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PCS’21 Special Session: Video encoding for large scale HAS deployments

Posted on October 5, 2020 by

Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) 29 June to 2 July 2021, Bristol, UK Session organizers: Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Alex Giladi (Comcast, USA). Abstract: Video accounts for the vast majority of today’s internet … Continue reading →

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ACM Multimedia’20: Relevance-Based Compression of Cataract Surgery Videos Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Posted on July 26, 2020 by

ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2020, Seattle, United States. [PDF][Slides][Video] Negin Ghamsarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mario Taschwer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Klaus Schöffmann (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Recorded cataract surgery videos play a prominent role in training and … Continue reading →

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Towards View-aware Adaptive Streaming of Holographic content

Posted on April 16, 2020 by

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2020, London, UK. Workshop on Hyper-Realistic Multimedia for Enhanced Quality of Experience [PDF][Slides][Video] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex) Abstract: Holography is able to reconstruct … Continue reading →

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Cloud-based Adaptive Video Streaming Evaluation Framework for the Automated Testing of Media Players (CAdViSE)

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ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2020 (MMSys 2020) [PDF][Slides][Video] Babak Taraghi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Anatoliy Zabrovskiy (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Attempting to cope with fluctuations of network conditions in terms of available bandwidth, latency … Continue reading →

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