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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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