Entries by Verena Stranner

ACM MM’25 Demo: SDART: Spatial Dart AR Simulation with Hand-Tracked Input

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 […]

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ICCV VQualA’25: VQualA 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment: Methods and Results

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 […]

ICCV VQualA’25: VQualA 2025 Challenge on Face Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results

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, […]

ICCV VQualA’25: A Lightweight Ensemble-Based Face Image Quality Assessment Method with Correlation-Aware Loss

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 […]

ACM MM’25 Demo: Depth-Enabled Inspection of Medical Videos

Depth-Enabled Inspection of Medical Videos ACM Multimedia 2025 October 27 – October 31, 2025 Dublin, Ireland Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Doris Putzgruber-Adamitsch (AAU, Austria), Yosuf El-Shabrawi (Kabeg, Austria), Klaus Schoeffmann (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Cataract surgery is the most frequently performed surgical procedure worldwide, involving the replacement of a patient’s clouded eye lens with a synthetic intraocular lens to restore visual acuity. Although typically […]

A Tutorial at ACM SIGCOMM 2025

A Tutorial at  ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Optimizing Low-Latency Video Streaming: AI-Assisted Codec-Network Coordination [Link] Coimbra, Portugal, September 8 – 11, 2025. Tutorial speakers: Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität – AAU) Zili Meng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – HKUST) Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University) Mahdi Dolati (Sharif University of Technology) This tutorial focuses on the emerging […]

Lots of News @ Games

Conference Talk: On 20 June 2025, Dr Felix Schniz held the talk “Plain Walking? Navigating Space in Trading Card Games” for the Card Game Conference at AAU, Klagenfurt (AT). The Card Game Conference was a mini conference organised by students of the master’s programme Game Studies and Engineering, intended as a low-barrier science to science […]

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Real-Time AI-Driven Avatar Generation for Sign Language in HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Real-Time AI-Driven Avatar Generation for Sign Language in HTTP Adaptive Streaming The 3rd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (ACM EMS 2025) https://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025/workshop/ems/ 8 September 2025 // Coimbra, Portugal   Daniele Lorenzi (AAU, Austria), Emanuele Artioli (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: As digital media consumption over the Internet surges globally, ensuring accessibility for all users becomes […]

Elsevier Displays: Unlocking Implicit Motion for Evaluating Image Complexity

Unlocking Implicit Motion for Evaluating Image Complexity Displays   Yixiao Lia (Beihang University, China), Xiaoyuan Yang (Beihang University, China), Yanda Meng (University of Exeter, UK), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, AT), Jiang Liu (Cardiff University, UK), Yuqing Luo (Cardiff University, UK), Hantao Liu (Cardiff University, UK), and Wei Zhou (Cardiff University, UK) Abstract: Image complexity (IC) plays a […]

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Info Event for BA Liberal Arts Students

On Monday, 16 June 2025, Sabrina Größing, BEd and Dr Felix Schniz presented the Master’s Programme Game Studies and Engineering to an audience of bachelor students from the novel Liberal Arts programme.   The event aimed to showcase how easily they can continue their academic career within AAU, the opportunities and support structures awaiting them […]