Author Archives: Christian Timmerer

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 →

Summer School on Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services July 13-17, 2020 | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee | Austria https://athena.itec.aau.at/summer-school-2020 Real-time multimedia information and entertainment services – specifically, streaming of digital video and audio content – account for … Continue reading →

Klagenfurt, Austria / 21 January 2020 – Bitmovin, a world leader in online video technology, is teaming up with the University of Klagenfurt and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) in a multi-million Euro research project … Continue reading →

Summer School on Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services July 13-17, 2020 | Klagenfurt am Wörthersee | Austria https://athena.itec.aau.at/summer-school-2020 Introduction Real-time multimedia information and entertainment services – specifically, streaming of digital video and audio content – account … Continue reading →

Towards 6DoF HTTP Adaptive Streaming Through Point Cloud Compression https://www.acmmm.org/2019/ [PDF] Jeroen van der Hooft, Tim Wauters, Filip De Turck (Ghent University – imec), Christian Timmerer, and Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) Abstract: The increasing popularity of head-mounted devices and 360° video … Continue reading →

Bandwidth Prediction in Low-Latency Chunked Streaming http://nossdav.org/2019/ [PDF] Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria Universität & Bitmovin Inc,), Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University), and Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore) Abstract: HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) with chunked transfer encoding … Continue reading →