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Instant sharing of user-generated video recordings has become a widely used service on platforms such as YouNow. Yet, it still poses technical challenges, as mobile upload speed and capacities are limited. One proposed solution to address these issues is video composition. It allows switching between multiple video streams–selecting the best source for a given time–for composing a live video of a...
Video streaming in wireless multihop networks is a challenge due to different capabilities of end-user devices and changing network conditions. This challenge is addressed at the application layer with adaptive video streaming schemes like dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), which is widely applied by content providers. DASH copes with diverse end-user device capabilities by storing several...
Meerkat, Twitter's Periscope and Facebook.Live are examples of the recently evolved trend for mobile live video broadcasting. Platform providers want to offer video streams in an appealing and high quality manner. A variety of quality assessment algorithms exist inspecting different modalities and offering varying accuracy and runtime behavior. This work proposes an adaptive selection of a quality...
This work demonstrates the effects of multi-layer adaptivity for a wireless live video streaming scenario. We investigate a specific type of adaptations, the so-called transitions, which switch between different network mechanisms during the runtime of an application. In comparison to a pure configuration adaptation, a transition is beneficial because a system may select those mechanisms that perform...
High quality video streaming over cellular networks is expensive for users and often limited by data caps. Offloading the traffic over other cheap wireless networks, e.g. WLAN, would be beneficial however they are often not available for mobile streaming sessions. A potential solution is to load video to a mobile device before the user accesses it, which is called prefetching. Prefetching requires...
A recent trend in user-generated video is to broadcast live video from mobile phones. Mobile broadcasting platforms such as YouNow or Periscope understood this trend and attract multiple thousands of concurrent views per second. Amateur produced mobile live video often suffers from only a limited duration of the recordings. Usually, the live recordings do not cover entire events. To address this problem...
Video streaming platforms like Twitch.tv or YouNow have attracted the attention of both users and researchers in the last few years. Users increasingly adopt these platforms to share user-generated videos while researchers study their usage patterns to learn how to provide better and new services.
Scalable video coding (SVC) can overcome the user heterogeneity issue, e.g., different screen resolutions or different connectivities, in video-streaming. In wireless multihop networks, the performance of SVC is not adequate, because SVC cannot adapt the lower layers. In order to adapt to changing environmental conditions, e.g., network topology, available resources or channel conditions, a cross-layer...
Mobile data traffic, particularly mobile video, grows at an unprecedented pace. Despite recent advances at the physical layer, today's wireless network infrastructure cannot keep up with this growth. This is partially due to the missing flexibility to adapt the physical layer continuously to best support both application level as well as network requirements. In this paper we show how to harness the...
The access to Online Social Networks (OSN) and to media shared over these platforms account for around 20% of today's mobile Internet traffic. For mobile device users, the access to media content and specifically videos is still challenging and costly. Mobile contracts usually have a data cap and connection qualities can vary greatly, depending on the cellular network coverage. Prefetching mechanisms...
Huge quantities of videos are shared via Online Social Networks (OSN) like Facebook and are watched on mobile devices. Internet connections via cellular networks (UMTS / LTE) require the scarce resources radio bandwidth and battery power. Prefetching of videos in areas of WLAN availability has the potential to reduce the power consumption in comparison to data transmission via cellular networks and...
Video sharing sites such as Youtube are prominent examples for the increasing demand of private camera owners to record, save and share their real life experiences as videos. Whereas professional video productions use advanced camera equipment in a controlled environment with skilled cameramen, User-Generated Video (UGV) differs significantly in regard of equipment, skill and thus in video quality...
Although the importance of video sharing and of social media is increasing from day to day, a full integration of videos into social media is not achieved yet. We have developed a system that maps the concept of hyper video ¨C allowing to annotate objects in a video ¨C to social media. We define this combination as social video that simultaneously allows a large number of users to contribute to the...
We propose a novel approach for tracking video objects in interactive multimedia systems. Instead of designing a single tracking algorithm that works well with some templates (video objects to be tracked) but fails with others, our adaptive algorithm uses three distinct tracking techniques with different strengths and weaknesses. The tracking technique that is selected for a given template depends...
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