Internet Media Group

In the context of the course “Internet Video Streaming“, on Tuesday June 6, 2023, at 2:30pm in room 11T at Politecnico di Torino, the following seminar will take place (in Italian, in presence).

Titolo: Internet Video Streaming on Cloud

Luogo: martedi’ 6 giugno 2023, ore 14:30-16:00, Aula 11T (evento solo in presenza, in lingua italiana)
Speakers: Andrea Botta e Salvatore Cirone, @Storm Reply

Sommario

Nel seminario verrà presentata l’architettura di un progetto di streaming video in tempo reale, denominato “Live-streaming”, che è completamente Serverless, basato su servizi gestiti AWS come Lambda e DynamoDB e che sfrutta AWS Elemental Medialive per l’elaborazione video. Questo progetto dimostra le potenzialità del paradigma, creando un sistema che riduca gli sprechi in termini di costo e risorse, ma che sia allo stesso tempo robusto, scalabile e disponibile 24/7 in tutto il globo.
Il seminario è svolto all’interno del corso Internet Video Streaming ed è rivolto in modo particolare agli studenti di entrambi gli anni della laurea magistrale in ingegneria informatica.

Biografie

Andrea Botta, Manager @Storm Reply
Ingegnere informatico, manager BU application modernization su AWS. Esperienza decennale in ambito IT su differenti processi/tool aziendali maturata sia in contesti consulenziali sia lato cliente.

Salvatore Cirone, Cloud Engineer @Storm reply
Salvatore Cirone è un Solution Architect e Sviluppatore con più di 2 anni di esperienza su AWS. Ha lavorato a diversi progetti Cloud native, specializzandosi nel design di soluzioni Serverless in diversi settori che spaziano dallo Streaming video ai Servizi Finanziari. Nel tempo libero scrive, amatorialmente, articoli su Medium sempre a tema AWS e Architetture Serverless.

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The research/software section of the website has been updated by adding the software needed to reproduce the results of the (open access) paper “On the Link Between Subjective Score Prediction and Disagreement of Video Quality Metrics“, by L. Fotio Tiotsop, F. Agboma, G. Van Wallendael, A. Aldahdooh, S. Bosse, L. Janowski, M. Barkowsky, E. Masala, published in the IEEE Access journal, Nov 2021.

The thesis section of the website has been updated by adding new thesis proposals. Also, if you have ideas and willingness to work on topics somehow related to the proposed theses, feel free to contact the people in the group.

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A brand new class “Internet Video Streaming” (held in Italian) will start March 2, 2021. This substitutes the old class by focusing less on the details of multimedia standards while better addressing recent advances in the field including HDR and important practical aspects such as how to design cost-effective multimedia systems. More information on the official course description page here.

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