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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.
This blog post is also available at at blog.timmerer.com and SIGMM records. The 112th MPEG meeting in Warsaw, Poland was a special meeting for me. It was my 50th MPEG meeting, which roughly equates to one year of MPEG meetings (i.e., I’ve spent one year of my life in MPEG meetings incl. traveling – scary, isn’t it? ……
Multimedia streaming over HTTP is no longer a niche research topic as it has entered our daily lives. The common assumption is that it is deployed on top of the existing infrastructure, utilizing application (HTTP) and transport (TCP) layer protocols as is. Interestingly, standards such as MPEG’s Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) do not mandate…
This is part one of a three part series analysing the impact of Adaptive Streaming, specifically MPEG-DASH, on Quality of Experience (QoE). Real-time entertainment services such as high quality video streaming currently account for more than 60% of the Internet traffic, e.g., in North America’s fixed access networks as shown in Figure 1. Interestingly, these…
The 108th MPEG meeting was held at the Palacio de Congresos de Valencia in Spain featuring the following highlights (don’t worry about the acronyms, this is on purpose and they will be explained further below): Requirements: PSAF, SCC, CDVA Systems: M2TS, MPAF, Green Metadata Video: CDVS, WVC, VCB JCT-VC: SHVC, SCC JCT-3D: MV/3D-HEVC, 3D-AVC Audio:…
January, 2014, San Jose, CA, USA MPEG Receives an Emmy Award The MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS; formally known as Rec. ITU-T H.222.0 | ISO/IEC 13818-1) has been awarded the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It is the fourth time MPEG has received an Emmy award. The…
November, 2013, Geneva, Switzerland Here comes a news report from the 106th MPEG in Geneva, Switzerland which was actually on the same day as the Austrian national day and Austrian Airlines had a nice present (see picture) for their passengers. The official press release can be found here. In this meeting, ISO/IEC 23008-1 (i.e., MPEG-H…
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