Entries by Verena Stranner

Paper accepted @ IEEE AGCS 2026

Konferenz: IEEE AGCS 2026 (Symposium on Edge intelligence, Trustworthy and Decentralized Artificial Intelligence- iEdge) Wo: 27-30 October 2026, Paris, France. Titel: A Multi-Node Performance Evaluation of Shared Edge AI Inference Autoren: Raphael Walcher, Dragi Kimovski, Kurt Horvath Abstract:  Edge-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables latency-sensitive applications by moving inference closer to data sources. While previous studies have demonstrated the feasibility of […]

Paper accepted @ IEEE Access

Titel: In-Service Wind Turbine Blade Inspection: A Multi-UAV Architecture Design and Preliminary Validation Autoren: Mario Leopold, Klaus Schöffmann, Farzad Tashtarian Venue: IEEE Access   Abstract: Wind turbine blade inspections are critical for ensuring structural integrity and minimizing operational downtime. However, existing methods, such as single Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) inspections, are limited by trade-offs among coverage, resolution, operational […]

Interns @ ATHENA (Summer 2026)

Interns at ATHENA (Summer 2026) In July 2026, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted four interns working on the following topics: Leon Kordasch – Holography Daniel Glantschnig – Automated Wind Turbine Damage Detection Gabriel Puri – Adaptive Streaming for Immersive Media At the end of their internships, the interns presented their projects and findings and received official university […]

Paper accepted @ IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2026

Title: DRLM: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based LLM Query Orchestration in Edge Environments   Authors: Reza Farahani (TU Wien, Austria), Zoha Azimi (AAU, Austria), Mario Colosi (University of Messina, Italy), Lauri Lov\’en (University of Oulu, Finland), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria)   Venue: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Macau S.A.R., China, 7 – 11 December 2026   Abstract: Large language model […]

Paper accepted @ IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) 2026

Depth-Aware Stereo Bitrate Ladder Optimization with Decoding-Time Constraints for HTTP Adaptive Streaming   IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 22 – September 24, 2026 Istanbul, Turkey [PDF] Kamran Qureshi (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Per-title bitrate ladder construction selects bitrate–resolution pairs based on content-specific characteristics, enabling improved compression efficiency compared […]

Paper accepted @ International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) 2026

Content-Adaptive Encoding Pass Selection for Efficient Video Streaming   International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 22 – September 24, 2026 Istanbul, Türkiye [PDF] Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: As video streaming continues to grow in scale, improving the efficiency of video encoding has become increasingly important to balance visual quality and […]

Paper accepted @ International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) 2026

Viewport-Aware Adaptive Encoding for Enhanced 360-degree Video Streaming   International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 22 – September 24, 2026 Istanbul, Türkiye [PDF] Mahmoud Z. A. Wahba (University of Padova), Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Sara Baldoni (University of Padova), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Federica Battisti (University of Padova), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Streaming 360-degree video content in Virtual Reality (VR) poses significant challenges, […]

Paper accepted @ ACM Multimedia 2026

LumaID: Harnessing Illumination-Awareness for High-Fidelity Video Head Identity Editing 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2026 (ACM MM 2026) 10–14 November 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF] Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Xuanhong Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria),  and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Despite yielding higher visual quality than image-to-image approaches, masked generation paradigms for video face editing fundamentally […]

Paper accepted @ International Broadcasting Convention

Selective Multi-Pass Encoding for Cost-Efficient Video Streaming International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) [PDF] Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: As video streaming scales across platforms, resolutions, and devices, encoding efficiency has become critical to maintaining quality while controlling computational cost and energy consumption. Multi-pass encoding is widely used in streaming workflows to improve compression […]

Paper accepted @ ACM Multimedia 2026

LMM-10K: Large-Scale 4K Multimodal Dataset for Perceptual, Semantic, and Content-Aware Video Processing ACM Multimedia 2026 November 10 – November 14, 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF] Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: The growing integration of vision and language models is driving a fundamental shift in video understanding and processing. This evolution […]