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Event Recap: AOMedia Research Symposium, October 20-21, 2019, San Francisco

AOMedia kicked off its first Research Symposium in October, bringing together more than 100 attendees, representatives from member companies and researchers from leading universities. The packed 2-day program of stimulating presentations in sunny San Francisco.

According to a Cisco study, with global internet traffic expected to rise three-fold between 2017-2022, of which 82% will be video, AOMedia is focused on developing new formats that set the standard for video compression performance.

Adrian Grange, AOMedia’s Chair of the Video Codec Working Group, Google

Achieving improved performance has become more challenging with each codec generation, so AOMedia Research is seeking active collaboration with the academic community to develop new coding tools that deliver improved compression performance. This first symposium attracted contributions from many leading universities: Bristol University, Carnegie Mellon University, Hangzhou Normal University, Purdue University, New York University, University of Nantes, Stanford University, UCSB, USC, the University of Texas at Austin, Trinity College Dublin, and Yale University.

To view the agenda, abstracts, slide decks and videos of the presentations visit https://aomedia.org/aomedia-research-symposium-2019/.

Event Recap: AOMedia NAB’s Streaming Summit, October 16-17, 2019, New York

At Dan Rayburn’s NAB’s Streaming Summit, AOMedia presented “The Latest Technical and Business Progress with AV1.” The presentation highlighted three use cases where AV1 is improving online video compression and delivery today. Presenters included Nathan Egge, Senior Research Engineer, Mozilla; Alex Gouaillard, CEO, CoSMo Software; Daniel Summer, Founder, Codec Market and Matt Frost, Director, Product Management, Google.

Event Recap: AV1 Dedicated Panel and Meetup at IBC 2019

At IBC, Intel hosted the ‘Visual Cloud Conference,’ which includes a dedicated AV1 panel session, “Video will remain foundational to Visual Cloud – realizing the future of AV1.” The panel discussed AV1 advances as well as Scalable Video Technology for AV1 (SVT-AV1), which is available open-source and royalty-free, and offers performance and scalability gains in video processing, particularly when optimized with Intel processors. The following AOMedia members and VOD providers discussed why the codec is key to the delivery of compelling visual experiences:

  • Jill Boyce, Intel Fellow and Chief Media Architect (Moderator)

  • Anne Aaron, Director of Encoding Technologies at Netflix;

  • Ioannis Katsavounidis, Research Scientist for Video Infrastructure at Facebook;

  • Yu Yang, Technical Director of Live Broadcasting at Tencent Cloud; and

  • Matt Frost, Director of Product Management at Google

IBC & Intel’s The Visual Cloud Conference AV1 Panel (Left to Right): Jill Boyce, Intel Fellow and Chief Media Architect; Anne Aaron, Director of Encoding Technologies at Netflix; Ioannis Katsavounidis, Research Scientist for Video Infrastructure at Facebook; Yu Yang, Technical Director of Live Broadcasting at Tencent Cloud; and Matt Frost, Director of Product Management at Google

AOMedia at NAB Streaming Summit New York

At the NAB Show’s Streaming Summit in New York, Oct. 17-18, AOMedia members Bitmovin, Facebook, Google, and Mozilla led AV1 presentations, demos and an AV1 happy hour to talk about the early gains shown by AV1, and what to expect in 2019 and beyond.

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Several AOMedia members provided demonstrations of AV1 at the NAB Conference in Las Vegas

A look at how AOMedia Ushered in the Royalty-Free, UHD Web Video Era with AV1 at NAB 2018 in Las Vegas.

Jai Krishnan, product manager at Google, shares an AV1 demo at the NAB Conference in Las Vegas, 2018.

Brian Weeks at Bitmovin shares an AV1, the next generation royalty-free codec, demo at the NAB Conference in Las Vegas, 2018.

Jerome Vieron, head of research at ATEME shares an AV1 demo at the NAB Conference in Las Vegas, 2018.

Oliver Gunasekra, CEO and co-founder at NGCodec shares an AV1 demo and why NGCodec finds value in AOMedia membership at the NAB Conference in Las Vegas, 2018.