ACM Multimedia 2019 and Reproducibility in Multimedia Research
The first months of the new calendar year, multimedia researchers traditionally are hard at work on their ACM Multimedia submissions. (This year the submission deadline is 1 April.) Questions of reproducibility, including those of data set availability and release, are at the forefront of everyone’s mind. In this edition of … Read moreReport from ACM ICMR 2018 – by Cathal Gurrin
Multimedia computing, indexing, and retrieval continue to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. ACM ICMR is the premier international conference that brings together experts and practitioners in the field for an annual conference. The eighth ACM International Conference on … Read moreSolving Complex Issues through Immersive Narratives — Does QoE Play a Role?
Introduction A transdisciplinary dialogue and innovative research, including technical and artistic research as well as digital humanities are necessary to solve complex issues. We need to support and produce creative practices, and engage in a critical reflection about the social and ethical dimensions of our current technology developments. At the … Read moreJPEG Column: 82nd JPEG Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal
The 82nd JPEG meeting was held in Lisbon, Portugal. Highlights of the meeting are progress on JPEG XL, JPEG XS, HTJ2K, JPEG Pleno, JPEG Systems and JPEG reference software. JPEG has been the most common representation format of digital images for more than 25 years. Other image representation formats have … Read moreMPEG Column: 125th MPEG Meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco
The original blog post can be found at the Bitmovin Techblog and has been modified/updated here to focus on and highlight research aspects. The 125th MPEG meeting concluded on January 18, 2019 in Marrakesh, Morocco with the following topics: Network-Based Media Processing (NBMP) – MPEG promotes NBMP to Committee Draft stage 3DoF+ … Read morePhD Thesis Summary
Title: Quality of experience characterization and provisioning in mobile cellular networks
Traditionally, previous generations of mobile cellular networks have been designed with Quality of Service (QoS) criteria in mind, so that they manage to meet specific service requirements. Quality of Experience (QoE) has, however, recently emerged as a concept, disrupting the design of future network generations by giving clear emphasis … Read more