4 papers
Optimal Bidding Strategy without Exploration in Real-time Bidding
Aritra Ghosh, Saayan Mitra, Somdeb Sarkhel +1
Maximizing utility with a budget constraint is the primary goal for advertisers in real-time bidding (RTB) systems. The policy maximizing the utility is referred to as the optimal…
Scalable Bid Landscape Forecasting in Real-time Bidding
Aritra Ghosh, Saayan Mitra, Somdeb Sarkhel +3
In programmatic advertising, ad slots are usually sold using second-price (SP) auctions in real-time. The highest bidding advertiser wins but pays only the second-highest bid (know…
From Thumbnails to Summaries - A single Deep Neural Network to Rule Them All
Hongxiang Gu, Viswanathan Swaminathan
Video summaries come in many forms, from traditional single-image thumbnails, animated thumbnails, storyboards, to trailer-like video summaries. Content creators use the summaries…
Viewport-Driven Rate-Distortion Optimized 360° Video Streaming
Jacob Chakareski, Ridvan Aksu, Xavier Corbillon +2
The growing popularity of virtual and augmented reality communications and 360° video streaming is moving video communication systems into much more dynamic and resource-limited op…