Entries by Margit Letter

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) […]

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ITEC Video Retrieval System Awarded at International Video Search Challenge

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 annually held at the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2024), which took place this year in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. […]

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13th Video Browser Showdown (VBS 2024) held in Amsterdam with 12 International Teams

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, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Vietnam) competed over about 6 hours for quickly and accurately solving many […]

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Sahar Nasirihaghighi on Event Recognition with Hybrid Transformers at MMM 2024

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: Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Negin Ghamsarian, Heinrich Husslein, Klaus Schoeffmann Abstract: Analyzing laparoscopic surgery videos presents a complex and multifaceted challenge, with applications […]