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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thin-Client Interactive Gaussian Adaptive Streaming over HTTP/3 ACM Multimedia 2026 November 10 – November 14, 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF] Emanuele Artioli (AAU, Austria), Philipp Fößl (AAU, Austria), Shao-Yang Hung (National Tsinghua University, Taiwan), Philipp Fößl (AAU, Austria), Daniele Lorenzi (Bitmovin, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Mahdi Dolati (Sharif University of Technology, Iran), Cheng-Hsin Hsu (National Tsinghua University, Taiwan), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) […]
From June 18-19, Dr. Felix Schniz participated in an Austria-wide networking event for scholars working in the field of game studies. Organized by the FG Game Studies, the event brought together researchers from various institutions across the country, including the University of Vienna’s Game Lab, departments of history and sports sciences in Innsbruck, as well […]