The MPEG-DASH standard has raised a huge momentum within both industry and academia. The DASH-IF provides – among others – interoperability guidelines and test vectors, and closes the gap enabling interoperable deployments. In recent years, we have seen a tremendous amount of research papers addressing various issues in and around DASH, and thus, the DASH-IF established an academic track to:

Further details can be found here.

Current Events

ACM MMSys 2020

ACM MMSys 2020: Open Call

Past Events

ACM MMSys 2019

The DASH Industry Forum Excellence in DASH Award at ACM MMSys 2019 acknowledges papers substantially addressing MPEG-DASH as the presentation format and are selected for presentation at ACM MMSys 2019. Preference is given to practical enhancements and developments which can sustain future commercial usefulness of DASH. The DASH format used should conform to the DASH-IF Interoperability Points as defined by http://dashif.org/guidelines/. It is a financial prize as follows: first place – €1000; second place – €500; and third place – €250. The winners are chosen by a DASH Industry Forum appointed committee and results are final.

This year’s award goes to the following papers (Two first places, and one third):

Additionally, for the first time, the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) awarded the best PhD dissertation on algorithms and protocols for adaptive content delivery over the internet at ACM MMSys 2019. After a public call, the DASH-IF received a good number of nominations from all around the world to pick one winner. Due to the high number and quality of nominations (and since it’s the first time), the DASH-IF decided to award also the second and third best dissertation; increasing its financial prize as follows: first place – $750; second place – $500; and third place – $250. The winners are chosen by a DASH Industry Forum appointed committee and results are final.

And the winners are…

The DASH-IF would like to congratulate all winners and hope seeing you next year at ACM MMSys 2020.

Finally, the DASH-IF sponsored the ice cream social event at ACM MMSys 2019 which allowed for networking and discussions. Here are some impressions from this unique event…

IEEE ICME 2018

The DASH-IF sponsored the Grand Challenge on Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP at IEEE ICME 2018. The press release can be found here and the DASH-IF is pleased to announce the following winners:

ACM MMSys 2018

The DASH-IF sponsored the Excellence in DASH Award for the third time at ACM MMSys 2018. The press release can be found here and the DASH-IF is pleased to announce the winners:

IEEE ICME 2017

The DASH-IF established the Grand Challenge on Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP for the first time at IEEE ICME 2017. The press release can be found here and the DASH-IF is pleased to announce the following winners:

ACM MMSys 2017

The DASH-IF sponsored the Excellence in DASH Award for the second time at ACM MMSys 2017. The press release can be found here and the DASH-IF is pleased to announce the winners:

A summary about MMSys (incl. pictures) can be found here.

ACM MMSys 2016

The DASH-IF created the Excellence in DASH Award for the first time at ACM MMSys 2016. The results were announced here. The award was selected by members of the DASH-IF and instead of a first, second, and third place the DASH-IF concluded to give the first price to all three papers:

See pictures here.

Wiki and Email List

For academics who want to join the DASH-IF Academic Track, please subscribe to the public email reflector. Up-to-date information as well as an Academic Event calendar is provided in our Wiki.

Contact

For further information please contact Christian Timmerer (christian.timmerer AT bitmovin.com) or Ali C. Begen (acbegen at ieee.org).