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Special issue on Open Media Compression: Overview, Design Criteria, and Outlook on Emerging Standards

Posted on August 22, 2021 by

Special issue on Open Media Compression: Overview, Design Criteria, and Outlook on Emerging Standards Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 109, no. 9, Sept. 2021 By CHRISTIAN TIMMERER, Senior Member IEEE Guest Editor MATHIAS WIEN, Member IEEE Guest Editor LU YU, … Continue reading →

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MPEG AG 5 Workshop on Quality of Immersive Media: Assessment and Metrics

Posted on August 21, 2021 by

The Quality of Experience (QoE) is well-defined in QUALINET white papers [here, here], but its assessment and metrics are subject to research. The aim of this workshop on “Quality of Immersive Media: Assessment and Metrics” is to provide a forum … Continue reading →

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IEEE GLOBECOM: Quality Optimization of Live Streaming Services over HTTP with Reinforcement Learning

Posted on August 17, 2021 by

IEEE Global Communications Conference 2021 7-11 December 2021 // Madrid, Spain // Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference Connecting Cultures around the Globe https://globecom2021.ieee-globecom.org/ [PDF][Slides][Video] F. Tashtarian*, R. Falanji‡, A. Bentaleb+, A. Erfanian*, P. S. Mashhadi§, C. Timmerer*, H. Hellwagner*, R. … Continue reading →

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WISH: User-centric Bitrate Adaptation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming on Mobile Devices

Posted on July 26, 2021 by

IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) October 06-08 2021 | Tampere, Finland [PDF][Slides][Video] Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Ekrem Çetinkaya (AAU, Austria),  Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Recently, mobile devices have become paramount … Continue reading →

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Christian Doppler laboratory ATHENA celebrates successful evaluation of its first research phase

Posted on July 1, 2021 by

The Christian Doppler laboratory ATHENA (AdapTive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked MultimediA Services) has been jointly proposed by the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC; https://itec.aau.at/) at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU; https://www.aau.at) and Bitmovin GmbH (https://bitmovin.com) to address current and future … Continue reading →

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Christian Timmerer to give a Keynote at the 35th Picture Coding Symposium 2021

Posted on June 22, 2021 by

HTTP Adaptive Streaming – Quo Vadis? Christian Timmerer, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 https://pcs2021.org/ Abstract: Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major technical breakthrough and enabler … Continue reading →

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Christian Timmerer has been appointed IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2021-2022

Posted on January 31, 2021 by

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 →

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