CS 598KN - Fall 2018 – Advanced Multimedia Systems

Reading List

1. Week - August 28 – August 30 (Media and Coding)

August 28: Introduction to Course and Video Media (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

August 30: Basics of Video Compression (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

2. Week – September 4 – September 6 (Media and Coding)

September 4: JPEG, JPEG 2000, MPEG, MPEG-4 Coding (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

September 6: H.264, H.265/HEVC Coding (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

3. Week – September 11 – September 13 (Multimedia Networks)

September 11: QoS and Multimedia Networks (presented by Jounsup Park)

September 13: Audio Coding and QoS in Multimedia Communication

MPEG Audio (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)
Nguyen, Armitage, “A Survey of Techniques for Internet Traffic Classification using Machine Learning” , IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 10(4), 2008. (presented and reviewed by Huajie Shao)

4. Week – September 18 – September 20 (Multimedia Streaming)

September 18: Introduction to Multimedia Streaming (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

September 20: Multimedia Streaming (presented by students)

Zhang, Jin, Ratnasamy, Wawrzynek Lee, “AWStream: Adaptive Wide-Area Streaming Analytics”, ACM SIGCOMM 2018 (presented and reviewed by Gerui Wang)

Ahsan, et al, “DASHing Towards Hollywood”, ACM Multimedia Systems, 2018 (presented and reviewed by Yen-Chieh Sung)

5. Week – September 25 – September 27 (Multimedia Streaming)

September 25: Caching and Patching (presented by students)

Koch et al. “Category-aware Hierarchical Caching for Video-on-Demand Content on YouTube”, ACM Multimedia Systems 2018. (presented and reviewed by Tianshi Wang)

Hlavacs, Buchinger, “Hierarchical Video Patching with Optimal Server Bandwidth”, ACM TOMCCAP, 2008, 4(1) (presented and reviewed by Junpeng Qiu)

September 27: Multimedia Protocols (presented by students)

Spiteri, Sitaraman, Sparacio, “From Theory to Practice: Improving Bitrate Adaptation in the DASH Reference Player”, ACM MMSys 2018.(presented and reviewed by Gerui Wang)

Arisu, Begen, “Quickly Starting Media Streams Using QUIC”, ACM PacketVideo Workshop, 2018 (presented and reviewed by Hsuan-Chi Kuo)

6. Week – October 2 – October 4 (Multimedia Streaming)

October 2: Mobile/Wireless Video Streaming (presented by students)

B. Taani, R. Zimmerman, “Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Bandwidth Maps for Geo-Predictive Video Streaming in Mobile Environments”, ACM MM’16, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (presented and reviewed by Hsin-Yu Hou)

Tsilimantos et al, “Classifying flows and buffer state for YouTube’s HTTP adaptive streaming service in mobile networks”, ACM MMSys 2018. (presented and reviewed by Ben Stoehr)

October 4: Introduction to Multimedia Distribution Networks (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

7. Week - October 9 – October 11 (Multimedia Distribution Networks )

October 9: Video Distribution (presented by students)

Corbillon et al. “Dynamic Adaptive Streaming for Multi-Viewpoint Omnidirectional Videos”, ACM MMSys 2018 (presented and reviewed by Junpeng Qiu)

Yi, et al. “LAVEA: Latency-aware Video Analytics on Edge Computing Platform”, ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2017. (presented and reviewed by Zhe Yang)

October 11: Peer-to-Peer Streaming and CDN (presented by students)

· Yan et al. “LiveJack: Integrating CDNs and Edge Clouds for Live Content Broadcasting”, ACM Multimedia 2017. (presented and reviewed by Shengzhong Liu)

· Zhang et al, “Understanding PPLive Traffic over Mobile Networks”, IEEE 2014. (presented and reviewed by Shengzhong Liu)

8. Week – October 16 – October 18 (Multimedia Distribution Networks)

October 16: Content Distribution (presented by students)

· Tian, Alimi, Yang, “ShadowStream: Performance Evaluation as a Capability in Production Internet Live Streaming” , ACM SIGCOMM 2012 (presented and reviewed by Ben Stoehr)

· Zhe et al, “When Cloud Meets Uncertain Crowd: An Auction Approach for Crowdsourced Livecast Transcoding”, ACM Multimedia 2017. (presented and reviewed by Tianshi Wang)

October 18: Multimedia Operating Systems (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

9. Week – October 23 – October 25

October 23: Multimedia Storage and File Systems (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

October 25: NO CLASS (Take-Home Midterm Exam)

posted October 23, due October 30

10. Week - October 30 – November 1 (Mobile Multimedia)

October 30: Introduction to Mobile and Wireless Multimedia (presented by Jounsup Park)

November 1: Mobile Multimedia (presented by students)

Hefeeda, Hsu, “Design and Evaluation of a Testbed for Mobile TV Networks”, ACM TOMCCAP, 2012, 8(1) . (presented and reviewed by Tai-Sheng Cheng)

T. Kamarainen, M. Siekkinen, A. Ylia-Jaaski, W. Zhang, P. Hui, “A Measurement Study on Achieving Imperceptible Latency in Mobile Cloud Gaming”, ACM MMSys 2017, Taipei, Taiwan. (presented and reviewed by Raymond Cheng)

11. Week – November 6 – November 8 (Machine Learning in Multimedia Systems)

November 6: Analytics in Multimedia Systems (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

November 8: Analytics in Multimedia Systems

Jiang et al, “Chameleon: Scalable Adaptation of Video Analytics”, ACM SIGCOMM 2018. (presented and reviewed by Huajie Shao)

Hanhirova et al, “Latency and Throughput Characterization of Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Computer Vision”, ACM MMSys 2018. (presented and reviewed by Zhe Yang)

12. Week – November 13 – November 15 (Synchronization and Video 360)

November 13: Introduction to A/V Synchronization (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

November 15: Introduction to Video 360/QoE/AR/VR Systems (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

13. Week – November 20 – November 22

Thanksgiving Break – NO CLASS

14. Week – November 27 – November 29 (Video 360)

November 27: Video 360 Streaming (presented by students)

Xiao et al, “OpTile: Toward Optimal Tiling in 360-degree Video Streaming”, ACM Multimedia 2017 (presented and reviewed by Yen-Chieh Sung)

Almquist et al. “The prefetch aggressiveness tradeoff in 360 video streaming”, ACM MMSys 2018. (presented and reviewed by Raymond Cheng)

November 29: Video 360 and Teleimmersion (presented by students)

Yang et al, “ViewCast: View dissemination and management for multi-party 3D teleimmersive environments”, ACM Multimedia 2007. (presented by Klara Nahrstedt)

Zare et al, “6K Effective Resolution with 4K HEVC Decoding Capability for OMAF-compliant 360 Video Streaming”, ACM Packet Video Workshop, 2018. (presented and reviewed by Hsuan-Chi Kuo)

15. Week – December 4 – December 6 (Quality of Experience)

December 4: QoE (presented by students)

Han, Song, “QoE-Aware Video Storage Power Management based on Hot and Cold Data Classification”, ACM NOSSDAV 2018. (presented and reviewed by Tai-Sheng Cheng)

Barman et al, “An Evaluation of Video Quality Assessment Metrics for Passive Gaming Video Streaming”, ACM Packet Video Workshop. 2018. (presented and reviewed by Hsin-Yu Hou)