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Prof. Dr. Christian Timmerer is the Chief Innovation Officer and a co-founder at Bitmovin. His work focuses on research and standardization in the area of adaptive video streaming, video adaptation, and Quality of Experience. He is an active member of ISO/IEC MPEG and editor for the MPEG-21, MPEG-M, MPEG-V, and MPEG-DASH standards, and thus has also a wide range of knowledge, overview, and contacts within the international technology market. He holds the position of a Full Professor for Multimedia Systems at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt where he had published more than 300 papers at international conferences and journals.
As we’re approaching the end of 2019 one may have noticed various articles describing predictions for media, entertainment, and video tech in 2020. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of the most valuable trends in Video Tech we anticipate for 2020 rather than just another set of predictions. Hopefully, this will…
Media Formats progress towards Low Complexity and Consumer Interactivity “Shaping the Future of Video” is not just a catchy slogan that we like to throw around, rather it’s Bitmovin’s company vision. Not only do we keep a close eye on the industry trends, but we’re actively taking part in standardization activities to improve the quality…
Co- Founder Feature: Happy World Standards Day 2019 – Video Standards Create a Global Stage Today, October 14, 2019, we celebrate the World Standards Day, “the day honors the efforts of the thousands of experts who develop voluntary standards within standards development organizations” (SDOs). Many SDOs such as W3C, IETF, ITU, ISO (incl. JPEG and MPEG) celebrate this with individual statements, highlighting the importance of standards…
The 127th MPEG meeting concluded on July 12, 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden with the following topics: Versatile Video Coding (VVC) enters formal approval stage, experts predict 35-60% improvement over HEVC Essential Video Coding (EVC) promoted to Committee Draft Common Media Application Format (CMAF) 2nd edition promoted to Final Draft International Standard Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over…
The 126th MPEG meeting concluded on March 29, 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland with the following topics: Three Degrees of Freedom Plus (3DoF+) – MPEG evaluates responses to the Call for Proposal and starts a new project on Metadata for Immersive Video Neural Network Compression for Multimedia Applications – MPEG evaluates responses to the Call for…
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+ Visual – MPEG issues Call for Proposals on Immersive 3DoF+ Video Coding Technology MPEG-5 Essential Video Coding (EVC) – MPEG starts work on MPEG-5 Essential Video…
The 124th MPEG meeting concluded on October 12, 2018 in Macao S.A.R., China. Discussions and announcement topics covered a range of areas from licensing to quality and efficiency improvements: Point Cloud Compression – MPEG promotes a video-based point cloud compression technology to the Committee Draft stage Compressed Representation of Neural Networks – MPEG issues Call…
The 123rd MPEG meeting concluded on July 20, 2018 in Ljubljana, SI with the following topics: MPEG issues call for evidence on compressed representation of neural networks Network-Based Media Processing (NBMP) – MPEG evaluates responses to call for proposal and kicks off its technical work MPEG finalizes 1st edition of technical report on architectures for…
The 122nd MPEG meeting concluded on April 20, 2018 in San Diego, CA, USA with the following topics: Versatile Video Coding (VVC) project starts strongly in the Joint Video Experts Team MPEG issues Call for Proposals on Network-based Media Processing MPEG finalizes 7th edition of MPEG-2 Systems Standard MPEG enhances ISO Base Media File Format…
The 121st MPEG meeting concluded on January 26, 2018 in Gwangju, Korea with the following topics: Compact Descriptors for Video Analysis (CDVA) reaches Committee Draft level MPEG-G standards reach Committee Draft for metadata and APIs MPEG issues Calls for Visual Test Material for Immersive Applications Internet of Media Things (IoMT) reaches Committee Draft level MPEG…
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