Taking a “Deep” Look at Multimedia Streaming

Streaming multimedia content has become an integral part of our lives influencing the way we consume daily news, communicate with friends, family and in office, and entertain ourselves. Quality of multimedia content has been improving by leaps and bounds with advances in camera and other sensing technologies. In parallel, advances in multimedia display technologies have been equally amazing providing vast choice of affordable high-definition devices of a wide range of sizes. Quality of service (QoS) offered by Internet service providers has experienced impressive growth as well. All these factors have led to a huge surge on multimedia streaming sessions that need to be supported on the Internet. Advances in deep machine learning (ML) techniques have been successfully leveraged to manage the unprecedented usage of multimedia streaming. However, as the various factors influencing multimedia streaming continue to evolve, continuous research is needed to adopt new deep learning techniques for efficient multimedia streaming.