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: HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) of video content is becoming an undivided part of the Internet and accounts for most of today’s network traffic. Video […]
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 journey that led to the publication of the FaRes-ML paper was quite an insightful one. It all started with the question, “How to efficiently […]
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/ (November 15-17) HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) — Quo Vadis? Speaker: Professor Christian Timmerer Time: November 16, 2021 12:10 (UTC +1) CAdViSE or how to find the […]
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 own article (link).
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 Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: As the video streaming traffic in mobile networks is increasing, improving the content delivery process becomes crucial, e.g., by utilizing […]
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 Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Christian Timmerer (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Deep neural network (DNN) based approaches have been intensively studied to improve video quality thanks […]
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 Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Live video streaming is widely embraced in video services, and its applications have attracted much attention in recent […]
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 Klagenfurt) and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: In this work, we present ANGELA, HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) and Edge Computing Simulator. ANGELA was designed to test edge mechanisms that support HAS, as it […]
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), Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Simone Milani (Department of Information Engineering, University […]
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 and the examiners were Prof. Henning Müller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland and the University of Geneva) and Prof. Raphael Sznitman (University of Bern). Congratulations to Dr. […]