Category Archives: ATHENA

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 →

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 →

      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 →

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 →

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 →

VQualA 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment: Methods and Results ICCV VQualA 2025 October 19 – October 23, 2025 Hawai’i, USA [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), et al. Abstract: This paper presents the ISRGC-Q Challenge, built upon … Continue reading →

VQualA 2025 Challenge on Face Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results ICCV VQualA 2025 October 19 – October 23, 2025 Hawai’i, USA [PDF] MohammadAli Hamidi (University of Cagliari, Italy), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), et al. Abstract: Face images have become … Continue reading →