Talks and Publications

Below is the list of my recent talks and publications (at Networked Media and OzU, i.e., post-Cisco era). For Cisco talks and publications, see this; for my PhD research, see this.

Conference and Industry Talks, and Tutorials

(Related papers are available below)

  1. Adaptive Streaming of Content-Aware-Encoded Videos in dash.js (link)
    VSF May Meeting Series - May 2021
  2. Demystifying Video Delivery Protocols (link)
    Streaming Video Alliance Webinar - July 2020
  3. Bandwidth Prediction for Multi-Bitrate Streaming at Low Latency (link)
    Kitchener-Waterloo Video Technology Meetup - June 2020
  4. Bandwidth Prediction for Multi-Bitrate Streaming at Low Latency (slides/video)
    DVB Webinar: DASH: from On-demand to Large Scale Live for Premium Services - Mar. 2020
  5. Make Streaming Great Again (link)
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Jan. 2020
    • Jan. 10th: Ege University
  6. Make Streaming Great Again (link, slides)
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Dec. 2019
    • Dec. 9th: Portland State University
  7. Impact of New Protocols: What Happens When Everybody DASHes? (link, slides)
    Media Streaming Meets 5G - Dec. 2019
  8. A Journey towards Fully Immersive Media Access (link, slides)
    ACM Multimedia Tutorial - Oct. 2019
  9. Low Latency: Encoding, Delivery and Players
    Mile High Video Panel Session - July 2019
  10. Algorithms and Formats for Adaptive Streaming
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - July 2019
    • July 5th: University of Oslo
    • July 12th: Chalmers University of Technology
  11. Bandwidth Prediction in Low-Latency Chunked Streaming (slides)
    ACM NOSSDAV - June 2019
  12. Streaming on Steroids: Are We There Yet? (link)
    ACM Multimedia 2019 TPC Meeting and Workshop - June 2019
  13. Bandwidth Prediction in Low-Latency Chunked Streaming (link)
    8th Media Web Symp. - May 2019
  14. Make Streaming Great Again
    Sky Technology Conference (Keynote, internal) - May 2019
  15. Algorithms and Formats for Adaptive Streaming
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Oct. 2018
    • Oct. 10th: University of Macau
    • Oct. 15th: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (link)
  16. Algorithms and Formats for Adaptive Streaming (link, slides)
    Mile High Video - July 2018
  17. Delivering Traditional and Omnidirectional Media (link, slides)
    IEEE ICME Tutorial - July 2018
  18. Ending Streaming Format Wars with CMAF (link)
    7th Media Web Symp. - May 2018
  19. Is it the End of the Streaming Format Wars?
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Apr. 2018
    • Apr. 16th: IEEE San Diego Section
    • Apr. 23rd: University of California Berkeley
  20. 50 Shades of Streaming with DASH
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Mar. 2018
    • Mar. 21st: Kingston University London
    • Mar. 22nd: Twitter London
  21. Anatomy of a DASH Client (video)
    DASH Workshop - Aug. 2017
  22. Adaptive Streaming of Traditional and Omnidirectional Media (link)
    ACM SIGCOMM Tutorial - Aug. 2017
  23. Scaling Adaptive Streaming Systems with Network Support
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Aug. 2017
    • Aug. 15th: University of Washington
  24. Adaptive Streaming of Traditional and Omnidirectional Media (slides)
    IEEE ICME Tutorial - July 2017
  25. Scaling Adaptive Streaming Systems with Network Support
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - May 2017
    • May 8th: Technical University of Munich (TUM)
    • May 18th: Fraunhofer, HHI
  26. Scaling Adaptive Streaming Systems with Network Support
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker Program - Mar. 2017
    • Mar. 27th: Nanyang Technological University
    • Mar. 28th: National University of Singapore (link)
    • Mar. 29th: University of New South Wales
    • Mar. 29th: Engineers Australia (Sydney Section)
  27. Scaling Adaptive Streaming Systems with Network Support
    IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture Tour - Mar. 2017 (flyer)
    • Mar. 6 and 7th: Polytechnic University of Bari
    • Mar. 9th: University of Catania
    • Mar. 13th: University of Naples Federico II
    • Mar. 15th: University of Rome Tor Vergata
    • Mar. 17th: University of L'Aquila
  28. More Juice Less Bits: Content Aware Streaming
    ACM MMSys Keynote - May 2016

Journal and Magazine Publications

  1. Abdelhak Bentaleb, May Lim, Mehmet N. Akcay, Ali C. Begen, Sarra Hammoudi and Roger Zimmermann, "Toward one-second latency: evolution of live media streaming," under review [link]
  2. Abdelhak Bentaleb, May Lim, Mehmet N. Akcay, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "Bitrate adaptation and guidance with meta reinforcement learning," IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, to appear (DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2024.3376560) [link]
  3. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Mehmet N. Akcay, May Lim, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "BoB: bandwidth prediction for real-time communications using heuristic and reinforcement learning," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 25, pp. 6930-6945, 2023 (DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2022.3216456) [link]
  4. Ali C. Begen, Yasser Syed and Alex Giladi, "Use of common media client and server data to improve streaming playback performance," SMPTE Motion Imaging J., vol. 132/6, pp. 55-60, July 2023 (DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2023.3279467) [link]
  5. Burak Kara, Mehmet N. Akcay, Ali C. Begen, Saba Ahsan, Igor D.D. Curcio and Emre B. Aksu, "Could head motions affect quality when viewing 360° videos?," IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 30/2, pp. 28-37, Apr./June 2023 (DOI: 10.1109/MMUL.2022.3215089) [link]
  6. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Mehmet N. Akcay, May Lim, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "Catching the moment with LoL+ in Twitch-like low-latency live streaming platforms," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 24, pp. 2300-2314, 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2021.3079288) [link]
  7. Ali C. Begen, Mehmet N. Akcay, Abdelhak Bentaleb and Alex Giladi, "Adaptive streaming of content-aware-encoded videos in dash.js," SMPTE Motion Imaging J., vol. 131/4, pp. 30-38, May 2022 (DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2022.3160560) [link]
  8. Ali C. Begen, Abdelhak Bentaleb, Daniel Silhavy, Stefan Pham, Roger Zimmermann and Will Law, "Road to salvation: streaming clients and content delivery networks working together," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 59/11, pp. 123-128, Nov. 2021, (DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.121.2100137) [link]
  9. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen, Saad Harous and Roger Zimmermann, "Data-driven bandwidth prediction models and automated model selection for low latency," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 23, pp. 2588-2601, 2021 (DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2020.3013387) [link]
  10. Jeroen van der Hooft, Maria Torres Vega, Tim Wauters, Christian Timmerer, Ali C. Begen, Filip De Turck and Raimund Schatz, "From capturing to rendering: volumetric media delivery with six degrees of freedom," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 58/10, pp. 49-55, Oct. 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2000242) [link]
  11. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Christian Timmerer, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "Performance analysis of ACTE: a bandwidth prediction method for low-latency chunked streaming," ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput., Commun., and Appl., vol. 16/2s, pp. 69:1-69:24, June 2020 (DOI: 10.1145/3387921) [link]
  12. Sevket Arisu, Ertan Yildiz and Ali C. Begen, "Game of protocols: is QUIC ready for prime time streaming?" Int. J. Network Management, Special Issue on QoE-centric Analysis and Management of Communication Networks, vol. 30/3, pp. e2063, May/June 2020 (DOI: 10.1002/nem.2063) [link]
  13. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen, Saad Harous and Roger Zimmermann, "Game of streaming players: is consensus viable or an illusion?" ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput., Commun., and Appl., vol. 15/2s, pp. 65:1-65:30, July 2019 (DOI: 10.1145/3336496) [link]
  14. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Bayan Taani, Ali C. Begen, Christian Timmerer and Roger Zimmermann, "A survey on bitrate adaptation schemes for streaming media over HTTP," IEEE Commun. Surveys Tuts., vol. 21/1, pp. 562-585, Firstquarter 2019 (DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2862938) [link]
  15. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "ORL-SDN: online reinforcement learning for SDN-enabled HTTP adaptive streaming," ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput., Commun., and Appl., vol. 14/3, pp. 71:1-71:28, Aug. 2018 (DOI: 10.1145/3219752) [link]
  16. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "QoE-aware bandwidth broker for HTTP adaptive streaming flows in an SDN-enabled HFC network," IEEE Trans. Broadcast., Special Issue on Quality of Experience for Advanced Broadcast Services, vol. 64/2, pp. 575-589, June 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2018.2816789) [link]
  17. Emmanuel Thomas, M.O. van Deventer, Thomas Stockhammer, Ali C. Begen, Mary-Luc Champel and Ozgur Oyman, "Application of SAND technology in DASH-enabled content delivery networks and server environments," SMPTE Motion Imaging J., vol. 127/1, pp. 48-54, Jan./Feb. 2018 (DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2017.2762528) [link]
  18. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen, Roger Zimmermann and Saad Harous, "SDNHAS: an SDN-enabled architecture to optimize QoE in HTTP adaptive streaming," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, Special Issue on Video over Future Networks: Emerging Technologies, Infrastructures, and Applications, vol. 19/10, pp. 2136-2151, Oct. 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2017.2733344) [link]
  19. Emmanuel Thomas, M.O. van Deventer, Thomas Stockhammer, Ali C. Begen and Jeroen Famaey, "Enhancing MPEG DASH performance via server and network assistance," SMPTE Motion Imaging J., vol. 126/1, pp. 22-27, Jan./Feb. 2017 (DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2016.2632338) [link]
  20. Ali C. Begen, "Spending quality time with the Web video," IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 20/6, pp. 42-48, Nov./Dec. 2016 (DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2016.49) [link]

Editorials

  1. Michael Zink, Laura Toni and Ali C. Begen, "Introduction to the best papers from the ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) 2019 and co-located workshops," ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput., Commun., and Appl., vol. 16/2s, pp. 66:1-66:2, June 2020 (DOI: 10.1145/3398384) [link]
  2. Zhou Su, Qing Fang, Honggang Wang, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Ali C. Begen, Qiang Ye and Andrea Cavallaro, "Guest editorial trustworthiness in social multimedia analytics and delivery," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 21/3, pp. 537-538, Mar. 2019 (DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2019.2899279) [link]
  3. Ali C. Begen, Patrick-Benjamin Bok and Panagiotis Saltsidis, "Networking standards," IEEE Commun. Standards Mag., vol. 1/4, pp. 70, Dec. 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.2017.8258606) [link]
  4. Christian Timmerer and Ali C. Begen, "Best papers of the 2016 ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference and Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) 2016," ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput., Commun., and Appl., vol. 13/3s, pp. 40:1-40:2, June 2017 (DOI: 10.1145/3084539) [link]
  5. Ali C. Begen, Patrick-Benjamin Bok and Panagiotis Saltsidis, "Networking standards," IEEE Commun. Standards Mag., vol. 1/1, pp. 74, Mar. 2017 (DOI: 10.1109/COMSTD.2017.7885242) [link]
  6. Ali C. Begen, Mario Kolberg and Madjid Merabti, "Consumer communications and the next generation broadcast networks," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 54/12, pp. 140, Dec. 2016 (DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2016.7786124) [link]
  7. Han Hu, Yonggang Wen, Honggang Wang and Ali Begen, "Cloud mobile media," China Comm., vol. 13/8, pp. iv-vi, Aug. 2016 (DOI: 10.1109/CC.2016.7563683) [link]
  8. Ali C. Begen, Mario Kolberg and Madjid Merabti, "Consumer communications and networking," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 54/6, pp. 87, June 2016 (DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2016.7497772) [link]

Conference Publications

  1. Stefan Pham, Philip Nys, Minh Nguyen, Daniel Silhavy, Ali C. Begen, Stefan Arbanowski and Stephan Steglich, "Toward WebTransport support in dash.js," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, Feb. 2024 (DOI: 10.1145/3638036.3640264) [link]
  2. Zafer Gurel, Tugce Erkilic Civelek and Ali C. Begen, "This is the way: prioritization in media-over-QUIC transport," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, Feb. 2024 (DOI: 10.1145/3638036.3640280) [link]
  3. Yuriy Reznik, Guillem Cabrera, Daniel Silhavy, Stefan Pham, Alex Giladi, Alex Balk, Ali C. Begen and Will Law, "Content steering: a standard for multi-CDN streaming," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, Feb. 2024 (DOI: 10.1145/3638036.3640293) [link]
  4. Daniel Silhavy, Stefan Pham, Alex Giladi, Alex Balk, Ali C. Begen and Will Law, "Real-time streaming reliability and performance optimization using content steering," in Proc. SMPTE Media Tech. Summit, Hollywood, CA, Oct. 2023 (DOI: 10.5594/M002031) [link]
  5. Zafer Gurel, Tugce Erkilic Civelek, Ali C. Begen and Alex Giladi, "A fresh look at live sports streaming with prioritized media-over-QUIC transport," in Proc. Int. Broadcasting Convention Conf. (IBC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sept. 2023 [link]
  6. Mehmet N. Akcay, Burak Kara, Ali C. Begen, Saba Ahsan, Igor D.D. Curcio, Kashyap Kammachi-Sreedhar and Emre Aksu, "Quality upshifting with auxiliary I-frame splicing," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Ghent, Belgium, June 2023 (DOI: 10.1109/QoMEX58391.2023.10178447) [link]
  7. Zafer Gurel, Tugce Erkilic Civelek, Atakan Bodur, Senem Bilgin, Deniz Yeniceri and Ali C. Begen, "Media over QUIC: initial testing, findings and results," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems Conf. (MMSys), Vancouver, BC, June 2023 (DOI: 10.1145/3587819.3593937) [link]
  8. Burak Kara, Gwendal Simon, Bruno Tuffin, Jerome Vieron and Ali C. Begen, "Studying green video distribution as a whole," in Proc. Int. Wksp. Green Multimedia Systems (GMSys), Vancouver, BC, June 2023 (DOI: 10.1145/3593908.3593944) [link]
  9. Abdelhak Bentaleb, May Lim, Mehmet N. Akcay, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "Meta reinforcement learning for rate adaptation," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Communications (INFOCOM), New York, NY, May 2023 (DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10228951) [link]
  10. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Mehmet N. Akcay, May Lim, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "Bandwidth prediction in low-latency media transport," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, May 2023 (DOI: 10.1145/3588444.3591017) [link]
  11. Daniel Silhavy, Will Law, Stefan Pham, Ali C. Begen, Alex Giladi and Alex Balk, "Dynamic CDN switching - DASH-IF content steering in dash.js," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, May 2023 (DOI: 10.1145/3588444.3591027) [link]
  12. Rufael Mekuria, Mohamad Raad and Ali C. Begen, "Redundant encoding and packaging for segmented live media," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, May 2023 (DOI: 10.1145/3588444.3591029) [link]
  13. Stefan Pham, Will Law, Ali C. Begen, Daniel Silhavy, Bertrand Berthelot, Stefan Arbanowski and Stephan Steglich, "Common media server data (CMSD) - update on implementations and validation of key use cases," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, May 2023 (DOI: 10.1145/3588444.3591031) [link]
  14. Zafer Gurel, Tugce Erkilic Civelek and Ali C. Begen, "Need for low latency: media over QUIC," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, May 2023 (DOI: 10.1145/3588444.3591033) [link]
  15. Burak Kara, Mehmet N. Akcay, Ali C. Begen, Saba Ahsan, Igor D.D. Curcio, Kashyap Kammachi-Sreedhar and Emre Aksu, "Benchmarking the second edition of the omnidirectional media format standard," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Multimedia (ISM), Naples, Italy, Dec. 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/ISM55400.2022.00038) [link]
  16. Louay Bassbouss, Ali C. Begen, Daniel Silhavy, Omar Sherif Gamal Attia, Julia Kenyon, Ofer Shem Tov and Jonas Birmé, "Streamlining WebRTC and DASH for near-real-time media delivery," in Proc. SMPTE Media Tech. Summit, Hollywood, CA, Oct. 2022 (DOI: 10.5594/M001961) [link]
  17. Ali C. Begen, Yasser Syed and Alex Giladi, "Upgrading performance of your streaming services using server hints," in Proc. SMPTE Media Tech. Summit, Hollywood, CA, Oct. 2022 (DOI: 10.5594/M001960) [link]
  18. Tankut Akgul, Deniz Ugur and Ali C. Begen, "Automated adaptive playback for encoder-adjudicated live sports," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), Online, Aug. 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/MIPR54900.2022.00065) [link]
  19. Mehmet N. Akcay, Burak Kara, Saba Ahsan, Ali C. Begen, Igor Curcio and Emre Aksu, "Rate-adaptive streaming of 360-degree videos with head-motion-aware viewport margins," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), Online, Aug. 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/MIPR54900.2022.00056) [link]
  20. Julia Kenyon, Thomas Stockhammer, Ali C. Begen, Ofer Shem Tov, Louay Bassbouss and Daniel Silhavy, "Marrying WebRTC and DASH for interactive streaming," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, Mar. 2022 (DOI: 10.1145/3510450.3517296) [link]
  21. Minh Nguyen, Christian Timmerer, Stefan Pham, Daniel Silhavy and Ali C. Begen, "Take the red pill for H3 and see how deep the rabbit hole goes," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, Mar. 2022 (DOI: 10.1145/3510450.3517302) [link]
  22. May Lim, Mehmet N. Akcay, Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "The benefits of server hinting when DASHing or HLSing," in Proc. ACM Mile-High Video (MHV), Denver, CO, Mar. 2022 (DOI: 10.1145/3510450.3517317) [link]
  23. Mehmet N. Akcay, Burak Kara, Saba Ahsan, Ali C. Begen, Igor Curcio and Emre Aksu, "Head-motion-aware viewport margins for improving user experience in immersive video," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Asia (MMAsia), Gold Coast, Australia, Dec. 2021 (DOI: 10.1145/3469877.3490573) [link]
  24. Ali C. Begen, Mehmet N. Akcay, Abdelhak Bentaleb and Alex Giladi, "Adaptive streaming of content-aware-encoded videos in dash.js," in Proc. Int. Broadcasting Convention Conf. (IBC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Dec. 2021
  25. Yasser F. Syed, Alex Giladi and Ali C. Begen, "Enabling automation for mapping linear channel feeds and VOD files into DASH structures," in Proc. SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2021
  26. Tankut Akgul, Tugce Erkilic Civelek, Deniz Ugur and Ali C. Begen, "COSMOS on steroids: a cheap detector for cheapfakes," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems Conf. (MMSys), Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 2021 (DOI: 10.1145/3458305.3479968) [link] (Winner in YouTube's grand challenge)
  27. Omer F. Aladag, Deniz Ugur, Mehmet N. Akcay and Ali C. Begen, "Content-aware playback speed control for low-latency live streaming of sports," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems Conf. (MMSys), Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 2021 (DOI: 10.1145/3458305.3478437) [link] (Best Demo and Industry Paper Award and DASH-IF Excellence in DASH Award)
  28. Abdelhak Bentaleb, May Lim, Mehmet N. Akcay, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "Common media client data (CMCD): initial findings," in Proc. ACM Int. Wksp. Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 2021 (DOI: 10.1145/3458306.3461444) [link] (DASH-IF Excellence in DASH Award)
  29. Ali C. Begen, "Manus manum lavat: media clients and servers cooperating with common media client/server data," in Proc. ACM Applied Networking Research Wksp. (ANRW), Virtual Event, USA, July 2021 (DOI: 10.1145/3472305.3472886) [link] (Invited talk)
  30. Kerem Durak, Mehmet N. Akcay, Yigit K. Erinc, Boran Pekel and Ali C. Begen, "Evaluating the performance of Apple's low-latency HLS," in Proc. IEEE Int. Wksp. Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Tampere, Finland, Sept. 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/MMSP48831.2020.9287117) [link]
  31. Burak Kara, Sarp Ozturk and Ali C. Begen, "HTTP adaptive streaming over multiple network interfaces," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems Conf. (MMSys), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2020 (DOI: 10.1145/3339825.3393588) [link]
  32. Adem A. Karmis, Alper Derya and Ali C. Begen, "Metadata-based user interface design for enhanced content access and viewing," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems Conf. (MMSys), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2020 (DOI: 10.1145/3339825.3393589) [link]
  33. May Lim, Mehmet N. Akcay, Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "When they go high, we go low: low-latency live streaming in dash.js with LoL," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems Conf. (MMSys), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2020 (DOI: 10.1145/3339825.3397043) [link] (Runner-up in Twitch's grand challenge)
  34. Jeroen van der Hooft, Maria Torres Vega, Christian Timmerer, Ali C. Begen, Filip De Turck and Raimund Schatz, "Objective and subjective QoE evaluation for adaptive point cloud streaming," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), Athlone, Ireland, May 2020 (DOI: 10.1109/QoMEX48832.2020.9123081) [link] (Best-paper Award)
  35. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Christian Timmerer, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "Bandwidth prediction in low-latency chunked streaming," in Proc. ACM Int. Wksp. Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), Amherst, MA, June 2019 (DOI: 10.1145/3304112.3325611) [link] (DASH-IF Excellence in DASH Award)
  36. Reza Shokri Kalan, Muge Sayit and Ali C. Begen, "Implementation of SAND architecture using SDN," in Proc. IEEE Conf. Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), Verona, Italy, Nov. 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2018.8725632) [link]
  37. Yasser Syed, Ali C. Begen and Alex Giladi, "Designing video services for low-latency distributions in IPTV cable systems," in Proc. SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2018
  38. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen, Saad Harous and Roger Zimmermann, "A distributed approach for bitrate selection in HTTP adaptive streaming," in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 2018 (DOI: 10.1145/3240508.3240589) [link]
  39. Avsar Asan, Werner Robitza, Is-haka Mkwawa, Lingfen Sun and Ali C. Begen, "Optimum encoding approaches on video resolution changes: a comparative study," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP), Athens, Greece, Oct. 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2018.8451635) [link]
  40. Yasser Syed and Ali C. Begen, "Adjusting content workflow infrastructures for HDR," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo Wksp. (ICMEW), San Diego, CA, July 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/ICMEW.2018.8551490) [link]
  41. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "Game theory based bitrate adaptation for dash.js reference player," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo Wksp. (ICMEW), San Diego, CA, July 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/ICMEW.2018.8551495) [link] (Winner in DASH-IF's grand challenge)
  42. Ali C. Begen and Yasser Syed, "Are the streaming format wars over?" in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo Wksp. (ICMEW), San Diego, CA, July 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/ICMEW.2018.8551563) [link] [poster]
  43. Sevket Arisu and Ali C. Begen, "Quickly starting media streams using QUIC," in Proc. Packet Video Wksp., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2018 (DOI: 10.1145/3210424.3210426) [link] [code] (Best-paper Award Finalist)
  44. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen, Saad Harous and Roger Zimmermann, "Want to play DASH? a game theoretic approach for adaptive streaming over HTTP," in Proc. ACM Multimedia Systems Conf. (MMSys), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2018 (DOI: 10.1145/3204949.3204961) [link] [code/demo] (Best Student-paper Award and DASH-IF Excellence in DASH Award)
  45. Christian Timmerer, Anatoliy Zabrovskiy and Ali C. Begen, "Automated objective and subjective evaluation of HTTP adaptive streaming systems," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), Miami, FL, Apr. 2018 (DOI: 10.1109/MIPR.2018.00080) [link] (Invited paper)
  46. Christian Timmerer and Ali C. Begen, "A framework for adaptive delivery of omnidirectional video," in Proc. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging (HVEI), Burlingame, CA, Jan. 2018 (DOI: 10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2018.14.HVEI-524) [link] (Invited paper)
  47. Abdelhak Bentaleb, Ali C. Begen and Roger Zimmermann, "SDNDASH: improving QoE of HTTP adaptive streaming using software defined networking," in Proc. ACM Multimedia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Oct. 2016 (DOI: 10.1145/2964284.2964332) [link]
  48. Emmanuel Thomas, M.O. van Deventer, Thomas Stockhammer, Ali C. Begen, Mary-Luc Champel and Ozgur Oyman, "Applications and deployments of server and network assisted DASH (SAND)," in Proc. Int. Broadcasting Convention Conf. (IBC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sept. 2016 (DOI: 10.1049/ibc.2016.0022) [link]

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