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Category Archives: ATHENA
PyStream: Enhancing Video Streaming Evaluation
The 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (Technical Demos) 15-18 April, 2024 | Bari, Italy Conference website [PDF] [Github] Samuel Radler* (AAU, Austria) , Leon Prüller* (AAU, Austria), Emanuele Artioli (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) *These authors contributed equally … Continue reading
									
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		COCONUT: Content Consumption Energy Measurement Dataset for Adaptive Video Streaming
The 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (Open-source Software and Datasets) 15-18 April, 2024 | Bari, Italy Conference website [PDF] [Github] Farzad Tashtarian∗ (AAU, Austria), Daniele Lorenzi∗ (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Samira Afzal (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) *These authors … Continue reading
									
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		The 1st IEEE ICME Workshop on Surpassing Latency Limits in Adaptive Live Video Streaming (LIVES’24)
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		Patent Approval for “Low-Latency Online Per-Title Encoding”
Low-Latency Online Per-Title Encoding 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: The technology described herein relates to online per-title encoding. A method for online per-title encoding includes receiving … Continue reading
									
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		EUSIPCO’24 Special Session: Frugality for Video Streaming
EUSIPCO 2024 32nd European Signal Processing Conference Special Session: Frugality for Video Streaming https://eusipcolyon.sciencesconf.org/ It’s time to take action against the threat of climate change by making significant changes to our global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. That includes rethinking how … Continue reading
ICIP 2024 Grand Challenge on Video Complexity
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP) Grand Challenge on Video Complexity 27-30 October 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE https://cd-athena.github.io/GCVC Organizers: Ioannis Katsavounidis (Meta, USA) Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria) Ali Ak (Nantes Univ., France) Anil Kokaram (TCD, Ireland) Christian … Continue reading
									
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		Beyond Curves and Thresholds – Introducing Uncertainty Estimation to Satisfied User Ratios for Compressed Video
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) 12-14 June 2024, Taichung, Taiwan [PDF] Jingwen Zhu (University of Nantes, France), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Raimund Schatz (AIT, Austria), Patrick Le Callet (University of Nantes, France), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Just Noticeable Difference (JND) establishes the … Continue reading
									
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