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ICIP’26 Special Session: Visual Information Processing for Human-centered Immersive Experiences

Posted on January 13, 2026 by

IEEE ICIP 2026 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2026 Special Session: Visual Information Processing for Human-centered Immersive Experiences https://medialab.dei.unipd.it/special-session-icip-2026/ Immersive systems such as Virtual and Extended Reality are becoming widespread thanks to the wide diffusion of relatively low-cost … Continue reading →

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Patent Approval for “Video encoding complexity predictor”

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Video encoding complexity predictor US Patent [PDF] Vignesh Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: Techniques for predicting video encoding complexity are described herein. A method for predicting video encoding complexity includes … Continue reading →

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Interactive Stereoscopic Videos On Head-mounted Displays

Posted on January 7, 2026 by

Interactive Stereoscopic Videos On Head-mounted Displays IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Afshin Gholami(AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: This paper presents ISV-Demo, a novel system for delivering interactive … Continue reading →

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STACK: Spatial Tower Assembly using Controlled Kinetics

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Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Milad Ghanbari (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), M.H. Izadimehr (AAU, Austria), Wei Zhou (Cardiff … Continue reading →

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Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention

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Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] MohammadAli Hamidi (University of Cagliari, Italy),  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, … Continue reading →

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Is there a relationship between Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Just Noticeable Difference (JND)?

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Is there a relationship between Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Just Noticeable Difference (JND)? IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Jingwen Zhu (Nantes Université, France),  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Wei Zhou (Cardiff, UK), Patrick … Continue reading →

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Patent Approval for “Efficient two-pass encoding scheme for adaptive live streaming”

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Efficient two-pass encoding scheme for adaptive live streaming US Patent [PDF] Vignesh Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: Techniques for efficient two-pass encoding for live streaming are described herein. A method … Continue reading →

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