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Multimedia Communication- Towards AI-Assisted Sustainable Adaptive Video Streaming Systems: Tutorial and Survey September 9, 2026
- MPEG news: a report from the 155th meeting July 31, 2026
- ACM Mile-High Video 2027: Call for Contributions July 29, 2026
- Call for presentations for ITU-T SG 21 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 joint workshop on Media Streaming Services - What’s next May 27, 2026
- MPEG news: a report from the 154th meeting May 15, 2026
- Sustainability in Video Encoding and Streaming March 27, 2026
- MPEG news: a report from the 153rd meeting February 20, 2026
ITEC Homepage- Paper accepted @ VCIP 2026 September 16, 2026
- Game Design workshop @ Kwadrat September 16, 2026
- Journal publication accepted @ IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting September 16, 2026
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Recent Posts
- 3D Gaussian Splatting Rendering Performance Trade-offs on the Meta Quest 3 September 16, 2026
- Bitrate Ladder Analysis for UHD Adaptive Streaming: From AVC to AV2 September 16, 2026
- Efficient Quality Controller for Video Encoding September 16, 2026
- Cloud, Edge, or Split? Profiling Onboard and Split Vision-Language Model Deployment for Drone AI September 16, 2026
- ATHENA Closing Symposium September 10, 2026
Category Archives: ATHENA
Adaptivity in Video Streaming through the Transition Lens
Adaptivity in Video Streaming through the Transition Lens In: Schulte, S., Koldehofe, B. (eds) From Multimedia Communications to the Future Internet. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15200. Springer, Cham. [PDF] Amr Rizk (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany), Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, … Continue reading
Interns at ATHENA (Summer 2024)
Between July and August 2024, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted four interns working on the following topics: Halime Lezi: Image and Video Compression Pipeline Luka Kaiser: VidStream Julius van Dillen: Enhancing Video Quality with Super-Resolution At the conclusion … Continue reading
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Energy-Efficient Spatial and Temporal Resolution Selection for Per-Title Encoding
Energy-Efficient Spatial and Temporal Resolution Selection for Per-Title Encoding IEEE Access [PDF] Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Video streaming has become an integral part of our digital lives, driving the need for … Continue reading
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Successful 5-year Evaluation of Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA
The Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory ATHENA was established in October 2019 to tackle current and future research and deployment challenges of HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) and emerging streaming methods. The goal of CD laboratories is to conduct application-oriented basic research, … Continue reading
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End-to-end Quality of Experience Evaluation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming
Klagenfurt, July 10, 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Babak Taraghi for successfully defending his dissertation on “End-to-end Quality of Experience Evaluation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming” at Universität Klagenfurt in the context of the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA. Abstract HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) … Continue reading
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COBIRAS: Offering a Continuous Bit Rate Slide to Maximize DASH Streaming Bandwidth Utilization
COBIRAS: Offering a Continuous Bit Rate Slide to Maximize DASH Streaming Bandwidth Utilization ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM) [PDF] Michael Seufert (University of Augsburg, Germany), Marius Spangenberger (University of Würzburg, Germany), Fabian Poignée (University of … Continue reading
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Best Paper Award at PCS
The paper titled “Beyond Curves and Thresholds – Introducing Uncertainty Estimation to Satisfied User Ratios for Compressed Video,” co-authored by Jingwen Zhu, Hadi Amirpour, Raimund Shatz, Patrick Le Callet, and Christian Timmerer, received the Best Paper Award at the 37th … Continue reading
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