Category Archives: ATHENA

GenStream: Semantic Streaming Framework for Generative Reconstruction of Human-centric Media

GenStream: Semantic Streaming Framework for Generative Reconstruction of Human-centric Media ACM Multimedia 2025 October 27 – October 31, 2025 Dublin, Ireland [PDF] Emanuele Artioli (AAU, Austria), Daniele Lorenzi (AAU, Austria), Shivi Vats (AAU, Austria),Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) … Continue reading

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Nature-1k: The Raw Beauty of Nature in 4K at 60FPS

Nature-1k: The Raw Beauty of Nature in 4K at 60FPS ACM Multimedia 2025 October 27 – October 31, 2025 Dublin, Ireland [PDF] Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: The push toward data-driven video processing, … Continue reading

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Receiving Kernel-Level Insights via eBPF: Can ABR Algorithms Adapt Smarter?

Receiving Kernel-Level Insights via eBPF: Can ABR Algorithms Adapt Smarter? Würzburg Workshop on Next-Generation Communication Networks (WueWoWAS) 2025 6 – 8 Oct 2025, Würzburg, Germany [PDF] Mohsen Ghasemi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Daniele Lorenzi (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria); Mahdi Dolati (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Farzad … Continue reading

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BMVC’25: Cross-Modal Scene Semantic Alignment for Image Complexity Assessment

Cross-Modal Scene Semantic Alignment for Image Complexity Assessment British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2025 November, 2025 Sheffield, UK [PDF] Yuqing Luo, YIXIAO LI, Jiang Liu, Jun Fu, Hadi Amirpour, Guanghui Yue, Baoquan Zhao, Padraig Corcoran, Hantao Liu, Wei Zhou Abstract: Image complexity assessment (ICA) is a challenging task in … Continue reading

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Interns at ATHENA (Summer 2025)

      In July 2025, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted four interns working on the following topics: Leon Kordasch: Large-scale 4K 60fps video dataset Theresa Petschenig: Video generation and quality assessment At the conclusion of their internships, the … Continue reading

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ACM MM’25 Open Source: diveXplore – An Open-Source Software for Modern Video Retrieval with Image/Text Embeddings

diveXplore – An Open-Source Software for Modern Video Retrieval with Image/Text Embeddings ACM Multimedia 2025 October 27 – October 31, 2025 Dublin, Ireland [PDF] Mario Leopold (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Klaus Schöffmann (AAU, Austria) Abstract:Effective video retrieval in large-scale … Continue reading

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Patent Approval for “Content-adaptive encoder preset prediction for adaptive live streaming”

Content-adaptive encoder preset prediction 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 content-adaptive encoder preset prediction for adaptive live streaming are described herein. … Continue reading

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