In this paper, we take advantage of the user behavior of requesting videos from the related list provided by YouTube and the user behavior of requesting videos from the top of this related list to improve the performance of YouTube's caches. We ...

The media industry is currently being pulled in the often-opposing directions of increased realism (high resolution, stereoscopic, large screen) and personalization (selection and control of content, availability on many devices). We investigate the ...

HTTP adaptive video streaming is an emerging technology that aims to deliver video quality to clients in a manner that accommodates available bandwidth and its fluctuations. In this scheme, a video stream is split at the server into small video files ...

Bandwidth constriction and datagram loss are prominent issues that affect the perceived quality of streaming video over lossy networks, such as wireless. The use of layered video coding seems attractive as a means to alleviate these issues, but its ...

Video streaming has become a very popular application on the web, with rich player interfaces and subtitle integration. Additionally, live streaming solutions are deployed based on HTTP Streaming technologies. However, the integration of video and ...

P2P-TV applications have attracted a lot of attention from the research community in the last years. Such systems generate a large amount of data which impacts the network performance. As a natural consequence, characterizing these systems has become a ...

Content-based test video corpora usually builds on top of professional material or controlled settings. However, recent years have shown strong increase in user-generated content on the web. The increase in content volume creates challenges in ...

Sports analytics is a growing area of interest, both from a computer system view to manage the technical challenges and from a sport performance view to aid the development of athletes. In this paper, we present Bagadus, a prototype of a sports ...

We present a novel system for automatically detecting salient image regions in stereoscopic videos. Our proposed algorithm considers information based on three dimensions: salient colors in individual frames, salient information derived from camera and ...