Work and Research

My areas of interest include Visual signal processing and Communication systems.

Gallery | Software Engineering projects | Bachelor’s academic projects | Master’s thesis project

Publications:

1. V. V. Menon, R. Farahani, P. Rajendran, M. Ghanbari, H. Hellwagner, C. Timmerer, “Transcoding Quality Prediction for Adaptive Video Streaming,” in 2023 Mile High Video (MHV), 2023.
2. H. Amirpour, V. V. Menon, S. Afzal, R. Prodan, C. Timmerer, “Optimizing Video Streaming for Sustainability and Quality: The Role of Preset Selection in Per-Title Encoding,” in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2023.
3. V. V. Menon, J. Zhu, P. Rajendran, H. Amirpour, P. Callet, C. Timmerer, “Just Noticeable Difference-aware Per-Scene Bitrate-laddering for Adaptive Video Streaming,” in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2023.
4. V. V. Menon, P. Rajendran, C. Feldmann, M. Smole, K. Schoeffmann, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “Perceptually-aware Live VBR Encoding Scheme for Adaptive AVC Streaming,” in 2023 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference, 2023.
5. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “EMES: Efficient Multi-Encoding Schemes for HEVC-based Adaptive Bitrate Streaming,” in Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, And Applications (TOMM), 2022 [Link].
6. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, P. Rajendran, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “Content-adaptive Encoder Preset Prediction for Adaptive Live Streaming,” in 2022 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 2022 [Link][Slides].
7. H. Amirpour, P. Rajendran, V. V. Menon, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “Light-weight Video Encoding Complexity Prediction using Spatio Temporal Features,” in 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2022 [Link].
8. V. V. Menon, “Video Coding Enhancements for HTTP Adaptive Streaming,” in ACM Multimedia, 2022 [Link][Slides].
9. H. Amirpour, V. V. Menon, E. Çetinkaya, A. Ilangovan, C. Feldmann, M. Smole, and C. Timmerer, “Fast Multi-Encoding to reduce the cost of Video Streaming,” in IBC 2022 [Link].
10. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “ETPS: Efficient Two-pass Encoding Scheme for Adaptive Live Streaming,” in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2022 [Slides].
11. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, C. Feldmann, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “OPSE: Online Per-Scene Encoding for Adaptive HTTP Live Streaming,” in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2022 [Link][Slides].
12. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “Perceptually-aware Per-title Encoding Scheme for Video Streaming,” in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2022 [Link][Slides].
13. H. Amirpour, V. V. Menon, S. Afzal, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “VCD: Video Complexity Dataset,” in ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), 2022 [Link][Video].
14. V. V. Menon, C. Feldmann, H. Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “VCA: Video Complexity Analyzer,” in ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), 2022. [Link][Video]
15. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, C. Feldmann, A. Ilangovan, M. Smole, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “Live-PSTR: Live Per-title Encoding for Ultra HD Adaptive Streaming,” in NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference, 2022. [Link][Slides]
16. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “OPTE: Online Per-title Encoding Scheme for Live Video Streaming,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2022. [Link][Slides]
17. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “CODA: Content-adaptive Frame-dropping Algorithm for High Frame-rate Video Streaming,” in 2022 Data Compression Conference (DCC), 2022. [Link][Slides][SigPort]
18. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “Efficient Bitrate-ladder Construction for Live Video Streaming,” in 2022 Mile High Video (MHV) Conference, 2022. [Link]
19. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, C. Timmerer and M. Ghanbari, “INCEPT: INTRA CU Depth Prediction for HEVC,” in 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), 2021. [Link][Slides]
20. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, M. Ghanbari and C. Timmerer, “Efficient Content-Adaptive Feature-Based Shot Detection for HTTP Adaptive Streaming,” in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2021, pp. 2174-2178, doi: 10.1109/ICIP42928.2021.9506092. [Link][Slides][SigPort]
21. V. V. Menon, H. Amirpour, C. Timmerer, and M. Ghanbari, “Efficient Multi-Encoding Algorithms for HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming,” in 2021 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 2021, pp. 86–90. [Link][Slides]
22. Praveen Kumar Tiwari, Vignesh V Menon, Jayashri Murugan, Jayashree Chandrasekaran, Gopi Satykrishna Akisetty, and Pradeep Ramachandran, (MulticoreWare, Inc.) Sravanthi Kota Venkata, Christopher A Bird, and Kevin Cone, (Intel Corporation), ‘Accelerating x265 with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512‘, Intel Corporation. [Link]
23. Vignesh V Menon, Harikrishnan NB, Niveditha CK, Gayathri Narayanan, ‘Comparative Performance Evaluation of Transform coding in Image Pre-processing‘, Proc. SPIE 10420, Ninth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2017), 1042048 (July 21, 2017); doi:10.1117/12.2281796. [Link]
24. Harikrishnan NB, Vignesh V Menon, Manoj S Nair, Gayathri Narayanan, “Comparative Evaluation of Image Compression Techniques,” in International Conference on Algorithms, Methodology, Models and Applications in Emerging Technologies, Chennai, India, 2017. [Link]