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Long Night of Research/Lange Nacht der Forschung 2022

Posted on May 18, 2022 by

We cordially invite you to join the  Long Night of Research / Lange Nacht der Forschung at the University of Klagenfurt on May 20, 2022, 4pm-11pm. ATHENA will be present with two booths as follows. #1: L70: How does video … Continue reading →

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MPEG awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for DASH

Posted on April 28, 2022 by

MPEG, specifically, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 3 (MPEG Systems), has been just awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for its ground-breaking MPEG-DASH standard. Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is the first international de-jure standard that enables efficient streaming … Continue reading →

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Take the Red Pill for H3 and See How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes

Posted on February 8, 2022 by

ACM Mile-High video Conference 2022 (MHV) March 01-03, 2022 | Denver, CO, USA [PDF][Slides][Video] Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Stefan Pham (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Daniel Silhavy (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University, Turkey) Abstract: With … Continue reading →

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Quality Optimization of Live Streaming Services over HTTP with Reinforcement Learning

Posted on December 12, 2021 by

IEEE Global Communications Conference December 07-11, 2021 | Madrid, Spain Conference website [PDF] Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), R. Falanji (Sharif University of Technology), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Alireza Erfanian (AAU, Austria), P. S. Mashhadi (Halmstad University), Christian Timmerer … Continue reading →

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VCIP’21 Tutorial: A Journey towards Fully Immersive Media Access

Posted on December 6, 2021 by

VCIP 2021 Sunday, December 5, 2021 https://www.vcip2021.org/call-for-tutorials/ Lectures: Christian Timmerer, AAU, AT Tobias Hoßfeld, Univ. Würzburg, DE Raimund Schatz, AIT, AT Abstract: Universal access to and provisioning of multimedia content is now a reality. It is easy to generate, distribute, share, … Continue reading →

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Days of Future Past: An Optimization-based Adaptive Bitrate Algorithm over HTTP/3

Posted on October 21, 2021 by

The ACM CoNEXT 2021 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) 07 December 2021  | Munich, Germany (Online) [PDF][Slides][Video] Daniele Lorenzi (University of Padua), Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Simone Milani (University of Padua), Herman Hellwagner … Continue reading →

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FAUST: Fast Per-Scene Encoding Using Entropy-Based Scene Detection and Machine Learning

Posted on September 29, 2021 by

FAUST: Fast Per-Scene Encoding Using Entropy-Based Scene Detection and Machine Learning 30th IEEE Conference of the Open Innovations Association FRUCT 27-29 October 2021 https://www.fruct.org/ [PDF][Slides][Video] Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Prateek Agrawal, Christian Timmerer, and Radu Prodan Abstract: HTTP adaptive video streaming is … Continue reading →

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