Stefano Petrangeli

Senior Research Scientist

San Jose

Stefano is a Senior Research Scientist in the REAL Lab in Adobe Research. His current research work is primarily on (i) creating LLM-based AI Assistants to make content creation and editing faster and more accessible, leveraging planning & reasoning techniques, (2) improving content using behavioral data analytics.

Stefano obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering in 2018 from Ghent University (Belgium), where he focused on the optimal delivery of adaptive video streaming services. During his Ph.D., he interned in Adobe where he worked on 360-degree VR video streaming.

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Publications

Power Efficient Mobile VTuber Live Streaming

Petrangeli, Stefano., Swaminathan, Vishy. (Dec. 6, 2025)

ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia (MM Asia)

DepthScape: Authoring 2.5D Designs with Depth Estimation

Nguyen, Cuong., Shen, Yu., Petrangeli, Stefano., Gadelha, Matheus. (Apr. 26, 2025)

Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI)

Copiloting Creative 3D Scene Modeling and Visualization with Generative Agents

Petrangeli, Stefano., Shen, Yu., Wu, Gang., Gadelha, Matheus., Nguyen, Cuong., Petrangeli, Petrangeli. (Dec. 14, 2024)

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Large Content And Behavior Models To Understand, Simulate, And Optimize Content And Behavior

Khandelwal, Ashmit., Agrawal, Aditya., Bhattacharyya, Aanisha., Singla, Yaman., Singh, Somesh., Bhattacharya, Uttaran., Dasgupta, Ishita., Petrangeli, Stefano., Shah, Rajiv., Chen, Changyou., Krishnamurthy, Balaji. (May. 7, 2024)

ICLR 2024

Integrating Content Authenticity with DASH Video Streaming

Petrangeli, Stefano., Wang, Haoliang., Fisher, Maurice., Kozma, Dave., Mahamli, Massy., Blumenthal, Pia., Parsons, Andy. (Apr. 15, 2024)

ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys)

Active Context Modeling for Efficient Image and Burst Compression

Li, Yang., Wu, Gang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wang, Haoliang., Rossi, Ryan., Swaminathan, Vishy. (Dec. 11, 2023)

ISM 2023

Content-aware Progressive Image Compression and Syncing

Wu, Junda., Wang, Haoliang., Yu, Tong., Zhao, Handong., Wu, Gang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Kim, Sungchul., Swaminathan, Vishy. (Dec. 11, 2023)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

EHT-SR: An Entropy-Based Hybrid Approach for Faster Super-Resolution

Petrangeli, Stefano. (Dec. 11, 2023)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

GPU-accelerated Lossless Image Compression with Massive Parallelization

Shen, Yu., Wu, Gang., Swaminathan, Vishy., Wang, Haoliang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Yu, Tong. (Dec. 11, 2023)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

Active Context Modeling for Efficient Image and Burst Compression

Li, Yang., Wu, Gang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wang, Haoliang., Rossi, Ryan., Swaminathan, Vishy. (Dec. 11, 2023)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

GPU-accelerated Lossless Image Compression with Massive Parallelization

Shen, Yu., Wu, Gang., Swaminathan, Vishy., Wang, Haoliang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Yu, Tong. (Dec. 11, 2023)

ISM 2023

VADER: Video Alignment Differencing and Retrieval

Black, Alex., Jenni, Simon., Bui, Tu., Tanjim, Mehrab., Petrangeli, Stefano., Sinha, Ritwik., Swaminathan, Vishy. (Oct. 2, 2023)

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Recipe2Video: Synthesizing Personalized Videos from Recipe Texts

Udhayanan, Prateksha., BV, Suryateja., Laturia, Parth., Chauhan, Dev., Khandelwal, Darshan., Petrangeli, Stefano., Srinivasan, Balaji. (Jan. 3, 2023)

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

A reality check of positioning in multiuser mobile augmented reality: Measurement and analysis

Wang, Na., Wang, Haoliang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Swaminathan, Vishy., Li, Fei., Chen, Songqing. (Dec. 13, 2022)

The ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia (MMAsia)

Contextualized Styling of Images for Web Interfaces using Reinforcement Learning

Guhan, Pooja., Mitra, Saayan., Sarkhel, Somdeb., Petrangeli, Stefano., Sinha, Ritwik., Swaminathan, Vishy., Bera, Aniket., Manocha, Dinesh. (Dec. 5, 2022)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

Towards Accurate Positioning in Multiuser Augmented Reality on Mobile Devices

Wang, Na., Wang, Haoliang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Swaminathan, Vishy., Li, Fei., Chen, Songqing. (Dec. 5, 2022)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

Task-Oriented Near-Lossless Burst Compression

Jiang, Weixin., Wu, Gang., Swaminathan, Vishy., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wang, Haoliang., Rossi, Ryan., Lipka, Nedim. (Dec. 5, 2022)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

Show Me What I Like: Detecting User-Specific Video Highlights Using Content-Based Multi-Head Attention

Bhattacharya, Uttaran., Wu, Gang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Swaminathan, Vishy., Manocha, Dinesh. (Oct. 10, 2022)

ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), 2022

Instant Reality: Gaze-Contingent Perceptual Optimization for 3D Virtual Reality Streaming

Chen, Shaoyu., Duinkharjav, Budmonde., Sun, Xin., Wei, Li-Yi., Petrangeli, Stefano., Echevarria, Jose., Silva, Claudio., Sun, Qi. (Jan. 8, 2022)

IEEE VR

HighlightMe: Detecting Highlights From Human-Centric Videos

Bhattacharya, Uttaran., Wu, Gang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Swaminathan, Vishy., Manocha, Dinesh. (Oct. 10, 2021)

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021

Towards field-of-view prediction for augmented reality applications on mobile devices

Wang, Na., Wang, Haoliang., Petrangeli, Stefano., Swaminathan, Vishy., Li, Fei., Chen, Songqing. (Jun. 8, 2020)

ACM International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE)

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming for Augmented Reality Applications

Petrangeli, Stefano., Simon, Gwendal., Wang, Haoliang., Swaminathan, Vishy. (Dec. 9, 2019)

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (IEEE ISM)

Tile-Based Adaptive Streaming for Virtual Reality Video

der Hooft, Jeroen., Vega, Maria., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip. (Nov. 30, 2019)

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)

Dissecting the Performance of VR Video Streaming Through the VR-EXP Experimentation Platform

Filho, Roberto., Luizelli, Marcelo., Petrangeli, Stefano., Vega, Maria., der Hooft, Jeroen., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip., Gaspary, Luciano. (Nov. 30, 2019)

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)

Exploring New York in 8K: an adaptive tile-based virtual reality video streaming experience

Vega, Maria., der Hooft, Jeroen., Heyse, Joris., De Backere, Femke., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip., Petrangeli, Stefano. (Jun. 18, 2019)

Best demo award

Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys)

QoE-Centric Network-Assisted Delivery of Adaptive Video Streaming Services

Petrangeli, Stefano., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip. (Apr. 8, 2019)

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IEEE IM)

Optimizing Adaptive Tile-Based Virtual Reality Video Streaming

der Hooft, Jeroen., Vega, Maria., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip. (Apr. 8, 2019)

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IEEE IM)

Streaming a Sequence of Textures for Adaptive 3D Scene Delivery

Simon, Gwendal., Petrangeli, Stefano., Carr, Nathan., Swaminathan, Vishy. (Mar. 23, 2019)

Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR)

Quality Assessment for Adaptive Virtual Reality Video Streaming: A Probabilistic Approach on the User’s Gaze

der Hooft, Jeroen., Vega, Maria., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip. (Feb. 19, 2019)

Proceedings of International Workshop on Quality of Experience Management

Trajectory-Based Viewport Prediction for 360-Degree Virtual Reality Videos

Petrangeli, Stefano., Simon, Gwendal., Swaminathan, Vishy. (Dec. 10, 2018)

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (IEEE AIVR)

A scalable WebRTC-based framework for remote video collaboration applications

Petrangeli, Stefano., Pauwels, Dries., der Hooft, Jeroen., Žiak, Matúš., Slowack, Jürgen., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Fillip. (Aug. 11, 2018)

Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTA)

Performance Characterization of Low-Latency Adaptive Streaming From Video Portals

der Hooft, Jeroen., De Boom, Cedric., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip. (Aug. 3, 2018)

IEEE Access

Low-latency delivery of news-based video content

der Hooft, Jeroen., Pauwels, Dries., De Boom, Cedric., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip. (Jun. 12, 2018)

Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys)

Improving quality and scalability of webRTC video collaboration applications

Petrangeli, Stefano., Pauwels, Dries., der Hooft, Jeroen., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip., Slowack, Jürgen. (Jun. 12, 2018)

Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys)

Predicting the performance of virtual reality video streaming in mobile networks

Filho, Roberto., Luizelli, Marcelo., Vega, Maria., der Hooft, Jeroen., Petrangeli, Stefano., Wauters, Tim., De Turck, Filip., Gaspary, Luciano. (Jun. 12, 2018)

Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys)

Quality of Experience-Centric Management of Adaptive Video Streaming Services: Status and Challenges

Petrangeli, Stefano., Der Hooft, Jeroen., Wauters, Tim., Wauters, Tim. (May. 31, 2018)

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM)

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