Congratulations to Negin Ghamsarian et al., who got their paper “ReCal-Net: Joint Region-Channel-Wise Calibrated Network for Semantic Segmentation in Cataract Surgery Videos” accepted at the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2021). Abstract: Semantic segmentation in surgical videos is a prerequisite for a broad range of applications towards improving surgical outcomes and surgical video analysis. […]
The first face-to-face ARTICONF Meeting after the pandemic, hosted by Agilia, took place from September 21-24, 2021, in Seville, Spain. The consortium discussed the advancements and progress made this year and listed down strategies for validating and exploiting ARTICONF use cases through real-world testing and external collaboration amid pandemics. In addition, ARTICONF’s technical team addressed […]
The Fast Multi-Resolution and Multi-Rate Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Using Machine Learning paper from ATHENA lab is nominated for the Best New Streaming Innovation Award in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2021. Voting can be done on the awards’ website. The voting is open until October 4. You can find the paper under the Best New Streaming […]
The H2020 project ASPIDE impressed the reviewers with the presented scientific achievements in Exascale computing and passed the final EC review with flying colors. The project officer and reviewers echoed the effort put together by the consortium partners for publicly demonstrating and sharing the ASPIDE tools while maintaining a robust scientific output at the highest […]
On 10 September 2021, ADAPT project was represented at the GOODIT´21 conference in Rome, Italy by Vladislav Kashanskii. Here you find his presentation about “The ADAPT Project: Adaptive and Autonomous Data Performance Connectivity and Decentralized Transport Decision-Making Network” as pdf and video.
Title: INTENSE: In-depth Studies on Stall Events and Quality Switches and Their Impact on the Quality of Experience in HTTP Adaptive Streaming Link: IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE [PDF] Babak Taraghi (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, […]
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, […]