The 16th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference will be held from March 31st to April 4th, 2025 in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Detailed Programme

Monday, March 31st

08:00-09:00	Registration (STIAS Foyer)
09:00-09:15	MMVE'25 Welcome
09:15-10:00	Keynote: Bridging the Gaps in Immersive Media Accessibility: Advances, Challenges, and Our Responsibility! Mario Montagud Climent, i2CAT Foundation & University of Valencia
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:30	MMVE Session 1: Content Creation/Analysis Multimodal User Experience in Extended Reality: Exploring Hand Tracking, Voice, and Passthrough Interactions Tanja Kojic, Maurizio Vergari, Maximilian Warsinke, Danish Ali, Sebastian Möller, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons Evaluation of Segmentation Algorithms for Embodiment Improvement in an XR Application Amaya Jiménez-Moreno, Elena Conderana-Medem, Silvia Casino-Colom, Marta Orduna, Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, Pablo Perez, Alvaro Villegas Analysis of User Experience and Task Performance in a Multi-User Cross-Reality Virtual Object Manipulation Task Lea Brzica, Filip Matanović, Sara Vlahović, Nina Pavlin Bernardić, Lea Skorin-Kapov Virtual Tool Embodiment in Simulated Gravity Conditions Amir Jahanian Najafabadi, Jean Botev, Ningyuan Sun, Carolyn Kroger Impact of VR Embodiment on Users' Perception in V-Commerce Jit Chatterjee, Tom Bovie, Bram Beysens, Maria Torres Vega The Stereo Microscope: Stereo 3D images for complex remote soldering teaching Simon N.B. Gunkel, Tessa Klunder, Frank Ansorge, Piotr Zuraniewski
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:30	MMVE Session 2: Embodiment/UX Exploring Entropy-Based Solutions for Trajectory Prediction in Virtual Reality Varun Pradhan, Silvia Rossi, Pablo César Joint Learning of Point Clouds and Motion Vectors for Volumetric Video Cheng-Tse Lee, Yuan-Chun Sun, Yuang Shi, Mufeng Zhu, Wei Tsang Ooi, Yao Liu, Chun-Ying Huang, Cheng-Hsin Hsu Sketch and Patch: Efficient 3D Gaussian Representation for Man-Made Scenes Yuang Shi, Simone Gasparini, Geraldine Morin, Chenggang Yang, Wei Tsang Ooi Acceptable Latency in Predictable First-Person VR Cloud Games Håkon Medhus Fornes, Elias Hoel Birketvedt, Carsten Griwodz, Magnus Skjegstad, Michael Welzl, Özgü Alay Emerging Telepresence Technologies for Hybrid Meetings: Experiences and Lessons Learned from an Interactive Workshop Marta Orduna, Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, Andriana Boudouraki, Houda Elmimouni, Veronica Ahumada, Pablo Perez, Jesus Gutiérrez, Pablo César
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-	Personal Time

Tuesday, April 1st

08:00-09:00	Registration (STIAS Foyer)
09:00-10:00	Keynote: On the Road to Scalable, Interoperable and Cost-efficient Realistic Holographic Communications Mario Montagud Climent, i2CAT Foundation & University of Valencia
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-11:00	MMsys'25 Opening
11:00-12:00	MMSys Research Track Session 1: Real-time and Adaptive Streaming Session Chair: Simon Gunkel Palantir: Towards Efficient Super Resolution for Ultra-high-definition Live Streaming Xinqi Jin, Zhui Zhu, Xikai Sun, Fan Dang, Jiangchuan Liu, Jingao Xu, Kebin Liu, Xinlei Chen, Yunhao Liu StreamWise: An Intelligent Content Steering for DASH Chidambar Joshi, Jashanjot Singh Sidhu, Abdelhak Bentaleb COMPACT: Content-aware Multipath Live Video Streaming for Online Classes using Video Tiles Shubham Chaudhary, Navneet Mishra, Keshav Gambhir, Tanmay Rajore, Arani Bhattacharya, Mukulika Maity
12:00-12:30	Doctoral Symposium and Technical Demo Pitches
12:30-14:00	Lunch (Technical Demo Setup)
14:00-15:30	Doctoral Symposium Posters Session Chair: Cheng-Hsin Hsu 3D Gaussian-based Immersive Media Streaming in Networked Extended Reality Yuang Shi Time Varying Mesh Compression Guodong Chen Technical Demos Session Chair: Rensu Theart Danger Detection and Cloud-Based Vocal Assistance System for Visually Impaired Users Using Meta Quest 3 Fabrizio De Fiore, John Barrett, Niall Murray, Conor Keighrey Real-time Point Cloud Transmission for Immersive Teleoperation of Autonomous Mobile Robots Nunzio Barone, Walter Brescia, Gabriele Santangelo, Antonio Pio Maggio, Ivan Cisternino, Luca De Cicco, Saverio Mascolo Streaming Face-Off: A Testbed Analysis of Media-over-QUIC and Low-Latency DASH Minh Nguyen, Philip Nys, Stefan Pham, Daniel Silhavy, Stefan Arbanowski, Stephan Steglich No code XR-CAx experience creation workflows for conducting Equipment Design Reviews Sahir Sharma, Conor Keighrey, James Lardner, Shane Gilligan, Niall Murray Learned Compression in Adaptive Point Cloud Streaming: Opportunities, Challenges and Limitations Michael Rudolph, Amr Rizk Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Recognition with Cascaded-Transformers Savas Ozkan, Andrea Maracani, Mete Ozay, Hyowon Kim, Sijun Cho, Eunchung Noh, Jeongwon Min, Jung Min Cho A Multi-CDN Playground for Dash.js: Enabling Integration of CDN Switching Strategies Jashanjot Singh Sidhu, Chidambar Joshi, Abdelhak Bentaleb Continual Error Correction on Low-Resource Devices Kirill Paramonov, Mete Ozay, Aristeidis Mystakidis, Nikolaos Tsalikidis, Dimitrios Sotos, Anastasios Drosou, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Hyunjun Kim, Kiseok Chang, Sangdok Mo, Namwoong Kim, Woojong Yoo, Ji Joong Moon, Umberto Michieli
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	MMSys Research Track Session 2: User Interation in XR Systems Session Chair: Jean Botev Spatial Visibility and Temporal Dynamics: Rethinking Field of View Prediction in Adaptive Point Cloud Video Streaming Chen Li, Tongyu Zong, Yueyu Hu, Yong Liu, Yao Wang LL-Sparse: Low-Latency 6-DoF Field of View Prediction Jérémy Ouellette, Abdelhak Bentaleb Enablers of Low-Latency Immersive Interaction in Future Remote-Rendered Mixed Reality Applications János Dóka, Bálint György Nagy, Dávid Jocha, Bence Formanek, Iván Viciedo, Adrian Rodrigo, David Gomez-Barquero, Balázs Sonkoly Decoupling Video Upscaling from Rendering for Cloud Gaming Deniz Ugur, Ihab Amer, Mohamed Hefeeda
17:30-19:30	Welcome Reception (STIAS)

Wednesday, April 2nd

08:00-09:00	Registration (STIAS Foyer) Doctoral Symposium Breakfast (STIAS Boardroom)
09:00-10:00	Keynote: Art & Tech - A multimedia journey from VR Ndebele painting to Creative Robotic performances Vali Lalioti, University of the Arts London
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	MMSys Research Track Session 3: Advances in XR Streaming and Compression Session Chair: Marta Orduna RemoteVIO: Offloading Head Tracking in an End-to-End XR System Qinjun Jiang, Yihan Pang, William Sentosa, Steven Gao, Muhammad Huzaifa, Jeffrey Zhang, Javier Perez-Ramirez, Dibakar Das, David Gonzalez-Aguirre, Brighten Godfrey, Sarita Adve TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression Using Volume-Tracked Reference Meshes Guodong Chen, Filip Hácha, Libor Váša, Mallesham Dasari SGSS: Streaming 6-DoF Navigation of Gaussian Splat Scenes Mufeng Zhu, Mingju Liu, Cunxi Yu, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Yao Liu LTS: A DASH Streaming System for Dynamic Multi-Layer 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes Yuan-Chun Sun, Yuang Shi, Cheng-Tse Lee, Mufeng Zhu, Wei Tsang Ooi, Yao Liu, Chun-Ying Huang, Cheng-Hsin Hsu
12:00-12:30	Open Source and Dataset Pitches
12:30-14:00	Lunch (Open Source and Dataset Setup)
14:00-15:30	Open Source and Dataset Posters Session Chair: Andrew Freeman eCHFD: extended Ceasefire Hierarchical Firearm Dataset Loubna Lechelek, Sylvie Chambon, Alain Crouzil, Saddam Abdulwahab, Grégory Jalabert, Christian Brocard, Charles-Edouard Coquillard, Laurence Abadie, Bruno Sera, Thierry Hartmann, Marjorie Le Bras WIDE-VR: An open-source prototype for web-based VR through adaptive streaming of 6DoF content and viewport prediction May Lim, Abdelhak Bentaleb, Roger Zimmermann HockeyAI: A Multi-Class Ice Hockey Dataset for Object Detection Mehdi Houshmand Sarkhoosh, Sushant Gautam, Cise Midoglu, Saeed Shafiee Sabet, Tomas Kupka, Pål Halvorsen uvgVPCCenc: Practical Open-Source Encoder for Fast V-PCC Compression Louis Fréneau, Guillaume Gautier, Alexandre Mercat, Jarno Vanne OLED-EQ: A Dataset for Assessing Video Quality and Energy Consumption in OLED TVs Across Varying Brightness Levels Minh Nguyen, Raphael Koch, Alexander Fischer, Moustafa Ghaddar, Görkem Güclü, Martin Lasak, Robert Seeliger, Stefan Arbanowski, Stephan Steglich HockeyRink: A Dataset for Precise Ice Hockey Rink Keypoint Mapping and Analytics Mehdi Houshmand Sarkhoosh, Sushant Gautam, Cise Midoglu, Saeed Shafiee Sabet, Tomas Kupka, Pål Halvorsen VV-DASH: A Framework for Volumetric Video DASH Streaming Hadi Heidarirad, Mea Wang Nagare Media Engine: Towards Self-Adapting MPEG NBMP Multimedia Workflows Matthias Neugebauer A Congestion Control Test Suite for Real-Time Communication Quanwei Zhang, Zhiming Huang, Jinwei Zhao, Jianping Pan HockeyOrient: A Dataset for Ice Hockey Player Orientation Classification Mehdi Houshmand Sarkhoosh, Sushant Gautam, Cise Midoglu, Saeed Shafiee Sabet, Tomas Kupka, Pål Halvorsen PCVD: A Dataset of Point Cloud Video for Dynamic Human Interaction Jie Li, Shujiao Chen, Qiyue Li, Zhi Liu AMIS: An Audiovisual Dataset for Multimodal XR Research Abhinav Bhattacharya, Luís Fernando de Souza Cardoso, Andy Schleising, Gareth Rendle, Adrian Kreskowski, Felix Immohr, Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao, Wolfgang Broll, Alexander Raake MazeLab: A Large-Scale Dynamic Volumetric Point Cloud Video Dataset With User Behavior Traces Jérémy Ouellette, Jashanjot Singh Sidhu, Abdelhak Bentaleb
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	Diversity Panel
17:30-19:00	Personal Time
19:00-	Conference Dinner (Restaurant De Warenmarkt)

Thursday, April 3rd

08:00-09:00	Registration (STIAS Foyer)
09:00-10:00	Keynote: Multi-CDN Streaming: Architectures and Optimization Problems Yuriy Reznik, Brightcove Inc.
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:30	MMSys Research Track Session 4: Emerging Immersive Applications Session Chair: Tanja Kojić Low-Latency Volumetric Video Conferencing in Congested Networks Through L4S Matthias de Fré, Jeroen van der Hooft, Chia-Yu Chang, Koen de Schepper, Patrice Rondao Alface, Danny de Vleeschauwer, Tim Wauters, Peter Steenkiste, Filip de Turck XRgo: Design and Evaluation of Rendering Offload for Low-Power Extended Reality Devices Steven Gao, Jeffrey Liu, Qinjun Jiang, Finn Sinclair, William Sentosa, Brighten Godfrey, Sarita Adve SAILS: A Synchronous Accessible Immersive Online Learning System for Young Learners Yuran Sun, Zhuoying Zhang, Zhenxiao Luo, Alan William Dougherty, Man Ho Yip, Yi King Choi, Chuan Wu 360 Video Viewing with Virtual Reality Headsets: Connecting User Head Movements to Intentions Mohammed Metwaly, Alexander J. Quinn
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	MMSys Research Track Session 5: Security, AI and Adaptive Multimedia Optimization Session Chair: Conor Keighrey Secure the Stream, Not the Hosts: Attribute-Based Encryption for DRM Enabled Video Streaming Mohammad Waquas Usmani, Susmit Shannigrahi, Michael Zink Accelerating Video Segment Access via Quality-Aware Multi-Source Selection Dominik Winecki, Arnab Nandi To Cap or not to Cap: Bandwidth Capping Effects on Network Interactions and QoE of Competing Short Video Streams Nikolas Wehner, Theo Karagioules, Emir Halepovic, Filip Simonovski, Tobias Hossfeld, Michael Seufert SAMPL: Self-Attention Modelled Patch Learning for Efficient Visual Understanding Zhiming Hu, Salar Hosseini Khorasgani, Weiming Ren, Iqbal Mohomed
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:30	MMSys'25 Closing

Friday, April 4th

08:00-09:00	Registration (STIAS Foyer)
09:00-10:00	NOSSDAV Session 1: Immersive Media and Volumetric Streaming Session Chair: Amr Rizk Enabling Distance-Aware Real-Time Volumetric Video Streaming Kyle Jorgensen, Mea Wang, Diwakar Krishnamurthy Aero: A Pluggable Congestion Control for QUIC Jashanjot Singh Sidhu, Abdelhak Bentaleb LLM4Band: Enhancing Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models for Accurate Bandwidth Estimation Zhijian Wang, Rongwei Lu, Zhiyang Zhang, Cedric Westphal, Dongbiao He Jingyan Jiang
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:30	NOSSDAV Session 2: Advanced Video Compression and Enhancement Session Chair: Amr Rizk GSVC: Efficient Video Representation and Compression Through 2D Gaussian Splatting Longan Wang, Yuang Shi, Wei Tsang Ooi SemConf: A System for Multiparty Semantic Video Conferencing Xize Duan, Yili Jin, Lei Zhang, Fangxin Wang End-to-End Learning-based Video Streaming Enhancement Pipeline: A Generative AI Approach Emanuele Artioli, Farzad Tashtarian, Christian Timmerer ModalityMirror: Enhancing Audio Classification in Modality Heterogeneity Federated Learning via Multimodal Distillation Tiantian Feng, Tuo Zhang, Salman Avestimehr, Shrikanth Narayanan Video Streaming with Kairos: An MPC-Based ABR with Streaming-Aware Throughput Prediction Ziyu Zhong, Mufan Liu, Le Yang, Yifan Wang, Yiling Xu, Jenq-Neng Hwang Bimodal Semantic-Driven 3D Immersive Telepresence System Jiakun Li, Yuan Zhang, Lingjun Pu, Tao Lin, Jinyao Yan
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:40	NOSSDAV Session 3: QUIC and Real-Time Communications Session Chair: Marta Orduna Pushing the Limits? Frame Rate Benefits to Players for up to 500 Hz in First Person Shooter Games Samin Shahriar Tokey, Benjamin Boudaoud, Joohwan Kim, Josef Spjut, Mark Claypool Alice: Low-latency Image Live Co-editing via Adaptation Anlan Zhang, Stefano Petrangeli, Haoliang Wang, Yu Shen, Feng Qian CAQ: Connection-Aware Adaptive QUIC Configurations for Enhanced Video Streaming Jashanjot Singh Sidhu, Abdelhak Bentaleb Privacy-Preserving Multimedia Mobile Cloud Computing Using Cost-Effective Protective Perturbation Zhongze Tang, Zichen Zhu, Mengmei Ye, Yao Liu, Sheng Wei Active Management of Jammed Packets in Wireless Real-Time Communications Yixuan Zhang, Zili Meng, Enhuan Dong, Yan Zhang, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu
15:40-16:00	NOSSDAV Closing

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