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VCIP 2025 Conference to be held in Klagenfurt by AAU

 International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 1-4 December 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria   VCIP has a long tradition in showcasing pioneering technologies in visual communication and processing, and many landmark papers first appeared in VCIP. We will carry … Continue reading

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A Tutorial on Immersive Video Delivery: From Omnidirectional Video to Holography

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials [PDF] Jeroen van der Hooft (Ghent University, Belgium), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Maria Torres Vega (KU Leuven, Belgium), Yago Sanchez (Fraunhofer/HHI), Raimund Schatz (AIT, Austria), Thomas Schierl (Fraunhofer/HHI, Germany), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Video services are evolving … Continue reading

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LLL-CAdViSE: Live Low-Latency Cloud-based Adaptive Video Streaming Evaluation framework

IEEE Access, A Multidisciplinary, Open-access Journal of the IEEE [PDF, GitHub, Slides, Video] Babak Taraghi , Hermann Hellwagner and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Low-latency live streaming by HTTP Chunked Transfer EncodingAbstract: Live media streaming is a challenging task by itself, and when it … Continue reading

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Patent approval for “Fast multi-rate encoding for adaptive HTTP streaming”

Fast multi-rate encoding for adaptive HTTP streaming US Patent [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Ekrem Çetynkaya (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: According to embodiments of the disclosure, information of higher and lower quality encoded video segments is … Continue reading

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Green Video Streaming: Challenges and Opportunities

ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMM) [PDF] Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt and Bitmovin Inc., Austria) Introduction: Regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in … Continue reading

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A holistic survey of multipath wireless video streaming

Journal of Network and Computer Applications [PDF] Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Vanessa Testoni (unico IDtech), Christian Esteve Rothenberg (University of Campinas), Prakash Kolan (Samsung Research America), and Imed Bouazizi (Qualcomm) Abstract: Demand for wireless video streaming services increases with users expecting … Continue reading

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Special Session on “Optimized Media Delivery” at ICME’23

ICME 2023 Special Session on “Optimized Media Delivery” July, 2023, Brisbane, Australia Link Organizers: Hadi Amirpour, University of Klagenfurt Angeliki Katsenou, Trinity College Dublin, IE and University of Bristol, UK Abstracts Video streaming in the context of HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) … Continue reading

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