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Best Paper Award at PCS

Posted on June 24, 2024 by

The paper titled “Beyond Curves and Thresholds – Introducing Uncertainty Estimation to Satisfied User Ratios for Compressed Video,” co-authored by Jingwen Zhu, Hadi Amirpour, Raimund Shatz, Patrick Le Callet, and Christian Timmerer, received the Best Paper Award at the 37th … Continue reading →

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Patent Approval for “Per-Title Encoding Using Spatial and Temporal Resolution Downscaling”

Posted on June 19, 2024 by

Per-Title Encoding Using Spatial and Temporal Resolution Downscaling US Patent [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: Techniques relating to per-title encoding using spatial and temporal resolution downscaling is disclosed. A method for per-title encoding … Continue reading →

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ODVista: An Omnidirectional Video Dataset for Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement Tasks

Posted on June 7, 2024 by

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024) 27-30 October 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE [PDF] Ahmed Telili (TII, UAE), Ibrahim Farhat (TII, UAE), Wassim Hamidouche (TII, UAE), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria)   Abstract: Omnidirectional or 360-degree video is being increasingly … Continue reading →

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On the Security of Selectively Encrypted HEVC Video Bitstreams

Posted on June 3, 2024 by

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM) [PDF] Chen Chen (Tsinghua University, China),  Lingfeng Qu (Guangzhou University, China), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Xingjun Wang (Tsinghua University, China),  Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Zhihong Tian (Guangzhou University, China) Abstract: … Continue reading →

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University of Klagenfurt to Host VQEG Meeting

Posted on May 24, 2024 by

Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) 1-5 July 2024 University of Klagenfurt, Austria [website] The University of Klagenfurt welcomes VQEG members to the next meeting that will be held in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria, from July 01-05, 2024. The Video Quality Experts … Continue reading →

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IoT Privacy Protection: JPEG-TPE with Lower File Size Expansion and Lossless Decryption

Posted on April 4, 2024 by

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT) [PDF] Hongjie He (Southwest Jiaotong University, China), Yuan Yuan (Southwest Jiaotong University, China), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria),  Lingfeng Qu (Southwest Jiaotong University, China), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria), Fan Chen (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)   … Continue reading →

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DeepVCA: Deep Video Complexity Analyzer

Posted on April 4, 2024 by

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) [PDF]  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria), Klaus Schoeffmann (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: Video streaming and its applications are growing rapidly, … Continue reading →

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