SVTA AT MHV 2025

Featured Member Company Presentations

At Mile High Video 2025, SVTA Member Companies are well represented, giving talks throughout the entire event. Check out the list below and then register to watch them in person!

9:15AM – 10:45AM: Video Streaming 1: CDN-Based Video Streaming – Systems & Applications

Advancing Content Distribution: 2B Content Distribution over CDN for OTT and Broadcast Services: David Eisenbacher (EZDRM), Khaled Jerbi (ATEME)
Resurrection of a CDN: Briefing Steering Server on CDN Recovery: Burak Kara, Gwendal Simon (Synamedia)
Modeling Energy Regulations for CDN Economics: Burak Kara, Bruno Tuffin, and Gwendal Simon (Synamedia)
CMCDv2 – Advances in Media Client Analytics: Will Law (Akamai)
Open-source Evaluation Framework for Reducing Media Start Delay: Roberto Ramos Chavez, Jamie Fletcher, Ksenia Rabinovich, Arjen Wagenaar (Unified Streaming); Plus: Espen Braastad (Varnish Software)

1:30PM – 3:15PM: Video Streaming 2: DASH-Based Video Streaming, Short-Form Videos, Watermarking

Impact of Sub-Segment Representations in DASH on the Live Streaming Experience: Michael Stattmann, Thasso Griebel, Roman Ryltsov (castLabs); Plus: Deniz Ugur, Romain Bouqueau (Motion Spell), Jean Le Feuvre (Telecom Paris)
Evaluation of dash.js Version 5: Performance, Features, and Improvements: Daniel Silhavy, Minh Nguyen, Björn Altmann, Stefan Pham, Stephan Steglich, Stefan Arbanowski (Fraunhofer FOKUS)
Multi-Regional, Multi-CDN Delivery Optimizations using HLS/DASH Content Steering Standard: Yuriy Reznik (Brightcove), Guillem Cabrera (Brightcove UK)
Beyond Swiping Through Short-Form Videos: Burak Kara, Gwendal Simon (Synamedia), Ayse B. Demir, Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University), Florence Agboma (Sky)
Sidecar-based VOD Byte-range AB-Watermarking End-to-end Sandbox System with Encoder Integration: Vladimir D. Zivkovic, Ronald Peters (Irdeto)

3:45PM – 4:45PM: Video Streaming 3: Low-Latency Video Streaming

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

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

Optimizing cloud gaming applications with VVC: Per-Erik Brodin, Lukasz Litwic, Martin Pettersson, Jack Enhorn (Ericsson)
Neural Video Compression Overview, Performance and Challenge: Marwa Tarchouli, Thomas Guionnet, Mickaël Raulet (Ateme)
Hardware Accelerated VOD Encoding Challenges: Pavel Novotny (AMD)
AVM Video Codec Architecture and Performance: Andrey Norkin (Netflix)
A Low-Complexity Perceptual Video Quality Metric for SVT-AV1: Sangar Sivashanmugam, Axel De Decker, Jan De Cock (Synamedia)

2:15PM – 4:00PM: Video Coding 2: Content-Adaptive Encoding, Video Enhancement, AI-Generated Content, Film Grain Technology, A/B Testing

Objective Evaluation of Film Grain Synthesis: Integrating Local Fidelity and Global Pattern Analysis: Hojatollah Yeganeh (IMAX)
Enhancing Video Encoding with Large Multi-Modality Models: A Novel Framework for Optimized Compression and Quality: Zhengfang Duanmu, Mingzhe Jiang, Wentao Liu (IMAX)
Move Fast, Don’t Break Things: Enabling Rapid A/B Testing and Feature Deployments in Media Encoding and Streaming: Jessica Tweneboah (Netflix)

4:30PM – 5:45PM: Video Streaming 4: Mobile Video Processing, Energy Efficiency in Video Streaming

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

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

Fetch MoQ Fetch!: Will Law (Akamai)
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)
On Congestion Control and Bandwidth Estimation: Server-Side Optimizations for ABR streaming: Dylan Gageot, Tuan Tran, Christoph Neumann, Guillaume Bichot (Broadpeak)
Video Streaming 5 – Media over QUIC, Video Players, Server-Side, and Traffic Optimizations: Mathieu Planche (Witbe)

2:00PM – 3:15PM: Video Streaming 6: Ad Insertion, Game Streaming, Workflows

Enhancing & Standardizing Server Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI)”, David Hassoun (Dolby Labs)
Server-Guided Ad Insertion in 6th Edition of MPEG DASH: Alex Giladi (Comcast)
A Web Transport-based System for Real-time Game Streaming: Minh Nguyen, Dominik Busse, Stefan Pham, Stephan Steglich, Stefan Arbanowski (Fraunhofer FOKUS): Plus: Leon Holtmeier (Technische Universität Berlin)
Comprehensive Streaming Workflow Monitoring: Why End-User Device Monitoring Misses Critical Failures: Andrey Pozdnyakov, Victoria Tuzova (Elecard)
Between Production & Delivery Media Workflows: Essences, Signaling, Automation, & Accessibility in SCTE 277: Yasser Syed (Comcast), Tim Carroll (Dolby)

3:45PM – 4:30PM: Video Streaming 7: MPEG-I Applications, AI Technology for Voice/Speech

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