Publications related to Recommendation on Live-Streaming Platforms: Dynamic Availability and Repeat Consumption

Content Moderation in Online Platforms

A critical role of online platforms like Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, Doordash, and Tinder is to moderate content. Interventions like banning users or deleting comments are carried out thousands of times daily and can potentially improve our onlin ...

EPFL2024

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

Jérémie Rappaz

Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

EPFL2022

Gemini: Elastic SNARKs for Diverse Environments

Alessandro Chiesa

We introduce a new class of succinct arguments, that we call elastic. Elastic SNARKs allow the prover to allocate different resources (such as memory and time) depending on the execution environment and the statement to prove. The resulting output is indep ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

The Metabolic Regimes at the Scale of an Entire Stream Network Unveiled Through Sensor Data and Machine Learning

Enrico Bertuzzo, Tom Ian Battin, Pier Luigi Segatto

Streams and rivers form dense networks that drain the terrestrial landscape and are relevant for biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem functioning, and transport and transformation of carbon. Yet, resolving in both space and time gross primary production (GPP), ...

2021

Resource Management for Power-Constrained HEVC Transcoding Using Reinforcement Learning

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Luis Maria Costero Valero

The advent of online video streaming services along with the users' demand for high-quality contents require High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), which provides higher quality and compression at the cost of increased complexity. On one hand, HEVC exposes a ...

2020

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

Robert West, Manoel Horta Ribeiro

Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content on the platform. Yet, there is to date no substantial quantitative evidence ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

The One-Way Communication Complexity of Submodular Maximization with Applications to Streaming and Robustness

Rico Zenklusen, Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Ashkan Norouzi Fard, Moran Feldman

We consider the classical problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint, which, due to its numerous applications, has recently been studied in various computational models. We consider a clean multi-player model t ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

An Explicit Construction of Optimal Streaming Codes for Channels With Burst and Arbitrary Erasures

Damian Dudzicz

This paper presents a new construction of error correcting codes which achieves optimal recovery of a streaming source over a packet erasure channel. The channel model considered is the sliding-window erasure model, with burst and arbitrary losses, introdu ...

2020

Streaming From a Moving Platform with Real-Time and Playback Distortion Constraints

Laura Toni, Giuseppe Cocco

Video streaming from remotely controlled moving platforms such as drones have stringent constraints in terms of delay. In some applications such videos have to provide real-time visual feedback to the pilot with an acceptable distortion while satisfying hi ...

IEEE2019

Wearable System for Real-Time Sensing of Biomarkers in Human Sweat

Junrui Zhang

Wearable sweat sensing systems offer non-invasive and real-time bio-data streaming solutions. They open the possibility for continuous monitoring of biomarkers' concentrations as well as their variation in sweat, which is a complementary to current passive ...

EPFL2019

Debunking Misinformation on the Web: Detection, Validation, and Visualisation

Thành Tâm Nguyên

Our modern society is struggling with an unprecedented amount of online misinformation, which does harm to democracy, economics, and cybersecurity. Journalism and politics have been impacted by misinformation on a global scale, with weakened public trust i ...

EPFL2019

Optimized Data Representation for Interactive Multiview Navigation

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey, Rui Ma

In contrary to traditional media streaming services where a unique media content is delivered to different users, interactive multiview navigation applications enable users to choose their own viewpoints and freely navigate in a three-dimensional scene. Th ...

2018

Distributed Diffusion Adaptation Over Graph Signals

Ali H. Sayed, Roula Nassif, Jie Chen

Most works on graph signal processing assume static graph signals, which is a limitation even in comparison to traditional DSP techniques where signals are modeled as sequences that evolve over time. For broader applicability, it is necessary to develop te ...

IEEE2018

A Machine Learning-Based Strategy for Efficient Resource Management of Video Encoding on Heterogeneous MPSoCs

David Atienza Alonso, William Andrew Simon, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar

The design of new streaming systems is becoming a major area of research to deploy services targeted in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era. In this context, the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard provides high efficiency and scalability of qual ...

2018

Delay-Power-Rate-Distortion Optimization of Video Representations for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming

Pascal Frossard, Laura Toni, Chenglin Li

Dynamic adaptive streaming addresses user heterogeneity by providing multiple encoded representations at different rates and/or resolutions for the same video content. For delay-sensitive applications, such as live streaming, there is however a stringent r ...

IEEE2018

Machine Learning-Based Quality-Aware Power and Thermal Management of Multistream HEVC Encoding on Multicore Servers

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar

The emergence of video streaming applications, together with the users’ demand for high-resolution contents, has led to the development of new video coding standards, such as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). HEVC provides high efficiency at the cost of ...

2018

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming for Multi-Viewpoint Omnidirectional Videos

Pascal Frossard, Francesca De Simone, Xavier Corbillon

Full immersion inside a Virtual Reality (VR) scene requires six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) applications where the user is allowed to perform translational and rotational movements within the virtual space. The implementation of 6DoF applications is however ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Experimental validation of an analytical kinetic model for edge-localized modes in JET-ITER-like wall

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Rebecca Hill, Daniel Scott Alessi, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Hamish William Patten, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Li Shuai, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, , , , , , , , ,

Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding digital images or video streams

Pascal Frossard, Ntorina Thanou, Giulia Fracastoro

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding and/or decoding digital images, wherein said encoding apparatus (1100) comprises processing means (1110) configured for determining weights of a graph related to an image by minimizing a cost ...

2018

Distributed Rate Allocation in Switch-Based Multiparty Videoconferencing System

Pascal Frossard, Sergio Mena, Stefano D'Aronco

Multiparty videoconferences, or more generally multiparty video calls, are gaining a lot of popularity as they offer a rich communication experience. These applications have, however, large requirements in terms of both network and computational resources ...

2017