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Adaptive streaming of complex Web 3D scenes based on the MPEG-DASH standard

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Modern Web 3D technologies allow us to display complex interactive 3D content, including models, textures, sounds and animations, using any HTML-enabled web browser. Thus, due to the device-independent nature of HTML5, the same content might have to be displayed on a wide range of different devices and environments. This means that the display of Web 3D content is faced with the same Quality of Experience (QoE) issues as other multimedia types, concerning bandwidth, computational capabilities of the end device, and content quality. In this paper, we present a framework for adaptive streaming of interactive Web 3D scenes to web clients using the MPEG-DASH standard. We offer an analysis of how the standard’s Media Presentation Description schema can be used to describe adaptive Web 3D scenes for streaming, and explore the types of metrics that can be used to maximize the user’s QoE. Then, we present a prototype client we have developed, and demonstrate how the 3D streaming process can take place over such a client. Finally, we discuss how the client framework can be used to design adaptive streaming policies that correspond to real-world scenarios.

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  1. https://github.com/Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js

  2. http://www.medialab.teicrete.gr/minipages/MpdStreaming/index.html

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The research of this paper is granted by the European Union and the Hellenic General Secretary of Research and Technology under the “COOPERATION 2009/09SYN-72-956” Framework.

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    Markos Zampoglou, Kostas Kapetanakis, Andreas Stamoulias, Athanasios G. Malamos & Spyros Panagiotakis

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Zampoglou, M., Kapetanakis, K., Stamoulias, A. et al. Adaptive streaming of complex Web 3D scenes based on the MPEG-DASH standard. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 125–148 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-4255-8

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