Entries by Verena Stranner

Paper Accepted: EuroXR 2025 Demo: STEP-MR: A Subjective Testing and Eye-Tracking Platform for Dynamic Point Clouds in Mixed Reality

Paper Title: STEP-MR: A Subjective Testing and Eye-Tracking Platform for Dynamic Point Clouds in Mixed Reality Conference Details:  EuroXR 2025; Sep 03 – Sep 05, 2025; Winterthur, Switzerland Authors: Shivi Vats (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, Austria) Abstract:  The use of point cloud (PC) streaming in mixed reality (MR) environments is of particular interest due […]

Patent Approval for “Content-adaptive encoder preset prediction for adaptive live streaming”

Content-adaptive encoder preset prediction for adaptive live streaming US Patent [PDF] Vignesh Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: Techniques for content-adaptive encoder preset prediction for adaptive live streaming are described herein. A method for content-adaptive encoder preset prediction for adaptive live streaming includes performing video complexity feature extraction on […]

ACM MM’25 Demo: SDART: Spatial Dart AR Simulation with Hand-Tracked Input

SDART: Spatial Dart AR Simulation with Hand-Tracked Input ACM Multimedia 2025 October 27 – October 31, 2025 Dublin, Ireland [PDF] Milad Ghanbari (AAU, Austria), Wei Zhou (Cardiff, UK), Cosmin Stejerean (Meta, US), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria) Abstract: We present a physics-driven 3D dart-throwing interaction system for Apple Vision Pro (AVP), developed using Unity 6 engine and running in augmented […]

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ICCV VQualA’25: VQualA 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment: Methods and Results

VQualA 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment: Methods and Results ICCV VQualA 2025 October 19 – October 23, 2025 Hawai’i, USA [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), et al. Abstract: This paper presents the ISRGC-Q Challenge, built upon the Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment (ISRGen-QA) dataset, and organized as part of the Visual Quality […]

ICCV VQualA’25: VQualA 2025 Challenge on Face Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results

VQualA 2025 Challenge on Face Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results ICCV VQualA 2025 October 19 – October 23, 2025 Hawai’i, USA [PDF] MohammadAli Hamidi (University of Cagliari, Italy), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), et al. Abstract: Face images have become integral to various applications. but real-world capture conditions often lead to degradations such as noise, blur, compression artifacts, […]

ICCV VQualA’25: A Lightweight Ensemble-Based Face Image Quality Assessment Method with Correlation-Aware Loss

A Lightweight Ensemble-Based Face Image Quality Assessment Method with Correlation-Aware Loss ICCV VQualA 2025 October 19 – October 23, 2025 Hawai’i, USA   MohammadAli Hamidi (University of Cagliari, Italy), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Abstract:Face image quality assessment (FIQA) plays a critical role in face recognition and verification systems, especially […]

ACM MM’25 Demo: Depth-Enabled Inspection of Medical Videos

Depth-Enabled Inspection of Medical Videos ACM Multimedia 2025 October 27 – October 31, 2025 Dublin, Ireland Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Doris Putzgruber-Adamitsch (AAU, Austria), Yosuf El-Shabrawi (Kabeg, Austria), Klaus Schoeffmann (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Cataract surgery is the most frequently performed surgical procedure worldwide, involving the replacement of a patient’s clouded eye lens with a synthetic intraocular lens to restore visual acuity. Although typically […]

A Tutorial at ACM SIGCOMM 2025

A Tutorial at  ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Optimizing Low-Latency Video Streaming: AI-Assisted Codec-Network Coordination [Link] Coimbra, Portugal, September 8 – 11, 2025. Tutorial speakers: Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität – AAU) Zili Meng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – HKUST) Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University) Mahdi Dolati (Sharif University of Technology) This tutorial focuses on the emerging […]

Lots of News @ Games

Conference Talk: On 20 June 2025, Dr Felix Schniz held the talk “Plain Walking? Navigating Space in Trading Card Games” for the Card Game Conference at AAU, Klagenfurt (AT). The Card Game Conference was a mini conference organised by students of the master’s programme Game Studies and Engineering, intended as a low-barrier science to science […]

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Real-Time AI-Driven Avatar Generation for Sign Language in HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Real-Time AI-Driven Avatar Generation for Sign Language in HTTP Adaptive Streaming The 3rd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (ACM EMS 2025) https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025/workshop/ems/ 8 September 2025 // Coimbra, Portugal   Daniele Lorenzi (AAU, Austria), Emanuele Artioli (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: As digital media consumption over the Internet surges globally, ensuring accessibility for all users becomes […]