Paper title: ELLMPEG: An Edge-based Agentic LLM Video Processing Tool Authors: Zoha Azimi, Reza Farahani, Radu Prodan, Christian Timmerer Venue: MMSys’26, The 17th ACM Multimedia System Conference, Hong Kong SAR, 4th – 8th April 2026 Abstract: Large language models (LLMs), the foundation of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, are transforming many fields and applications, including multimedia, enabling more advanced content […]
December 19-21, 2025 Organized by: Tom Tucek, Patrick Mieslinger With help from: Bodo Thausing, Kristell Potocnik, Agon Guri With 63 participants and 15 submitted games, this year’s winter game jam has concluded just before the winter holidays. Students, teachers, alumni, and even individuals not directly affiliated with the university came together to create new video games from scratch, […]
On 14.11.2025, Farzad Tashtarian defended his habilitation thesis “Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration” Congratulations! Committee members: Prof. Martin Pinzger (Chairperson), Prof. Oliver Hohlfeld (external member), Prof. Bernhard Rinner, Prof. Angelika Wiegele, Prof. Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, MSc Zoha Azimi Ourimi, Dr. Alice Tarzariol, Kateryna Taranov, and Gregor Lammer
Authors: Samira Afzal (Baylor University), Narges Mehran (Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Andrew C. Freeman (Baylor University), Radu Prodan (University of Innsbruck), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Venue: IEEE VCIP 2025, December 1 – December 4, 2025, Klagenfurt, Austria Abstract: The environmental impact of video streaming is gaining more attention due to its growing share in […]
On 24 September 2025, Senior Scientist Dr Felix Schniz held a workshop on Tarot cards for the youth centre kwadr.at in Klagenfurt. Over the course of three hours, he educated a very excited crowd on the history of the cards, their purpose for divination and self-reflection, Tarot-card-based games, and what card games have to do […]
On Thursday, July 30, 2025, Daniele Lorenzi successfully defended his PhD thesis (QoE- and Energy-aware Content Consumption for HTTP Adaptive Streaming) under the supervision of Prof. Hermann Hellwagner and Prof. Christian Timmerer. The defense was chaired by Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Klaus Schöffmann and the examiners were Assoc. – Prof. Luca De Cicco and Dr.-Ing. habil. […]
Authors: Ahmed Telili (TII, UAE), Wassim Hamidouche (TII, UAE), Brahim Farhat (TII, UAE), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Ibrahim Khadraoui (TII, UAE), Jiajie Lu (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), The Van Le (IVCL, South Korea), Jeonneung Baek (IVCL, South Korea), Jin Young Lee (IVCL, South Korea), Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Xiaopeng Sun (Meituan Inc. China), […]
On 10 June 2025, Dr Felix Schniz presented the Virtual Campus Environment, a central achievement of the UNESCO-funded project Global Campus Online (GLOCO). The project is led by the UNESCO-Chair Univ.-Prof. Dr Hans Karl Peterlini and revolves around the organisation of global meeting platforms to foster supportive environments and knowledge exchange. The Virtual Campus Environment […]
Big news for spider fans: The viral sensation and wacky physics game A Webbing Journey is launching in Early Access on May 19th, on PC via Steam and got a new trailer too! Congrats to Sebastian and his team! A Webbing Journey has been drumming up excitement over the past months with gathering millions of […]
From 3 to 4 May, Game Studies and Engineering has been present at the HaruCon in Klagenfurt. As every year, the programme direction hosted an info-booth about Game Studies and Engineering @ AAU, enabled students to showcase their current game projects, and organised a workshop for those interested in the programme’s research. The annual HaruCon […]