We are happy to announce a diverse set of papers from different areas of multimedia systems in the Research Track.

1. Towards Engineering a Web-Scale Multimedia Service: A Case Study Using Spark
   • Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson (Reykjavik University); Laurent Amsaleg (CNRS-IRISA); Björn Þór Jónsson (Reykjavik University); Michael J. Franklin (University of Chicago)
2. SAP: Stall-Aware Pacing for Improved DASH Video Experience in Cellular Networks
   • Ahmed Zahran, Jason J. Quinlan (University College Cork); K. K. Ramakrishnan (University of California, Riverside); Cormac J. Sreenan (University College Cork)
3. A Boundary and Texture Preserving Mesh Simplification Algorithm for Virtual Reality
   • Kanchan Bahirat, Chengyuan Lai, Ryan McMahan, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (The University of Texas at Dallas)
4. Load Balancing of Multimedia Workloads for Energy Efficiency on the Tegra K1 Multicore Architecture
   • Kristoffer Robin Stokke, HÃ¥kon Kvale Stensland, Carsten Griwodz, PÃ¥l Halvorsen (Simula Research Laboratory & University of Oslo)
5. Follow Me: Personalized IPTV Channel Switching Guide
   • Chenguang Yu, Hao Ding (New York University); Houwei Cao (New York Institute of Technology); Yong Liu (New York University); Can Yang (South China University of Technology)
6. A Holistic Multimedia System for Gastrointestinal Tract Disease Detection
   • Konstantin Pogorelov, Carsten Griwodz (Simula & University of Oslo); Sigrun Losada (Vestre Viken); Duc Tien Dang Nguyen (DCU); HÃ¥kon Stensland (Simula & University of Oslo); Thomas de Lange (Cancer Registry); Dag Johansen (University of Trondheim); Francesco De Natale (University of Trento); Kristin Ranheim (Cancer Registry); PÃ¥l Halvorsen (Simula & University of Oslo)
7. Network Assisted Content Distribution for Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming
   • Divyashri Bhat (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Amr Rizk (Technische Universitat Darmstadt); Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Ralf Steinmetz (Technische Universitat Darmstadt)
8. A Measurement Study of Oculus 360 Degree Video Streaming
   • Chao Zhou (SUNY Binghamton); Zhenhua Li (Tsinghua University); Yao Liu (SUNY Binghamton)
9. BUFFEST: Predicting Buffer Conditions and Real-time Requirements of HTTP(S) Adaptive Streaming Clients
   • Vengatanathan Krishnamoorthi, Niklas Carlsson (Linköping university)
10. Real Time Stable Haptic Rendering of 3D Deformable Streaming Surface
    • Yuan Tian, Chao Li, Xiaohu Guo, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran (University of Texas at Dallas)
11. Proactive Caching of Music Videos based on Audio Features, Mood, and Genre
    • Christian Koch, Ganna Krupii, David Hausheer (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
12. A Scalable and Privacy-Aware IoT Service for Live Video Analytics
    • Junjue Wang, Brandon Amos, Anupam Das (Carnegie Mellon University); Padmanabhan Pillai (Intel Labs); Norman Sadeh, Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University)
13. A Measurement Study on Achieving Imperceptible Latency in Mobile Cloud Gaming
    • Teemu Kämäräinen, Matti Siekkinen, Antti Ylä-Jääski (Aalto University); Wenxiao Zhang, Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)