October 23, 2023
The first part of the talk focuses on AV1 video codec rollout at Netflix, including visual quality aspects, and demonstrates benefits of using this codec for delivery of Netflix content in VoD. The second part of the talk offers a glimpse into the research conducted by Alliance for Open Media on video compression beyond AV1. It presents the status of the research and shows performance of its AOMedia Video Model (AVM) software compared to the state of the art.
December 2, 2022
The talk discusses recent advances in video codec standards and reasons why the traditional block-based architecture is still widely used by standard development organizations. It also takes a closer look into two video compression tools: film grain synthesis, which is a part of the AV1 video codec, and a deblocking filter used in the AOMedia Video Model (AVM), the codebase used by the Alliance for Open Media in its research on video compression beyond AV1.
September 27, 2022
Speaking with Jan Ozer about AV1. We are discussing AV1 adoption by the industry, plans for AV1 software development, new video codec research, and other codec related topics in Alliance for Open Media.
August 24, 2022
Participating in a Streaming Media Connect panel on video codecs. The panel discusses how you decide which codec(s) make sense for what company and application. This panel provides a fast-paced walk-through of performance, implementation status, and deployment for various video codecs, such as AV1, HEVC, VP9, EVC, or LCEVC.
July 15, 2021
The Codec Debate discussed advances of AOM codecs (with AV1), the next generation MPEG/ITU codec (VVC/H.266) and the latest progress with the China video standard (AVS3). Discussion participants: M. Raulet, A. Norkin, B. Bross, P. Higgs, and C. Eltzroth.
October 31, 2020
Keynote at LiveVideoStack 2020: AV1 at Netflix. With Liwei Guo and Aditya Mavlankar.
September 8, 2020
Panel discussion with Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, Netflix, and Tencent on AV1 commercial readiness.
October 23, 2019, San Francisco, CA
Speaking at Demuxed 2019 about SVT-AV1 at Netflix. My part of the talk starts at 10:40. Press "play" to start.
April 25, 2018, Seattle, WA
Speaking (together with Anne Aaron) about AV1. My part is about AV1 film grain tool, starts at 12:08.
May 31, 2018, Sardinia, IT
Keynote
A. Norkin, "Optimizing on-demand streaming quality @ Netflix", International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience, May 31, 2018. [Link]