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All-intra rate control using low complexity video features for Versatile Video Coding

Posted on June 22, 2023 by

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2023 8-11 October 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Conference Website [PDF] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Anastasia Henkel (Fraunhofer HHI Berlin), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay), Christian R Helmich (Fraunhofer HHI Berlin), Adam Wieckowski (Fraunhofer … Continue reading →

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JND-aware Two-pass Per-title Encoding Scheme for Adaptive Live Streaming

Posted on June 21, 2023 by

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (IEEE TCSVT) Journal Website [PDF] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay, France), Christian Feldmann (Bitmovin), Klaus Schoeffmann (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK), and Christian … Continue reading →

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Just Noticeable Difference-aware Per-Scene Bitrate-laddering for Adaptive Video Streaming

Posted on June 6, 2023 by

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2023 10-14 July 2023, Brisbane, Australia [PDF] [Slides] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Jingwen Zhu (Nantes Universite), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Patrick Le Callet (Nantes Universite),  and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität … Continue reading →

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Green video complexity analysis for efficient encoding in Adaptive Video Streaming

Posted on April 17, 2023 by

GMSys 2023: First International ACM Green Multimedia Systems Workshop 7 – 10 June 2023 | Vancouver, Canada [PDF] [Slides] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Feldmann (Bitmovin, Klagenfurt), Klaus Schoeffmann (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammed Ghanbari (University of Essex),  and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt). Abstract: … Continue reading →

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Transcoding Quality Prediction for Adaptive Video Streaming

Posted on March 20, 2023 by

2023 ACM Mile High Video (MHV)  May 7-10, 2023 | Denver, US [PDF] [Slides] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay), Mohammed Ghanbari (University of Essex), Hermann Hellwagner (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt). Abstract: … Continue reading →

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VCA v2.0 released!

Posted on February 13, 2023 by

Another Valentine’s day, another gift from ATHENA! We are delighted to share Video Complexity Analyzer (VCA) version 2.0. The new release brings add-on benefits over our previous release, v1.5, like supporting analysis of High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos. The version … Continue reading →

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Perceptually-aware Live VBR Encoding Scheme for Adaptive AVC Streaming

Posted on February 1, 2023 by

2023 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference April 15-19, 2023 | Las Vegas, US [PDF] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay), Christian Feldmann (Bitmovin, Klagenfurt), Martin Smole (Bitmovin, Klagenfurt), Klaus Schoeffmann (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of … Continue reading →

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