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Visual Communication in the Age of AI: VCIP 2025 Highlights from Klagenfurt

Posted on January 9, 2026 by

VCIP 2025 in Klagenfurt: Advancing Sustainable and Trustworthy Visual Communications in the Age of AI From December 1–4, 2025, the Department of Information Technology (ITEC) at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) hosted the International Conference on Visual Communications and Image … Continue reading →

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Farzad Tashtarian completed his habilitation on Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration

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Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration Farzad Tashtarian Habilitation On 14.11.2025, Farzad Tashtarian defended his habilitation “Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration” at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Abstract: Providing seamless, low-latency, and energy-efficient … Continue reading →

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Interactive Stereoscopic Videos On Head-mounted Displays

Posted on January 7, 2026 by

Interactive Stereoscopic Videos On Head-mounted Displays IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Afshin Gholami(AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: This paper presents ISV-Demo, a novel system for delivering interactive … Continue reading →

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STACK: Spatial Tower Assembly using Controlled Kinetics

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Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Milad Ghanbari (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), M.H. Izadimehr (AAU, Austria), Wei Zhou (Cardiff … Continue reading →

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Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention

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Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] MohammadAli Hamidi (University of Cagliari, Italy),  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, … Continue reading →

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Is there a relationship between Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Just Noticeable Difference (JND)?

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Is there a relationship between Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Just Noticeable Difference (JND)? IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Jingwen Zhu (Nantes Université, France),  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Wei Zhou (Cardiff, UK), Patrick … Continue reading →

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Patent Approval for “Efficient two-pass encoding scheme for adaptive live streaming”

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Efficient two-pass encoding scheme for adaptive live streaming US Patent [PDF] Vignesh Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: Techniques for efficient two-pass encoding for live streaming are described herein. A method … Continue reading →

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