Entries by Margit Letter

ITEC team participated at the 15th ACM MMSys in Bari, Italy

The 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference was held from 15-18 April, 2024 in Bari, Italy. MMSys 2024 provides a forum to leading researchers from academia and industry to present and share their latest findings in multimedia systems. Christian Timmerer, Mathias Lux, Samira Afzal, Christian Bauer, Daniele Lorenzi, Emanuele Artioli, Mohammad Ghasempour, Shivi Vats, and Armin […]

Press Start: Your Journey into Game Development

On Friday, 12 April 2024, seven representatives of the Pioneers of Game Development Austria (https://pgda.at/) visited the University of Klagenfurt for the event Press Start: Your Journey into Game Development, organised by the master’s programme Game Studies and Engineering. The PGDA members, composed of different video game developers from all over Austria, provided insightful talks, […]

Interview with Tom @Uni-News

Wenn Tom Tuček über die Welt spricht, muss er stets konkretisieren: Handelt es sich um die reale Welt oder um virtuelle Welten? Der Doktorand am Institut für Informationstechnologie beschäftigt sich aktuell mit digital humans, also virtuellen Figuren, denen wir beispielsweise in Videospielen begegnen. Tom Tuček möchte gerne wissen, wie sich der Kontakt mit digitalen Menschen, […]

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Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT)

Title: DeepVCA: Deep Video Complexity Analyzer Authors: Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria), Klaus Schoeffmann (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract: Video streaming and its applications are growing rapidly, making video optimization a primary target for content providers looking to enhance their services. Enhancing the quality of videos […]

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Radu Prodan received Award for Editorial Excellence

Based on the 2023 TPDS editorial data and his excellent performance, Radu Prodan received the 2024 IEEE TPDS Award for Editorial Excellence. His achievement will be recognized by IEEE and his name will appear at the IEEE award website https://next-test.computer.org/digital-library/journals/td/tpds-award-for-editorial-excellence. Congratulations!

Paper accepted – VEED: Video Encoding Energy and CO2 Emissions Dataset for AWS EC2 instances

Authors: Sandro Linder (AAU, Austria), Samira Afzal (AAU, Austria), Christian Bauer  (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Radu Prodan (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Venue: The 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (Open-source Software and Datasets) Abstract: Video streaming constitutes 65 % of global internet traffic, prompting an investigation into its energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Video […]

Paper accepted – GREEM : An Open-Source Energy Measurement Tool for Video Processing

Authors: Christian Bauer  (AAU, Austria),  Samira Afzal (AAU, Austria), Sandro Linder (AAU, Austria), Radu Prodan (AAU,Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Venue: The 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (Open-source Software and Datasets) Abstract: Addressing climate change requires a global decrease in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In today’s digital landscape, video streaming significantly influences internet traffic, driven by the widespread use […]

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Paper accepted – An Extensive Characterization of Graph Sampling Algorithms

Authors: Seyedehhaleh Seyeddizaji, Joze Martin Rozanec, Reza Farahani, Dumitru Roman and Radu Prodan Venue: The 2nd Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems Co-located with ICPE 2024 Abstract: While graph sampling is key to scalable processing, little research has tried to thoroughly compare and understand how it preserves features such as degree, clustering, and […]

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Paper accepted in the Springer Computing Journal

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 years given the high demand for fast processing, low access latency, and ever-increasing amount of data being generated by, e.g., Internet of Things (IoT) […]