beschreibungsformate, in MPEG-21 als Werkzeuge bezeichnet, zum transparent...
