Entries by Verena Stranner

Paper accepted @ ACM Multimedia 2026

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) […]

Networking for the Future of Game Studies in Austria

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 […]

Paper accepted @ QoMEX 2026

Title: Asymmetry-Aware No-Reference Video Quality Assessment via Dual-Region Temporal Modeling Authors: MohammadAli Hamidi, Hadi Amirpour, Christian Timmerer, Luigi Atzori Abstract: Saliency and semantic-driven asymmetric encoding enable significant bitrate savings while maintaining a comparable viewing experience. This paper presents a No-Reference (NR) Video Quality Assessment (VQA) model for evaluating Asymmetrically Encoded Videos (AEV), addressing challenges such as varying compression […]

Paper accepted @ QoMEX 2026

Title: Asymmetry-Aware No-Reference Video Quality Assessment via Dual-Region Temporal Modeling Authors: Yeganeh Chatri, Hadi Amirpour Abstract: Modern content-adaptive video encoding increasingly relies on asymmetric compression, where semantically important regions are preserved at higher quality than background areas. This results in spatially and temporally heterogeneous distortion patterns that challenge conventional no-reference video quality assessment (NR-VQA) models, which typically assume […]

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Paper @ ACM SIGMM Records

Title: Quality of Multimedia Experience Meets Machine Intelligence Authors: Wei Zhou, Hadi Amirpour, Tobias Hossfeld Abstract: Multimedia systems are evolving towards AI-driven, adaptive services, leading to a natural convergence of QoE and machine intelligence. In this context, machine intelligence can empower QoE through learning-based, context-aware, and semantic-driven modelling and optimization. At the same time, QoE can guide machine […]

Paper @ International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Title: DAP-Adapter: Enhancing Few-Shot CLIP with Dynamically Diverse and Context-Aware Prompt Generation Authors: Zongjian Li, Hongyou Chen, Lingfeng Qu, Yongjie Zhu, Ya Pan, Baodan Tian, Yong Fan, Hadi Amirpour Abstract: Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) has demonstrated powerful zero-shot and few-shot classification capabilities by training on large-scale image-text pairs. However, in the CLIP training paradigm, data augmentation strategies are […]

Paper accepted @ QoMEX 2026

Title: QoMEX 2026 Grand Challenge on Video Quality Assessment for Asymmetric Encoded Videos: Methods and Results Authors: Jingwen Zhu, Hadi Amirpour, Christian Timmerer, et al. Abstract: This paper presents the results of the Grand Challenge on Video Quality Assessment for Asymmetric Encoded Videos, held at QoMEX 2026 in Cardiff, UK. The challenge addresses the growing need for video […]

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EMS 2026 – The 4th Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems

EMS 2023  |  EMS 2024  | EMS 2025  Call For Submissions  Multimedia has played a significant role in driving Internet usage and has led to a range of technological advancements, such as content delivery networks, compression algorithms, and streaming protocols. With emerging applications, including (but not limited to) augmented,  virtual, and extended reality (XR), real-time telepresence, AI-generated content, video […]

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Presentation @ University of Ljubljana

On 27 May 2026, Dr Felix Schniz held a guest presentation on the Transhuman Qualities of Bloodborne at the University of Ljubljana before joining the conference Creative Computing Cultures and Media Transfers in Europe as an invited guest. Following the spirit of cross-European perspectives on computing, the day concluded with a joint meeting on prospective […]

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Event Report “Spielend lernen”

Following an invitation of the Viennese Game Lab, Felix Schniz and Sabrina Maria Größing have represented the Klagenfurt Critical Game Lab at the event “Spielend lernen!” that took place on 19 May 2026 at the Bildungsdirektion Wien. Klagenfurt was the first non-Viennese game lab to join the event underlining the importance of the University of […]