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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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Samira Afzal talk at 11th Fraunhofer FOKUS MWS

Posted on June 17, 2024 by

Energy Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud and Edge Computing Instances 11th FOKUS Media Web Symposium  11th JUN 2024 | Berlin, Germany   Abstract: The significant increase in energy consumption within data centers is primarily due to the exponential rise in … 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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Long Night of Research/Lange Nacht der Forschung 2024

Posted on June 3, 2024 by

The Klagenfurt University (AAU) made a strong impression at the 2024 Lange Nacht der Forschung (Long Night of Research) held at Klagenfurt University and Lakeside Park on May 24th, attracting over 8,000 visitors. The Athena Lab, a leading research group … 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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