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From September 7-9, nearly 40 participants joined us at AAU Klagenfurt to discuss and theorise about the theme of “Video Game Cultures: Exploring New Horizons.” VGC is a recurring conference reinstated after the lockdowns, coordinated between…

Authors: Reza Saeedinia (University of Tehran), S. Omid Fatemi (University of Tehran),Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt),  Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria Universität…

Title: Designing A Sustainable Serverless Graph Processing Tool on the Computing Continuum Abstract: Graph processing has become increasingly popular and essential for solving complex problems in various domains, like social networks. However,…

Kurt Horvath presented the paper titled A distributed geofence-based discovery scheme for the computing Continuum at 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR 2023) Authors: Kurt Horvath, Dragi…

A DEEP DIVE INTO VIDEO STREAMING AND GRAPH PROCESSING USE CASES More information

Prof. Hermann Hellwagner is a keynote speaker at IEEE MIPR, 30th August - 1st September 2023. Title: Advances in Edge-Based and In-Network Media Processing for Adaptive Video Streaming Talk Abstract: Media traffic (mainly, video) on…

On 22.08.2023, Reza Farahani successfully defended his doctoral studies with the thesis on the title: "Network-Assisted Delivery of Adaptive Video Streaming Services through CDN, SDN, and MEC" under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Hermann…

An der Universität Klagenfurt wird aktuell daran geforscht, wie große Datenmengen energieeffizienter verarbeitet werden können. Die digitale Übertragung von Informationen verbrauche Energie. Wissenschafter aus zwölf Institutionen forschen…

Title: Towards Cloud Storage Tier Optimization with Rule-based Classification Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin, Radu Prodan, Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman and Ahmet Soylu Link: ESOCC…

Title: ARTICONF Decentralized Social Media Platform for Democratic Crowd Journalism Authors: Ines Rito Lima, Vasco Filipe, Claudia Marinho, Alexandre Ulisses, Antorweep Chakravorty, Atanas Hristov, Nishant Saurabh, Zhiming Zhao, Ruyue Xin,…

Title: Beyond von Neumann in the Computing Continuum: Architectures, Applications, and Future Directions Authors: Kimovski, Dragi; Saurabh, Nishant; Jansen, Matthijs; Aral, Atakan; Al-Dulaimy, Auday; Bondi, Andre; Galletta, Antonino; Papadopoulos,…

Sahar Nasirihaghighi presented the paper titled "Action Recognition in Video Recordings from Gynecology Laparoscopy" at IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems 2023. Authors: Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Negin Ghamsarian,…

Speakers: Dan Nicolae (University of Chicago, USA), Razvan Bunescu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Anna Fensel Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands), Radu Prodan (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Ioan Toma…

We are thrilled to announce the official launch of Fire Totem Games GmbH, a dynamic and innovative game development company based in Austria. After years of dedicated work and passion, we are ready to set the gaming world ablaze with our creative…

21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2024), APRIL 16–18, 2024, SANTA CLARA, CA, USA Authors: Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt),  Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University), Hadi…

On 14.07.2023, Zahra Najafabadi Samani successfully defended her doctoral studies with the thesis on the title: "Resource-Aware Time-Critical Application Placement in the Computing Continuum" under the supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan and Assoc.-Prof.…

Authors: Juanjuan Li, Rui Qin, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Radu Prodan, Fei-Yue Wang Journal: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles Abstract: As part of TIV's DHW on Vehicle 5.0, this letter introduces a novel concept, Logistics 5.0,…

Title: A distributed and energy-efficient KNN for EEG classification with dynamic money-saving policy in heterogeneous clusters Authors: Juan José Escobar, Francisco Rodríguez, Beatriz Prieto, Dragi Kimovski, Andrés Ortiz, and Miguel…

Sebastian Uitz and Hannes Dermutz had an amazing time showcasing their highly anticipated game, A Webbing Journey, at the Level Up event at Messe Salzburg on July 1 and 2, 2023. The event was a vibrant gathering of game developers and enthusiasts,…

Sebastian Uitz and Michael Steinkellner showcased their game, A Webbing Journey, at the A1 Austria eSports Festival in the Austria Center Vienna on May 27, 2023. The booth, featuring two PCs, a Steam Deck, and a Nintendo Switch, offered players…

Call for Papers Network-assisted video streaming has become a substantial part of modern multimedia applications, enabling users to access high-quality video content over different networks, including the Internet and wireless networks. Efficiently…

Title: Designing A Sustainable Serverless Graph Processing Tool on the Computing Continuum Authors: Reza Farahani, Sashko Ristov, and Radu Prodan 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, , LIMASSOL,…

SWForum.eu: The Way Forward: Workshop on Future Challenges in Software Engineering https://www.flickr.com/photos/198632876@N07/sets/72177720309399251/  

Josef Hammer presented the poster “Unique Prefix vs. Unique Mask for Minimizing SDN Flows with Transparent Edge Access” at the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2023) and the paper…

Authors: Negin Ghamsarian, Javier Gamazo Tejero, Pablo Márquez Neila, Sebastian Wolf, Martin Zinkernagel, Klaus Schoeffmann, and Raphael Sznitman 26th Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2023 (MICCAI 2023), Vancouver,…

CP-Steering: CDN- and Protocol-Aware Content Steering Solution for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming Reza Farahani (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada), Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surrey,…

Titles: Modern Network-Assisted Delivery of Adaptive Video Streaming Services and Towards Sustainable Servessless Processing of Massive Graphs on Computing Continuum Link: https://springschool.iaik.tugraz.at/

During the session, experts delved into the challenges of processing massive amounts of data and explored cutting-edge technologies that can handle such extreme data requirements. From graph-based solutions to distributed computing frameworks,…

We are very happy to announce that Klaus Schoeffmann, with his lifelog retrieval system lifeXplore, has won the Lifelog Search Challenge 2023 (LSC2023). The LSC2023 was performed on June 12, 2023, in Thessaloniki, Greece, as a workshop at the…

Prejudice and discrimination against immigrants have been a constant presence in Western Europe for a long time, fueled considerably by the refugee crisis in 2015. This project, supervised by researchers from Game Studies & Engineering and…

Our Graph-Massivizer Project is thrilled to be part of the #DataWeek2023 event! Join us for a thought-provoking session on "Are current infrastructures suitable for extreme data processing? Technologies for data management." Don't miss…

Josef Hammer presented the paper “C3-Edge – An Automated Mininet-Compatible SDN Testbed On Raspberry Pis and Nvidia Jetsons” at the 36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023) in Miami, Florida, USA. Authors:…

Container-based Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum for Remote Patient Monitoring Authors: Nikolay Nikolov, Arnor Solberg, Radu Prodan, Ahmet Soylu, Mihhail Matskin, Dumitru Roman Computer Jounal, Special Issue on Computing in Telemedicine Abstract:…

Radu Prodan presented the paper “Proactive SLA-aware Application Placement in the Computing Continuum” at the 37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2023) <https://www.ipdps.org/> in St. Petersburg,…

Josef Hammer received the 2nd Place Outstanding Poster Award at the IPDPS PhD Forum 2023 for his poster titled “Distributed On-Demand Deployment for Transparent Access to 5G Edge Computing Services.” The event took place in St. Petersburg,…

Josef Hammer presented the paper “Distributed On-Demand Deployment for Transparent Access to 5G Edge Computing Services” at the 5th Workshop on Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge (PAISE 2023). The workshop was held in conjunction with…

Title: Serverless ECG Stream Processing in Federated Clouds with Lambda Architecture Authors: Sashko Ristov, Marjan Gusev, Armin Hohenegger, Radu Prodan, Dimitar Mileski, Pano Gushev, Goran Temelkov Computer Jounal, Special Issue on Computing…

Authors: Martin Molan, Junaid Ahmed Khan, Andrea Bartolini, Roberta Turra, Giorgio Pedrazzi, Michael Cochez, Alexandru Iosup, Dumitru Roman, Jože Rožanec, Ana Lucia Vărbănescu, Radu Prodan COMPSAC 2023: 1st IEEE International Workshop…

Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin‡, Radu Prodan, Christoph Bussler, Dumitru Roman, Ahmet Soylu COMPSAC 2023: 8th IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Big Data Management Abstract: Cloud computing has become…

Dragi Kimovski  participated in the EU Concentration and Consultation event on the computing continuum, held in Brussels on May 10-11, 2023. During the event, he delivered a presentation on the groundbreaking DataCloud H2020 Project and actively…

Titel: A distributed geofence-based discovery scheme for the computing Continuum Euro-Par 2023, https://2023.euro-par.org/ Authors: Kurt Horvath1, Dragi Kimovski1, Christoph Uran1,2, Helmut Wöllik2, and Radu Prodan1 1 Institute of…

Title: Action Recognition in Video Recordings from Gynecologic Laparoscopy Authors: Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Negin Ghamsarian, Daniela Stefanics, Klaus Schoeffmann and Heinrich Husslein IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer-Based…

Authors: Clemens SAUERWEIN1 (Innsbruck), Ruth BREU (Innsbruck), Stefan OPPL (Krems), Iris GROHER (Linz), Tobias ANTENSTEINER (Innsbruck), Stefan PODLIPNIG (Wien) & Radu PRODAN (Klagenfurt) Abstact: High-quality programming education at…

As part of our collaboration with the Department of Computer Architecture and Technology at the University of Granada, Spain two research papers were accepted for publishing at the 17th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. Paper…

Zahra Najafabadi Samani, has been awarded travel grant to attend IPDPS 2023 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Congratulations!

Creating games for 48 hours at 1770 meters of altitude. The 2nd Hüttenjam took place April 13-16, 2023, on the Turracher Höhe. After settling on a topic for the jam on Thursday - extreme conditions - 40 participants worked on 8 games to be…

Radu Prodan participated in the panel: "Computing in the Cloud Continuum: Technological challenges, killer applications and future trends" jointly organized by the Fast Continuum and HotCloudPerf workshops at the 2023 ACM/SPEC International…

6th Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf 2023) Radu Prodan:  Four Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance in Klagenfurt  Description: The presentation discusses four hot Cloud computing topics researched…

On Saturday, during the #ICPE2023, the Graph-Massivizer Project organized the #GraphSys first #workshop on #Serverless, #ExtremeScale, and #Sustainable #GraphProcessing #Systems It was great to see so many passionate #attendees eager to share…

Title: Performance Improvement Strategies of Edge-Enabled Social Impact Applications Authors: Shajulin Benedict, S. Vivek Reddy, Bhagyalakshmi M., Jiby Mariya Jose, Radu Prodan International Conference on Inventive Computation…

Authors: Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Shajulin Benedikt, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Abstract: Fog computing platforms became essential for deploying low-latency…

On 03.02.2023 , Dragi Kimovski defended his habilitation thesis “The Computing Continuum in the Internet-of-Things Era: Beyond the Cloud Data Centers”. In the meantime, the procedure has been completed and we were happy to hand out the…

2023 ACM Mile High Video (MHV)  May 7-10, 2023 | Denver, US Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay), Mohammed…

Presentation of Radu Prodan on "Massive Graphs on the Computing Continuum" in the seminar on "AI meets complex knowledge structures: Neuro-Symbolic AI and Graph Technologies" at the Oslo Metropolitan University.

IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE [PDF; GitHub] Babak Taraghi , Hermann Hellwagner and Christian Timmerer  (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Live media streaming is a challenging task…

14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) 7 – 10 June 2023 | Vancouver, BC, Canada Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Video streaming services account for the majority of today's traffic on the Internet,…

On Friday and Saturday (March 10 and March 11, 2023), Sebastian Uitz presented his game “A Webbing Journey” with his partner Michael Steinkellner and Noel Treese at the Button Festival at the Messe Graz. Their booth consisted of 2 PC, a…

5th Workshop on Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge (PAISE 2023) held in conjunction with 37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2023) St. Petersburg, Florida, USA https://edge.itec.aau.at/ Authors:…

The seminar talks every two weeks are co-organized together with the research group of Networks and Distributed Computing at the University of Liverpool, as part of the Durham-Liverpool synergy. The contact person of this synergy in Liverpool…

SPACE: Segment Prefetching and Caching at the Edge for Adaptive Video Streaming IEEE Access Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Intelligent Transport Systems- Sustainable Transport Logistics 4.0 Logoplan - Logistik,…

Title: Boosting the Impact of Extreme and Sustainable Graph Processing for Urgent Societal Challenges in Europe The First Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems (GraphSys), Co-located with ICPE 2023,…

Title: Large-scale graph processing and simulation with serverless workflows in federated FaaS The First Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems (GraphSys), Co-located with ICPE 2023, April 15-19, Coimbra,…

Title: Towards Sustainable Serverless Processing of Massive Graphs on the Computing Continuum The First Workshop on Serverless, Extreme-Scale, and Sustainable Graph Processing Systems (GraphSys), Co-located with ICPE 2023, April 15-19, Coimbra,…

How to Optimize Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming? Challenges and Solutions [slide] Abstract: Empowered by today’s rich tools for media generation and collaborative production and convenient network access to the Internet, video streaming…

36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023) Miami, USA https://edge.itec.aau.at/ Authors: Josef Hammer, Dragi Kimovski, Narges Mehran, Radu Prodan, and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract:…

23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2023) Bangalore, India https://edge.itec.aau.at/ Authors: Josef Hammer and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Abstract: Multi-access…

7th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2023) held in conjunction with CCGrid 2023 Bangalore, India https://edge.itec.aau.at/ Authors: Josef Hammer and Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Abstract:…

Title: Fast multi-rate encoding for adaptive HTTP streaming Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Ekrem Çetynkaya (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

Radu Prodan presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the "Get-to-know" introductory and welcome day, part of Data Spaces Support Centre activities on 23 February. HE Data-DSSC-23022023-Agenda

Radu Prodan presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the CERCIRAS COST action on 7th February in Gdansk, Poland

On February 8, 2023, EduDay - organised by the educational lab and students of the HAK 1 Klagenfurt - took place for the first time. Several hundred students were guided through the laboratories and got their first insight into research. CD…

The kick-off meeting of the EU Horizon project – Graph-Massivizer (Massive Graph Processing of Extreme Data for a Sustainable Economy, Society, and Environment) took place from January 30th – February 2nd, 2023, at Klagenfurt University. The…

SIGMM Records Column Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt and Bitmovin Inc., Austria) Introduction: Regarding…

37th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) May 15-19, 2023, Florida USA Authors: Zahra Najafabadi Samani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,…

HiPEAC 2023 in Toulouse, France

HiPEAC magazine https://www.hipeac.net/news/#/magazine/ HiPEACINFO 68, pages 27-28. Autohrs: Dragi Kimovski (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 28 May – 01 June 2023-- Rome, Italy Conference Website Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

Where does technology help us in our daily lives? Interview with Felix Schniz, Game Studies and Engineering SPL @ ITEC   We meet Felix Schniz for an interview in Lakeside Park, in the CD laboratory Athena, building B12B, to learn…

Journal Website: Journal of Network and Computer Applications [PDF] Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Vanessa Testoni (unico IDtech), Christian Esteve Rothenberg (University of Campinas), Prakash Kolan (Samsung Research…

Collaborative Edge-Assisted Systems for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming 5G/6G Innovation Center,  University of Surrey, UK 6th January 2023 | Guildford, UK Abstract: The proliferation of novel video streaming technologies, advancement of networking…

Journal: Sensors Authors: Akif Quddus Khan, Nikolay Nikolov, Mihhail Matskin,Radu Prodan, Dumitru Roman, Bekir Sahin, Christoph Bussler, Ahmet Soylu Abstract: Big data pipelines are developed to process data characterized by one or more…

Every year, Carinthia celebrates its cultural and scientific greats by awarding a total of 13 prizes based on the proposal of the Carinthian Cultural Board. This year Hermann Hellwagner received one of the three appreciation prizes in the natural…

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 8-12 May 2023- Miami, FL – USA Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,…

From December 9 to December 11, the 6th Klagenfurt Winter Jam took place at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt. More than 80 highly motivated game enthusiasts worked for 48 hours on 21 new games and presented their results on Sunday to…

We are happy to announce that the Call for Papers for our conference Video Game Cultures 2023: Exploring New Horizons is online now. Please see our website for more info and submission.

ICME`23 July, 2023, Brisbane, Australia Organizers: Hadi Amirpour, University of Klagenfurt Angeliki Katsenou, Trinity College Dublin, IE and University of Bristol, UK Abstracts Video streaming in the context of HTTP Adaptive…

Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) Journal Website Abstract: In HTTP Adaptive…

Christina Obmann, one of our first Game Studies and Engineering students, has been recognized as outstanding in the Carinthia region by the local newspaper Kleine Zeitung. Besides her interest and work in games, she's teaching at the university,…

Students at Klagenfurt University decide who is the best teacher: They nominate courses for the "Teaching Award 2022". The 14 best-rated teachers submitted teaching concepts, which were evaluated and ranked by a jury. Josef Hammer was nominated…

MPEC2: Multilayer and Pipeline Video Encoding on the Computing Continuum conference website: IEEE NCA 2022 Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Zahra Najafabadi Samani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

Radu Prodan participated in the panel on "Fueling Industrial AI with Data Pipelines" at presented the Graph-Massivizer project at the European Big Data Value Forum on November 22 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Journal Website Authors: Ningxiong Maoa (Southwest Jiaotong University), Hongjie Hea (Southwest Jiaotong University), Fan Chenb (Southwest Jiaotong University), Lingfeng Qua (Southwest Jiaotong University), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

IEEE ISM'2022 (https://www.ieee-ism.org/) Authors: Shivi Vats, Jounsup Park, Klara Nahrstedt, Michael Zink, Ramesh Sitaraman, and Hermann Hellwagner Abstract: In a 5G testbed, we use 360° video streaming to test, measure, and demonstrate…

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) Journal Website   Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Christine Guillemot (INRIA, France), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Christian…

 

The threat of climate change requires a drastic reduction of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in several societal spheres. Thus, this also applies to reducing and rethinking the energy consumption of digital technologies. Video streaming…

Athors: Alexander Lercher, Nishant Saurabh, Radu Prodan The 15th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2022/socialcom/ Abstract: Community evolution prediction enables business-driven…

A pre-kickoff meeting for Graph-Massivizer took place on November 4, 2022, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Michael Cochez, Alexandru Iosup, and Radu Prodan discussed the scientific goals of the Graph Massivizer project…

A new online article about Graphmassivizer has been published in the Science blog; check it out HERE.

2022 IEEE/ACM 2nd Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum (DML-ICC) In conjuction with IEEE/ACM UCC 2022 December 6-9, 2022 | Vancouver, Washington, USA Authors: Narges Mehran (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

29th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 9 - 12 January 2023 | Bergen, Norway Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

On 20 October 2022 Felix gave the talk "Walk Like an Englishman? The Cultural Experience of Walking Simulators" as part of the Transformative Play Initiative 2022 conference at Uppsala University, Sweden. The content of the presentation was…

OTEC: An Optimized Transcoding Task Scheduler for Cloud and Fog Environments ACM CoNEXT 2022 - ViSNext Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hamid Hadian (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

As a Hipeac member, we are hosting Zeinab Bakhshi, a Ph.D. student from Mälardalens University in Sweden. Zeinab achieved a Hipeac collaboration grant and is now hosted by Profesor Radu Prodan to expand her research on container-based fog architectures.…

Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM) Journal Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer…

2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) October 16-19, 2022 | Bordeaux, France Conference Website   Abstract: According to the Bitmovin Video Developer Report 2021, live streaming at scale has the highest…

IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE [PDF] Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Daniele Lorenzi (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität…

DataCloud will research and develop novel methods to support the complete lifecycle of #BigData pipelines processing.Follow us to know more about #datacloud2020 Datacloud plenary website

On the first two days of October 2022, Sebastian Uitz and Michael Steinkellner presented their game “A Webbing Journey” at the Vienna Comic Con 2022 (VIECC 2022). The new demo level from Gamescom was incorporated into the existing demo and…

From Wednesday, 24.08.2022, until Sunday, 28.08.2022, players from all over the world played our game “A Webbing Journey” at Gamescom 2022 in Cologne. Our booth was run by Sebastian Uitz, Manuel Santner, and Fabian Schober, and we have been…

The futurezone Awards 2022 are looking for the most innovative ideas and projects. Three finalists (each category) have now been selected from the numerous submissions. ITEC was nominated for two projects: 5G Virtual Realities and GAIA (together…

The ADAPT workshop took place in Macau, China, on 09 Oct 2022 at the IEEE ITSC conference with more than 50 international attendees! The ADAPT-Team has successfully participated!  

Bitmovin, a leading provider of video streaming infrastructure, and the University of Klagenfurt announced they will collaborate on a two-year joint research project worth €3.3million to develop a climate-friendly adaptive video streaming…

At Christian Doppler laboratory ATHENA, we offer an internship*) for 2023 for Master Students and we kindly request your applications until the 20th of January 2023 with the following data (in German or English): CV Record of study/transcript…

2022 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) December 7-9, 2022 | San Jose, CA, USA Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay,…

2022 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 26-28, 2022 | Shanghai, China Conference Website Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay, Paris,…

2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) October 16-19, 2022 | Bordeaux, France Conference Website [Video] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…

Title: MOGPlay: A Decentralized Crowd Journalism Application for Democratic News Production Authors: Ines Rito Lima, Claudia Marinho,Vasco Filipe, Alexandre Ulisses, Nishant Saurabh, Antorweep Chakravorty, Zhiming Zhao, Atanas Hristov, Radu…

We are happy to announce and our congratulations to Dr. Hermann Hellwagner for receiving the appreciation award of Carinthia in the area of natural/technical sciences.  

16th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems - Dijon, France – October 19-21, 2022 Conference Website Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Selina Zoë Haack (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM) Journal Website Authors: Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surry, UK), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt,…

LiVE: Toward Better Live Video Experience INSA, France  27th September 2022 | Rennes, France   Abstract: In this presentation, we first introduce the principles of video streaming and the existing challenges. While live video streaming…

The "Game Studies and Engineering" master's program can be studied at the University of Klagenfurt for five years. It's much more about technical skills, a critical understanding of the influence of games on society "as well as the courage and…

Titel: CardioHPC: Serverless Approaches for Real-Time Heart Monitoring of Thousands of Patients Authors: Marjan Gusev, Sashko Ristov, Andrei Amza, Armin Hohenegger, Radu Prodan, Dimitar Mileski, Pano Gushev, Goran Temelkov 17th Workshop…

Titel: SimLess: Simulate Serverless Workflows and Their Twins and Siblings in Federated FaaS Authors: Sashko Ristov, Mika Hautz, Christian Hollaus, Radu Prodan 2022 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing Abstract: Many researchers migrate…

The project partners reunited at @itecmmc for a final project review. Thank you Horizon2020 @EU_Commission it has been an honour to collaborate for the Future Hyper-connected Sociality. ARTICONF project review @UvA_Amsterdam @ms…

Student travel award at IEEE Cluster 2022 Narges Mehran got the student award for presenting the paper titled "Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum" at IEEE Cluster 2022. The…

IEEE Cloud Summit 2022, https://www.ieeecloudsummit.org/ Authors: Radu Prodan, Dragi Kimovski, Andrea Bartolini, Michael Cochez, Alexandru Iosup, Evgeny Kharlamov, Joze Rozanec, Laurentiu Vasiliu, Ana Lucia Varbanescu Abstract: The Graph-Massivizer…

18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2022) Thessaloniki, Greece | 31 October - 4 November 2022 Conference Website Minh Nguyen (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) December 4-8, 2022 |Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Conference Website Authors: Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore,…

During the period Aug 1st –26th, 2022, Hamza Baniata, a PhD Candidate at the Department of Computer Science, University of Szeged, Hungary, has visited the institute of Information Technology of the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Under…

ACM Multimedia Conference - Doctoral Symposium Track Lisbon, Portugal | 10-14 October 2022 Vignesh V Menon (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Rapid growth in multimedia streaming traffic…

Secure Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images based on Classification Encryption Difference IEEE 24th Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 26-28, 2022 | Shanghai, China Authors: Lingfeng Qu (Southwest Jiaotong…

During the visit of our minister of education (Martin Polaschek),  Hermann Hellwagner gave an overview of drone research at the AAU and the use of the drone hall. Read more about Mr. Polaschek´s visit here.

In July-August 2022, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted four interns working on the following topics: Fabio Zinner: A Study and Evaluation on HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming using Mininet Moritz Pecher: Dataset Creation…

For the quality and timeliness of his reviews, Klaus Schöffmann has been awarded with the Outstanding Reviewer Award at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2022, which was held at Newark, NJ, USA in June 2022. …

Project lead/coordination: Radu Prodan Project partners: IDC Italia, Peracton Limited, Institut Jozef Stefan, Sintef, Universiteit Twente, metaphacts GmbH, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Cineca, Event Registry, Università di Bologna, Robert…

Kevin Theuermann (TU Graz) defended his theses on July 12, 2022. Title: Trustworthy Service Composition Systems for E-Government Prof. Radu Prodan was integrated as an external expert to survey the thesis and discuss it with the candidate…

Between Two and Six? Towards Correct Estimation of JND Step Sizes for VMAF-based Bitrate Laddering 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) September 5-7, 2022 | Lippstadt, Germany Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

FuRA: Fully Random Access Light Field Image Compression 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP) September 11-14, 2022 | Lisbon, Portugal Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Christine Guillemot (INRIA,…

Title: MCred: Multi-Modal Message Credibility for Fake News Detection using BERT and CNN Journal: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing Authors: Pawan Kumar Verma, Prateek Agrawal, Vishu Madaan, Radu Prodan Abstract: Online…

On Friday and Saturday (July 1 and July 2, 2022), Sebastian Uitz presented his game "A Webbing Journey" with his partner Manuel Santner at the Level Up event in the Messezentrum Salzburg. This was the biggest event they presented their game…

Title: Matching-based Scheduling of Asynchronous Data Processing Workflows on the Computing Continuum Heidelberg, Germany | September 6-9, 2022 https://clustercomp.org/2022/ Authors: Narges Mehran, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Dragi Kimovski,…

Low Latency Live Streaming Implementation in DASH and HLS ACM Multimedia Conference - OSS Track Lisbon, Portugal | 10-14 October 2022 Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Zhengdao Zhan (National University of Singapore),…

Video streaming is not for online video providers alone. Telco providers are equal players in the game of adaptive video streaming, but to stand out, there is a constant demand for innovations at the edge. Join us for an interview session…

On Friday and Saturday (June 24 and June 25, 2022), Sebastian Uitz presented his game "A Webbing Journey" together with his partner Michael Steinkellner at the Button Festival in the Stadthalle Graz. This time 3 PCs have been prepared so more…

IEEE 14th Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP 2022) June 26-29, 2022 | Nafplio, Greece Conference Website [Video] Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…

Title: An Elastic and Traffic-Aware Scheduler for Distributed Data Stream Processing in Heterogeneous Clusters Authors: Hamid Hadian, Mohammadreza Farrokh, Mohsen Sharifi, and Ali Jafari Abstract: Existing Data Stream Processing (DSP)…

Detection and Localization of Video Transcoding From AVC to HEVC Based on Deep Representations of Decoded Frames and PU Maps IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Haichao Yao (Beijing Jiaotong University), Rongrong Ni (Beijing…

Video Encoding Optimizations for Live Video Streaming FOKUS Media Web Symposium 20th – 24th June 2022 | Berlin, Germany   Abstract: Live video streaming is expected to become mainstream in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks.…

Authors: Haichao Yao (Beijing Jiaotong University), Rongrong Ni (Beijing Jiaotong University), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Yao Zhao (Beijing Jiaotong Unive…

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Results of collaborative work in the ADAPT between Austira (FFG) and China (CAS) accteped at flagship conference of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Title: Hybrid On/Off Blockchain Approach for Vehicle Data Management, Processing…

The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference MMSys’22 14th - 17th June 2022 | Athlone, Ireland. Conference Website The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings…

We presented the poster "The Power in Your Pocket: Boosting Video Quality with Super-Resolution on Mobile Devices" at the Austrian Computer Science Day 2022 conference. The poster summarizes research about improving the visual quality of video…

On Saturday (June 18, 2022), Sebastian Uitz presented his game "A Webbing Journey" with his partner Manuel Santner at the A1 Austria eSports Festival in the Austria Center Vienna. The game didn't fit into the Esports-themed event, but the 2…

Short description: The Intel4EC workshop aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry to present their experiences, results and research progress covering architectural designs, methods and…

IEEE 35th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS), July 21-23, Shenzen, China https://2022.cbms-conference.org Authors: Natalia Mathá, Klaus Schoeffmann, Stephanie Sarny, Doris Putzgruber-Adamitsch and Yosuf…

25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, September 18-22, 2022, Singapore https://conferences.miccai.org/2022/en/ Authors: Negin Ghamsarian, Mario Taschwer, Raphael Sznitman, Klaus Schoeffmann Abstract:…

For his continuous support of the International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) and his ongoing contributions to the MMM community, yesterday Assoc.Prof. Klaus Schöffmann was awarded with the MMM'22 Community Leadership Award at the…

Over two days (June 6-7, 2022) the 11th Video Browser Showdown (VBS) - www.videobrowsershowdown.org, co-organized by Klaus Schöffmann, took place in Phu Quoc, Vietnam. Sixteen teams participated  in about six hours of competition to solve…

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From 16 to 19 May 2022, general Co-Chair, Radu Prodan, successfully presented the relevance of Cloud-Edge-IoT at CCGrid2022 conference in Taormina, Italy. Find out more here.

This years´s "Lange Nacht der Forschung" took place on May 20, 2022. The LNDF is Austria´s most significant national research event to present the accomplishments to the broad public. ITEC was represented by three stations and involved in…

Radu Prodan talks about "Democratic Trustworthy News in the Social Continuum: the ARTICONF Appeoach" Live streaming at the Digital Day in Messina.

The Horizon Cloud Summit 2022 – in its third edition – aims to gather innovators and researchers, Cloud adopters, policymakers, and Cloud initiatives and open source projects to shape the EU digital transition. Radu Prodan held a presentation…

1st International Workshop on Edge Network Softwarization (ENS 2022) co-located with IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2022)  Milan, Italy Authors: Josef Hammer and Hermann Hellwagner, Alpen-Adria-Universität…

Title: Video Complexity Dataset (VCD) The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) Open Dataset and Software (ODS) track June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Vignesh…

Optimizing QoE in Live Streaming over Wireless Networks using Machine Learning Techniques May 25, 2022, Edinburgh, UK Empowered by today’s rich tools for media generation and collaborative production and the convenient wireless access (e.g.,…

CoPaM: Cost-aware VM Placement and Migration for Mobile services in Multi-Cloudlet environment: An SDN-based approach Elsevier Computer Communications journal    Shirzad Shahryari (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran), Farzad…

EUVIP 2022 Special Session on "Machine Learning for Immersive Content Processing" September, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal Link Organizers: Hadi Amirpour, Klagenfurt University, Austria Christine Guillemot, INSA, France Christian Timmerer,…

2022 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) Industry & Application Track July 18-22, 2022 | Taipei, Taiwan Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

2022 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) July 18-22, 2022 | Taipei, Taiwan Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad…

The kick-off meeting of the "5G-KärntnerFog" Project took place on April, 21st, 2022 at Klagenfurt University. The purpose of this first meeting was primarily the definition of work structures, work packages, and getting to know each partner…

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Title: A Traffic-sign recognition IoT-based Application CSW Spring 2022, April 26 - 28, 2022, Tampere, Finland Authors: Narges Mehran, Dragi Kimovski, Zahra Najafabadi Samani, Radu Prodan The work "A Traffic-sign recognition IoT-based…

ICME Workshop on Hyper-Realistic Multimedia for Enhanced Quality of Experience (ICMEW) July 18-22, 2022 | Taipei, Taiwan Conference Website Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi…

MPEG, specifically, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3 (MPEG Systems), has been just awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for its ground-breaking MPEG-DASH standard. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is the first international…

We are happy that our tutorial on Open Challenges of Interactive Video Search and Evaluation (by Jakub Lokoc, Klaus Schöffmann, Werner Bailer, Luca Rossetto, and Björn Thor Jonsson) has been accepted for ACM Multimedia (ACMMM 2022), to be…

The 5th Annual Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC 2022), co-organized by Klaus Schöffmann, will be this year's grand challenge at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2022) in Newark, NJ, USA. More information here: ht…

Klaus Schöffmann will give an invited talk about Relevant Content Detection in Cataract Surgery Videos at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) on April 19, 2022, in Salzburg, Austria. More…

Klaus Schöffmann will give a tutorial about Medical Video Processing at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) on April 19, 2022, in Salzburg, Austria. More information here: https://ip…

We are happy that our 2nd International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Retrieval (IMuR) has been accepted for the ACM Multimedia Conference 2022 (ACMMM) in Lisbon, Portugal. More information can be found here: https://sites.google.com/v…

The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) Open Dataset and Software (ODS) track | June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…

The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) Open Dataset and Software (ODS) track June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Feldmann (Bitmovin,…

On April 6th, 2022, Natalia Mathá (former Sokolova) successfully defended her thesis on "Relevance Detection and Relevance-Based Video Compression in Cataract Surgery Videos" under the supervision of Assoc.-Prof. Klaus Schöffmann and Assoc.-Prof.…

The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (ACM MMSys 2022) June 14–17, 2022 |  Athlone, Ireland Conference Website Reza Shokri Kalan (Digiturk Company, Istanbul), Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Emre Karsli (Digiturk…

colocated with ACM Multimedia 2022 October, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal Workshop Chairs: Irene Viola, CWI, Netherlands Hadi Amirpour, Klagenfurt University, Austria Asim Hameed, NTNU, Norway Maria Torres Vega, Ghent University,…

ALIS’22: Artificial Intelligence for Live Video Streaming colocated with ACM Multimedia 2022 October 2022, Lisbon, Portugal Download ALIS'22 Poster/ CfP  

ACM Mile-High video 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA Conference Website After running as an independent event for several years, 2022 was the first year where Mile-High Video Conference (MHV) was organized by the ACM Special…

The first edition of "Security and Privacy Issues in Internet of Medical Things", co-edited by Radu Prodan, will be published in May 2022 by Elsevier. More information is available HERE.  

Title: FaaScinating Resilience for Serverless Function Choreographies in Federated Clouds Authors: Sasko Ristov, Dragi Kimovski, Thomas Fahringer Abstract: Cloud applications often benefit from deployment on serverless technology Function-as-a-Service…

Project Lead: H. Hellwagner, Ch. Timmerer Abstract: Immersive telepresence technologies will have game-changing impacts on interactions amongst individuals or with non-human objects (e.g. machines), in cyberspace with blurred boundaries between…

Elsevier Computer Communications journal  Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian  (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

Every minute, more than 500 hours of video material are published on YouTube. These days, moving images account for a vast majority of data traffic, and there is no end in sight. This means that technologies that can improve the efficiency of…

The new 5G standard will bring data centers closer to the customer. ITEC researchers are developing a system for the rapid distribution of computing tasks. The newspaper "Der Standard" reported and published the article "Verteiltes Rechnen…

The kick-off meeting of the FF4EuroHPC Project "CardioHPC" took place online on Friday, March 11, 2022. The purpose of this first meeting was primarily the definition of work structures, work packages, and getting to know each partner region.…

Electronic health records, like ELGA in Austria, provide an overview of laboratory results, diagnostics and therapies. Much could be learned from the personal and private data of individuals – with the help of machine learning – for use…

Title: Big data analytics in Industry 4.0 ecosystems Authors: Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Radu Prodan, Danda B. Rawat Journal: "Software: Practice and Experience" Full editorial/article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spe.3…

Second online meeting between Austria and China took place on 21.02.2022. Consortium discussed aspects of sustainable transportation networks, #blockchain and new development strategies in line with #UnitedNations #IYBSSD #SDGs

Title: Big Data Pipelines on the Computing Continuum: Tapping the Dark Data   Authors: Dumitru Roman, Radu Prodan, Nikolay Nikolov, Ahmet Soylu, Mihhail Matskin, Andrea Marrella, Dragi Kimovski, Brian Elvesæter, Anthony Simonet-Boulogne,…

2022 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference April 24-26, 2022 | Las Vegas, US Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…

As a Valentine's day gift to video coding enthusiasts across the globe, we release Video Complexity Analyzer (VCA) version 1.0 open-source software on Feb 14, 2022. The primary objective of VCA is to become the best spatial and temporal complexity…

ACM Mile-High video 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA Conference Website Authors: Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Christian Timmerer (Christian Doppler Laboratory…

The Emmy® Awards do not only honour the work of actors and directors, but they also recognise technologies that are steadily improving the viewing experience for consumers. This year, the winners include the MPEG DASH Standard. Christian Timmerer…

ACM Mile-High video 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA Conference Website Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität…

In Carinthia, researchers find an open test laboratory in the 5G Playground Carinthia, where the possibilities of the new mobile phone technology can be explored. The problem is: 5G enables the fast transmission of large amounts of data, but…

On Tuesday the 25th of January 2022, Hadi Amirpour successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis under supervision of Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Christian Timmerer and Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Schöffmann. The defense was chaired by Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr.…

The project "CardioHPC" (CardioHPC Improving DL-based Arrhythmia Classification Algorithm and Simulation of Real-Time Heart Monitoring of Thousands of Patients) has been accepted in the "First call for FF4EuroHPC application experiments"…

2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) May 22-27, 2022 | Singapore Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),…

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) May 16–20, 2022 | Seoul, South Korea Conference Website Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer…

Data Compression Conference (DCC) March 22-25, 2022 | Snowbird, Utah, US Conference Website Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer…

Title: Decentralized Machine Learning for Intelligent Health Care Systems on the Computing Continuum Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Sasko Ristov, Radu Prodan Abstract: The introduction of electronic personal health records (EHR) enables nationwide…

The 5th Klagenfurt Winter Game Jam took place as a hybrid event on Dec 17-19, 2021. Over 100 participants teamed up over the weekend to create altogether 26 games on the topic of "What's in the box?". The games can be found and played at…

In a hybrid (i.e. online and offline) attendance mode at the project meeting in Ohrid, Macedonia, the ARTICONF team gave a final push to have a unified and integrated ARTICONF toolset for DApp developers. The consortium led by project coordinator…

Vignesh V Menon and Hadi Amirpour gave a talk on 'Video Complexity Analyzer for Streaming Applications' at the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) meeting on December 14, 2021. Our research activities on video complexity analysis were presented…

The Horizon Cloud Summit 2021 – at its second edition – aims to gather innovators and researchers, Cloud adopters, policymakers, and Cloud initiatives and open source projects to shape the EU digital transition. Radu Prodan held an online…

IEEE VCIP 2021 Sunday, December 5, 2021 https://www.vcip2021.org/call-for-tutorials/ Find further info in the blog post here.

Prof. Radu Prodan held a keynote speech about the ARTICONF project at the 3rd International Conference on Applications of AI & Machine Learning (ICAML 2021).

The ANGELA: HTTP Adaptive Streaming and Edge Computing Simulator paper from ATHENA CD laboratory has won the 2nd Best Paper Award in the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless…

ITEC is delighted to announce the next speaker in our guest lecture series – Prof. Dr. Michael Rielger from  SIMULA Research, Norway. The course will take place from May 30 - June 03, 2022. The course will give an introduction into the…

We happily announce, the #Emmy Award Bitmovin (link) for innovation in online TV for @bitmovin arrived at University of Klagenfurt.    

On November 23rd, 2021, Felix Schniz successfully defended his thesis on “What is a Videogame Experience? A Peripatetic Acknowledgement of Inner Sentiments in Virtual Worlds” under the supervision of Assoc.-Prof. Mag. Dr. René Reinhold…

Alexander Lercher's Master Thesis titled 'Context-aware Community Evolution Prediction in Distributed Social Networks' under the supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan at ITEC has been awarded outstanding academic thesis and a grant of 600 Euros in…

Farzad Tashtarian is invited to talk on “LwTE: Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge” at IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain.

You are a Master Student and want to get to know more about ATHENA in a 3 months ATHENA internship in 2022? Come and join our team! Apply now. (Please note: application deadline is 14 December 2021)  

Title: FSpot: Fast Multi-Objective Heuristic for Efficient Video Encoding Workloads over AWS EC2 Spot Instance Fleet Authors: Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Prateek Agrawal, Vladislav Kashansky, Roland Kersche, Christian Timmerer, and Radu Prodan Abstract:…

DataCloud project partners met at KTH Kista (Stockholm) to discuss the domain-specific language and the architecture for specifying and running Big Data pipelines. https://twitter.com/RaduProdanAAU/status/1461352859920785418/photo/1

The Fast Multi-Resolution and Multi-Rate Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Using Machine Learning paper from ATHENA lab has won the Best New Streaming Innovation Award in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2021. The…

Taichung, Taiwan, The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Data-Driven Rate Control for Media Streaming (DDRC’21) Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM’21) Conference Website: https://www.bigmm.org/…

Over the past decade, Carinthia has developed into a hotspot in drone research. The heart of the scientific operation is Europe's largest drone hall in Klagenfurt. The newspaper "Stuttgarter Nachrichten" reported on our drone work with its…

28th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM) April 05-08, 2022 | Qui Nhon, Vietnam Conference Website Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität…

28th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM) April 05-08, 2022 | Qui Nhon, Vietnam Conference Website Ekrem Çetinkaya (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Minh Nguyen (Christian Doppler…

The 1st ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Design, Deployment, and Evaluation of Network-assisted  video Streaming (ViSNext 2021) Conference Website Alireza Erfanian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

The 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN) Conference Website Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

The ACM CoNEXT 2021 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) 07 December 2021  | Munich, Germany (Online) Workshop Website Daniele Lorenzi (Department of Information Engineering, University of PaduaItaly),…

On October 27th, 2021, Negin Ghamsarian successfully defended her thesis on "Deep-Learning-Assisted Analysis of Cataract Surgery VIdeos" under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Schöffmann. The defense was chaired by Prof. Hermann Hellwagner…

Title: Monitoring System Architecture for the Multi-Scale Blockchain-based Logistic Network Authors: Vladislav Kashansky, Radu Prodan, Aso Validi, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Gleb Radchenko Abstract: Contemporary control processes and methods…

Title: Autotuning of exascale applications with anomalies detection Authors: Dragi Kimovski, Roland Mathá, Gabriel Iuhasz, Fabrizio Marozzo, Dana Petcu, Radu Prodan Abstract: The execution of complex distributed applications in exascale…

Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Radu Prodan was nominated as discussion leader for the defensio of Mrs. Zeinab Bakhshi from Mälardalen University in Stockholm Sweden.    

Farzad Tashtarian is invited to talk on “Network-Assisted Video Streaming” at the University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

Dr. Gerhard Burian and Mag. Vladislav Kashansky participated on behalf of ADAPT collaboration in the international conference: Climate protection: state of play, division of labor, steps forward held at OeNB, Vienna on 07.10.2021.

The first face-to-face DataCloud Meeting took place in Rome, Italy, from October 04-06, 2021. The consortium discussed the architecture and the business cases in preparation for the first project review.

Ekrem Çetinkaya got the Best Doctoral Symposium Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2021 for his paper titled “Machine Learning Based Video Coding Enhancements for HTTP Adaptive Streaming”. More information about the paper can be found HERE.

Congratulations to Natalia Sokolova, who got her journal paper on "Automatic detection of pupil reactions in cataract surgery videos" accepted in the PLOS ONE journal. This work has been (co-)authored by Natalia Sokolova, Klaus Schoeffmann,…

The first face-to-face ADAPT Meeting took place on September 30, 2021, in Klagenfurt. The consortium discussed important aspects of systems integration, current achievements and listed down strategies for validating and exploiting ADAPT use…

Congratulations to Negin Ghamsarian et al., who got their paper "ReCal-Net: Joint Region-Channel-Wise Calibrated Network for Semantic Segmentation in Cataract Surgery Videos" accepted at the International Conference on Neural Information Processing…

The first face-to-face ARTICONF Meeting after the pandemic, hosted by Agilia, took place from September 21-24, 2021, in Seville, Spain. The consortium discussed the advancements and progress made this year and listed down strategies for validating…

The Fast Multi-Resolution and Multi-Rate Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Using Machine Learning paper from ATHENA lab is nominated for the Best New Streaming Innovation Award in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2021. Voting…

The H2020 project ASPIDE impressed the reviewers with the presented scientific achievements in Exascale computing and passed the final EC review with flying colors. The project officer and reviewers echoed the effort put together by the consortium…

On 10 September 2021, ADAPT project was represented at the GOODIT´21 conference in Rome, Italy by Vladislav Kashanskii. Here you find his presentation about "The ADAPT Project: Adaptive and Autonomous Data Performance Connectivity and Decentralized…

On August 30th 2021, Andreas Leibetseder successfully defended his thesis on "Extracting and Using Medical Expert Knowledge to Advance Video Analysis for Gynecologic Laparoscopy" under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Schöffmann. The defense…

Title: On The Impact of Viewing Distance on Perceived Video Quality Link: IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2021) 5-8 December 2021, Munich, Germany Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Raimund…

Title: Improving Per-title Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming by Utilizing Video Super-resolution Link: IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2021) 5-8 December 2021, Munich, Germany Authors: Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität…

Title: INTENSE: In-depth Studies on Stall Events and Quality Switches and Their Impact on the Quality of Experience in HTTP Adaptive Streaming Link: IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE [PDF] Babak…

In July 2021, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted three interns working on the following topics: Kassian Fuger: Machine Learning and Video Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Timo Pfeifer: HTTP Adaptive Streaming for…

Special issue on Open Media Compression: Overview, Design Criteria, and Outlook on Emerging Standards Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 109, no. 9, Sept. 2021 By CHRISTIAN TIMMERER, Senior Member IEEE Guest Editor MATHIAS WIEN, Member IEEE Guest…