Category Archives: ATHENA

3D Gaussian Splatting Rendering Performance Trade-offs on the Meta Quest 3

Posted on September 16, 2026 by

3D Gaussian Splatting Rendering Performance Trade-offs on the Meta Quest 3 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2026) December 13 – December 16, 2026 Singapore [PDF] Milad Ghanbari (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: 3D Gaussian … Continue reading →

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Bitrate Ladder Analysis for UHD Adaptive Streaming: From AVC to AV2

Posted on September 16, 2026 by

Bitrate Ladder Analysis for UHD Adaptive Streaming: From AVC to AV2 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2026) December 13 – December 16, 2026 Singapore [PDF] Kamran Qureshi (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer … Continue reading →

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Efficient Quality Controller for Video Encoding

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Efficient Quality Controller for Video Encoding IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP 2026) December 13–16, 2026 Singapore [PDF] Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria),  and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Traditional video streaming relies on Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) algorithms that … Continue reading →

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Cloud, Edge, or Split? Profiling Onboard and Split Vision-Language Model Deployment for Drone AI

Posted on September 16, 2026 by

Cloud, Edge, or Split? Profiling Onboard and Split Vision-Language Model Deployment for Drone AI Zoha Azimi, Reza Farahani, Schahram Dustdar, Christian Timmerer The 4th International Symposium on Edge Intelligence, Trustworthy and Decentralized Artificial Intelligence (iEDGE 2026) October 27-30, 2026 – Paris, … Continue reading →

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ATHENA Closing Symposium

Posted on September 10, 2026 by

Seven Years of Adaptive Streaming Research and What Comes Next Join us as we celebrate the conclusion of the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA [PDF)]. After seven years of research into adaptive video streaming and emerging networked multimedia services, we will … Continue reading →

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Interns at ATHENA (Summer 2026)

Posted on August 7, 2026 by

Interns at ATHENA (Summer 2026) In July 2026, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted four interns working on the following topics: Leon Kordasch – Holography Daniel Glantschnig – Automated Wind Turbine Damage Detection Gabriel Puri – Adaptive Streaming for Immersive … Continue reading →

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Self-Training for Content-Aware Video Quality Enhancement in HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Posted on August 6, 2026 by

Self-Training for Content-Aware Video Quality Enhancement in HTTP Adaptive Streaming IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting [PDF] Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria),  Wei Zhou (Cardiff University, UK), Wassim Hamidouche (TII, UAE) and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Fluctuations in video segment download rates and … Continue reading →

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