Author Archives: Christian Timmerer

Christian Timmerer, Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC) and Director of the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory, has been appointed IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2021-2022. “The Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) connects Senior IEEE ComSoc … Continue reading →

We are happy and proud to see Bitmovin among the 72nd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards Recipients. The award is received for “Development of Massive Processing Optimized Compression Technologies” which acknowledges Bitmovin’s Encoding product including its reportedly best per-title … Continue reading →

At ATHENA, we offer an internship*) for 2021 for Master Students and we kindly request your applications until 21st of December 2020 with the following data (in German or English): CV Record of study/transcript (“Studienerfolgsnachweis”) *) A 3-month period in … Continue reading →

Further details and registration available here: https://mile-high.video/ 20 Years of Streaming in 20 Minutes from Christian Timmerer

HTTP Adaptive Streaming – Where Is It Heading? WebMedia2020, November 30 to December 4, 2020, Online [PDF][Slides] Abstract: Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume the predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major … Continue reading →

From Capturing to Rendering: Volumetric Media Delivery With Six Degrees of Freedom Teaser: “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope,” said the hologram of Princess Leia in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977). This was the … Continue reading →

QUALINET announces its recent White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx). It is online available here https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07032 for free. With the coming of age of virtual/augmented reality and interactive media, numerous definitions, frameworks, and models of immersion have … Continue reading →

Hadi Amirpour has been awarded the Best Engagement Award at ACM MMSys 2020. This year’s ACM MMSys was held as a fully virtual/online event and Slido was used for asking questions about keynotes and presentations including offline discussions with presenters. … Continue reading →

Objective and Subjective QoE Evaluation for Adaptive Point Cloud Streaming *** Best Paper Award *** International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) May 26-28, 2020, Athlone, Ireland http://qomex2020.ie/ [PDF][Slides][Video] Jeroen van der Hooft (Ghent University), Maria Torres Vega (Ghent … Continue reading →

Performance Analysis of ACTE: a Bandwidth Prediction Method for Low-Latency Chunked Streaming ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications [PDF] Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Bitmovin), Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University, Networked Media), Roger … Continue reading →