MPEG news: a report from the 155th meeting feat. Gaussian Splat Coding, CfP Media Authenticity and Provenance Indication, CfP video compression with capability beyond VVC, Workshop on Media Streaming Services, and SyfAI 🤔 multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2026/07/mpeg...

📝 📌 14 days left MMM 2027 — Submission Deadline 🗓 Aug 16, 2026 🔗 https://mmm2027.net/ #MMM2027 #MultimediaModeling Good luck with your submission! 🍀

📝 📅 30 days left ISM 2026 — Submission Deadline 🗓 Sep 01, 2026 🔗 https://www.multimediacomputing.org/ #ISM2026 #MultimediaComputing Last push — you've got this! 💪

Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day 2026, specifically to all at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social and Bitmovin for their tremendous efforts in keeping all systems up and running. Thank you and very much appreciated! sysadminday.com

🚀 Can AI transport protocols understand computation–not just packets? Our SAFS paper has been accepted at ICNP 2026. SAFS uses receiver-driven semantic-flow scheduling so computation-critical communication arrives before pipeline bubbles form. 📄 Paper overview: dirk-kutscher.info/publications...

I heard some folks might be interested in MoQ relays…

An API for MoQ: provision your own isolated relays

Last year we made every Cloudflare server a Media over QUIC (MoQ) relay. Now the new provisioning API lets you create your own isolated relay and control who can publish and who can only watch.

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I’ve put the call also online here: multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2026/07/acm-...

ACM Mile-High Video 2027: Call for Contributions

ACM Mile-High Video 2027 February 22-25, 2027 Freyer-Newman Center, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO https://www.mile-high.video/ ACM MHV'...

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Christian Timmerer@timmerer.com · 2w ago

ACM Mile-High Video 2027 Call for Contributions is available. Abstract submission deadline: Oct. 9, 2026 AoE Optional paper submission deadline: Dec. 11, 2026 AoE www.mile-high.video/call-for-con...

IEEE MMSP 2026, here we come! Congrats, Emanuele, Farzad, Ayman, Hadi, Kamran, and Mohammad, for getting your papers accepted. Special thanks to our international collaborators Reza, Tariq, Christian, Mahmoud, Sara, Federica from Univ. Lorraine (FR), UNICAMP (BR), and Univ. Padova (IT), respectively

At the latest #IETF in Vienna, we decided to run a peculiar experiment... stream the #MoQ sessions using #MoQ itself! All using our existing #WebRTC infrastructure as the source for the media. This blog post is an overview on that. Feedback (and reposts) welcome! www.meetecho.com/blog/moq-iet...

Streaming the IETF MoQ sessions with MoQ… kinda! | Meetecho Blog

For quite some time, Meetecho has been the official tool for remote participation at IETF meetings. While this includes a plethora of different tools to support all the different features that are req...

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Ups, we're there, again!

What a week, huh? all Wednesdays@whataweekhuh.bsky.social · last wk.

📄 My summary of the Internet Research Task Force (#IRTF) activities at #IETF126. The report covers ANRW, the IRTF Open Meeting, and all 14 Research Groups – from AI networking and Internet architecture to routing, privacy, sustainability, and quantum networking. 🔗 dirk-kutscher.info/irtf/ietf-126/

Beyond VVC: Call for proposals on future video coding www.itu.int/hub/2026/07/...

Beyond VVC: Call for proposals on future video coding - ITU

ITU, ISO and IEC invite proposals for next generation video-compression tech innovations that surpass the Versatile Video Coding standard.

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ACM Mile-High Video 2027 Call for Contributions is available. Abstract submission deadline: Oct. 9, 2026 AoE Optional paper submission deadline: Dec. 11, 2026 AoE www.mile-high.video/call-for-con...

Sunday morning, time for coffee ☕️ and #SunnySideUp

Chris Cummins@christianccummins.bsky.social · last wk.

On @fm4.orf.at's #sunnysideup today the lost Togolese voice Bella Bellow, plus Italian cheekiness, Bahian beats, Electro disco from Egypt, #PopFestWien acts luisa schweig, RAHEL, Bon Jour and Joshua Pepe, and Billie Eilisch doing bossa nova FM4, 10:00 CET. 📻 fm4.orf.at

Applicants are using #AI to assist with technical interviews, while companies are using AI to catch them. It’s a technological arms race in job applications, which is why it's still important to have a human weighing in. spectrum.ieee.org/technical-in...

ACM Mile-High Video 2027 Call for Contributions is available. Abstract submission deadline: Oct. 9, 2026 AoE Optional paper submission deadline: Dec. 11, 2026 AoE www.mile-high.video/call-for-con...

Oral Presentation Coaching is an excellent initiative for ACM Multimedia 2026. Coaches interested in participating should sign up before July 31, 2026: 2026.acmmm.org/site/oral-pr...

Thanks to Seungmi Choi (ETRI), a guest researcher at the CD lab ATHENA, for briefly presenting updates on Gaussian Splat Coding from the 155th MPEG meeting in Geneva, CH.

All Europeans: Time to make your voice heard to *get rid of cookie 🍪 banners* in the EU. Tell your MEPs to support Article 88b GDPR in the Digital Omnibus! killthecookiebanner.eu

Website of the first QoMX 2009 is now online here: qomex2009.itec.aau.at

Christian Timmerer@timmerer.com · 2w ago

For a long time, the website of the first QoMEX 2009 was lost, and we only had the welcome note available from the proceedings: qomex.org/qomex2009/ Yesterday, I was able to recover a version from the Web archive using a single prompt on ChatGPT (5.6 Sol Medium) with astonishing results. Stay tuned

EMS 2026 deadline today! athena.itec.aau.at/ems-2026/

Multimedia Conference DL Countdown@mmcountdown.eurosky.social · 2w ago

📋 Multimedia Deadline Digest — July 24, 2026 🔴 EMS 2026 📝 today 🔴 MMSP 2026 📸 7d 🟡 MMAsia 2026 📝 10d 🟡 EUVIP 2026 📸 12d 🟡 ACMMM 2026 📸 13d 🟡 MMM 2027 📝 23d 🟢 EMS 2026 📬 33d 🟢 VCIP 2026 📬 35d #MultimediaResearch #CFP #AcademicSky 🧪

For a long time, the website of the first QoMEX 2009 was lost, and we only had the welcome note available from the proceedings: qomex.org/qomex2009/ Yesterday, I was able to recover a version from the Web archive using a single prompt on ChatGPT (5.6 Sol Medium) with astonishing results. Stay tuned

📝 ⏰ TOMORROW EMS 2026 — Submission Deadline 🗓 Jul 24, 2026 🔗 https://athena.itec.aau.at/ems-2026/ #EMS2026 #EmergingMultimedia Last push — you've got this! 💪

Emanuele Artioli develops an #ai system that “does not merely see pixels”, but can recognise, for example, that a moving person is important to what is happening in the #video. Taken together, the new algorithms are intended to make #videostreaming faster and more reliable.

Elegant algorithms for smarter video streaming – University of Klagenfurt

Emanuele Artioli wants to make video streaming better – with higher quality, greater personalisation, and more reliable playback even when network conditions are poor, such as on a train journey […]

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Computer science enrollment fell for the first time in 20 years after ChatGPT's rise, a Stanford economist says www.businessinsider.com/computer-sci...

Computer science enrollment fell for the first time in 20 years after ChatGPT's rise, a Stanford economist says

A Stanford economist says AI may be reshaping students' choices as computer science enrollment slows.

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Hurry up and submit your work to the Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS) workshop co-located at ACM CoNEXT 2026. EMS 2026 is co-organized by our Farzad Tashtarian from the Christian Doppler laboratory ATHENA at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social

Multimedia Conference DL Countdown@mmcountdown.eurosky.social · 2w ago

📝 ⚡ 2 days left EMS 2026 — Submission Deadline 🗓 Jul 24, 2026 🔗 https://athena.itec.aau.at/ems-2026/ #EMS2026 #EmergingMultimedia Wishing everyone a smooth submission!

Oh, it's Wednesday, again!

What a week, huh? all Wednesdays@whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 2w ago

Congratulations to Kamran Qureshi from the ATHENA lab (cc: @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social) for getting "Depth-Aware Stereo Bitrate Ladder Optimization with Decoding-Time Constraints for HTTP Adaptive Streaming" accepted at IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) 2026 athena.itec.aau.at/2026/07/6611/

Congratulations to Spain on winning the FIFA World Cup! 🇪🇸 Patience, perseverance, and continuous improvement ultimately made the difference. A little like publishing research: keep learning, keep refining, and eventually even Reviewer #2 may be convinced. 😉 #AcademicSky 🧪

With a small delay, IEEE MMSP 2026 notifications are out. Congrats to all accepted papers, specifically Mohammad from our ATHENA lab for "Content-Adaptive Encoding Pass Selection for Efficient Video Streaming". Read more here athena.itec.aau.at/2026/07/cont... (more to come in subsequent posts;)

Multimedia Conference DL Countdown@mmcountdown.eurosky.social · 3w ago

📋 Multimedia Deadline Digest — July 17, 2026 🔴 MMSP 2026 📬 today 🔴 EUVIP 2026 📬 tomorrow 🔴 EMS 2026 📝 7d 🟡 MMSP 2026 📸 14d 🟡 MMAsia 2026 📝 17d 🟡 EUVIP 2026 📸 19d 🟡 ACMMM 2026 📸 20d 🟡 MMM 2027 📝 30d #MultimediaResearch #CFP #AcademicSky 🧪