In July 2021, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted three interns working on the following topics: Kassian Fuger: Machine Learning and Video Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Timo Pfeifer: HTTP Adaptive Streaming for Mobile Devices Vanessa Fröhlich: Machine Learning and its Applications At the end of the internship, the interns presented their work and the […]
Special issue on Open Media Compression: Overview, Design Criteria, and Outlook on Emerging Standards Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 109, no. 9, Sept. 2021 By CHRISTIAN TIMMERER, Senior Member IEEE Guest Editor MATHIAS WIEN, Member IEEE Guest Editor LU YU, Senior Member IEEE Guest Editor AMY REIBMAN, Fellow IEEE Guest Editor Abstract: Multimedia content (i.e., video, […]
The Quality of Experience (QoE) is well-defined in QUALINET white papers [here, here], but its assessment and metrics are subject to research. The aim of this workshop on “Quality of Immersive Media: Assessment and Metrics” is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest findings in this field. The scope of […]
Title: Where to Encode: A Performance Analysis of Intel x86 and Arm-based Amazon EC2 Instances 20-23 September 2021 // Innsbruck, Austria // Online Conference Link: IEEE eScience 2021 Authors: Roland Matha´∗, Dragi Kimovski*, Anatoliy Zabrovskiy*‡, Christian Timmerer*†, Radu Prodan* Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), University of Klagenfurt, Austria* Bitmovin, Klagenfurt, Austria† Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk, […]
Link: IEEE Global Communications Conference 2021 7-11 December 2021 // Madrid, Spain // Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference Connecting Cultures around the Globe Authors: F. Tashtarian*, R. Falanji‡, A. Bentaleb+, A. Erfanian*, P. S. Mashhadi§, C. Timmerer*, H. Hellwagner*, R. Zimmermann+ Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Institute of Information Technology, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria* Department of Mathematical […]
Title: End-to-end Quality of Experience Evaluation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming ACM MM’21: The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia October 20-24, 2021, Chengdu, China Babak Taraghi (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Exponential growth in multimedia streaming traffic over the Internet motivates the research and further investigation of the user’s perceived quality of such […]
Title: CTU Depth Decision Algorithms for HEVC: A Survey Link: Signal Processing: Image Communication [PDF] Ekrem Çetinkaya* (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour*, (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, University of Essex), and Christian Timmerer (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) *These authors contributed equally to this work. Abstract: High […]
Agata and Michał Barciś and their fellow researcher from RTB House in Poland, Michał Jagielski, competed in the Drone Bot Contest at the Deep Drone Challenge in Ingolstadt, Germany on Saturday 7 August 2021. The competition is organised by start-up incubator brigkAIR and Europe’s largest aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The three young scientists were delighted to […]
Vignesh V Menon is invited to talk on “Video Coding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming” on the Research@Lunch is a research webinar series by Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India, exclusively for Ph.D. Scholars, UG, and PG Researchers in India. This talk will introduce the basics of video codecs and highlight the scope […]
Title: WISH: User-centric Bitrate Adaptation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming on Mobile Devices IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) October 06-08, Tampere, Finland Authors: Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hermann Hellwagner (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Christian Timmerer (Christian Doppler […]