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;)

FINAL UPDATE for FIFA #WorldCup2026 ⚽️ #CopaMundial: Where to watch it in 4K/UHD with Dolby Vision/HDR 📺 and Dolby Atmos, 5.1 or stereo 🔊 on cable, lPTV, OTT streaming, OTA broadcast (DTT) or DTH satellite 📡 (Graph in 4K resolution to follow)

No time for vacation? Prepare your papers 📄

Coffee ☕ after the MPEG meeting

Joint CfP on video compression with capability beyond VVC coming with 7 categories in visual tests: SDR RA UHD/4K, SDR RA HD, SDR LB HD, HDR-PQ RA, HDR-HLG RA, Gaming LB HD/UHD, UGC RA HD #mpeg #mpeg155 #beyondVVC

Did you know that MPEG has an exploration on systems technology for AI-based media standards (SyfAI)?, incl. - but not limited to - format for AI associated data, manifest format to update AI parameters, AI data repository, integrity check, bit exactness & conformance #mpeg #mpeg155

MPEG roadmap has been updated! #mpeg #mpeg155

Again seeing this debate popping up here in Austria 🇦🇹😂

Conference and TPC chairs should ensure that review forms are configured carefully. I have noticed that the (default?) overall score sometimes favors acceptance; in my opinion, it should be balanced. #AcademicSky 🧪

Experienced reviewers advise sparing use of em dashes — it's best to use them only when necessary. 😂 #AcademicSky 🧪

For media companies preparing for the next decade of streaming, Media over QUIC may be the most important standard they haven’t yet deployed. www.ibc.org/content-mana...

Every Wednesday for the last couple of weeks 😂

From the current MPEG meeting in Geneva. A JVET document entitled "Browser-based VVC player supporting CMAF/DASH streaming on Android" jvet-experts.org/doc_end_user...

Mohammad will present Selective Multi-Pass Encoding for Cost-Efficient Video Streaming at this year’s IBC 2026 athena.itec.aau.at/2026/07/sele...

Here are the slides of my talk on From Pixels to Semantics: Where Streaming Trends Meet the Container athena.itec.aau.at/2026/07/from...

IBC2026 Conference focuses on AI, disruption and trust in content www.tvbeurope.com/business/ibc...

Sitting, waiting, 🥶😬

Happy to speak in a few minutes at ITU-T SG21 and ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC 29 Joint Workshop on “Media Streaming Service – What’s next”. Slides/recording will be available afterward, I think. www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Wor...

#SunnySideUp that’s Sunday morning in Austria 🇦🇹🤩

📋 📅 60 days left MMSys 2027 — Paper Registration Deadline (Round 1) 🗓 Sep 10, 2026 🔗 https://2027.acmmmsys.org/ #MMSys #MultimediaSystems Get your title and abstract in!

Big Blue Marble trials next-gen MoQ streaming for ultra-low-latency live sports www.broadbandtvnews.com/2026/07/08/b...

Hey everyone! fmetrics, a fast open-source perceptual metrics toolkit that runs on the CPU, is here: github.com/halidecx/fme... fmetrics supports IW-SSIM, MS-SSIM, CVVDP, SSIMULACRA2, & Butteraugli. See the blog post (halide.cx/blog/fmetrics) for more info. All code is Apache 2.0. Enjoy!

I do hope you all see something like this! Congrats, Wei and Emanuele, for getting their papers accepted — well done! #ACMMM2026

ITEC summer dinner at Lake Wörthersee as a highlight of the academic year 🎉🤩😂

The Real Reason Major Tech Companies Are Investing In A New Video Streaming Architecture www.forbes.com/councils/for...

Hackathon spotlight: Upgrading MoQ support in Bitmovin’s Player Web X bitmovin.com/blog/moq-pla...

📬 ⚡ 2 days left ACMMM 2026 — Notification 🗓 Jul 09, 2026 🔗 https://2026.acmmm.org #ACMMM2026 #MultimediaResearch Fingers crossed for good news! 🤞

While standards for XR exist, more will be required to foster interoperability with AI - report for @iecstandards etech.iec.ch/issue/2026-0... @iecstandards.bsky.social

Ride with a view #cycling #woerthersee #sunday ☀️🚵

📋 Multimedia Deadline Digest — July 03, 2026 🔴 VCIP 2026 📝 today 🔴 ICME 2026 🎤 2d 🔴 ACMMM 2026 📬 6d 🟡 MMSP 2026 📬 14d 🟡 EUVIP 2026 📬 15d 🟡 MMSP 2026 📸 28d 🟢 MMAsia 2026 📝 31d 🟢 EUVIP 2026 📸 33d #MultimediaResearch #CFP #AcademicSky 🧪

Watching Spain 🇪🇸 vs Austria 🇦🇹 at QoMEX’26 in Cardiff with my Spanish friends makes loosing endurable

📝 ⏰ TOMORROW VCIP 2026 — Submission Deadline 🗓 Jul 03, 2026 🔗 https://vcip-2026.org/ #VCIP2026 Good luck with your submission! 🍀

Third keynote at QoMEX'26 by Prof. Silvia Pan from Goldsmiths, University of London on "Measurable Impact from Virtual Encounters: Design, Quality, and Real-World Outcomes" #qomex2026

Interesting 2nd keynote at QoMEX‘26 from Rafal Mantiuk from University of Cambridge on quality metrics for future media #qomex2026

approxSSIMate: Lightweight models for approximating SSIM from global distortion signals as found during QoMEX 2026 in Cardiff🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 github.com/luctrudeau/a...

Media over QUIC Overview www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

QoMEX'26 started today in Cardiff🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 with a keynote from Chang Wen Chen on "From Perception to Principles: Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Visual Contents"

"Towards AI-Assisted Sustainable Adaptive Video Streaming Systems: Tutorial and Survey" has finally been accepted for publication in ACM CSUR (subject to minor revisions). Special thanks to Reza and Zoha! See preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.02302

See you in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

🎤 ⚡ 2 days left QoMEX 2026 — Conference 🗓 Jun 30, 2026 🔗 https://qomex2026.itec.aau.at/ #QoMEX2026 #QualityOfExperience Enjoy the conference! 🎉

🎤 🔔 7 days left ICME 2026 — Conference 🗓 Jul 05, 2026 🔗 https://2026.ieeeicme.org #ICME2026 #MultimediaExpo Enjoy the conference! 🎉

🎤 ⚡ 3 days left QoMEX 2026 — Conference 🗓 Jun 30, 2026 🔗 https://qomex2026.itec.aau.at/ #QoMEX2026 #QualityOfExperience Looking forward to great research and good discussions! 🎤

Picard management tip: Take your leisure time seriously. A relaxed captain is a sane captain.

I‘m speaking on behalf of Bitmovin: From Pixels to Semantics: Where Streaming Trends Meet the Container. The next inflection in streaming isn't a codec: it's three pressures (efficiency, low-latency live, and AI-native media) converging on the systems layer, from Bitmovin and the ATHENA lab.

ITU-T SG 21 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 joint workshop on “Media Streaming Services – What’s next” Geneva, Switzerland (onsite + remote) 14 July 2026, 14h00-18h00 CEST Further details and free registration at www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Wor...

📝 🔔 7 days left VCIP 2026 — Submission Deadline 🗓 Jul 03, 2026 🔗 https://vcip-2026.org/ #VCIP2026

📬 📌 14 days left ACMMM 2026 — Notification 🗓 Jul 09, 2026 🔗 https://2026.acmmm.org #ACMMM2026 #MultimediaResearch

Congratulations to @hadiamirpour.bsky.social on successfully completing his habilitation @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social on “Predictive Video Encoding using Visual Complexity Analysis”! 🎉 A fantastic milestone after years of dedication and outstanding research. #AcademicSky 🧪

🎤 📅 90 days left MMSP 2026 — Conference 🗓 Sep 22, 2026 🔗 https://attend.ieee.org/mmsp-2026/ #MMSP2026 #MultimediaSignalProcessing