Scalable Per-Title Encoding – US Patent [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract: A scalable per-title encoding technique may include detecting scene cuts in an input video received by an encoding network or system, generating segments of the input video, performing per-title encoding of a segment of the input video, training […]
Radu Prodan is invited to give a keynote talk at the 21st EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MobiQuitous 2024), which will be held from November 12-14,2024, in Oslo, Norway. Abstract: The presentation starts by reviewing the convergence of two historically disconnected AI branches: symbolic AI of explicit deductive reasoning owning mathematical rigor […]
Authors: Jing Yang, Qinghua Ni, Song Zhang, Nan Zheng, Juanjuan Li, Lili Fan, Lili Fan, Radu Prodan, Levente Kovacs, Fei-Yue Wang IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10734076/ Abstract: The Lebanese wireless device explosion incident has drawn widespread attention, involving devices such as pagers, walkie-talkies, and other common devices. This event has revealed and highlighted the […]
On October 3rd, 2024, Hermann’s retirement was celebrated with a special event. During the celebration, the Governor of Carinthia presented him with the Grand Decoration of Honour from the State of Carinthia. In his farewell lecture, Hermann reflected on important topics from his 30-year career, many of which went beyond informatics. He spoke about issues […]
Authors: Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Ahmed Telili (TII, UAE), Samira Afzal (AAU, Austria), Wassim Hamidouche (INSA, France), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Conference: IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP 2024) – Tokyo, Japan, December 8-11, 2024 Abstract: In the field of video streaming, the optimization of […]
Authors: Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Lingfeng Qu (Guangzhou University, China), Jong Hwan Ko (SKKU, South Korea), Cosmin Stejerean (Meta, USA), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria Conference: IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP 2024) – Tokyo, Japan, December 8-11, 2024 Abtract: As video dimensions — including resolution, frame rate, and bit depth — increase, a […]
Authors: Annalisa Gallina (UNIPD, Italy), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Sara Baldoni (UNIPD, Italy), Giuseppe Valenzise (UPSaclay, France), Federica Battisti (UNIPD, Italy). Conference: IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP 2024) – Tokyo, Japan, December 8-11, 2024 Abstract: Measuring the complexity of visual content is crucial in various applications, such as selecting sources to test […]
From 11 to 13 October, ITEC’s Felix Schniz participated in the annual FROG (Future and Reality of Gaming) conference in Vienna. It is Austria’s biggest, (video) game dedicated academic conference, which attracted 50 speakers from 12 countries this year. Under this year’s topic of “Gaming the Apocalypse”, Felix delivered the talk “Scales of Apocalypse: Space […]
Authors: Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay), Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Vignesh V Menon (Fraunhofer HHI), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Conference: IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP 2024) Abstract: Optimizing framerate for a given bitrate-spatial resolution pair in adaptive video streaming is essential to maintain perceptual quality while considering decoding complexity. Low framerates at […]
Authors: Sashko Ristov, Mika Hautz, Philipp Gritsch, Stefan Nastic, Radu Prodan, Michael Felderer ICSOC 2024: 22nd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing https://icsoc2024.redcad.tn/ Abstract: We observe irregular data transfer performance across federated serverless infrastructures (sometimes faster across providers than colocated), making the entire workflow scheduling even more challenging in federated FaaS and sky computing. This paper […]