At the PCS 2024 (Picture Coding Symposium), held in Taichung, Taiwan from June 12-14, Hadi Amirpour received the Best Paper Award for the paper “Beyond Curves and Thresholds – Introducing Uncertainty Estimation To Satisfied User Ratios for Compressed Video” written together with Jingwen Zhu, Raimund Schatz, Patrick Le Callet and Christian Timmerer. Congratulations!
To celebrate the 40th birthday of a video game classic, Lukas Lorber from Kleine Zeitung interviewed Felix Schniz about Tetris. The interview touches upon the Cold War history of the video game, the psychology behind the ‘Tetris Effect’, and various annotations by genre expert Felix Schniz about the secret behind the game’s ongoing success. You […]
Authors: Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Venue: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) Abstract: Video coding relies heavily on reducing spatial and temporal redundancy to enable efficient transmission. To tackle the temporal redundancy, each video frame is predicted from the previously encoded frames, known as reference […]
Authors: Zoha Azimi, Amritha Premkumar, Reza Farahani, Vignesh V Menon, Christian Timmerer, Radu Prodan Venue: 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’24) Abstract: Traditional per-title encoding approaches aim to maximize perceptual video quality by optimizing resolutions for each bitrate ladder representation. However, ensuring acceptable decoding times in video streaming, especially with the increased runtime complexity of modern […]
The Second Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems (GraphSys ’24) took place in South Kensington, London, co-located with the 15th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering. Reza Farahani gave a talk entitled “Serverless Workflow Management Systems on the Computing Continuum” Authors: Reza Farahani (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria), Frank Loh (University of Würzburg, Germany), […]
Dragi Kimovski co-chaired the 7th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf 2024) workshop within the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE). During the workshop, he presented a paper titled “Hypergraphs: Facilitating High-Order Modeling of the Computing Continuum.” This event, held at Imperial College London on May 11, 2024, focused on various aspects […]
Title: Cataract-1K Dataset for Deep-Learning-Assisted Analysis of Cataract Surgery Videos Authors: Negin Ghamsarian, Yosuf El-Shabrawi, Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Doris Putzgruber-Adamitsch, Martin Zinkernagel, Sebastian Wolf, Klaus Schoeffmann, and Raphael Sznitman Abstract: In recent years, the landscape of computer-assisted interventions and post-operative surgical video analysis has been dramatically reshaped by deep-learning techniques, resulting in significant advancements in surgeons’ […]
Authors: Reza Farahani (AAU, Austria), and Vignesh V Menon (Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, Germany) Venue: The 12th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP 2024) 08-11 September, 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland
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 […]
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, […]