We present NIER, a video conferencing system that can adaptively maintain a low bitrate (e.g., 10–100 Kbps) with reasonable visual quality while being robust to packet losses. We use key-point-based deep image animation (DIA) as a key building block and address a series of networking and system challenges to make NIER practical. Our evaluations show that NIER significantly outperforms the baseline solutions.

Volumetric videos allow viewers to exercise 6-DoF (degrees of freedom) movement when watching them. Due to their true 3D nature, streaming volumetric videos is highly bandwidth demanding. In this work, we present to our knowledge a first volumetric video streaming system that leverages deep super resolution (SR) to boost the video quality on commodity mobile devices. We propose a series of judicious optimizations to make SR efficient on mobile devices.