Assistant Prof. Dr. Hadi Amirpour has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member in recognition of his contributions to multimedia streaming systems. IEEE Senior Member is the highest professional grade for which an IEEE member can apply. This distinction requires extensive professional experience and demonstrated accomplishments that reflect technical expertise, leadership, and professional maturity. Fewer than 10% of IEEE’s […]
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has recognized Christian Timmerer as a Senior Member, honoring his professional achievements and contributions to the field of computing. The ACM Senior Member designation is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated significant performance and commitment within the computing profession. This distinction highlights Christian Timmerer’s ongoing engagement with the research community […]
Energy and Compression Efficiency in Large-Scale Video Streaming IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2026) [PDF] Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: The rise in large-scale video streaming has led to increased energy demands across the encoding, transmission, and decoding pipeline. While energy consumption in video streaming has been widely studied, encoding […]
Title: Complexity prediction of hardware and software video transcoding in the cloud Authors: Taieb Chachou, Sid Ahmed Fezza, Wassim Hamidouche, Ghalem Belalem, Hadi Amirpour [PDF] Abstract: Today, video content constitutes a significant portion of internet traffic. This video can be viewed by a wide range of devices with varying characteristics and under different network conditions. Video […]
Im Rahmen der von der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften getragenen Initiative „FÄKT“, die Wissenschaftsvideos speziell für 10- bis 14-Jährige aufbereitet, gibt ein neuer Beitrag spannende Einblicke in die Welt des Video-Streamings: Christian Timmerer, Leiter des CD-Labors für Adaptives Streaming über HTTP und entstehende netzwerkbasierte Multimediadienste an der Universität Klagenfurt und zweifacher Technology & Engineering Emmy […]
The Lange Nacht der Forschung 2026 (long night of research) turned out to be a truly special evening — one that once again demonstrated how powerful it can be to bring science and research closer to the public. Thanks to the remarkable engagement, creativity, and enthusiasm of everyone involved, complex ideas were transformed into hands-on experiences for […]
Dragi Kimovski Receives FGCS Outstanding Reviewer Award 2025 We are proud to announce that Dragi Kimovski has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Reviewer Award by the Future Generation Computer Systems journal. Out of more than 5,400 reviewers worldwide, only 31 were chosen for this distinction, making this recognition highly competitive and a testament to exceptional contributions to […]
Title: EPS: Efficient Patch Sampling for Video Overfitting in Deep Super-Resolution Model Training Authors: Yiying Wei, Hadi Amirpour, Jong Hwan Ko, and Christian Timmerer Abstract: Leveraging the overfitting property of deep neural networks (DNNs) is trending in video delivery systems to enhance video quality within bandwidth limits. Existing approaches transmit overfitted super-resolution (SR) model streams for low-resolution (LR) […]
Title: Perception-Inspired Network for Stereo Image Quality Assessment Authors: Yongli Chang, Guanghui Yue, Bo Zhao, Li Yu, Yakun Ju, Hadi Amirpour, Moncef Gabbouj and Wei Zhou. Abstract: Existing stereo image quality assessment (SIQA) methods generally have limitations in binocular fusion and fine-grained perception modeling. To address these issues, we propose a Perception-Inspired Network for SIQA […]
Sustainability in Video Encoding and Streaming: Energy-Efficient Techniques and Metrics Workshop on Media Energy Consumption Measurement and Exposure [Workshop URL] [Slides] [PDF] Presenter: Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Abstract: The presentation discusses the increasing environmental impact of video streaming and highlights the urgent need for more sustainable approaches across the entire streaming pipeline. Video traffic dominates […]