Monthly Archives: February 2022

VCA v1.0 released on Valentine’s day!

As Valentine’s day gift to video coding enthusiasts across the globe, we released 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 predictor … Continue reading →

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Live-PSTR: Live Per-title Encoding for Ultra HD Adaptive Streaming

2022 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference April 24-26, 2022 | Las Vegas, US [PDF][Slides] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Feldmann (Bitmovin, Klagenfurt), Adithyan Ilangovan (Bitmovin, Klagenfurt), Martin Smole (Bitmovin, Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari … Continue reading →

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MPEG DASH video streaming technology co-developed in Klagenfurt wins Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award

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

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Take the Red Pill for H3 and See How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

ACM Mile-High video Conference 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA [PDF][Slides][Video] Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Stefan Pham (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Daniel Silhavy (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University, Turkey) Abstract: With … Continue reading →

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Super-resolution Based Bitrate Adaptation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming for Mobile Devices

ACM Mile-High video Conference 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA Conference Website [PDF][Slides][Video] Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Ekrem Çetinkaya (AAU, Austria), Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: The advancement of mobile hardware in … Continue reading →

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