Kseniia participated in the annual FROG conference from 11 to 13 October, which had the topic of “Gaming the Apocalypse”. Her talk, “Unraveling the Romanticization of Colonial, Imperial and Authoritarian Narratives in Modern Video Games”, showcased a trend in video games to cutefy serious topics like historical power dynamics through aesthetics, and explained the potential […]
Authors: Leonardo Peroni (UC3M, Spain); Sergey Gorinsky (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Conference: IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet) 27–29 November 2024 // Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Abstract: While ISPs (Internet service providers) strive to improve QoE (quality of experience) for end users, end-to-end traffic encryption by OTT […]
Authors: Kurt Horvath, Dragi Kimovski, Radu Prodan, Bernd Spiess, Oliver Hohlfeld Venue: 14th International Conference on Internet of Things (IoT 2024); Oulu, Finland, 19-22 November, https://iot-conference.org/iot2024 Abstract: Traditional network measurement campaigns suffer from the lack of control over network infrastructure and the inability to evaluate communication performance directly, especially for the placement of highly distributed Internet of Things (IoT) […]
Authors: Haleh Dizaji, Reza Farahani, Dragi Kimovski, Joze Rozanec, Ahmet Soylu, Radu Prodan Venue: 31st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics; Bengaluru, India, 18-21 December https://www.hipc.org Abstract: The increasing size of graph structures in real-world applications, such as distributed computing networks, social media, or bioinformatics, requires appropriate sampling algorithms that simplify […]
Dr. Reza Farahani (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) and Dr. Vignesh V Menon (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany) presented a joint tutorial titled ‘Latency- and Energy-Aware Video Coding and Delivery Streaming Systems’ at the 12th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP 2024) on September 8. Abstract: This tutorial introduces modern performance and energy-aware video coding and content […]
Together with Cathal Gurrin from DCU, Ireland, on June 14, 2024, Klaus Schöffmann gave a keynote talk about “From Concepts to Embeddings. Charting the Use of AI in Digital Video and Lifelog Search Over the Last Decade” at the International Workshop on Multimodal Video Retrieval and Multimodal Language Modelling (MVRMLM’24), co-located with the ACM ICMR […]
On June 10, 2024, the 7th Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC 2024), an international competition on lifelog retrieval took place as a workshop at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2024) in Phuket, Thailand. The LSC is organized by a large international team (Cathal Gurrin, Björn Þór Jónsson, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Jakub Lokoc, Klaus Schoeffmann, […]
From June 10, 2024 until June 14, 2024, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2024) took place in Phuket, Thailand. It was organized by Cathal Gurrin (DCU), Klaus Schoeffmann (ITEC, AAU), and Rachada Kongkachandra (Thammasat University). ICMR 2024 received 348 paper submissions and about 80 more to the nine co-located workshops (LSC’24, AI-SIPM’24, […]
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 […]