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Energy-Efficient Multi-Codec Bitrate-Ladder Estimation for Adaptive Video Streaming

Posted on September 25, 2023 by

IEEE VCIP 2023: International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing 4 – 7 December 2023 | Jeju, Korea Conference Website [PDF][Slides] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay),Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Klaus … Continue reading →

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CSI Magazine Award for Best Sustainability Project or Initiative to GAIA

Posted on September 18, 2023 by

CSI Magazine Award for Best Sustainability Project or Initiative to GAIA team We are proud to announce that our project GAIA  was highly commended at the CSI Magazine Awards for best sustainability initiative!  This award recognizes some of the work … Continue reading →

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ICME’23 Tutorial: Advances in HTTP Adaptive Streaming: New Standards, Video Codecs, and Encoding Optimization Techniques

Posted on July 10, 2023 by

IEEE ICME 2023 Monday, July 10, 2023 https://www.2023.ieeeicme.org/tutorial-prop.php Lectures: Hadi Amirpour, AAU, AT Yutiy Reznik, Brightcove, USA Nabajeet Barman,  Brightcove Christian Timmerer, AAU, AT Abstract: The applications of video streaming are the primary drivers of Internet traffic, as over 82% … Continue reading →

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Samira Afzal talk at ICT4S Workshop: Towards Sustainable and Energy-Aware Video Communications (SEViC)

Posted on June 26, 2023 by

Energy Consumption in Video Streaming: Components, Measurements, and Strategies ICT4S Workshop: Towards Sustainable and Energy-Aware Video Communications (SEViC) June 5-9 2023 – Rennes, France   Abstract: The rapid growth of video streaming usage is a significant source of energy consumption, driven … Continue reading →

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Samira Afzal talk at 10th Fraunhofer FOKUS MWS

Posted on June 26, 2023 by

Exploring the Energy Consumption of Video Streaming: Components, Challenges, and Opportunities 10th FOKUS Media Web Symposium June 13–14, 2023 – Berlin, Germany   Abstract: The rapid growth of video streaming usage is a significant source of energy consumption, driven by improved internet … Continue reading →

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Report on GMSys 2023: First International ACM Green Multimedia Systems Workshop

Posted on June 19, 2023 by

The first International ACM Green Multimedia Systems Workshop, hosted and organized as part of the 14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, took place on Saturday, 10 June 2023 in the beautiful city of Vancouver, Canada. This workshop served as a crucial … Continue reading →

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Optimizing Video Streaming for Sustainability and Quality: The Role of Preset Selection in Per-Title Encoding

Posted on May 31, 2023 by

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 10-14 July 2023, Brisbane, Australia [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: HTTP Adaptive Streaming … Continue reading →

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