This article presents an overview of the recent standardization activities for point cloud
compression (PCC). A point cloud is a 3D data representation used in diverse applications …

Abstract Multimedia oriented Internet of Things (IoT) enables pervasive and real-time
communication of video, audio and image data among devices in an immediate …

In learning-based approaches to image compression, codecs are developed by optimizing a
computational model to minimize a rate-distortion objective. Currently, the most effective …

The emerging class of wide-area streaming analytics faces the challenge of scarce and
variable WAN bandwidth. Non-adaptive applications built with TCP or UDP suffer from …

In Discorrelated Images Shane Denson examines how computer-generated digital images
displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had …

In region-of-interest (ROI)-based video coding, ROI parts of the frame are encoded with
higher quality than non-ROI parts. At low bit rates, such encoding may produce attention …

HTTP adaptive streaming is being increasingly deployed by network content providers, such
as Netflix and YouTube. By dividing video content into data chunks encoded at different …

In the 17 years since the first edition of Fundamentals of Multimedia, the field and
applications of multimedia have flourished and are undergoing evermore rapid growth and …

With increasing use of mobile devices, photo sharing services are experiencing greater
popularity. Aside from providing storage, photo sharing services enable bandwidth-efficient …

Encoding videos as neural networks is a recently proposed approach that allows new forms
of video processing. However, traditional techniques still outperform such neural video …