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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]