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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
On January 8th, 2025, the 14th Video Browser Showdown (VBS) took place at the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM2025), in Nara, Japan. 17 international teams competed against each other over about five hours and solved very challenging tasks. VBS is the largest international video retrieval competition and teams had to perform search in a […]
On 14 January, Dr Felix Schniz and GSE Student Peter Miklautz organised the “Magic Academy.” The event took place in the library’s Unruhezone and introduced GSE and other students to the concept of Trading Card Games. It served as an introductory event for a series of follow-up “Magic Academies”, which are scheduled for the end […]