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OTEC: An Optimized Transcoding Task Scheduler for Cloud and Fog Environments

ACM CoNEXT 2022 – ViSNext 22 Workshop 6 – 9 December, 2022 | Rome, Italy                                                     … Continue reading

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Live is Life: Efficient Two-pass Per-title Encoding for Adaptive Live Streaming (Industry demo at ICIP 2022)

2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) October 16-19, 2022 | Bordeaux, France Conference Website   Abstract: According to the Bitmovin Video Developer Report 2021, live streaming at scale has the highest scope for innovation in video streaming services. Currently, … Continue reading

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Towards Better Quality of Experience in HTTP Adaptive Streaming

16th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems October 19-21, 2022 | Dijon, France Conference Website [PDF] Babak Taraghi (AAU, Austria), Selina Zoë Haack (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is nowadays … Continue reading

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Hadi Amirpour to give a talk at INSA France

LiVE: Toward Better Live Video Experience INSA, France  27th September 2022 | Rennes, France   Abstract: In this presentation, we first introduce the principles of video streaming and the existing challenges. While live video streaming is expected to continue growing … Continue reading

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Secure Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images based on Classification Encryption Difference

IEEE 24th Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 26-28, 2022 | Shanghai, China [PDF] Lingfeng Qu (Southwest Jiaotong University),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),   Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hongjie He (Southwest Jiaotong University) Abstract: This paper introduces an algorithm to … Continue reading

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Between Two and Six? Towards Correct Estimation of JND Step Sizes for VMAF-based Bitrate Laddering

 14th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) September 5-7, 2022 | Lippstadt, Germany [PDF][Poster] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Raimund Schatz (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: We currently witness the rapidly growing importance of intelligent video streaming quality … Continue reading

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FuRA: Fully Random Access Light Field Image Compression

10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP) September 11-14, 2022 | Lisbon, Portugal [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),   Christine Guillemot (INRIA, France), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: Light fields are typically represented by multi-view images and enable post-capture actions such as refocusing and … Continue reading

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