IEEE Conference on Games 2025 In Lisboa, Portugal, 26-29th August, 2025 Author: Kseniia Harshina Title: Developing a Video Game for Empathy and Empowerment in the Context of Forced Migration Experiences Abstract: This dissertation explores how video games can be designed to foster empathy and empowerment in the context of forced migration. While existing games often […]
Main Organizer: Kseniia Harshina (AAU) Co-Organizers: Rachel Gorden (AAU), Tan Schütz, Tom Tucek (AAU) Date: September 19-20th 2025, fully online The Games Intersectional Symposium is being held for the first time this Friday and Saturday. It is a space for queer and other under-represented voices in video games to share their thoughts and experiences. The […]
Dr. Reza Farahani presented a 3-hour tutorial titled “Serverless Orchestration on the Edge-Cloud Continuum: From Small Functions to Large Language Models” at the 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) on 20 July 2025. Abstract: Serverless computing simplifies application development by abstracting infrastructure management, allowing developers to focus on functionality while cloud providers handle resource […]
GenStream: Semantic Streaming Framework for Generative Reconstruction of Human-centric Media ACM Multimedia 2025 October 27 – October 31, 2025 Dublin, Ireland [PDF] Emanuele Artioli (AAU, Austria), Daniele Lorenzi (AAU, Austria), Shivi Vats (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Video streaming dominates global internet traffic, yet conventional pipelines remain inefficient for structured, human-centric content such as sports, performance, or interactive […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]