Jangwoo Son

Biography

Jangwoo Son has been working in the Multimedia Communications Group at Fraunhofer HHI (Heinrich Hertz Institute) in Berlin, Germany since 2018. He received his B.S. degree as valedictorian and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Gachon University in Feb. 2017 and Aug. 2018, respectively. 

He contributed to Motion Constrained Tile Sets (MCTS) into MPEG HM reference software and the development of a VR Javascript player conforming to MPEG Omnidirectional Media Format (OMAF).

His research interests are an interactive volumetric video cloud-based streaming system, congestion control for immersive application over 5G, and contribution to real-time communication in 3GPP SA4.

Main Research Topics

5GXR

We explore ways to efficiently stream volumetric videos over 5G networks. Our work focuses on development of a volumetric video streaming system that offloads the rendering to a powerful cloud/edge server and only sends the rendered 2D view to the client instead of the full volumetric content.

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360° Video - MPEG-OMAF

The MPEG-OMAF standard (officially ISO/IEC 23090-2) is the first international standard for storage and distribution of 360° Video, with significant contributions from Fraunhofer HHI’s Video Coding and Analytics department. OMAF specifies tile-based streaming of 360° Video which allows for significantly higher resolution at the end device.

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Publications

Previous publications:

  • Jangwoo Son, Eun-Seok Ryu
    Tile-based 360-degree Video Streaming for Mobile Virtual Reality in Cyber Physical System,
    Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 72, Bris, 2018,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2018.10.002

  • JongBeom Jeong, Dongmin Jang, Jangwoo Son, and Eun-Seok Ryu
    3DoF+ 360 Video Location-Based Asymmetric Down-Sampling for View Synthesis to Immersive VR Video Streaming,
    Sensors 18, no. 9: 3148. doi.org/10.3390/s18093148

  • Jangwoo Son, Dongmin Jang, and Eun-Seok Ryu
    Implementing 360 Video Tiled Streaming System
    ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, https://doi.org/10.1145/3204949.3208119

  • Jangwoo Son, Dongmin Jang, and Eun-Seok Ryu
    Implementing Motion-Constrained Tile and Viewport Extraction for VR Streaming
    ACM SIGMM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, https://doi.org/10.1145/3210445.3210455

  • JongBeom Jeong, Dongmin Jang, Jangwoo Son, and Eun-Seok Ryu
    Bitrate Efficient 3DoF+ 360 Video View Synthesis for Immersive VR Video Streaming
    International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju, Korea (South), 2018, pp. 581-586, doi: 10.1109/ICTC.2018.8539414

  • JongBeom Jeong, Dongmin Jang, Jangwoo Son, and Eun-Seok Ryu
    Implementation of SEI Parser and Decoder for Virtual Reality Video Projection Processing
    Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference,1-4,2018

  • Dongmin Jang, Jangwoo Son, JongBeom Jeong, and Eun-Seok Ryu
    Implementing Renderer for Viewport Dependent 360 Video
    Journal of Broadcast Engineering, 23(6), 747–759. doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2018.23.6.747