Team

Mario Montagud

Senior Researcher

Contact mario.montagud@i2cat.net
*Dr. Mario Montagud* (male) is a Senior Researcher at i2CAT Foundation (Barcelona, Spain) and a Part-Time Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). He received a PhD degree in Telecommunications (Cum Laude Distinction) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain) in 2015. His topics of interest include Computer Networks, Interactive and Immersive Media, Synchronization and User Experience (UX). Mario is (co-)author of over 80 scientific and teaching publications, and is active within different international standardization bodies (IETF, ISO, W3C, MPEG…). He is member of the Technical Committee of several international conferences and of the Editorial Board of international journals. He has been member of the Organization Committee of many international workshops and leading international conferences (e.g. Proceedings Chair of ACM MMSYS 2018, and will be General Chair of ACM TVX 2020). He is also lead editor of “MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization” (Springer, 2018). He is currently involved in three EU H2020 projects (5G-PICTURE, ImAc and VR-Together), being WP leader in two of them.

Publications

Accessible scenic arts and Virtual Reality: A pilot study with aged people about user preferences when reading subtitles in immersive environments

E. Oncins, R. Bernabé, M. Montagud, V. Arnaiz (forthcoming). “Accessible scenic arts and Virtual Reality: A pilot study with aged people about user preferences when reading subtitles in immersive environments”. En: Mabel Richart-Marset & Francesca Calamita (eds.) 2020. Traducción y Accesibilidad en los medios de comunicación: de la teoría a la práctica, MonTI 12, pp. xxx-xxx

TiCMP: A lightweight and efficient Tiled Cubemap projection strategy for Immersive Videos in Web-based players

D. Gómez, J. A. Núñez, I. Fraile, M. Montagud, S. Fernández, "TiCMP: A lightweight and efficient Tiled Cubemap projection strategy for Immersive Videos in Web-based players", ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (ACM NOSSDAV), co-located with ACM MMSys, Amsterdam, 2018.

Content Format and Quality of Experience in Virtual Reality

H.G. Debarba, M. Montagud, et al., "Content format and quality of experience in virtual reality", Multimed Tools Appl, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-12176-9

PC-MCU: Point Cloud Multipoint Control Unit for Multi-user Holoconferencing Systems

Gianluca Cernigliaro, Marc Martos, Mario Montagud, Amir Ansari, and Sergi Fernandez. 2020. PC-MCU: point cloud multipoint control unit for multi-user holoconferencing systems. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 47–53.

FALCON: Joint Fair Airtime Allocation and Rate Control for DASH Video Streaming in Software Defined Wireless Networks

Catalan-Cid, Miguel and Camps-Mur, Daniel and Montagud, Mario and Betzler, August; "FALCON: Joint Fair Airtime Allocation and Rate Control for DASH Video Streaming in Software Defined Wireless Networks", 2020, Proceedings of the 30th ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 20), pages 14-20. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386290.3396931