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Authors: Reza Farahani, Frank Loh, Dumitru Roman, and Radu Prodan Venue: The 2nd Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems Co-located with ICPE 2024 Abstract: The growing desire among application providers…
The enduring popularity of the Pokémon franchise can be explained by a mix of nostalgia, constant innovation, and their appeal to a wide and diverse fan base, as Felix Schniz, game studies scholar and senior scientist at the University of Klagenfurt,…
”Fictional Practices of Spirituality” provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into (digital) worlds of fiction. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds –…
On 15.03.2024, Narges Mehran successfully defended her doctoral studies with the “Scheduling of Dataflow Processing Applications on the Computing Continuum” thesis under Prof. Radu Prodan and Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hermann Hellwagner,…
Title: Cloud Storage Tier Optimization through Storage Object Classification Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Mihhail Matskin, Radu Prodan, Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman, Ahmet Soylu Abstract: Cloud storage adoption has increased over the…
The 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (Technical Demos) 15-18 April, 2024 in Bari, Italy Authors: Samuel Radler* (AAU, Austria) , Leon Prüller* (AAU, Austria), Emanuele Artioli (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria),…
The 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (Open-source Software and Datasets) 15-18 April, 2024 in Bari, Italy Authors: Farzad Tashtarian∗ (AAU, Austria), Daniele Lorenzi∗ (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour  (AAU, Austria), Samira Afzal…
Radu Prodan has been invited and will participate as a general chair at the ICONIC 2024, April 26-27, 2024, at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. The Conference will provide a platform for scientists, researchers, academicians,…
Cluster Computing DFARM: A deadline-aware fault-tolerant scheduler for cloud computing Authors: Ahmad Awan, Muhammad Aleem, Altaf Hussain, Radu Prodan Abstract: Cloud computing has become popular for small businesses due to its cost-effectiveness…
Journal of Grid Computing Authors: Zeinab Bakhshi, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Hans Hansson, Radu Prodan Abstract: This paper analyzes a persistent storage method's timing performance for distributed container-based architectures in…
5-19 July, 2024, Niagra Falls, Canada The first workshop on Surpassing Latency Limits in Adaptive Live Video Streaming (LIVES 2024) aims to bring together researchers and developers to satisfy the data-intensive processing requirements and…
Hosted by SINTEF AS, the project meeting of Graph-Massivizer took place from February 07-09, 2024, in Trysil, Norway. On February 09, a Joint Workshop of the projects UPCAST, enRichMyData and Graph-Massivizer took place to share knowledge across…
The diveXplore video retrieval system, by Klaus Schoeffmann and Sahar Nasirihaghighi, was awarded as the best 'Video Question-Answering-Tool for Novices' at the 13th Video Browser Showdown (VBS 2024), which is an international video search challenge…
The 13th Video Browser Showdown (VBS 2024) was held on 29th January, 2024, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, at the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2024). 12 international teams (from Austria, China, Czech Republic, Germany,…
On February 1st, 2024, Sahar Nasirihaghighi presented our work on 'Event Recognition in Laparoscopic Gynecology Videos with Hybrid Transformers' at this year's International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2024) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Authors:…
An EU funding programme enabling researchers to set up their own interdisciplinary research networks in Europe and beyond. #COSTactions Representing Ireland with Prof. Horacio González-Vélez of National College of Ireland at the partner meeting…
ACM MMSys 2024, Bari, Italy, Apr. 15-18, 2024  Authors: Emanuele Artioli (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,…
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We're seeking a passionate researcher for a PhD role in "Efficient Algorithms and Accelerator Architectures for Distributed Edge AI Systems". This unique position offers the chance to work under the esteemed supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan…
ACM Mile High Video 2024 (mhv), Denver, Colorado, February 11-14, 2024 Authors: Vignesh V Menon, Prajit T Rajendran, Reza Farahani, Klaus Schoffmann, Christian Timmerer Abstract: The rise in video streaming applications has increased the…
ACM Mile High Video 2024 (mhv), Denver, Colorado, February 11-14, 2024 Authors: Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Minh Nguyen (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
On Wednesday, December 20, 2023, Josef Hammer successfully defended his PhD thesis ("Transparent Access to 5G Edge Services") under the supervision of  Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Hermann Hellwagner and Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Radu Prodan. The defense…
In a noteworthy presence at the 16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023), Dragi Kimovski and Narges Mehran presented three workshop papers: Marcus Reitzl and Dragi Kimovski, "Multi-Objective Optimisation…
Ran from December 15 to 17, 2023 Website: https://klujam.at/ With 165 registered participants and 35 games submitted, this was the largest game jam hosted in Klagenfurt to date! A warm thank you to everyone who participated and/or helped…
Our paper has been accepted at ICASSP 2024: Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: With the ubiquity of video streaming,…
Funded by the EU, HiPEAC (High-Performance Edge And Cloud computing) is the premier focal point for networking, dissemination, training, and collaboration activities in Europe for researchers, industry, and policy related to computing systems. The…
At Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, we offer an internship*)**) for 2024 for Master Students, and we kindly request your applications by the 19th of January 2024 with the following data (in German or English): CV Record of study/transcript…
Radu Prodan/ITEC will organise the CERCIRAS Training School (on behalf of COST Action CA19135) from August 26 - 30, 2024 at the University of Klagenfurt. Details and programs will be available soon.
With the current popularity of ECO in the Asia–Pacific (APAC), the Bitmovin team in APAC, led by Adrian Britton, expressed an interest in the energy-aware research initiatives conducted within the GAIA project in Austria. Following an introductory…
On the 18th of November, 2023, Sebastian held a talk about his game development story, Fire Totem Games, A Webbing Journey, and the Austrian game development scene at the first Austrian Game Dev Night in Warsaw. Benjamin Hanussek, a Game…
We’re excited to share that the ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMM) presents to Stefan Lederer, Christopher Müller, and Christian Timmerer The SIGMM Test of Time Paper Honorable Mention in the category of “MM Systems…
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management Authors: Reza Farahani, Ekrem Cetinkaya, Christian Timmerer, Mohammad Shojafar, Mohammad Ghanbari, and Hermann Hellwagner Abstract: Recent years have witnessed video streaming demands evolve…
Radu Prodan participated on November 1, 2023, as an external opponent at the PhD defense of Ruyue Xin ((Title of the dissertation: Towards Effective Performance Diagnosis for Distributed Applications), supervised by Dr. Zhiming Zhao, Dr. Paola…
The Graph Massivizer Project is part of the European Big Data Value Forum! The team participates in a session exploring the latest in #KnowledgeGraph technology with real-world use cases in agrifood, industry 4.0 and healthcare. As part of…
The @DataCloud2020 dissemination Workshop, oriented by project partners @SINTEF, took place on the 26th of October as part of the @icpm_conf 2023, hosted by @SapienzaRoma. Narges Mehran participated for UNI-KLU. @DataCloud2020…
The Symposium "The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) carnival" took place on the 19th of October 2023 at the Wageningen University & Research Campus and was organized in collaboration with the Wageningen Data Competence Center…
IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE Title: Characterization of the Quality of Experience and Immersion of Point Cloud Video Sequences through a Subjective Study @ IEEE Access Authors: Minh Nguyen, Shivi…
Sebastian Uitz and Michael Steinkellner presented their highly anticipated game, "A Webbing Journey,” at the biggest gaming event in Austria, the Game City in Vienna, from October 13th to 15th, 2023. This event was a bustling hub of innovation,…
The 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) Paris, France, December 5-8, 2023 Authors: Leonardo Peroni (IMDEA Networks Institute), Sergey Gorinsky (IMDEA Networks Institute), Farzad Tashtarian…
Delighted to host last #PlenaryMeeting of #Datacloud 2020 project. Final adjustments for tool integration and business cases deployments ahead.
Authors: Gregor Molan, Gregor Dolinar, Jovan Bojkovski, Radu Prodan, Andrea Borghesi, Martin Molan Journal: IEEE Access Purpose: The gap between software development requirements and the available resources of software developers continues…
Special Issue on Sustainable Multimedia Communications and Services, IEEE COMSOC MMTC Communications - Frontiers Title: Towards Low-Latency and Energy-Efficient Hybrid P2P-CDN Live Video Streaming Authors: Reza Farahani, Christian Timmerer,…
International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP’23) http://www.vcip2023.org/ Authors: Vignesh V Menon, Reza Farahani, Prajit T Rajendran, Samira Afzal, Klaus Schoeffmann, Christian Timmerer Abstract:…
The Interactive Video Retrieval for Beginners (IVR4B) special session and competition took place on September 21, 2023, at the International Conference on Multimedia Indexing (CBMI2023) in Orleans, France. https://cbmi2023.org/ We are…
            From September 19-21, professors and students from the University of Klagenfurt met with FH Villach, FH St. Pölten, and HTL Villach students for the Future of Education Hackathon.…
The GraphMassivizer plenary meeting is underway in #Walldorf, hosted by our valued partner metaphacts GmbH We’re thrilled to gather for three days of collaboration, sharing project results, and planning upcoming activities. Radu…
From September 7-9, nearly 40 participants joined us at AAU Klagenfurt to discuss and theorise about the theme of “Video Game Cultures: Exploring New Horizons.” VGC is a recurring conference reinstated after the lockdowns, coordinated between…
Authors: Reza Saeedinia (University of Tehran), S. Omid Fatemi (University of Tehran),Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt),  Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria Universität…
Title: Designing A Sustainable Serverless Graph Processing Tool on the Computing Continuum Abstract: Graph processing has become increasingly popular and essential for solving complex problems in various domains, like social networks. However,…
Kurt Horvath presented the paper titled A distributed geofence-based discovery scheme for the computing Continuum at 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR 2023) Authors: Kurt Horvath, Dragi…
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Prof. Hermann Hellwagner is a keynote speaker at IEEE MIPR, 30th August - 1st September 2023. Title: Advances in Edge-Based and In-Network Media Processing for Adaptive Video Streaming Talk Abstract: Media traffic (mainly, video) on…
On 22.08.2023, Reza Farahani successfully defended his doctoral studies with the thesis on the title: "Network-Assisted Delivery of Adaptive Video Streaming Services through CDN, SDN, and MEC" under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Hermann…
An der Universität Klagenfurt wird aktuell daran geforscht, wie große Datenmengen energieeffizienter verarbeitet werden können. Die digitale Übertragung von Informationen verbrauche Energie. Wissenschafter aus zwölf Institutionen forschen…
Title: Towards Cloud Storage Tier Optimization with Rule-based Classification Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin, Radu Prodan, Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman and Ahmet Soylu Link: ESOCC…
Title: ARTICONF Decentralized Social Media Platform for Democratic Crowd Journalism Authors: Ines Rito Lima, Vasco Filipe, Claudia Marinho, Alexandre Ulisses, Antorweep Chakravorty, Atanas Hristov, Nishant Saurabh, Zhiming Zhao, Ruyue Xin,…
Title: Beyond von Neumann in the Computing Continuum: Architectures, Applications, and Future Directions Authors: Kimovski, Dragi; Saurabh, Nishant; Jansen, Matthijs; Aral, Atakan; Al-Dulaimy, Auday; Bondi, Andre; Galletta, Antonino; Papadopoulos,…
Sahar Nasirihaghighi presented the paper titled "Action Recognition in Video Recordings from Gynecology Laparoscopy" at IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems 2023. Authors: Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Negin Ghamsarian,…
Speakers: Dan Nicolae (University of Chicago, USA), Razvan Bunescu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Anna Fensel Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Ioan Toma…
We are thrilled to announce the official launch of Fire Totem Games GmbH, a dynamic and innovative game development company based in Austria. After years of dedicated work and passion, we are ready to set the gaming world ablaze with our creative…
21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2024), APRIL 16–18, 2024, SANTA CLARA, CA, USA Authors: Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt),  Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University), Hadi…
On 14.07.2023, Zahra Najafabadi Samani successfully defended her doctoral studies with the thesis on the title: "Resource-Aware Time-Critical Application Placement in the Computing Continuum" under the supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan and Assoc.-Prof.…
Authors: Juanjuan Li, Rui Qin, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Radu Prodan, Fei-Yue Wang Journal: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles Abstract: As part of TIV's DHW on Vehicle 5.0, this letter introduces a novel concept, Logistics 5.0,…
Title: A distributed and energy-efficient KNN for EEG classification with dynamic money-saving policy in heterogeneous clusters Authors: Juan José Escobar, Francisco Rodríguez, Beatriz Prieto, Dragi Kimovski, Andrés Ortiz, and Miguel…
Sebastian Uitz and Hannes Dermutz had an amazing time showcasing their highly anticipated game, A Webbing Journey, at the Level Up event at Messe Salzburg on July 1 and 2, 2023. The event was a vibrant gathering of game developers and enthusiasts,…
Sebastian Uitz and Michael Steinkellner showcased their game, A Webbing Journey, at the A1 Austria eSports Festival in the Austria Center Vienna on May 27, 2023. The booth, featuring two PCs, a Steam Deck, and a Nintendo Switch, offered players…
Call for Papers Network-assisted video streaming has become a substantial part of modern multimedia applications, enabling users to access high-quality video content over different networks, including the Internet and wireless networks. Efficiently…
Title: Designing A Sustainable Serverless Graph Processing Tool on the Computing Continuum Authors: Reza Farahani, Sashko Ristov, and Radu Prodan 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, , LIMASSOL,…
SWForum.eu: The Way Forward: Workshop on Future Challenges in Software Engineering https://www.flickr.com/photos/198632876@N07/sets/72177720309399251/  
Josef Hammer presented the poster “Unique Prefix vs. Unique Mask for Minimizing SDN Flows with Transparent Edge Access” at the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2023) and the paper…
Authors: Negin Ghamsarian, Javier Gamazo Tejero, Pablo Márquez Neila, Sebastian Wolf, Martin Zinkernagel, Klaus Schoeffmann, and Raphael Sznitman 26th Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2023 (MICCAI 2023), Vancouver,…
CP-Steering: CDN- and Protocol-Aware Content Steering Solution for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming Reza Farahani (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada), Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surrey,…
Titles: Modern Network-Assisted Delivery of Adaptive Video Streaming Services and Towards Sustainable Servessless Processing of Massive Graphs on Computing Continuum Link: https://springschool.iaik.tugraz.at/
During the session, experts delved into the challenges of processing massive amounts of data and explored cutting-edge technologies that can handle such extreme data requirements. From graph-based solutions to distributed computing frameworks,…
We are very happy to announce that Klaus Schoeffmann, with his lifelog retrieval system lifeXplore, has won the Lifelog Search Challenge 2023 (LSC2023). The LSC2023 was performed on June 12, 2023, in Thessaloniki, Greece, as a workshop at the…
Mathias Lux
Prejudice and discrimination against immigrants have been a constant presence in Western Europe for a long time, fueled considerably by the refugee crisis in 2015. This project, supervised by researchers from Game Studies & Engineering and…
Our Graph-Massivizer Project is thrilled to be part of the #DataWeek2023 event! Join us for a thought-provoking session on "Are current infrastructures suitable for extreme data processing? Technologies for data management." Don't miss…
Josef Hammer presented the paper “C3-Edge – An Automated Mininet-Compatible SDN Testbed On Raspberry Pis and Nvidia Jetsons” at the 36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023) in Miami, Florida, USA. Authors:…
Container-based Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum for Remote Patient Monitoring Authors: Nikolay Nikolov, Arnor Solberg, Radu Prodan, Ahmet Soylu, Mihhail Matskin, Dumitru Roman Computer Jounal, Special Issue on Computing in Telemedicine Abstract:…
Radu Prodan presented the paper “Proactive SLA-aware Application Placement in the Computing Continuum” at the 37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2023) <https://www.ipdps.org/> in St. Petersburg,…
Josef Hammer received the 2nd Place Outstanding Poster Award at the IPDPS PhD Forum 2023 for his poster titled “Distributed On-Demand Deployment for Transparent Access to 5G Edge Computing Services.” The event took place in St. Petersburg,…
Josef Hammer presented the paper “Distributed On-Demand Deployment for Transparent Access to 5G Edge Computing Services” at the 5th Workshop on Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge (PAISE 2023). The workshop was held in conjunction with…
Title: Serverless ECG Stream Processing in Federated Clouds with Lambda Architecture Authors: Sashko Ristov, Marjan Gusev, Armin Hohenegger, Radu Prodan, Dimitar Mileski, Pano Gushev, Goran Temelkov Computer Jounal, Special Issue on Computing…
Authors: Martin Molan, Junaid Ahmed Khan, Andrea Bartolini, Roberta Turra, Giorgio Pedrazzi, Michael Cochez, Alexandru Iosup, Dumitru Roman, Jože Rožanec, Ana Lucia Vărbănescu, Radu Prodan COMPSAC 2023: 1st IEEE International Workshop…
Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin‡, Radu Prodan, Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman, Ahmet Soylu COMPSAC 2023: 8th IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management Abstract: Cloud computing has become…
Dragi Kimovski  participated in the EU Concentration and Consultation event on the computing continuum, held in Brussels on May 10-11, 2023. During the event, he delivered a presentation on the groundbreaking DataCloud H2020 Project and actively…
Titel: A distributed geofence-based discovery scheme for the computing Continuum Euro-Par 2023, https://2023.euro-par.org/ Authors: Kurt Horvath1, Dragi Kimovski1, Christoph Uran1,2, Helmut Wöllik2, and Radu Prodan1 1 Institute of…
Title: Action Recognition in Video Recordings from Gynecologic Laparoscopy Authors: Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Negin Ghamsarian, Daniela Stefanics, Klaus Schoeffmann and Heinrich Husslein IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based…
Authors: Clemens SAUERWEIN1 (Innsbruck), Ruth BREU (Innsbruck), Stefan OPPL (Krems), Iris GROHER (Linz), Tobias ANTENSTEINER (Innsbruck), Stefan PODLIPNIG (Wien) & Radu PRODAN (Klagenfurt) Abstact: High-quality programming education at…
As part of our collaboration with the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology at the University of Granada, Spain two research papers were accepted for publishing at the 17th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. Paper…
Zahra Najafabadi Samani, has been awarded travel grant to attend IPDPS 2023 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Congratulations!
Mathias Lux
Creating games for 48 hours at 1770 meters of altitude. The 2nd Hüttenjam took place April 13-16, 2023, on the Turracher Höhe. After settling on a topic for the jam on Thursday - extreme conditions - 40 participants worked on 8 games to be…
Radu Prodan participated in the panel: "Computing in the Cloud Continuum: Technological challenges, killer applications and future trends" jointly organized by the Fast Continuum and HotCloudPerf workshops at the 2023 ACM/SPEC International…
6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf 2023) Radu Prodan:  Four Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance in Klagenfurt  Description: The presentation discusses four hot Cloud computing topics researched…
On Saturday, during the #ICPE2023, the Graph-Massivizer Project organized the #GraphSys first #workshop on #Serverless, #ExtremeScale, and #Sustainable #GraphProcessing #Systems It was great to see so many passionate #attendees eager to share…
Title: Performance Improvement Strategies of Edge-Enabled Social Impact Applications Authors: Shajulin Benedict, S. Vivek Reddy, Bhagyalakshmi M., Jiby Mariya Jose, Radu Prodan International Conference on Inventive Computation…
Authors: Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Shajulin Benedikt, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Abstract: Fog computing platforms became essential for deploying low-latency…
On 03.02.2023 , Dragi Kimovski defended his habilitation thesis “The Computing Continuum in the Internet-of-Things Era: Beyond the Cloud Data Centers”. In the meantime, the procedure has been completed and we were happy to hand out the…
Vignesh V Menon
2023 ACM Mile High Video (MHV)  May 7-10, 2023 | Denver, US Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay), Mohammed…
Presentation of Radu Prodan on "Massive Graphs on the Computing Continuum" in the seminar on "AI meets complex knowledge structures: Neuro-Symbolic AI and Graph Technologies" at the Oslo Metropolitan University.
IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE [PDF; GitHub] Babak Taraghi , Hermann Hellwagner and Christian Timmerer  (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Live media streaming is a challenging task…
14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) 7 – 10 June 2023 | Vancouver, BC, Canada Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Video streaming services account for the majority of today's traffic on the Internet,…
On Friday and Saturday (March 10 and March 11, 2023), Sebastian Uitz presented his game “A Webbing Journey” with his partner Michael Steinkellner and Noel Treese at the Button Festival at the Messe Graz. Their booth consisted of 2 PC, a…
5th Workshop on Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge (PAISE 2023) held in conjunction with 37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2023) St. Petersburg, Florida, USA https://edge.itec.aau.at/ Authors:…
The seminar talks every two weeks are co-organized together with the research group of Networks and Distributed Computing at the University of Liverpool, as part of the Durham-Liverpool synergy. The contact person of this synergy in Liverpool…
SPACE: Segment Prefetching and Caching at the Edge for Adaptive Video Streaming IEEE Access Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Intelligent Transport Systems- Sustainable Transport Logistics 4.0 Logoplan - Logistik,…
Title: Boosting the Impact of Extreme and Sustainable Graph Processing for Urgent Societal Challenges in Europe The First Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems (GraphSys), Co-located with ICPE 2023,…
Title: Large-scale graph processing and simulation with serverless workflows in federated FaaS The First Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems (GraphSys), Co-located with ICPE 2023, April 15-19, Coimbra,…
Title: Towards Sustainable Serverless Processing of Massive Graphs on the Computing Continuum The First Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems (GraphSys), Co-located with ICPE 2023, April 15-19, Coimbra,…
How to Optimize Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming? Challenges and Solutions [slide] Abstract: Empowered by today’s rich tools for media generation and collaborative production and convenient network access to the Internet, video streaming…
36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023) Miami, USA https://edge.itec.aau.at/ Authors: Josef Hammer, Dragi Kimovski, Narges Mehran, Radu Prodan, and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract:…
23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2023) Bangalore, India https://edge.itec.aau.at/ Authors: Josef Hammer and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract: Multi-access…
7th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2023) held in conjunction with CCGrid 2023 Bangalore, India https://edge.itec.aau.at/ Authors: Josef Hammer and Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Abstract:…
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Title: Fast multi-rate encoding for adaptive HTTP streaming Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Ekrem Çetynkaya (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Radu Prodan presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the "Get-to-know" introductory and welcome day, part of Data Spaces Support Centre activities on 23 February. HE Data-DSSC-23022023-Agenda
Radu Prodan presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the CERCIRAS COST action on 7th February in Gdansk, Poland
On February 8, 2023, EduDay - organised by the educational lab and students of the HAK 1 Klagenfurt - took place for the first time. Several hundred students were guided through the laboratories and got their first insight into research. CD…
The kick-off meeting of the EU Horizon project – Graph-Massivizer (Massive Graph Processing of Extreme Data for a Sustainable Economy, Society, and Environment) took place from January 30th – February 2nd, 2023, at Klagenfurt University. The…
SIGMM Records Column Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt and Bitmovin Inc., Austria) Introduction: Regarding…
37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) May 15-19, 2023, Florida USA Authors: Zahra Najafabadi Samani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,…
HiPEAC 2023 in Toulouse, France
HiPEAC magazine https://www.hipeac.net/news/#/magazine/ HiPEACINFO 68, pages 27-28. Autohrs: Dragi Kimovski (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 28 May – 01 June 2023-- Rome, Italy Conference Website Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Where does technology help us in our daily lives? Interview with Felix Schniz, Game Studies and Engineering SPL @ ITEC   We meet Felix Schniz for an interview in Lakeside Park, in the CD laboratory Athena, building B12B, to learn…
Journal Website: Journal of Network and Computer Applications [PDF] Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Vanessa Testoni (unico IDtech), Christian Esteve Rothenberg (University of Campinas), Prakash Kolan (Samsung Research…
Collaborative Edge-Assisted Systems for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming 5G/6G Innovation Center,  University of Surrey, UK 6th January 2023 | Guildford, UK Abstract: The proliferation of novel video streaming technologies, advancement of networking…
Journal: Sensors Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin,Radu Prodan, Dumitru Roman, Bekir Sahin, Christoph Bussler, Ahmet Soylu Abstract: Big data pipelines are developed to process data characterized by one or more…
Every year, Carinthia celebrates its cultural and scientific greats by awarding a total of 13 prizes based on the proposal of the Carinthian Cultural Board. This year Hermann Hellwagner received one of the three appreciation prizes in the natural…
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 8-12 May 2023- Miami, FL – USA Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,…
From December 9 to December 11, the 6th Klagenfurt Winter Jam took place at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt. More than 80 highly motivated game enthusiasts worked for 48 hours on 21 new games and presented their results on Sunday to…
We are happy to announce that the Call for Papers for our conference Video Game Cultures 2023: Exploring New Horizons is online now. Please see our website for more info and submission.
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ICME`23 July, 2023, Brisbane, Australia Organizers: Hadi Amirpour, University of Klagenfurt Angeliki Katsenou, Trinity College Dublin, IE and University of Bristol, UK Abstracts Video streaming in the context of HTTP Adaptive…
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Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Journal Website Abstract: In HTTP Adaptive…
Christina Obmann, one of our first Game Studies and Engineering students, has been recognized as outstanding in the Carinthia region by the local newspaper Kleine Zeitung. Besides her interest and work in games, she's teaching at the university,…
Students at Klagenfurt University decide who is the best teacher: They nominate courses for the "Teaching Award 2022". The 14 best-rated teachers submitted teaching concepts, which were evaluated and ranked by a jury. Josef Hammer was nominated…
MPEC2: Multilayer and Pipeline Video Encoding on the Computing Continuum conference website: IEEE NCA 2022 Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Zahra Najafabadi Samani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Radu Prodan participated in the panel on "Fueling Industrial AI with Data Pipelines" at presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the European Big Data Value Forum on November 22 in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Journal Website Authors: Ningxiong Maoa (Southwest Jiaotong University), Hongjie Hea (Southwest Jiaotong University), Fan Chenb (Southwest Jiaotong University), Lingfeng Qua (Southwest Jiaotong University), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
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IEEE ISM'2022 (https://www.ieee-ism.org/) Authors: Shivi Vats, Jounsup Park, Klara Nahrstedt, Michael Zink, Ramesh Sitaraman, and Hermann Hellwagner Abstract: In a 5G testbed, we use 360° video streaming to test, measure, and demonstrate…
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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) Journal Website   Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Christine Guillemot (INRIA, France), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Christian…
The threat of climate change requires a drastic reduction of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in several societal spheres. Thus, this also applies to reducing and rethinking the energy consumption of digital technologies. Video streaming…
Athors: Alexander Lercher, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan The 15th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2022/socialcom/ Abstract: Community evolution prediction enables business-driven…
A pre-kickoff meeting for Graph-Massivizer took place on November 4, 2022, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Michael Cochez, Alexandru Iosup, and Radu Prodan discussed the scientific goals of the Graph Massivizer project…
A new online article about Graphmassivizer has been published in the Science blog; check it out HERE.
2022 IEEE/ACM 2nd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum (DML-ICC) In conjuction with IEEE/ACM UCC 2022 December 6-9, 2022 | Vancouver, Washington, USA Authors: Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
29th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 9 - 12 January 2023 | Bergen, Norway Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
On 20 October 2022 Felix gave the talk "Walk Like an Englishman? The Cultural Experience of Walking Simulators" as part of the Transformative Play Initiative 2022 conference at Uppsala University, Sweden. The content of the presentation was…
OTEC: An Optimized Transcoding Task Scheduler for Cloud and Fog Environments ACM CoNEXT 2022 - ViSNext Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hamid Hadian (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
As a Hipeac member, we are hosting Zeinab Bakhshi, a Ph.D. student from Mälardalens University in Sweden. Zeinab achieved a Hipeac collaboration grant and is now hosted by Profesor Radu Prodan to expand her research on container-based fog architectures.…
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Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM) Journal Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer…
2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) October 16-19, 2022 | Bordeaux, France Conference Website   Abstract: According to the Bitmovin Video Developer Report 2021, live streaming at scale has the highest…
IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE [PDF] Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Daniele Lorenzi (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität…
DataCloud will research and develop novel methods to support the complete lifecycle of #BigData pipelines processing.Follow us to know more about #datacloud2020 Datacloud plenary website
On the first two days of October 2022, Sebastian Uitz and Michael Steinkellner presented their game “A Webbing Journey” at the Vienna Comic Con 2022 (VIECC 2022). The new demo level from Gamescom was incorporated into the existing demo and…
From Wednesday, 24.08.2022, until Sunday, 28.08.2022, players from all over the world played our game “A Webbing Journey” at Gamescom 2022 in Cologne. Our booth was run by Sebastian Uitz, Manuel Santner, and Fabian Schober, and we have been…
The futurezone Awards 2022 are looking for the most innovative ideas and projects. Three finalists (each category) have now been selected from the numerous submissions. ITEC was nominated for two projects: 5G Virtual Realities and GAIA (together…
The ADAPT workshop took place in Macau, China, on 09 Oct 2022 at the IEEE ITSC conference with more than 50 international attendees! The ADAPT-Team has successfully participated!  
Bitmovin, a leading provider of video streaming infrastructure, and the University of Klagenfurt announced they will collaborate on a two-year joint research project worth €3.3million to develop a climate-friendly adaptive video streaming…
At Christian Doppler laboratory ATHENA, we offer an internship*) for 2023 for Master Students and we kindly request your applications until the 20th of January 2023 with the following data (in German or English): CV Record of study/transcript…
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2022 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) December 7-9, 2022 | San Jose, CA, USA Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay,…
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2022 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 26-28, 2022 | Shanghai, China Conference Website Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay, Paris,…
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2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) October 16-19, 2022 | Bordeaux, France Conference Website [Video] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…
Title: MOGPlay: A Decentralized Crowd Journalism Application for Democratic News Production Authors: Ines Rito Lima, Claudia Marinho,Vasco Filipe, Alexandre Ulisses, Nishant Saurabh, Antorweep Chakravorty, Zhiming Zhao, Atanas Hristov, Radu…
We are happy to announce and our congratulations to Dr. Hermann Hellwagner for receiving the appreciation award of Carinthia in the area of natural/technical sciences.  
16th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems - Dijon, France – October 19-21, 2022 Conference Website Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Selina Zoë Haack (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) Journal Website Authors: Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surry, UK), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,…
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LiVE: Toward Better Live Video Experience INSA, France  27th September 2022 | Rennes, France   Abstract: In this presentation, we first introduce the principles of video streaming and the existing challenges. While live video streaming…
The "Game Studies and Engineering" master's program can be studied at the University of Klagenfurt for five years. It's much more about technical skills, a critical understanding of the influence of games on society "as well as the courage and…
Titel: CardioHPC: Serverless Approaches for Real-Time Heart Monitoring of Thousands of Patients Authors: Marjan Gusev, Sashko Ristov, Andrei Amza, Armin Hohenegger, Radu Prodan, Dimitar Mileski, Pano Gushev, Goran Temelkov 17th Workshop…
Titel: SimLess: Simulate Serverless Workflows and Their Twins and Siblings in Federated FaaS Authors: Sashko Ristov, Mika Hautz, Christian Hollaus, Radu Prodan 2022 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing Abstract: Many researchers migrate…
The project partners reunited at @itecmmc for a final project review. Thank you Horizon2020 @EU_Commission it has been an honour to collaborate for the Future Hyper-connected Sociality. ARTICONF project review @UvA_Amsterdam @ms…
Student travel award at IEEE Cluster 2022 Narges Mehran got the student award for presenting the paper titled "Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum" at IEEE Cluster 2022. The…
IEEE Cloud Summit 2022, https://www.ieeecloudsummit.org/ Authors: Radu Prodan, Dragi Kimovski, Andrea Bartolini, Michael Cochez, Alexandru Iosup, Evgeny Kharlamov, Joze Rozanec, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Ana Lucia Varbanescu Abstract: The Graph-Massivizer…
18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2022) Thessaloniki, Greece | 31 October - 4 November 2022 Conference Website Minh Nguyen (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) December 4-8, 2022 |Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Conference Website Authors: Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore,…
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From August 16.-19.2022, a CardioHPC project meeting took place in Skopje, Macedonia. Radu Prodan, Andrei Amza and Sahsko Ristvo participated for AAU.
During the period Aug 1st –26th, 2022, Hamza Baniata, a PhD Candidate at the Department of Computer Science, University of Szeged, Hungary, has visited the institute of Information Technology of the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Under…
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ACM Multimedia Conference - Doctoral Symposium Track Lisbon, Portugal | 10-14 October 2022 Vignesh V Menon (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Rapid growth in multimedia streaming traffic…
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Secure Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images based on Classification Encryption Difference IEEE 24th Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 26-28, 2022 | Shanghai, China Authors: Lingfeng Qu (Southwest Jiaotong…
During the visit of our minister of education (Martin Polaschek),  Hermann Hellwagner gave an overview of drone research at the AAU and the use of the drone hall. Read more about Mr. Polaschek´s visit here.
In July-August 2022, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted four interns working on the following topics: Fabio Zinner: A Study and Evaluation on HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming using Mininet Moritz Pecher: Dataset Creation…
For the quality and timeliness of his reviews, Klaus Schöffmann has been awarded with the Outstanding Reviewer Award at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2022, which was held at Newark, NJ, USA in June 2022. …
Project lead/coordination: Radu Prodan Project partners: IDC Italia, Peracton Limited, Institut Jozef Stefan, Sintef, Universiteit Twente, metaphacts GmbH, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Cineca, Event Registry, Università di Bologna, Robert…
Kevin Theuermann (TU Graz) defended his theses on July 12, 2022. Title: Trustworthy Service Composition Systems for E-Government Prof. Radu Prodan was integrated as an external expert to survey the thesis and discuss it with the candidate…
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Between Two and Six? Towards Correct Estimation of JND Step Sizes for VMAF-based Bitrate Laddering 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) September 5-7, 2022 | Lippstadt, Germany Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
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FuRA: Fully Random Access Light Field Image Compression 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP) September 11-14, 2022 | Lisbon, Portugal Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Christine Guillemot (INRIA,…
Title: MCred: Multi-Modal Message Credibility for Fake News Detection using BERT and CNN Journal: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing Authors: Pawan Kumar Verma, Prateek Agrawal, Vishu Madaan, Radu Prodan Abstract: Online…
On Friday and Saturday (July 1 and July 2, 2022), Sebastian Uitz presented his game "A Webbing Journey" with his partner Manuel Santner at the Level Up event in the Messezentrum Salzburg. This was the biggest event they presented their game…
Title: Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum Heidelberg, Germany | September 6-9, 2022 https://clustercomp.org/2022/ Authors: Narges Mehran, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Dragi Kimovski,…
Low Latency Live Streaming Implementation in DASH and HLS ACM Multimedia Conference - OSS Track Lisbon, Portugal | 10-14 October 2022 Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Zhengdao Zhan (National University of Singapore),…
Video streaming is not for online video providers alone. Telco providers are equal players in the game of adaptive video streaming, but to stand out, there is a constant demand for innovations at the edge. Join us for an interview session…
On Friday and Saturday (June 24 and June 25, 2022), Sebastian Uitz presented his game "A Webbing Journey" together with his partner Michael Steinkellner at the Button Festival in the Stadthalle Graz. This time 3 PCs have been prepared so more…
IEEE 14th Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP 2022) June 26-29, 2022 | Nafplio, Greece Conference Website [Video] Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…
Title: An Elastic and Traffic-Aware Scheduler for Distributed Data Stream Processing in Heterogeneous Clusters Authors: Hamid Hadian, Mohammadreza Farrokh, Mohsen Sharifi, and Ali Jafari Abstract: Existing Data Stream Processing (DSP)…
Detection and Localization of Video Transcoding From AVC to HEVC Based on Deep Representations of Decoded Frames and PU Maps IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Haichao Yao (Beijing Jiaotong University), Rongrong Ni (Beijing…
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Video Encoding Optimizations for Live Video Streaming FOKUS Media Web Symposium 20th – 24th June 2022 | Berlin, Germany   Abstract: Live video streaming is expected to become mainstream in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks.…
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Authors: Haichao Yao (Beijing Jiaotong University), Rongrong Ni (Beijing Jiaotong University), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Yao Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong Unive…
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Results of collaborative work in the ADAPT between Austira (FFG) and China (CAS) accteped at flagship conference of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Title: Hybrid On/Off Blockchain Approach for Vehicle Data Management, Processing…
The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference MMSys’22 14th - 17th June 2022 | Athlone, Ireland. Conference Website The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings…
We presented the poster "The Power in Your Pocket: Boosting Video Quality with Super-Resolution on Mobile Devices" at the Austrian Computer Science Day 2022 conference. The poster summarizes research about improving the visual quality of video…
On Saturday (June 18, 2022), Sebastian Uitz presented his game "A Webbing Journey" with his partner Manuel Santner at the A1 Austria eSports Festival in the Austria Center Vienna. The game didn't fit into the Esports-themed event, but the 2…
Short description: The Intel4EC workshop aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry to present their experiences, results and research progress covering architectural designs, methods and…
IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS), July 21-23, Shenzen, China https://2022.cbms-conference.org Authors: Natalia Mathá, Klaus Schoeffmann, Stephanie Sarny, Doris Putzgruber-Adamitsch and Yosuf…
25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, September 18-22, 2022, Singapore https://conferences.miccai.org/2022/en/ Authors: Negin Ghamsarian, Mario Taschwer, Raphael Sznitman, Klaus Schoeffmann Abstract:…
For his continuous support of the International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) and his ongoing contributions to the MMM community, yesterday Assoc.Prof. Klaus Schöffmann was awarded with the MMM'22 Community Leadership Award at the…
Over two days (June 6-7, 2022) the 11th Video Browser Showdown (VBS) - www.videobrowsershowdown.org, co-organized by Klaus Schöffmann, took place in Phu Quoc, Vietnam. Sixteen teams participated  in about six hours of competition to solve…
An EU funding programme enabling researchers to set up their own interdisciplinary research networks in Europe and beyond. #COSTactions  
From 16 to 19 May 2022, general Co-Chair, Radu Prodan, successfully presented the relevance of Cloud-Edge-IoT at CCGrid2022 conference in Taormina, Italy. Find out more here.
This years´s "Lange Nacht der Forschung" took place on May 20, 2022. The LNDF is Austria´s most significant national research event to present the accomplishments to the broad public. ITEC was represented by three stations and involved in…
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Radu Prodan talks about "Democratic Trustworthy News in the Social Continuum: the ARTICONF Appeoach" Live streaming at the Digital Day in Messina.
The Horizon Cloud Summit 2022 – in its third edition – aims to gather innovators and researchers, Cloud adopters, policymakers, and Cloud initiatives and open source projects to shape the EU digital transition. Radu Prodan held a presentation…
1st International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2022) co-located with IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2022)  Milan, Italy Authors: Josef Hammer and Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universität…
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Title: Video Complexity Dataset (VCD) The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) Open Dataset and Software (ODS) track June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Vignesh…
Optimizing QoE in Live Streaming over Wireless Networks using Machine Learning Techniques May 25, 2022, Edinburgh, UK Empowered by today’s rich tools for media generation and collaborative production and the convenient wireless access (e.g.,…
CoPaM: Cost-aware VM Placement and Migration for Mobile services in Multi-Cloudlet environment: An SDN-based approach Elsevier Computer Communications journal    Shirzad Shahryari (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran), Farzad…
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EUVIP 2022 Special Session on "Machine Learning for Immersive Content Processing" September, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal Link Organizers: Hadi Amirpour, Klagenfurt University, Austria Christine Guillemot, INSA, France Christian Timmerer,…
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2022 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Industry & Application Track July 18-22, 2022 | Taipei, Taiwan Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
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2022 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) July 18-22, 2022 | Taipei, Taiwan Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad…
The kick-off meeting of the "5G-KärntnerFog" Project took place on April, 21st, 2022 at Klagenfurt University. The purpose of this first meeting was primarily the definition of work structures, work packages, and getting to know each partner…
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Title: A Traffic-sign recognition IoT-based Application CSW Spring 2022, April 26 - 28, 2022, Tampere, Finland Authors: Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Radu Prodan The work "A Traffic-sign recognition IoT-based…
ICME Workshop on Hyper-Realistic Multimedia for Enhanced Quality of Experience (ICMEW) July 18-22, 2022 | Taipei, Taiwan Conference Website Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi…
MPEG, specifically, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3 (MPEG Systems), has been just awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for its ground-breaking MPEG-DASH standard. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is the first international…
We are happy that our tutorial on Open Challenges of Interactive Video Search and Evaluation (by Jakub Lokoc, Klaus Schöffmann, Werner Bailer, Luca Rossetto, and Björn Thor Jonsson) has been accepted for ACM Multimedia (ACMMM 2022), to be…
The 5th Annual Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC 2022), co-organized by Klaus Schöffmann, will be this year's grand challenge at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2022) in Newark, NJ, USA. More information here: ht…
Klaus Schöffmann will give an invited talk about Relevant Content Detection in Cataract Surgery Videos at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) on April 19, 2022, in Salzburg, Austria. More…
Klaus Schöffmann will give a tutorial about Medical Video Processing at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) on April 19, 2022, in Salzburg, Austria. More information here: https://ip…
We are happy that our 2nd International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Retrieval (IMuR) has been accepted for the ACM Multimedia Conference 2022 (ACMMM) in Lisbon, Portugal. More information can be found here: https://sites.google.com/v…
The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) Open Dataset and Software (ODS) track | June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…
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The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) Open Dataset and Software (ODS) track June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Feldmann (Bitmovin,…
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On April 6th, 2022, Natalia Mathá (former Sokolova) successfully defended her thesis on "Relevance Detection and Relevance-Based Video Compression in Cataract Surgery Videos" under the supervision of Assoc.-Prof. Klaus Schöffmann and Assoc.-Prof.…
The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland Conference Website Reza Shokri Kalan (Digiturk Company, Istanbul), Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Emre Karsli (Digiturk…
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colocated with ACM Multimedia 2022 October, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal Workshop Chairs: Irene Viola, CWI, Netherlands Hadi Amirpour, Klagenfurt University, Austria Asim Hameed, NTNU, Norway Maria Torres Vega, Ghent University,…
ALIS’22: Artificial Intelligence for Live Video Streaming colocated with ACM Multimedia 2022 October 2022, Lisbon, Portugal Download ALIS'22 Poster/ CfP  
ACM Mile-High video 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA Conference Website After running as an independent event for several years, 2022 was the first year where Mile-High Video Conference (MHV) was organized by the ACM Special…
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The first edition of "Security and Privacy Issues in Internet of Medical Things", co-edited by Radu Prodan, will be published in May 2022 by Elsevier. More information is available HERE.  
Title: FaaScinating Resilience for Serverless Function Choreographies in Federated Clouds Authors: Sasko Ristov, Dragi Kimovski, Thomas Fahringer Abstract: Cloud applications often benefit from deployment on serverless technology Function-as-a-Service…
Project Lead: H. Hellwagner, Ch. Timmerer Abstract: Immersive telepresence technologies will have game-changing impacts on interactions amongst individuals or with non-human objects (e.g. machines), in cyberspace with blurred boundaries between…
Elsevier Computer Communications journal  Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian  (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Every minute, more than 500 hours of video material are published on YouTube. These days, moving images account for a vast majority of data traffic, and there is no end in sight. This means that technologies that can improve the efficiency of…
The new 5G standard will bring data centers closer to the customer. ITEC researchers are developing a system for the rapid distribution of computing tasks. The newspaper "Der Standard" reported and published the article "Verteiltes Rechnen…
The kick-off meeting of the FF4EuroHPC Project "CardioHPC" took place online on Friday, March 11, 2022. The purpose of this first meeting was primarily the definition of work structures, work packages, and getting to know each partner region.…
Electronic health records, like ELGA in Austria, provide an overview of laboratory results, diagnostics and therapies. Much could be learned from the personal and private data of individuals – with the help of machine learning – for use…
Title: Big data analytics in Industry 4.0 ecosystems Authors: Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Radu Prodan, Danda B. Rawat Journal: "Software: Practice and Experience" Full editorial/article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.3…
Second online meeting between Austria and China took place on 21.02.2022. Consortium discussed aspects of sustainable transportation networks, #blockchain and new development strategies in line with #UnitedNations #IYBSSD #SDGs
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Title: Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum: Tapping the Dark Data   Authors: Dumitru Roman, Radu Prodan, Nikolay Nikolov, Ahmet Soylu, Mihhail Matskin, Andrea Marrella, Dragi Kimovski, Brian Elvesæter, Anthony Simonet-Boulogne,…
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2022 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference April 24-26, 2022 | Las Vegas, US Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…
As a Valentine's day gift to video coding enthusiasts across the globe, we release Video Complexity Analyzer (VCA) version 1.0 open-source software on Feb 14, 2022. The primary objective of VCA is to become the best spatial and temporal complexity…
ACM Mile-High video 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA Conference Website Authors: Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Christian Timmerer (Christian Doppler Laboratory…
The Emmy® Awards do not only honour the work of actors and directors, but they also recognise technologies that are steadily improving the viewing experience for consumers. This year, the winners include the MPEG DASH Standard. Christian Timmerer…
ACM Mile-High video 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA Conference Website Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität…
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In Carinthia, researchers find an open test laboratory in the 5G Playground Carinthia, where the possibilities of the new mobile phone technology can be explored. The problem is: 5G enables the fast transmission of large amounts of data, but…
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On Tuesday the 25th of January 2022, Hadi Amirpour successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis under supervision of Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Christian Timmerer and Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Schöffmann. The defense was chaired by Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr.…
The project "CardioHPC" (CardioHPC Improving DL-based Arrhythmia Classification Algorithm and Simulation of Real-Time Heart Monitoring of Thousands of Patients) has been accepted in the "First call for FF4EuroHPC application experiments"…
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2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) May 22-27, 2022 | Singapore Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) May 16–20, 2022 | Seoul, South Korea Conference Website Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer…
Vignesh V Menon
Data Compression Conference (DCC) March 22-25, 2022 | Snowbird, Utah, US Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer…
Dragi Kimovski
Title: Decentralized Machine Learning for Intelligent Health Care Systems on the Computing Continuum Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Sasko Ristov, Radu Prodan Abstract: The introduction of electronic personal health records (EHR) enables nationwide…
The 5th Klagenfurt Winter Game Jam took place as a hybrid event on Dec 17-19, 2021. Over 100 participants teamed up over the weekend to create altogether 26 games on the topic of "What's in the box?". The games can be found and played at…
In a hybrid (i.e. online and offline) attendance mode at the project meeting in Ohrid, Macedonia, the ARTICONF team gave a final push to have a unified and integrated ARTICONF toolset for DApp developers. The consortium led by project coordinator…
Vignesh V Menon
Vignesh V Menon and Hadi Amirpour gave a talk on 'Video Complexity Analyzer for Streaming Applications' at the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) meeting on December 14, 2021. Our research activities on video complexity analysis were presented…
Prof. Radu Prodan
The Horizon Cloud Summit 2021 – at its second edition – aims to gather innovators and researchers, Cloud adopters, policymakers, and Cloud initiatives and open source projects to shape the EU digital transition. Radu Prodan held an online…
IEEE VCIP 2021 Sunday, December 5, 2021 https://www.vcip2021.org/call-for-tutorials/ Find further info in the blog post here.
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan held a keynote speech about the ARTICONF project at the 3rd International Conference on Applications of AI & Machine Learning (ICAML 2021).
The ANGELA: HTTP Adaptive Streaming and Edge Computing Simulator paper from ATHENA CD laboratory has won the 2nd Best Paper Award in the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless…
ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series – Prof. Dr. Michael Rielger from  SIMULA Research, Norway. The course will take place from May 30 - June 03, 2022. The course will give an introduction into the…
We happily announce, the #Emmy Award Bitmovin (link) for innovation in online TV for @bitmovin arrived at University of Klagenfurt.    
On November 23rd, 2021, Felix Schniz successfully defended his thesis on “What is a Videogame Experience? A Peripatetic Acknowledgement of Inner Sentiments in Virtual Worlds” under the supervision of Assoc.-Prof. Mag. Dr. René Reinhold…
Alexander Lercher's Master Thesis titled 'Context-aware Community Evolution Prediction in Distributed Social Networks' under the supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan at ITEC has been awarded outstanding academic thesis and a grant of 600 Euros in…
Farzad Tashtarian is invited to talk on “LwTE: Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge” at IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain.
You are a Master Student and want to get to know more about ATHENA in a 3 months ATHENA internship in 2022? Come and join our team! Apply now. (Please note: application deadline is 14 December 2021)  
Title: FSpot: Fast Multi-Objective Heuristic for Efficient Video Encoding Workloads over AWS EC2 Spot Instance Fleet Authors: Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Prateek Agrawal, Vladislav Kashansky, Roland Kersche, Christian Timmerer, and Radu Prodan Abstract:…
Prof. Radu Prodan
DataCloud project partners met at KTH Kista (Stockholm) to discuss the domain-specific language and the architecture for specifying and running Big Data pipelines. https://twitter.com/RaduProdanAAU/status/1461352859920785418/photo/1
The Fast Multi-Resolution and Multi-Rate Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Using Machine Learning paper from ATHENA lab has won the Best New Streaming Innovation Award in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2021. The…
Taichung, Taiwan, The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Data-Driven Rate Control for Media Streaming (DDRC’21) Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM’21) Conference Website: https://www.bigmm.org/…
Over the past decade, Carinthia has developed into a hotspot in drone research. The heart of the scientific operation is Europe's largest drone hall in Klagenfurt. The newspaper "Stuttgarter Nachrichten" reported on our drone work with its…
28th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM) April 05-08, 2022 | Qui Nhon, Vietnam Conference Website Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität…
28th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM) April 05-08, 2022 | Qui Nhon, Vietnam Conference Website Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler…
The 1st ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Design, Deployment, and Evaluation of Network-assisted  video Streaming (ViSNext 2021) Conference Website Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
The 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN) Conference Website Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
The ACM CoNEXT 2021 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) 07 December 2021  | Munich, Germany (Online) Workshop Website Daniele Lorenzi (Department of Information Engineering, University of PaduaItaly),…
On October 27th, 2021, Negin Ghamsarian successfully defended her thesis on "Deep-Learning-Assisted Analysis of Cataract Surgery VIdeos" under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Schöffmann. The defense was chaired by Prof. Hermann Hellwagner…
Title: Monitoring System Architecture for the Multi-Scale Blockchain-based Logistic Network Authors: Vladislav Kashansky, Radu Prodan, Aso Validi, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Gleb Radchenko Abstract: Contemporary control processes and methods…
Dragi Kimovski
Title: Autotuning of exascale applications with anomalies detection Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Roland Mathá, Gabriel Iuhasz, Fabrizio Marozzo, Dana Petcu, Radu Prodan Abstract: The execution of complex distributed applications in exascale…
Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Radu Prodan was nominated as discussion leader for the defensio of Mrs. Zeinab Bakhshi from Mälardalen University in Stockholm Sweden.    
Farzad Tashtarian is invited to talk on “Network-Assisted Video Streaming” at the University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
Dr. Gerhard Burian and Mag. Vladislav Kashansky participated on behalf of ADAPT collaboration in the international conference: Climate protection: state of play, division of labor, steps forward held at OeNB, Vienna on 07.10.2021.
The first face-to-face DataCloud Meeting took place in Rome, Italy, from October 04-06, 2021. The consortium discussed the architecture and the business cases in preparation for the first project review.
Ekrem Çetinkaya got the Best Doctoral Symposium Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2021 for his paper titled “Machine Learning Based Video Coding Enhancements for HTTP Adaptive Streaming”. More information about the paper can be found HERE.
Natalia Sokolova
Congratulations to Natalia Sokolova, who got her journal paper on "Automatic detection of pupil reactions in cataract surgery videos" accepted in the PLOS ONE journal. This work has been (co-)authored by Natalia Sokolova, Klaus Schoeffmann,…
The first face-to-face ADAPT Meeting took place on September 30, 2021, in Klagenfurt. The consortium discussed important aspects of systems integration, current achievements and listed down strategies for validating and exploiting ADAPT use…
Congratulations to Negin Ghamsarian et al., who got their paper "ReCal-Net: Joint Region-Channel-Wise Calibrated Network for Semantic Segmentation in Cataract Surgery Videos" accepted at the International Conference on Neural Information Processing…
The first face-to-face ARTICONF Meeting after the pandemic, hosted by Agilia, took place from September 21-24, 2021, in Seville, Spain. The consortium discussed the advancements and progress made this year and listed down strategies for validating…
The Fast Multi-Resolution and Multi-Rate Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Using Machine Learning paper from ATHENA lab is nominated for the Best New Streaming Innovation Award in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2021. Voting…
The H2020 project ASPIDE impressed the reviewers with the presented scientific achievements in Exascale computing and passed the final EC review with flying colors. The project officer and reviewers echoed the effort put together by the consortium…
On 10 September 2021, ADAPT project was represented at the GOODIT´21 conference in Rome, Italy by Vladislav Kashanskii. Here you find his presentation about "The ADAPT Project: Adaptive and Autonomous Data Performance Connectivity and Decentralized…
On August 30th 2021, Andreas Leibetseder successfully defended his thesis on "Extracting and Using Medical Expert Knowledge to Advance Video Analysis for Gynecologic Laparoscopy" under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Schöffmann. The defense…
Hadi
Title: On The Impact of Viewing Distance on Perceived Video Quality Link: IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2021) 5-8 December 2021, Munich, Germany Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Raimund…
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Title: Improving Per-title Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming by Utilizing Video Super-resolution Link: IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2021) 5-8 December 2021, Munich, Germany Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Title: INTENSE: In-depth Studies on Stall Events and Quality Switches and Their Impact on the Quality of Experience in HTTP Adaptive Streaming Link: IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE [PDF] Babak…
In July 2021, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted three interns working on the following topics: Kassian Fuger: Machine Learning and Video Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Timo Pfeifer: HTTP Adaptive Streaming for…
Special issue on Open Media Compression: Overview, Design Criteria, and Outlook on Emerging Standards Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 109, no. 9, Sept. 2021 By CHRISTIAN TIMMERER, Senior Member IEEE Guest Editor MATHIAS WIEN, Member IEEE Guest…
The Quality of Experience (QoE) is well-defined in QUALINET white papers [here, here], but its assessment and metrics are subject to research. The aim of this workshop on “Quality of Immersive Media: Assessment and Metrics” is to provide…
Title: Where to Encode: A Performance Analysis of Intel x86 and Arm-based Amazon EC2 Instances 20-23 September 2021 // Innsbruck, Austria // Online Conference Link: IEEE eScience 2021 Authors: Roland Matha´∗, Dragi Kimovski*,…
Link: IEEE Global Communications Conference 2021 7-11 December 2021 // Madrid, Spain // Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference Connecting Cultures around the Globe Authors: F. Tashtarian*, R. Falanji‡, A. Bentaleb+, A. Erfanian*,…
Title: End-to-end Quality of Experience Evaluation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming ACM MM’21: The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia October  20-24, 2021,  Chengdu, China Babak Taraghi (Christian Doppler Laboratory…
Title: CTU Depth Decision Algorithms for HEVC: A Survey Link: Signal Processing: Image Communication [PDF] Ekrem Çetinkaya* (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour*, (Christian…
Agata and Michał Barciś and their fellow researcher from RTB House in Poland, Michał Jagielski, competed in the Drone Bot Contest at the Deep Drone Challenge in Ingolstadt, Germany on Saturday 7 August 2021. The competition is organised…
Vignesh V Menon
Vignesh V Menon is invited to talk on "Video Coding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming" on the Research@Lunch is a research webinar series by Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India, exclusively for Ph.D. Scholars,…
ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) 2021 | Doctoral Symposium September 28 – October 01, 2021 | Istanbul, Turkey Conference Website Title: CDN and SDN Support and Player Interaction for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming Author:…
Authors: M. Barciś, A. Barciś, N. Tsiogkas, H. Hellwagner. Title: Information Distribution in Multi-Robot Systems: Generic, Utility-Aware Optimization Middleware. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 8:685105, July 2021. This work addresses…
Authors: Alireza Erfanian* (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour*, (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Christian Doppler Laboratory…
Title: WISH: User-centric Bitrate Adaptation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming on Mobile Devices IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) October 06-08, Tampere, Finland Authors: Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler…
Vignesh V Menon
Title: INCEPT: INTRA CU Depth Prediction for HEVC IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing October 06–08, 2021, Tampere, Finland Authors: Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt); Hadi Amirpour…
Robotics research in Klagenfurt enjoys international success With a total of 9 contributions at this year’s ICRA, one of the flagship conferences in the field of robotics, the University of Klagenfurt has joined the league of the world’s…
Title: SMART: a Tool for Trust and Reputation Management in Social Media Authors: Manuel Herold, Nishant Saurabh, Hamid Mohammadi Fard, Radu Prodan Abstract: Social media platforms are becoming increasingly popular and essential for next-generation…
The project “ONTIS” (Ontology-based Interoperability of Systems) has been accepted in the EFRE call of KWF (Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungs Fonds). The ONTIS project targets the development of methodologies for automatically establishing…
ViSNext’21: 1st ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Design, Deployment, and Evaluation of Network-assisted Video Streaming In recent years, we have witnessed phenomenal growth in live video traffic over the Internet, accelerated by the rise of novel…
The paper “The ADAPT Project: Adaptive and Autonomous Data” has been accepted to appear at the conference ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021) as a regular paper. Authors: Nishant Saurabh,…
Conference info: IEEE LCN Authors: Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Mobile…
A Special Session on ‘Video Coding for Large Scale HTTP Adaptive Streaming Deployments‘ was organized by Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Alex Giladi…
With his master thesis about "Animating Characters using Deep Learning based Pose Estimation", Fabian Schober won the "Dynatrace Outstanding IT-Thesis Award" (DO*IT*TA). The award brings attention to extraordinary theses, motivates creativity,…
Conference info: The 46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) October 4-7, 2021 Authors: Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Conference info: The 46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) October 4-7, 2021 Authors: Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
The project "Kärntner Fog" has been accepted in the BRIDGE funding call of FFG. Abstract: Kärntner Fog aims to contribute with advanced technologies for the distributed optimized provisioning and operation of 5G applications in Austria.…
Successful review of the first research phase: Christian Doppler ‘pilot’ laboratory ATHENA to transition to a regular CD laboratory two years after launch. Read more about it at ATHENA website and the press release at AAU website. &n…
Dragi Kimovski
The manuscript “Mobility-Aware IoT Application Placement in the Cloud — Edge Continuum” has been accepted for publication in the A* (IF: 5.823) Journal – IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC). Autors: Dragi Kimovski, Narges…
Bitmovin will be sponsoring a classroom in the area of Computer Science for the next five years, starting in June 2021, and thus continuing the long-standing successful cooperation with the University of Klagenfurt. Read more about our project…
Hadi
Hadi Amirpour has been appointed co-chair of Task Force 7 (TF7) Immersive Media Experience (IMEx) at the 15th Qualinet meeting Co-chairs: Hadi Amirpour (AAU) Asim Hameed (NTNU) Maria Torres Vega (UGhent) Irene Viola, (CWI)   TF7:…
Nishant Saurabh
  Authors: Shajulin Benedict, Prateek Agrawal, Radu Prodan Link: Advanced Informatics for Computing Research, CCIS-Springer, 4th ICAICR 2020, Vol. 1393 Abstract: The push for agile pandemic analytic solutions has attained development-stage…
HTTP Adaptive Streaming – Quo Vadis? Christian Timmerer, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 35th Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) 2021 Abstract: Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a…
Nishant Saurabh
Authors: Nikita Karandikar, Rockey Abhishek, Nishant Saurabh, Zhiming Zhao, Alexander Lercher, Ninoslav Marina, Radu Prodan, Chunming Rong, Antorweep Chakravorty DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcra.2021.100016 Abstract: Peak mitigation…
Our paper about LensID - a CNN-RNN-based framework for irregularity detection in cataract surgery videos has been accepted at the prestigious MICCAI 2021 conference (International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted…
Conference: https://escience2021.org/ Title: Where to Encode: A Performance Analysis of x86 and Arm-based Amazon EC2 Instances Authors: Roland Mathá, Dragi Kimovski, Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Christian Timmerer and Radu Prodan Abstract:…
Title: Handover Authentication Latency Reduction using Mobile Edge Computing and Mobility Patterns Authors: Fatima Abdullah, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan, and Kashif Munir Abstract: With the advancement in technology and the exponential…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Authors:Yasir Noman Khalid, Muhammad Aleem, Usman Ahmed, Radu Prodan, Muhammad Arshad Islam & Muhammad Azhar Iqbal Abstract: Employing general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU) with the help of OpenCL has resulted in greatly reducing…
Our project „ADAPT“ started in March 2021, during the most critical phase of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe. The demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from each country’s health care system has surpassed national stock amounts…
Vignesh V Menon
At IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) on September 19-22, 2021, Alaska, USA. Authors: Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School…
Title: "A Two-Sided Matching Model for Data Stream Processing in the Cloud-Fog Continuum" by: Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski and Radu Prodan, was virtually presented in the CCgrid2021 conference. We at @alpenadriauni are proud of Narges…
IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing Authors: Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour, (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian…
ARTICONF impressed the reviewers with their advancements in the second year and passed the second EC review with flying colors.  The project officer and reviewers echoed the effort put together by the consortium in achieving an integrated ARTICONF…
Nishant Saurabh
Title: The ARTICONF Approach to Decentralised  Car-sharing  Authors: Nishant Saurabh (UNI-KLU), Carlos Rubia (Agilia), Anandakumar Palanisamy (BY), Spiros Koulouzis (UvA), Mirsat Sefidanoski (UIST), Antorweep Chakravorty (UiS), Zhiming…
Vignesh V Menon
Conference info: Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), 29 June-2 July 2021, Bristol, UK Conference Website: https://pcs2021.org Authors: Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…
Conference info: NOSSDAV’21: The 31st edition of the Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey Conference Website: https://nossdav.org/2021/ Authors: Reza Farahani…
The presentation has been accepted to the main-track of the Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting (ASHPC'21). Meeting will be organized in a hybrid format on 31 May – 2 June, 2021 at the Institute of Information Science in Maribor, Slovenia. Title:…
ADAPT started with the online Kickoff meeting, coordinated by Prof. Radu Prodan.
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan has been nominated as Management Committee (MC) Member CA19135 at COST (European Cooperation in Science & Technologie).
Prof. Radu Prodan
Conference: 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science Title : DataCloud: Enabling the Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum Authors: Dumitru Roman, Nikolay Nikolov, Brian Elvesæter, Ahmet Soylu,…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan is a keynote speaker at Memphis DATA 2021, 25th-26th March 2021. Talk Abstract: We live in a digital world estimated to host around 4 billion Internet users and 10 billion of mobile connections generating 2.5 billion billion…
Title: WELFake: Word Embedding over Linguistic Features for Fake News Detection Authors: Pawan Kumar Verma (Lovely Professional University, India | GLA University, India), Prateek Agrawal (University of Klagenfurt, Austria | Lovely Professional…
The full paper has been accepted to the main-track of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'21). Conference will be organized in a virtual format on 16-18 June, 2021. Title: Monte-Carlo Approach to the Computational…
The paper “PSTR: Per-title encoding using Spatio-Temporal Resolutions” has been accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2021 at July 5-9, 2021 Shenzhen, China. Authors: Hadi Amirpour…
This offer is an excellent opportunity to do a combined PhD at CERN and the University of Klagenfurt. If you are interested, find more information here.
The paper “Multilayer Resource-aware Partitioning for Fog Application Placement” has been accepted for publication at the 5th IEEE international conference on Fog and Edge computing 2021 (ICFEC 2021) , with an acceptance rate of 17% for…
Christian Timmerer
Christian Timmerer, Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) and Director of the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory, has been appointed IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2021-2022. “The…
We are happy and proud to see Bitmovin among the 72nd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards Recipients. The award is received for “Development of Massive Processing Optimized Compression Technologies” which acknowledges Bitmovin’s…
Authors: Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin),…
Authors: Bernhard Rinner, Christian Bettstetter, Hermann Hellwagner, and Stephan Weiss Abstract: Drones have evolved from bulky research platforms to everyday objects that enable a variety of innovative applications. One of the current challenges…
NOSSDAV’21: The 31st edition of the Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video Sept. 28-Oct. 1, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey Conference Website Authors: Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Abdelhak…
The paper “A Two-Sided Matching Model for Data Stream Processing in the Cloud–Fog Continuum” has been accepted for publication at the 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021). Authors: Narges…
ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series – Prof. Carsten Griwodz from the University of Oslo & SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway. The online-course will take place from March 5 - May 28, 2021. This…
Authors: Vishu Madaan (Lovely Professional University, India), Aditya Roy (Lovely Professional University, India), Charu Gupta (Bhagwan Parashuram Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India), Prateek Agrawal (Institute of ITEC, University of…
Andreas Leibetseder
Hadi
Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), and Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester,…
Prof. Radu Prodan
The project "Kärntner Fog: A 5G-Enabled Fog Infrastructure for Automated Operation of Carinthia’s 5G Playground Application Use Cases" proposes a new infrastructure automation use case in the 5G Playground Carinthia (5GPG). Kärntner Fog…
Dr. Shajulin Benedict war 2019 an der Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt im Rahmen einer Forschungskooperation tätig. Heute ist es soweit, die Kooperation des build! mit dem IIIT-Kottayam Startup Center startet. Build! startet 2021 mit…
The manuscript “Cloud, Fog or Edge: Where to Compute?” has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Roland Mathá, Josef Hammer, Narges Mehran, Hermann Hellwagner and Radu…
Prof. Radu Prodan
IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) accepted the paper "Dynamic Multi-objective Scheduling of Microservices in the Cloud". Authors: Hamid Mohammadi Fard, Radu Prodan, Felix Wolf Abstract: For many…
Hadi
Authors: Nakisa Shams (ETS, Montreal, Canada), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), and Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering,…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan is a keynote speaker at the 13th International Conference On The Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), 13th-17th December 2020.
Further details and registration available here: https://mile-high.video/
Authors: Shajulin Benedict (IIIT Kottayam, India), Prateek Agrawal (University of Klagenfurt, Austria & Lovely Professional University, India) , Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract: The push for agile pandemic analytic…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan ist guest of honor at the 9th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA), 27-29 Nov 2020, Arad, Romania. The title of his talk is "Distribute one Billion".
Prof. Radu Prodan
The newspaper "Kronen Zeitung" published the article "IM KAMPF GEGEN CORONA: Universität Klagenfurt forscht mit den Chinesen" with Prof. Radu Prodan.
Authors: Prateek Agrawal (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Adithyan Ilagovan (Bitmovin Inc., CA, USA), Christian Timmerer (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan (University…
Prof. Radu Prodan
The newspaper "Kleine Zeitung" published the article "Medizinische Schutzausrüstung: Neue IT-Lösung soll Menschenleben retten" with Prof. Radu Prodan.  
Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Dijana C. Bogatinoska, Narges Mehran, Aleksandar Karadimce, Natasha Paunkoska, Radu Prodan, Ninoslav Marina Abstract: The proliferation of smart sensing and computing devices, capable of collecting a vast amount of…
Teaching in times of Corona is a particular challenge. An online survey among AAU students shows that they were delighted with the digital teaching formats. Here you will find the best feedback from the students: https://www.aau.at/feedback-zur-online-lehre/ Josef…
Prof. Radu Prodan
This project started during the most critical phase of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe where the demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from each country’s health care system has surpassed national stock amounts by far. Therefore,…
Prof. Radu Prodan
The manuscript "Inter-host Orchestration Platform Architecture for Ultra-scale Cloud Applications" has been accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Authors: Sasko Ristov, Thomas Fahringer, Radu Prodan, Magdalena…
Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),Ekrem Çetinkaya (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), and Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic…
Today, Klaus Schöffmann will present his keynote talk on “Deep Video Understanding and the User” at the ACM Multimedia 2020 Grand Challenge (GC) on “Deep Video Understanding”. The talk will highlight user aspects of automatic video…
Authors: Negin Ghamsarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mario Taschwer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Doris Putzgruber-Adamitsch (Klinikum Klagenfurt), Stephanie Sarny (Klinikum Klagenfurt), Klaus Schoeffmann (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Authors: Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität…
Abstract: Video accounts for the vast majority of today’s internet traffic and video coding is vital for efficient distribution towards the end-user. Software- or/and cloud-based video coding is becoming more and more attractive, specifically…
DataCloud provides a novel paradigm covering the complete lifecycle of managing Big Data pipelines through discovery, design, simulation, provisioning, deployment, and adaptation across the Computing Continuum. Big Data pipelines in DataCloud…
Christian Timmerer
September 24, 2020.  Bitmovin received 2nd prize of the 2020 Houska Award for the PROMETHEUS project, a joint project with the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt funded in part by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in the “Basisprogramm”.…
Christian Timmerer
Teaser: “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope,” said the hologram of Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). This was the first time in cinematic history that the concept of holographic-type communication…
Authors: Prateek Agrawal (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Deepak Chaudhary (Lovely Professional University, India), Vishu Madaan (Lovely professional University, India), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan…
Authors: Ekrem Çetinkaya (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), and Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and…
The FOG just moved from the Lake Wörthersee to ITEC ;)! Lead researchers Dragi Kimovski, and Narges Mehran from Radu Prodan's Lab and Josef Hammer from Hermann Hellwagner's Lab setup UNI-KLU's first FOG infrastructure with 40 computing nodes…
Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Klagenfurt nominated Alexander Lercher from ITEC (Radu Prodan's group) for Best Performer Award owing to his outstanding performance in studies.  He will be conferred with this honor at a public…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Elsevier's Journal of Information and Software Technology (INSOF) accepted the manuscript ''A Dynamic Evolutionary Multi-Objective Virtual Machine Placement Heuristic for Cloud Infrastructures''. Authors: Ennio Torre, Juan J. Durillo (Leibniz…
Nishant Saurabh
The manuscript ''Expelliarmus: Semantic-Centric Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds'' is accepted for publication at the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing). Authors:…
Christian Timmerer
With the coming of age of virtual/augmented reality and interactive media, numerous definitions, frameworks, and models of immersion have emerged across different fields ranging from computer graphics to literary works. Immersion is oftentimes…
Authors: Negin Ghamsarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), Mario Taschwer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…
The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2020) http://bigmm2020.org/ Authors: Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt), Prateek Agrawal (Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Lovely Professional…
Authors: Minh Nguyen, Hadi Amirpour, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: HTTP/2 has been explored widely for video streaming, but still suffers from Head-of-Line blocking, and three-way hand-shake…
Authors: Anandhakumar Palanisamy, Mirsat Sefidanoski, Spiros Koulouzis, Carlos Rubia, Nishant Saurabh and Radu Prodan Abstract: Social media applications are essential for next generation connectivity. Today, social media are centralized…
Natalia Sokolova
Authors: Natalia Sokolova, Mario Taschwer, Stephanie Sarny, Doris Putzgruber-Adamitsch and Klaus Schoeffmann Abstract: Automatically detecting clinically relevant events in surgery video recordings is becoming increasingly important for documentary,…
This year’s ACM MMSys was held as a fully virtual/online event and Slido was used for asking questions about keynotes and presentations including offline discussions with presenters. The interaction report provides some interesting key insights…
Andreas Leibetseder
The IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) paper "Simplified Workflow Simulation on Clouds based on Computation and Communication Noisiness", published by Roland Mathá and Prof. Radu Prodan et al. got awarded the Code…
Christian Timmerer
Title: Objective and Subjective QoE Evaluation for Adaptive Point Cloud Streaming Authors: Jeroen van der Hooft (Ghent University), Maria Torres Vega (Ghent University), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), Ali…
Christian Timmerer
Christian Timmerer and Peter Schelkens have been elected as Chairs of the QoMEX Steering Committee and Sebastian Möller has been elected as Treasurer. The primary goal of the conference is to bring together leading professionals and scientists…
Authors: Minh Nguyen (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt / Bitmovin Inc.), Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming (HAS) plays…
Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), and Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex) Abstract: Holography is able to reconstruct a three-dimensional…
Philipp Moll
Authors: Philipp Moll, Veit Frick, Natascha Rauscher, Mathias Lux (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: The popularity of computer games is remarkably high and is still growing. Despite the popularity and economical impact of games,…
Our Paper "Pixel-Based Tool Segmentation in Cataract Surgery Videos with Mask R-CNN" has been accepted for publication at IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS - http://cbms2020.org). Authors: Markus Fox,…
IEEE Communications Society extends its appreciation of Hermann Hellwagner as a distingguished member of the IEEE INFOCOM 2020. See more Information here. IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - Online Conference July 6-9, 2020
Christian Timmerer
Authors: Venkata Phani Kumar M (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin) and Hermann Hellwagner  (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Video delivery over the Internet…
Authors: Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin) and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract:…
Christian Timmerer
Abstract: HTTP adaptive streaming with chunked transfer encoding can offer low-latency streaming without sacrificing the coding efficiency.This allows media segments to be delivered while still being packaged. However, conventional schemes often…
Christian Timmerer
Abstract: Volumetric media has the potential to provide the six degrees of freedom (6DoF) required by truly immersive media. However, achieving 6DoF requires ultra-high bandwidth transmissions, which real-world wide area networks cannot provide…
Andreas Leibetseder
The manuscript “The Workflow Trace Archive: Open-Access Data from Public and Private Computing Infrastructures” has been accepted for publication in the A* ranked IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) journal. Authors:…
Abstract: Real-time video streaming traffic and related applications have witnessed significant growth in recent years. However, this has been accompanied by some challenging issues, predominantly resource utilization. IP multicasting, as a…
Natalia Sokolova
The 1-page abstract "Pixel-Based Iris and Pupil Segmentation in Cataract Surgery Videos Using Mask R-CNN" was accepted at the workshop “Deep Learning for Biomedical Image Reconstruction” of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging…
The first review of the ASPIDE project took place on 25.02.2020 in the premises of the European Commission in Luxemburg. During the project review, a live demo of the platform for supporting extreme scale applications was presented and future…
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Andreas Leibetseder
ATHENA Summer School 2020 (July 13-17, 2020) https://athena.itec.aau.at/summer-school-2020 Please Register now  
Bitmovin, a world leader in online video technology, is teaming up with the University of Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) in a multi-million Euro…
Andreas Leibetseder
To strengthen our team spirit, ITEC members spent a wonderful skiing day together at Gerlitzen.
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Read the whole article HERE.
https://twitter.com/articonf/status/1222848541317652480
https://sciencemediahub.eu/2020/01/29/more-democratic-transparent-and-reliable-the-next-generation-social-media/
The ITEC team participated in the HiPeac 2020 International Workshop on Exascale programing models for extreme data with a presentation with title “Monitoring data collection and mining for Exascale systems”. The ITEC team also attended…
Dragi Kimovski
Title of the talk: Mobility-Aware Scheduling of Extreme Data Workflows across the Computing Continuum Abstract: The appearance of the Fog/Edge computing paradigm, as an emanation of the computing continuum closer to the edge of the network,…
The 3rd Klagenfurt Winter Game Jam took place Dec 20-22, 2019 and attracted more than 90 registrations. The event started with talks about the founding of an indie studio - Healing Bullet Games - from students of our master program on Game Studies…
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Philipp Moll
The paper “Making simulation results reproducible—Survey, guidelines, and examples based on Gradle and Docker” has been accepted and published in PeerJ Computer Science. Authors: Wilfried Elmenreich, Philipp Moll, Sebastian Theuermann,…
Authors: Hadi Amirpour, Ekrem Çetinkaya (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), and Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Tehran, University of Essex) Abstract: Adaptive HTTP…
Andreas Leibetseder
The manuscript “Simplified Workflow Simulation on Clouds based on Computation and Communication Noisiness” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems journal (TPDS) with an impact factor…
An der Universität Klagenfurt wird das CD Labor für Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services eingerichtet. Die Mission des Labors ist die Erforschung neuer Tools und Methoden für die Codierung, den Transport…
Dragi Kimovski
The manuscript “Multi-objective scheduling of extreme data scientific workflows in Fog” has been accepted for publication in the “Future Generation Computer Systems” journal published by Elsevier. The journal is ranked in the Q1 (SJR)…
At the 26th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM 2020) in Daejeon, Korea, researchers from ITEC have successfully presented several scientific contributions to the multimedia community. First, Natalia Sokolova presented her first…
The paper “Deblurring Cataract Surgery Videos Using a Multi-Scale Deconvolutional Neural Network" has been accepted for publication at the “IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging”, located at Iowa City, Iowa, USA (April 3-7,…
Natalia Sokolova
VBS 2020 in Daejeon (South Korea) was an amazing event with a lot of fun! Eleven teams, each consisting of two users (coming from 11 different countries) competed against each other in both a private session for about 5 hours and a public session…
Prof. Radu Prodan
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High-tech meets history. When thousands of international software developers gather at the Vienna Imperial Castle (Hofburg Wien), you can feel that magic is about to happen. Exactly that occurred on November 28 and 29 at this year's We Are Developers…
The paper has been accepted (through double-blind peer review) as a regular paper of the Euromicro PDP'2020 conference to be held in Vasteras, Sweden on 11-13 March, 2020. Title: M3AT: Monitoring Agents Assignment Model for Data-Intensive…
Save the date! 3rd Winter Game Jam is around the corner: Dec 20-22, 2019! Make sure to get a ticket asap on https://itec.aau.at/gamejam Thanks to our sponsors Anexia, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Alturos, Bitmovin, Dynatrace, Sensolligent,…
Narges Mehran presented the paper  “MAPO: A Multi-Objective Model for IoT Application Placement in a Fog Environment” at the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things, IoT 2019 in Bilbao, Spain (October 22-25, 2019). Authors: Narges…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan participated at the PhD examination of Dr. Yang Hu and Dr. Huan Zhou at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. With: Prof. Peter van Emde Boas, Prof. Cees de Laat, Prof. Henri E. Bal, Dr. Paola Grosso, Dr. Zhiming Zhao,…
Sabrina Kletz presented the paper “Learning the Representation of Instrument Images in Laparoscopy Video” at the MIAR Workshop @ MICCAI 2019 in Shenzhen, China. Authors: Sabrina Kletz, Klaus Schoeffmann, Heinrich Husslein Abstract:…
Mathias Lux
The Hüttenjam 2019 is over and it has been a hugely successful event. 26 participants jammed for two days and two nights in four chalets at Marktlalm, on Turracher Höhe. Six games have been developed matching the topic “Can’t see the wood…
Christian Timmerer
Mit dem 5G Summit Carinthia, ein Kurzsymposium zur neuen Mobilfunktechnologie 5G, wurde heute der 5G Playground Carinthia feierlich eröffnet. Der 5G Playground Carinthia ist österreichweit die erste Serviceeinrichtung für die Erforschung…
Read more about the High level Symposium. https://twitter.com/RaduProdanAAU/status/1181861996012158976
ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series – Dr. Antorweep Chakravorty from University of Stavanger and bitYoga, Norway. The course will take place from November 18 - 29, 2019 This course presents an introduction…
https://twitter.com/articonf/status/1179348799233368072
The Klagenfurt University hosted the first ASPIDE technical meeting (30th September - 2nd October), which aims on designing scalable software solutions for exascale computing.
Natalia Sokolova
Our paper has been accepted for publication at the MMM 2020 Conference on Multimedia Modeling. The work was conducted in the context of the ongoing OVID project. Authors: Natalia Sokolova, Klaus Schoeffmann, Mario Taschwer (AAU Klagenfurt);…
The paper “GLENDA: Gynecologic Laparoscopy Endometriosis Dataset” has been accepted for publication at the Multimedia Datasets for Repeatable Experimentation (MDRE) special session, co-located at the 26th International Conference on Multimedia…
Philipp Moll
Philipp Moll presented the paper “Inter-Server Game State Synchronization using Named Data Networking” on the ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking 2019 in Macau, China. Authors: Philipp Moll, Sebastian Theuermann, Natascha Rauscher,…
https://twitter.com/RaduProdanAAU/status/1175042674161868800
Christian Timmerer
The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) is held June 8-11, 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey and provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of…
Abstract: Video streaming is one of the top traffic contributors in the Internet and a frequent research subject. It is expected that streaming traffic will grow 4-fold for video globally and 9-fold for mobile video between 2017 and 2022. In…
Christian Timmerer
Abstract: The increasing popularity of head-mounted devices and 360° video cameras allows content providers to offer virtual reality video streaming over the Internet, using a relevant representation of the immersive content combined with…
Philipp Moll
In the course of his research stay at UCLA, Philipp Moll attended the NDN Community Meeting 2019 and presented his work “Towards an NDN-based Online Gaming Architecture”. Abstract: The popularity of online games increased steadily during…
Trust, privacy, control and what else ! Lets hear to ARTICONF consortium as what transpires them to build Next Generation Social Media Ecosystem with novel set of trustworthy, resilient, globally sustainable and decentralized data-driven se…
Philipp Moll
The paper “Inter-Server Game State Synchronization using Named Data Networking” has been accepted for publication at the ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking 2019 to be held in Macau, China (24-26 September 2019). Authors:…
The papers titled, ‘ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment’ , and ‘A Semantic Model with Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications’ presented at…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Radu Prodan is program chair at the seventeenth international workshop on algorithms, models and tools for parallel computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HeteroPar'2019), collocated at Euro-Par 2019, August 27, 2019.
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Prof. Radu Prodan
The paper “A Container-driven Approach for Resource Provisioning in Edge-Fog Cloud” has been accepted for publication at the 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2019 to be held at Munich, Germany…
Prof. Radu Prodan
The paper “Dynamic Multi-Objective Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers” has been accepted for publication at the Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2019 to be held at Chalkidiki, Greece…
The paper “MAPO: A Multi-Objective Model for IoT Application Placement in a Fog Environment” has been accepted for publication at the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things, IoT 2019 to be held at Bilbao, Spain (October 22-25,…
Prof. Radu Prodan and Dr. Dragi Kimovski participated in the ASPIDE meeting.
Mathias Lux
The second Game Studies and Engineering and Game Jam retreat took place on June 27-29 at Marktlalm on Turracher Höhe. The curriculum committee, game jam volunteers and organizers of the GamePics jam and show came together to discuss ongoing…
Christian Timmerer
Abstract: Universal media access as proposed in the late 90s, early 2000 is now reality. Thus, we can generate, distribute, share, and consume any media content, anywhere, anytime, and with/on any device. A major technical breakthrough was the…
The papers titled, 'ARTICONF: Towards a Smart Social Media Ecosystem in a Blockchain Federated Environment' , and 'A Semantic Model with Self-Adaptive and Autonomous Relevant Technology for Social Media Applications' are accepted at Seventh…
Christian Timmerer
Authors: Wen Ji, Zhu Li, H. Vincent Poor, Christian Timmerer, and Wenwu Zhu Abstract: With the growing integration of telecommunication networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G networks, there is a tremendous demand for multimedia services…
Christian Timmerer
Authors: Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria Universität & Bitmovin Inc,), Ali C. Begen(Ozyegin University), and Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore) Abstract:…
Paper Title: Alternative inputs for games and AR/VR applications: deep headbanging on the web Abstract: In multimedia research, scientific progress is often slowed downby high demands on hard- and software. However, hardware con-tinuously…
Prof. Radu Prodan coordinated EU H2020 Project ARTICONF team met at Stavanger and held technical cum plenary discussions between June 4th to June 7th 2019 with a goal to present some exciting development towards next generation social media…
Autor: Raimund Schatz (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin Inc.) Abstract: Omnidirectional video (ODV) streaming…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan is the Program Chair for ISPDC 2019, the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, to be held at Amsterdam (Netherlands).
The prestigious 33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2019 held at Rio de Janerio, Brazil (May 20-24 2019) found representation from ITEC department at UNI-KLU in a number of activities including paper…
Philipp Moll
Philipp Moll presented the paper “Distributing the Game State of Online Games: Towards an NDN Version of Minecraft” on the 6th International Workshop on Research Advancements in Future Networking Technologies. The Workshop was held in conjunction…
Mathias Lux, a former student of Peraugymnasium Villach, gave a talk with the topic "Something Something Videogame". See more: https://www.peraugymnasium.at/item/714-vortrag-von-di-mathias-lux  
This week, we will be playing and discussing all entries from the 6th Klagenfurt Game Jam live on-stream! Join us on Friday, May 3rd, 11am UTC/1pm CEST at http://twitch.tv/rarebyte https://itch.io/jam/6thklujam
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan
Link to the Journal of Grid Computing special issue.
Nishant Saurabh
Andreas Leibetseder
Pictures from the Rigorosum with Prof. Thomas Fahringer and Prof. Justus Piater.
Christian Timmerer
Authors: Abdelhak Bentaleb, Christian Timmerer, Ali C. Begen, and Roger Zimmermann Abstract: HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) with chunked transfer encoding can be used to reduce latency without sacrificing the coding ef- ficiency. While this…
Within the scope of the AAU's young Scientists Mentoring Programme, Andreas Leibetseder is visiting his mentor Oge Marques, Professor at the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Florida Atlantic University…
The paper "Active Online Learning for Social Media Analysis to Support Crisis Management" was published as an "early access" article in the journal IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Q1 in ScimagoJR). The research leading to these results received funding from the EU FP7 Programme under grant agreement no. 261817 and was performed in collaboration with Bournemouth University, UK.
Prof. Radu Prodan
Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Radu Prodan has been invited to be a part of panel discussion on emerging Blockchain and Edge computing technology and paradigms at PAISE (Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge), collocated workshop at the prestigious 33rd…
Nishant Saurabh
The paper “Semantics-aware Virtual Machine Image Management in IaaS Clouds” has been accepted for publication at 33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium , IPDPS 2019 to be held at Rio de Janerio, Brazil (May…
Nishant Saurabh
The poster “Towards a semantic-centric VMI repository management” has been accepted for presentation at PhD forum event of 33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2019 to be held at Rio de Janerio,…
Wer schafft mehr Rechenoperation pro Sekunde? Hochleistungsrechner sind ein wichtiges Werkzeug im Lösen wissenschaftlicher Probleme. HIER der aktuelle Standard Artikel - ein Interview mit Prof. Radu Prodan.
Christian Timmerer
Authors: Raimund Schatz (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer(Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin Inc.) Abstract: Omnidirectional video (ODV) streaming…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan visited the Indian Institute of Technology Kottayam.
ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series - Ass.-Prof. Ali C. Beğen from Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey. The course will take place April 1-12, 2019. This course introduces different types of applications…
ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series - PD Dr. Ralf Klamma from RWTH Aachen University. The course will take place from June 12-19, 2019. This course presents an introduction to Augmented Reality, with…
The Institute of Information Technology at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt invites applications for Post-Doctoral Research Positions (100% employment) within the Christian Doppler (CD) Pilot Laboratory ATHENA “Adaptive Streaming over…
The Institute of Information Technology at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt invites applications for Doctoral Student Positions (100% employment) within the Christian Doppler (CD) Pilot Laboratory ATHENA “Adaptive Streaming over HTTP…
Wir feiern das zweijährige Bestehen des Masterprogramms Game Studies and Engineering an der Universität Klagenfurt mit einer besonderen Abendveranstaltung. Am 22. Jänner laden wir Sie um 18.30 Uhr in den Hörsaal 4 ein, um gemeinsam…
Last week, Klaus Schoeffmann co-organized the 8th Video Browser Showdown (VBS) at MMM2019 in Thessaloniki, and it was a great success. For the first time they used the V3C1 dataset (Part 1 of the Vimeo Creative Commons Collection), which…
Prof. Radu Prodan coordinated EU H2020 Horizon project - ARTICONF (smART socIal media eCOsystem in a blockchaiN Federated environment) held its first kick-off meeting at Klagenfurt from January 8th - 10th 2019. The ARTICONF team comprising…
Prof. Hellwagner, head of ITEC, has been appointed Member of the Scientific Board of  the CD Research Association for the period of 2019. The Christian Doppler Research Association promotes cooperation between science and business, whereas…
ATHENA stands for Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services and has been jointly proposed by the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC; https://itec.aau.at) at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) and…
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The 2nd Winter Game Jam is open to everyone who likes games and wants to create, test and talk about games. Starting on Friday the topic will be revealed to all participants at the same time and random groups will brainstorm games. Then, after…
A new ITEC research project on Surgical Quality Assessment in Gynecologic Laparoscopy (SQUASH) – in collaboration with the Medical University of Vienna – has been approved by the FWF Austrian Science Fund. In this research project the team…
What to do before the 2nd Winter Game Jam? "Set Phasers to Teach! Star Trek in Research and Teaching" an edited book reflecting the ideas of the Star Trek universe from different academic views is presented on Dec 12 2018 at Alpen-Adria…
Andreas Leibetseder
On Reducing Effort in Evaluating Laparoscopic Skills Abstract: Training and evaluation of laparoscopic skills have become an important aspect of young surgeons’ education. The evaluation process is currently performed manually by experienced…
ITEC alumnus Daniel Posch wins the digitization scholarship (Digitalisierungsstipendium des Landes Kärnten)  of the Province of Carinthia within the category "Dissertation" (Supervision: Prof. Hellwagner). "
Klaus Schöffmann was awarded with the Carinthian "Kultur-Förderpreis" (area technical sciences).  More information is available HERE and HERE. Klaus will receive the prize officially on December 10, 2018 by the carinthian governor. K…
An interview with Radu Prodan was published in the local newspaper Kleine Zeitung - learn more HERE.    
Mathias Lux
Mathias Lux actively participated in the MediaEval 2018 Workshop in Sophia Antipolis, France. He co-organized GameStory: The 2018 Video Game Analytics Challenge and Medico: The 2018 Multimedia for Medicine Task and held two presentations. …
AAU/ITEC researchers Mario Taschwer, Klaus Schöffmann, and Jürgen Primus collaborated with Oge Marques (FAU, USA) on a research challenge targeting automatic classification of endoscopic images of the human gastro-intestinal tract. The challenge…
From October 22-26, 2018, Klaus Schöffmann and people from his group (Sabrina Kletz and Bernd Münzer) participated in the ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Seoul, South Korea. Klaus Schöffmann presented two well-attended tutorials…
Philipp Moll
The WiNTECH workshop explicitly deals with methodological and technical issues that have to be faced for defining, running, controlling and benchmarking experiments on wireless solutions. The workshop, that this year reach the 12th edition,…
Prof. Radu Prodan
From October 13-22, 2018 Prof. Radu Prodan visited Chandigarh University and Lovely Professional University in India for interaction with research scholars and discussions about the common research projects.  
Philipp Moll
During the summer break, Philipp Moll was visiting his Mentor Jeff Burke at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The main focus of the stay was to progress the dissertation project, which is about Gaming over Named Data Networking.…
Read more about the cover story in the new ad astra: "Efficiency in the great big data cloud"
On September 27, 2018 Klaus Schöffmann participated on the PhD defense committee of Luca Rossetto at the University of Basel. The title of Luca Rossetto's PhD is “Multi-Modal Video Retrieval”. Additionally, he gave an invited talk on September…
The 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP; https://2018.ieeeicip.org/) will be held in Athens, Greece on October 7-10, 2018. ITEC researcher Anatoliy Zabrovskiy will present "A Practical Evaluation of Video Codecs for…
Please find the full AAU news blog article here.
Der Standard hat sich in der Szene umgehört und Business-Angels, Investoren, Non-Profit-Organisationen und Szenekenner gefragt, wen sie für die vielversprechendsten heimischen Start-ups halten - derstandard.at/2000087381425/Diesen-fuenf-h…
The OVID research project (relevance detection in Ophthalmic surgery VIDeos), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), will start on October 1st, 2018 and run for three years. Together with research partners from Klinikum Klagenfurt, it will…
Hermann Hellwagner actively participated in the "IKT-Konvent 2018" in Vienna on September 17, 2018. The event was to boost Austrian R&D, commercial, and educational activities toward the fully digital and connected world. As one of the panel…
Christian Timmerer
On September 18, 2018 Christian Timmerer participates on the PhD defense committee of Mario Cordina at the University of Malta. The title of Mario Cordina’s PhD is "Cross-Layer Design for Multi-View Video Plus Depth Transmission over LTE Networks…
Mathias Lux
Mathias Lux was invited to give a talk at Simula Metropolitan, a joint research center of SIMULA research labs and Oslo Metropolitan University. Besides the talk he took the opportunity to work for two days with the people at SIMULA and talk…
Klaus organized and participated in the "Special Session of Multimedia Data for Medicine and Health" within the CBMI 2018 at La Rochelle, France. CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based…
On Sept. 3rd, 2018, ITEC met for the annual research day. This being the first time for a lot of people, we learned a lot of interesting things on the work, focus and result of our colleagues and were able to identify potential collaborations…
Prof. Radu Prodan and Dr. Dragi Kimovski participate at "The 1st ACM SIGOPS Summer School on Advanced Topics in Systems" where with many proeminent speakers in the area of distributed systenms. They will also present a poster on their work on…
Christian Timmerer
ITEC researcher Christian Timmerer co-authored a survey on bitrate adaptation schemes for streaming media over HTTP which has been accepted in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorial and will be available as open access. This journal covers…
Prof. Radu Prodan
The project proposal "smART SocIal media eCOsytstems in a blockchaiN Federated environment" (ARTICONF) has been accepted and the project will be coordinated by ITEC under the leadership of Prof. Radu Prodan. There are seven participating project…
Mathias Lux
The book is a collection of essays by 16 international researchers from a wide variety of fields, discussing how Star Trek has influenced what they do and how they do it.Topics range from Astrophysics to Ethnology, from English and History to…
Philipp Moll
Philipp Moll is currently visiting his Mentor Jeff Burke at UCLA in Los Angeles. During the stay at UCLA, he is working together with the researchers of the _Center for Research in Engineering, Media, and Performance_ (REMAP) and with Lixia…
Mathias Lux
From July 12th to July 14th, staff and students affiliated with the Klagenfurt Game Jam have gathered at the Turracher Höhe for a retreat to discuss the status quo of gaming at Universität Klagenfurt. Organised by Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.…
Christian Timmerer
The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) is sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000 and provides a forum to discuss latest developments in the domain of multimedia technologies related to circuits and systems, communications,…
The H2020 FET-HPC project ASPIDE started with the Kickoff meeting at the University Carlos III in Madrid. Follow our progress on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Andreas Leibetseder
Abstract: Training and evaluation of laparoscopic skills have become an important aspect of young surgeons’ education. The evaluation process is currently performed manually by experienced surgeons through reviewing video recordings of laparoscopic…
Dr. Muhammad Aleem  from the Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, visits ITEC@AAU for a period of two months, invited by Prof. Radu Prodan. They will jointly investigate novel programming paradigms, APIs, runtime…
Christian Timmerer
The 123rd MPEG meeting will be hosted from Monday, 16 July 2018 to Friday, 20 July 2018 in Ljubljana. The agenda contains various standardization items in the area of audio, video, 3D graphics, and systems, specifically on versatile video…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan together with Prof. Dr. Eng. Florin Pop and Dr. Gabriel Antoniu published an editorial on “RM-BDP: Resource management for Big Data platforms” in Future Generation Computer Systems (Volume 86, September 2018, Pages 961-963). Abstract: Nowadays,…
Nishant Saurabh
Nishant Saurabh, as a representative of Prof. Radu Prodan from ITEC@AAU visited Thapar University, Patiala, Punjub, India for ongoing and prospective  future  research collaborations with Prof. Neeraj Kumar and his team. Prof. Neeraj Kumar…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan gives an invited presentation on "Multi-Objective Workflow Scheduling on Clouds" at the Workshop on Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems organised at the ISC High-Performance 2018 Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
Andreas Leibetseder
ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series - it will be Prof. Jorge Barbosa from Universidade do Porto, Portugal. The course will take place from November 8-10 and November 22-24, 2018. The objective of this…
This keynote speech will give an overview of the research work on multi‐UAV systems (or: drone swarms) at AAU Klagenfurt, performed over almost a decade in the research focus area 'Networked and Autonomous Systems'. Several research groups…
Christian Timmerer
Real-time entertainment services deployed over the open, unmanaged Internet – streaming audio and video – account now for more than 70% of the Internet traffic and it is assumed that this number will reach 80% by 2021. The technology used…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Radu Prodan participates in the Inauguration Seminar Talks and presents "Massively Multiplayer Online Games on Large-scale Systems".
Daniel, our former team-member, was one of the 2018 candidates for the Heinz Zemanek Dissertation Award. He presented his dissertation ("Towards Effective Multimedia Dissemination in Information-Centric Networks", supervised by Prof. Hermann…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan together with Prof. Vlado Stankovski from the University of Ljubljana published a special issue on "Storage for the Big Data Era" in the Journal of Grid Computing.
Philipp Moll
Abstract: Recent research in the field of Information-Centric Networking (ICN) shows the need for push-based data transfer, which is not supported in current pull-based ICN architectures, such as Named Data Networking (NDN). IoT deployments…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Radu Prodan's paper in Journal of Supercomputing ("E-OSched: a load balancing scheduler for heterogeneous multicores") is online now and can be accessed from the following URLs: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11227-018-2435-1
OVID Relevance Detection in Ophthalmic Surgery Videos Projektpartner Klinikum Klagenfurt (KABEG) Ressourcen 3 Doktoranden für 3 Jahre, 1 Studienassistenten für 1,25 Jahre Informatiker und Mediziner arbeiten in einem…
Prof. Kashif Munir from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan, visits ITEC@AAU for a period of two months, invited by Prof. Radu Prodan. They will jointly investigate novel architectures and networking…
Christian Timmerer
Qualinet is a network of excellence initially funded by COST and technical sponsor of the International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (Qomex). Christian Timmerer is a member of the management committee and working group leader…
Dr. Dragi Kimovski presented his work on "Adaptive Nature-inspired Fog Architecture" at the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018).
Prof. Jorge Barbosa from the University of Porto visited ITEC@AAU for a period of 10 days to conduct joint research in the area of virtualisation technologies and scheduling in Cloud computing.
On April 13, 2018 the ‘Lange Nacht der Forschung 2018‘ (long research night) took place again in Austria and the medical multimedia research group of ITEC did also participate in this exciting event that communicates research works to the…
Christian Timmerer
The 1st International IEEE MIPR 2018 is held in Miami, Florida April 10-12, 2018 which is about multimedia information processing and retrieval. Christian Timmerer will present an invited paper that deals with the "automated objective and subjective…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan participated at the program committee meeting of "The 27th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing" (an A*-class conference) organised at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory in Berkley,…
Prof. Neeraj Kumar and three other researchers from the Thapar University, Patiala, Punjub, India, visited ITEC@AAU for a period of 10 days. They research together with Prof. Radu Prodan a "QoS-aware Energy Management Scheme for Self-Sustainable…
Die Informatik kann Lösungen für gegebene Probleme errechnen. Ändert sich das Problem jedoch stetig, wie im Fall eines Verkehrssystems, haben es die so genannten flexiblen cyber-physischen Systeme schwer, stets optimale Lösungen vorzuschlagen.…
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan participated at the final meeting of the "Network for Ultra-scale Computing (NESUS)" COST action, where he was co-leader of the "State of the art and continuous learning in Ultra Scale Computing Systems" working group. He participated…
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Prof. Radu Prodan and Dr. Dragi Kimovski participated at the final review of the H2020 project "ENTICE: Decentralised Repositories for Transparent and Efficient Virtual Machine Operations", coordinated by their previous affiation, the University…
Narges Mehran officially joined Radu Prodan's team at ITEC@AAU
Prof. Radu Prodan
Prof. Radu Prodan together with Prof. Vlado Stankovski from the University of Ljubljana edited a special issue on the modern topic of "Storage for the Big Data Era" in the Journal of Grid Computing.
Bitmovin, the online video software and infrastructure company founded by the co-creators of the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. The round is led by Highland Europe, with participation from existing…
Prof. Radu Prodan and his group of three researchers from the University of Innsbruck (Dr. Dragi Kimovski, Roland Mathá and Nishant Saubrauh) officially joined ITEC@AAU.
Based on their excellent performance in the review process Hermann Hellwagner & Christian Timmerer are among the 100 distinguished TPC members of IEEE Infocom 2018! Congratulations! http://infocom2018.ieee-infocom.org/committee/tpc-members
Prof. Radu Prodan acquired a new H2020 FET-HPC project called ASPIDE: exAScale ProgramIng models for extreme Data procEssing. The ASPIDE project will contribute with the definition of a new programming paradigms, APIs, runtime tools and methodologies…
tiroler cloud
Prof. Radu Prodan together with the help of Prof. Hermann Hellwagner obtained aproval for transfering the FFG Bridge-1 project Tiroler Cloud "A federated energy‐aware Cloud for industrial, business, and scientific applications" from the University…
Andreas Leibetseder
At the CARE Workshop within the MICCAI 2017 (20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention 2017), held in Quebec from September 10-14, Andreas Leibetseder received the Best Paper Award for the paper…

Distributed and Parallel Systems

  • parallel and distributed systems
  • Cloud computing and simulation
  • high-performance computing
  • performance analysis and prediction
  • resource management and scheduling
  • multi-objective optimization
  • programming and runtime environments
  • compiler technology
  • energy efficiency

Multimedia Communication

  • Multimedia communication and multimedia content adaptation
  • Multimedia Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
  • 360° video/VR streaming
  • Multimedia delivery in Information-Centric Networks (ICN)
  • Communication in multi-UAV systems
  • Standardization (ISO/IEC MPEG)

Multimedia Information Systems

  • Multimedia communication and multimedia content adaptation
  • Multimedia Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)
  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
  • 360° video/VR streaming
  • Multimedia delivery in Information-Centric Networks (ICN)
  • Communication in multi-UAV systems
  • Standardization (ISO/IEC MPEG)