Entries by martina

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Tutorial accepted: Perceptually Inspired Visual Quality Assessment in Multimedia Communication

ACM MM’25 Tutorial: Perceptually Inspired Visual Quality Assessment in Multimedia Communication ACM MM 2025, October 27, 2025, Dublin, Ireland https://acmmm2025.org/tutorial/ Tutorial speakers: Wei Zhou (Cardiff University) Hadi Amirpour (University of Klagenfurt) Tutorial description: As multimedia services like video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to expand, ensuring high perceptual quality becomes […]

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Journal paper accepted: ACM TOMM: Convex Hull Prediction Methods for Bitrate Ladder Construction: Design, Evaluation, and Comparison

URL: https://dl.acm.org/journal/tomm Authors: Ahmed Telili (INSA, Rennes, France),  Wassim Hamidouce (INSA, Rennes, France), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Sid Ahmed Fezza (INPTIC, Algeira), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Luce Morin (INSA, Rennes, France) Abstract: HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS ) has emerged as a prevalent approach for over-the-top (OTT ) video streaming services due to its ability […]

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Felix Schniz @ Conference “Didaktik des TTRPG “

On Febuary 25 2025, Felix Schniz held a talk titled “Mit Erfahrung lehren: Von Kafka, Spielen, und dem Erleben abstrakter Inhalte“ at the Conference Didaktik des TTRPG – Das ludonarrative Rollenspiel im Deutschunterricht in Cologne. His talk focused on the usage of video games and information technology didactics and their potential role in central European […]

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Papers accepted: Efficient Location-Based Service Discovery for IoT and Edge Computing in the 6G Era & Enhancing Traffic Safety with AI and 6G: Latency Requirements and Real-Time Threat Detection

Efficient Location-Based Service Discovery for IoT and Edge Computing in the 6G Era Authors: Kurt Horvath, Dragi Kimovski Conference: 2025 10th International Conference on Information and Network Technologies (ICINT 2025) Abstract: Efficient service discovery is a cornerstone of the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing ecosystems, where low latency and localized service provisioning are […]

Paper accepted: For Empowerment’s Sake: Rethinking Video Game Adaptations Of Real-Life Experiences

Title: For Empowerment’s Sake: Rethinking Video Game Adaptations Of Real-Life Experiences Author: Kseniia Harshina Abstract: In adapting real-life experiences into interactive narratives, video games have prioritized empathy-building as a central design goal (review in Schrier & Farber, 2021). This often involves crafting stories and gameplay mechanics that allow players without direct exposure to experiences such […]

Paper accepted: Real-Time Quality- and Energy-Aware Bitrate Ladder Construction for Live Video Streaming

Real-Time Quality- and Energy-Aware Bitrate Ladder Construction for Live Video Streaming IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Live video streaming’s growing demand for high-quality content has resulted in significant energy consumption, creating challenges for sustainable media delivery. […]

Paper accepted: CLIP-DQA: Blindly Evaluating Dehazed Images from Global and Local Perspectives Using CLIP

CLIP-DQA: Blindly Evaluating Dehazed Images from Global and Local Perspectives Using CLIP The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS 2025) https://2025.ieee-iscas.org/ 25–28 May 2025 // London, United Kingdom Yirui Zeng (Cardiff University, UK), Jun Fu (Cardiff University), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Huasheng Wang (Alibaba Group), Guanghui Yue (Shenzhen University, China), Hantao Liu […]

Paper accepted: Multi-resolution Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming using VVenC

Multi-resolution Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming using VVenC The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS 2025) https://2025.ieee-iscas.org/ 25–28 May 2025 // London, United Kingdom Kamran Qureshi (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is a widely adopted method for delivering video content over the Internet, […]

Paper accepted: Improving the Efficiency of VVC using Partitioning of Reference Frames

Improving the Efficiency of VVC using Partitioning of Reference Frames The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS 2025) https://2025.ieee-iscas.org/ 25–28 May 2025 // London, United Kingdom Kamran Qureshi (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: In response to the growing demand for high-quality videos, a new coding standard, Versatile […]

Ria Sommer @ ITEC – Presentation on Actual Play and Let’s Play practices

On 16 January 2024, a special PhD presentation took place as a part of the ongoing open learning space organised by the master’s programme Game Studies and Engineering. Ria Sommer MA from the University of Osnabrück presented her ongoing research on Actual Play and Let’s Play practices. The event was moderated by Dr Felix Schniz […]