Category Archives: ATHENA

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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DRLM: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based LLM Query Orchestration in Edge Environments

Posted on August 3, 2026 by

DRLM: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based LLM Query Orchestration in Edge Environments Reza Farahani (TU Wien, Austria), Zoha Azimi (AAU, Austria), Mario Colosi (University of Messina, Italy), Lauri Lovén (University of Oulu, Finland), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria) … Continue reading →

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VCA-FFMPEG: A FFmpeg Filter for Video Complexity Analysis

Posted on July 27, 2026 by

VCA-FFMPEG: A FFmpeg Filter for Video Complexity Analysis 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2026 (ACM MM 2026) 10–14 November 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria),  Mykyta Skipenko (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: VCA is a … Continue reading →

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MoQSplat: Adaptive Progressive Streaming of 3D Gaussian Splatting over MoQ

Posted on July 25, 2026 by

MoQSplat: Adaptive Progressive Streaming of 3D Gaussian Splatting over MoQ IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) September 22 – September 24, 2026 Istanbul, Turkey [PDF] Emanuele Artioli (AAU, Austria), Mohammadreza Ghafari (Universit´e de Lorraine, France), Md Tariqul Islam … Continue reading →

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Towards AI-Assisted Sustainable Adaptive Video Streaming Systems: Tutorial and Survey

Posted on July 23, 2026 by

Towards AI-Assisted Sustainable Adaptive Video Streaming Systems: Tutorial and Survey Reza Farahani, Zoha Azimi, Christian Timmerer, Radu Prodan ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Improvements in networking technologies and the steadily increasing number of users, as well as the shift from traditional … Continue reading →

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