A Cloud-assisted DASH-based Scalable Interactive Multiview Video
Streaming Framework
Mincheng Zhao, Xiangyang, Guo, Wang Que , Cheng
State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching
Technology, BUPT, Beijing, China
School of Engineering Science
Simon Fraser University:
What is the key research question being asked?
How do users interactively stream multiview video content
over the Internet with adaptive dynamic network conditions?
How is the question being answered?
A Cloud-assisted and DASH based Scalable Interactive
Multiview Video Streaming (CDSIMVS) system with Adaptive
View Synthesis (AVS) [1]. In this system, all views are encoded
using SVC to facilitate DASH transmission. Also, view synthesis
can be performed at either the client or cloud-based server, and
the system adaptively makes the decision based on network
condition and the cost of view synthesis in the cloud.
What are the key findings and/or results in the
paper?
An Adaptive view synthesis (AVS) adaptation
algorithm, which first finds the best client-side view
synthesis bit allocation solution and the server-side view
synthesis solution, and then chooses the better one of the
two solutions was efficient with the following outcomes;
If the virtual view is synthesised at the client, the best
playback quality under the current estimated wireless
access rate was obtained without considering the
playback stability, and the selected bitrate levels of the
left and the right reference views.
If the virtual view is synthesised at the server, it needs
to generate the virtual view and transcode to different
bitrate layers at the cloud-based server [2].
What open questions and/or future work is described?
Improving the proposed adaptation methods by considering
different bitrates generated by cloud server model. Also improving
playback interruption and playback stability for different
multiview a client and the server.
Paper Reviewer: Atuhwere Arthur
Registration number: 2017/HD05/347U
Reference:
[1] “Zencoder cloud,”[online]http:
//zencoder.com/en/cloud”.
[2] A. Bokani, M. Hassan, S. Kanhere, “HTTP-based
Adaptive Streaming for Mobile Clients using Markov
Decision Process,” in Proc. PV, 2013,
pp. 1–8.
MASH: A Rate Adaptation
Algorithm for Multiview Video
Streaming over HTTP
Khaled Diab, Mohamed Hefeeda
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
what is the improvement, how is it shown, and
how much improved is the new method?
In the improved approach, a novel Multiview
Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MASH) algorithm was
proposed, which introduces a new perspective to the rate
adaptation problem in multiview video streaming
systems: It constructs probabilistic view switching
models and it utilizes these models in dynamically
selecting segments of various views at different qualities,
such that the quality and immersiveness of the videos are
maximized while the network bandwidth is not wasted.
For each multiview video, MASH constructs global and
local switching models. The global model captures user
activities across all streaming sessions seen by the server
so far, while the local model understands user activity
during the current streaming session only [1].
Results presentation? Method Evaluation

The improved approach determines the requested

segment quality based on the buffer occupancy level,
and it does not need to estimate the dynamic network
capacity compared to the previous buffer-based [2].
Although the improved approach is far more complex, it
handles many views of different importance without
wasting network bandwidth or resulting in many stalls
during playback for re-buffering.
In the improved approach experiments showed that
MASH can produce much higher and smoother quality
than you tube. They also show that unlike YouTube,
MASH does not suffer from any playback interruptions
even in presence of frequent user activities and dynamic
bandwidth changes. Moreover, MASH is more efficient
in using the network bandwidth, with a prefetching
efficiency up to 2X higher than that of you tube.
Reference
[1]T. Stockhammer, “Dynamic adaptive streaming over
http: standards and design principles,” in Proc. of ACM
MMSys, San Jose, CA, Feb 2011, pp. 133–144.
[2] C. Liu, I. Bouazizi, and M. Gabbouj, “Rate
adaptation for adaptive HTTP streaming,” in Proc.
MMSys. NY, USA: ACM, 2011, pp. 169–174.