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Tomorrow (8 July) at 20:00 NZST, we'll be running our monthly #libre / #FOSS virtual gather at https://meeting.iridescent.nz

Tetris: Efficient Intra-Datacenter Calls Packing for Large Conferencing Services
Rohan Gandhi, Ankur Mallick, Ken Sueda, Rui Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00426 https://

Tetris: Efficient Intra-Datacenter Calls Packing for Large Conferencing Services
Conference services like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet facilitate millions of daily calls, yet ensuring high performance at low costs remains a significant challenge. This paper revisits the problem of packing calls across Media Processor (MP) servers that host the calls within individual datacenters (DCs). We show that the algorithm used in Teams -- a large scale conferencing service as well as other state-of-art algorithms are prone to placing calls resulting in some of the MPs becom…

HP unveils Dimension, the first hardware built with Google's 3D video conferencing tech, featuring a 65-inch light field display, launching in 2025 for $25,000 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684859/hp-dimension-google-b…

HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam
HP has revealed the first third-party hardware built using Google’s 3D video conferencing technology, Beam. The HP Dimension costs $24,999 and features a 65-inch light field display to create a “true-to-life” 3D video of your caller.

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Anya Osborne, Sabrina Fielder, Lee Taber, Tara Lamb, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21780

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many professional entities shifted toward remote collaboration and video conferencing (VC) tools. Social virtual reality (VR) platforms present an alternative to VC for meetings and collaborative activities. Well-crafted social VR environments could enhance feelings of co-presence and togetherness at meetings, helping reduce the need for carbon-intensive travel to face-to-face meetings. This research contributes to creating meeting tools in VR by exploring the effe…

We proudly share our Call for Cases for the 2nd #stsing conference, hosted in #Bochum. A case-based format is a way of conferencing that is local, small, and oriented towards the concrete.
Make your case, fit your case, hop on.

ICME 2025 Grand Challenge on Video Super-Resolution for Video Conferencing
Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler, Juhee Cho, Nabakumar Khongbantabam, Dejan Ivkovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12269

ICME 2025 Grand Challenge on Video Super-Resolution for Video Conferencing
Super-Resolution (SR) is a critical task in computer vision, focusing on reconstructing high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) inputs. The field has seen significant progress through various challenges, particularly in single-image SR. Video Super-Resolution (VSR) extends this to the temporal domain, aiming to enhance video quality using methods like local, uni-, bi-directional propagation, or traditional upscaling followed by restoration. This challenge addresses VSR for conferen…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new
[1/1]:
- Capacity Bounds for Broadcast Channels with Bidirectional Conferencing Decoders
Reza K. Farsani, Wei Yu

Breaking Single-Tester Limits: Multi-Agent LLMs for Multi-User Feature Testing
Sidong Feng, Changhao Du, Huaxiao Liu, Qingnan Wang, Zhengwei Lv, Mengfei Wang, Chunyang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17539

Breaking Single-Tester Limits: Multi-Agent LLMs for Multi-User Feature Testing
The growing dependence on mobile phones and their apps has made multi-user interactive features, like chat calls, live streaming, and video conferencing, indispensable for bridging the gaps in social connectivity caused by physical and situational barriers. However, automating these interactive features for testing is fraught with challenges, owing to their inherent need for timely, dynamic, and collaborative user interactions, which current automated testing methods inadequately address. Inspi…

Streaming Remote rendering services: Comparison of QUIC-based and WebRTC Protocols
Daniel Mej\'ias, Inhar Yeregui, \'Angel Mart\'in, Roberto Viola, Pablo Angueira, Jon Montalb\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22132

Streaming Remote rendering services: Comparison of QUIC-based and WebRTC Protocols
The proliferation of Extended Reality (XR) applications, requiring high-quality, low-latency media streaming, has driven the demand for efficient remote rendering solutions. This paper focuses on holographic conferencing in virtual environments and their required uplink and downlink media transmission capabilities. By examining Media over QUIC (MoQ), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) over QUIC (RoQ), and Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), we assess their latency performance over Wi-Fi and 5…

Hello all - for anyone who's interested, we'll be having our June monthly #libre | Free and Open Source Software (#FOSS) catchup tomorrow (Tues) evening, at 20:00 NZST. We meet at

SHIELD: A Secure and Highly Enhanced Integrated Learning for Robust Deepfake Detection against Adversarial Attacks
Kutub Uddin, Awais Khan, Muhammad Umar Farooq, Khalid Malik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13170

SHIELD: A Secure and Highly Enhanced Integrated Learning for Robust Deepfake Detection against Adversarial Attacks
Audio plays a crucial role in applications like speaker verification, voice-enabled smart devices, and audio conferencing. However, audio manipulations, such as deepfakes, pose significant risks by enabling the spread of misinformation. Our empirical analysis reveals that existing methods for detecting deepfake audio are often vulnerable to anti-forensic (AF) attacks, particularly those attacked using generative adversarial networks. In this article, we propose a novel collaborative learning me…