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We are happy to welcome all of you at the Cable Center in Denver!

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The MHV/2025 Technical Program is presented below:​​

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February 18, 2025: Day 1

8:00-9:00   Breakfast and Gathering at the Cable Center, Denver

9:00-9:15   Opening Remarks 

9:15-10:45  Video Streaming 1: CDN-Based Video Streaming - Systems and Applications â€‹

  1. “Advancing Content Distribution: 2B Content Distribution over CDN for OTT and Broadcast Services", David Eisenbacher (EZDRM), Khaled Jerbi (ATEME)

  2. “Resurrection of a CDN: Briefing Steering Server on CDN Recovery", Burak Kara, Gwendal Simon (Synamedia)

  3. “Analyzing Impact of Congestion Control Algorithms on Dynamic Content Delivery", Daniel Sedlak, Jiri Szkandera (Czech Technical University in Prague & CDN77), Vojtech Stafa (CDN77), Filip Cacky (Czech Technical University in Prague & CDN77), Tomas Kvasnicka (CDN77) 

  4. “Modeling Energy Regulations for CDN Economics", Burak Kara, Bruno Tuffin, and Gwendal Simon (Synamedia)  

  5. “CMCDv2 – Advances in Media Client Analytics", Will Law (Akamai)  

  6. “Open-source Evaluation Framework for Reducing Media Start Delay", Roberto Ramos Chavez, Jamie Fletcher, Ksenia Rabinovich, Arjen Wagenaar (Unified Streaming), Espen Braastad (Varnish Software)

10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-11:45 Keynote 1: Sharon Carmel (CEO, Beamr) 

11:45-12:00 Sponsors' 3-min presentations - Part 1 

12:00-13:30  Lunch

13:30-15:15 Video Streaming 2: DASH-Based Video Streaming, Short-Form Videos, Watermarking 

  1. “Impact of Sub-Segment Representations in DASH on the Live Streaming Experience", Deniz Ugur, Romain Bouqueau (Motion Spell), Jean Le Feuvre (Telecom Paris), Michael Stattmann, Thasso Griebel, Roman Ryltsov (castLabs)

  2. “Evaluation of dash.js Version 5: Performance, Features, and Improvements", Daniel Silhavy, Minh Nguyen, Björn Altmann, Stefan Pham, Stephan Steglich, Stefan Arbanowski (Fraunhofer FOKUS)  

  3. “IMAC: Intelligent Multi-Agent Content Steering for DASH", Chidambar Joshi, Jashanjot Singh Sidhu, Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University) 

  4. "Multi-Regional, Multi-CDN Delivery Optimizations using HLS/DASH Content Steering Standard", Yuriy Reznik (Brightcove), Guillem Cabrera (Brightcove UK)

  5. “Beyond Swiping Through Short-Form Videos", Burak Kara, Gwendal Simon (Synamedia), Ayse B. Demir, Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University), Florence Agboma (Sky)

  6. “Sidecar-based VOD Byte-range AB-Watermarking End-to-end Sandbox System with Encoder Integration", Vladimir D. Zivkovic, Ronald Peters (Irdeto)

  7. “Protocols for End-to-End Interoperable Provenance Authentication using ATSC Watermarks and C2PA Metadata", Joseph M. Winograd (Verance), John C. Simmons  

15:15-15:45 Break

15:45-16:45 Video Streaming 3: Low-Latency Video Streaming 

  1. “Live Streaming: Scalable, Resilient, Low-Latency RTP-Based IP Broadcast Technology Across any Access Networks", Keith Chow, Kenneth Wan (Nokia)  

  2. “On Ultra-Low Latency Multimedia Delivery: An Approach for Selective L4S Enablement", Dhananjay Lal, Christopher Phillips, Mareeta Mathai (Adeia)  

  3. “The Curse of the Thundering Herd: Lowering the Impact of Low-Latency Streaming of Large Events", Alex Giladi, John Benton, Alex Balk (Comcast)  

  4. “Minimizing Disruptions in Low-Latency Streaming with Latency Dependent Intra-segment Response", Piers O'Hanlon (BBC R&D)

18:00-21:00 Happy Hour 

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February 19, 2025: Day 2 

8:00-9:00    Breakfast and Gathering

9:00-10:45  Video Coding 1: Recent Advances in Video Coding Standards and Coding Schemes

  1. “Optimizing cloud gaming applications with VVC", Per-Erik Brodin, Lukasz Litwic, Martin Pettersson, Jack Enhorn (Ericsson)

  2. “Neural Video Compression Overview, Performance and Challenges", Marwa Tarchouli, Thomas Guionnet, Mickaël Raulet (Ateme)

  3. “A Perceptual-based Neural Video Preprocessing Hardware Solution for Video Encoding Applications", Pierre-Alain Afro, Loic STRUS, Frederic Robin (Allegro DVT)

  4. “Harnessing Hardware-Generated Statistics For CU-Tree Decision Making", Eshed Ram, Eyal Frishman, Dotan Levi, Jant Chen, Vishesh Lokras (NVIDIA)

  5. “Hardware Accelerated VOD Encoding Challenges", Pavel Novotny (AMD)  

  6. “AVM Video Codec Architecture and Performance", Andrey Norkin (Netflix)  

  7. “A Low-Complexity Perceptual Video Quality Metric for SVT-AV1", Sangar Sivashanmugam, Axel De Decker, Jan De Cock (Synamedia)

10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-11:45 Keynote 2: Lisa Guess (SVP, Ericsson)  

11:45-12:00 Sponsors' 3-min presentations - Part 2

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:15 Panel: "The Changing Landscape of Streaming Media" (incl. Q&A)

14:15-16:00 Video Coding 2: Content-Adaptive Encoding, Video Enhancement, AI-Generated Content, Film Grain Technology, A/B Testing​​

  1. “Unleashing the Potential of Content-Adaptive Encoding", Hanyue Yang (VisualOn), Kevin A. Cone, Gordon Kelly, Surbhi Madan (Intel), Roly Yu, Dean Zhu (VisualOn), Thierry Fautier (Your Media Transformation) 

  2. "Joint multi-profile video coding for cost optimization of standard ABR streaming", Reda Kaafarani, Julien Le Tanou, Michael Ropert (MediaKind), Thomas Maugey, Aline Roumy (Inria)

  3. “Enhance User Generated Content with Video Super-Resolution", Surbhi Madan, Onur Barut, Anand Bodas, Tahani Trigui (Intel Corporation)

  4. “Objective Evaluation of Film Grain Synthesis: Integrating Local Fidelity and Global Pattern Analysis", Hojatollah Yeganeh (IMAX)

  5. “Quality Assessment of AI-Generated Content: Current Status, Challenges, and the Road Ahead", Abhijay Ghildyal (Portland State University), Yuanhan Chen, Saman Zadtootaghaj, Nabajeet Barman (Sony Interactive Entertainment), Alan C. Bovik (University of Texas at Austin)

  6. “Enhancing Video Encoding with Large Multi-Modality Models: A Novel Framework for Optimized Compression and Quality", Zhengfang Duanmu, Mingzhe Jiang, Wentao Liu (IMAX)

  7. “Move Fast, Don't Break Things: Enabling Rapid A/B Testing and Feature Deployments in Media Encoding and Streaming", Jessica Tweneboah (Netflix)

16:00-16:30 Break

16:30-17:45 Video Streaming 4: Mobile Video Processing, Energy Efficiency in Video Streaming​​

  1. “Adaptive Real-Time Video Cropping for Enhanced Mobile Sports Viewing Experiences", Mehdi HoushmandSarkhoosh (ForzaSys AS, Oslo Metropolitan University), Cise Midoglu, Saeed Shafiee Sabet, Tomas Kupka (ForzaSys AS), Pål Halvorsen (Simula Research Laboratory & University of Oslo, Oslo Metropolitan University)

  2. “Introducing VCAT, a Mobile Video Decoder Benchmarking Tool", David Ronca (Meta), Mukund Srinivasan, Murali Babu Muthukrishnan (Ittiam), Hassene Tmar (Meta)

  3. “ ELLMPEG: Towards a Simple and Energy-Efficient FFmpeg-Like Video Processing Tool with LLMs", Zoha Azimi, Reza Farahani, Christian Timmerer, Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)

  4. “How SMART-CD Aims to Tackle the Carbon Footprint of Video Streaming", Lucas Gregory, Josselin Cozanet (Ateme), Patrice Angot, Vincent Lepec (Viaccess Orca), Romain Bouqueau (Motion Spell), Jean Le Feuvre (Telecom Paris), Simon Cardon (Green Web)

  5. “Adaptive Quality and Energy Enhancement in Video Streaming with RecABR", Daniele Lorenzi, Farzad Tashtarian, Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)  

18:00-21:00 Happy Hour 

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February 20, 2025: Day 3 

8:00-9:00    Breakfast and Gathering

9:00-11:00 Video Streaming 5: Media over QUIC, Video Players, Server-Side and Traffic Optimizations 

  1. “Fetch MoQ Fetch!", Will Law (Akamai)  

  2. “Scalable Event-Based Video Streaming for Machines with MoQ", Andrew Freeman (Baylor University)  

  3. “What Makes QUIC Configurations Better for Streaming?", Jashanjot Sidhu, Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University) 

  4. “Bandwidth Prediction for Media over QUIC", Sepehr Shirani, Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University)

  5. “Controlling the Entire Player Stack for Better Performance and Less Errors", Rob Koenen, Ray van Brandenburg (Tiledmedia)   

  6. “Building an Extensible Video Player on Top of a Structured Concurrency Framework", Leto Baxevanaki, Thomas Offner, Adis Talic, Wolfram Hofmeister, Tom Macdonald, Vojtech Zalesky (Bitmovin)

  7. “On Congestion Control and Bandwidth Estimation: Server-Side Optimizations for ABR streaming", Dylan Gageot, Tuan Tran, Christoph Neumann, Guillaume Bichot (Broadpeak)

  8. “Field Results on Mobile Video Traffic Optimization", Yoann Hinard (Witbe)

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:00 Keynote 3: David Bohunek (SVP, Peacock)

12:15-12:30 Sponsors' 3-min presentations - Part 3 

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Video Streaming 6: Ad Insertion, Game Streaming, Workflows

  1.  “Enhancing & Standardizing Server Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI)", David Hassoun (Dolby Labs)

  2. “Server-Guided Ad Insertion in 6th Edition of MPEG DASH", Alex Giladi (Comcast) 

  3. “A Web Transport-based System for Real-time Game Streaming", Minh Nguyen, Dominik Busse, Stefan Pham, Stephan Steglich, Stefan Arbanowski (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Leon Holtmeier (Technische Universität Berlin)

  4. “Comprehensive Streaming Workflow Monitoring: Why End-User Device Monitoring Misses Critical Failures", Andrey Pozdnyakov, Victoria Tuzova (Elecard)

  5. “Between Production & Delivery Media Workflows: Essences, Signaling, Automation, & Accessibility in SCTE 277", Yasser Syed (Comcast), Tim Carroll (Dolby)

15:15-15:45 Break

15:45-16:30 Video Streaming 7: MPEG-I Applications, AI Technology for Voice/Speech​​

  1. “A Comprehensive Suite of Open-Source Reference Tools for MPEG-I Applications", Valérie Allie (InterDigital), Imed Bouazizi  (Qualcomm), Nils Duval (Motion Spell), Etienne Faivre d’Arcier, Thierry Filoche, Patrick Fontaine (InterDigital), Bart Kroon (Philips), Thomas Stockhammer (Qualcomm), Daniel Silhavy (Fraunhofer FOKUS), Jordi J. Gimenez ​(5G-MAG)

  2. ​“Influence of AI Technology on Speech Synthesis and Voice Cloning", Xiaodong Wu (Adeia)  

  3. “Generative AI for Realistic Voice Dubbing Across Languages", Emanuele Artioli, Daniele Lorenzi, Farzad Tashtarian, Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt)  

16:30-16:45 Awards Ceremony

16:45-17:00 Main Session Closing Remarks 

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