On Friday, 13 June 2025, The Pioneers of Game Development Austria, the game development association focused on supporting, showcasing, and accelerating Austrian games, developers, and business, visited ITEC. In an event organised by Dr Felix Schniz, Martin Filipp (Mi’pu’mi Games and PGDA representative) brought a delegation of industry representatives to campus, including Michael Benda […]
My dear colleagues, The PGDA, the Austrian Game Developers Association, is going to visit us with a delegation On Friday, 13 June, between 11.45am and 06.00pm in S.2.42, they are going to offer talks and opportunities for individual Developer Café chat sessions. The schedule looks as follows: 11.45am: Room Opens 12.00pm: Introduction and PGDA session […]
EUVIP 2025 October 13-16, 2025 Malta Link Tutorial speakers: Wei Zhou (Cardiff University) Hadi Amirpour (University of Klagenfurt) Tutorial description: As multimedia services like video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to evolve, ensuring high perceptual visual quality is crucial for enhancing user experience and maintaining competitiveness. However, multimedia content inevitably […]
Machine Learning-Based Decoding Energy Modeling for VVC Streaming 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 14-17 September, Anchorage, Alaska, USA https://2025.ieeeicip.org/ Reza Farahani (AAU Klagenfurt, Austria), Vignesh V Menon (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany), and Christian Timmerer (AAU Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract: Efficient video streaming requires jointly optimizing encoding parameters (bitrate, resolution, compression efficiency) and decoding constraints (computational load, […]
Visual Quality Assessment Competition VQualA co-located with ICCV 2025 https://vquala.github.io/ ICCV 2025 Workshop: Visual Quality Assessment Competition | ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory Visual quality assessment plays a crucial role in computer vision, serving as a fundamental step in tasks such as image quality assessment (IQA), image super-resolution, document image enhancement, and video restoration. Traditional […]
Auf der Uni Klagenfurt werden Spiele erforscht. Mathias Lux erklärt, wie es zu den “WarThunder”-Leaks kommen kann. Ein interessantes Interview mit Kollege Mathias Lux und der Kärntner Krone vom 06. April 2025. KRONE_20250406_SEITE_16_KtnMorgen_Lux
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Christian Timmerer (AAU, AT), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, AT), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, AT), Samira Afzal (AAU, AT), Amr Rizk (Leibniz University Hannover, DE), Michael Zink (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US), and Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, AT) Abstract: Video streaming has evolved from push-based, broad-/multicasting approaches with dedicated hard-/software infrastructures to pull-based unicast schemes utilizing existing Web-based infrastructure to allow for better […]
Neural Representations for Scalable Video Coding IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2025 Authors: Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Scalable video coding encodes a video stream into multiple layers so that it can be decoded at different levels of quality/resolution, depending on the device’s capabilities or the available network bandwidth. […]