Category Archives: ATHENA

Samira Afzal talk at 11th Fraunhofer FOKUS MWS

Energy Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud and Edge Computing Instances 11th FOKUS Media Web Symposium  11th JUN 2024 | Berlin, Germany   Abstract: The significant increase in energy consumption within data centers is primarily due to the exponential rise in … Continue reading

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ODVista: An Omnidirectional Video Dataset for Super-Resolution and Quality Enhancement Tasks

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024) 27-30 October 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE [PDF] Ahmed Telili (TII, UAE), Ibrahim Farhat (TII, UAE), Wassim Hamidouche (TII, UAE), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria)   Abstract: Omnidirectional or 360-degree video is being increasingly … Continue reading

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Long Night of Research/Lange Nacht der Forschung 2024

The Klagenfurt University (AAU) made a strong impression at the 2024 Lange Nacht der Forschung (Long Night of Research) held at Klagenfurt University and Lakeside Park on May 24th, attracting over 8,000 visitors. The Athena Lab, a leading research group … Continue reading

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On the Security of Selectively Encrypted HEVC Video Bitstreams

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM) [PDF] Chen Chen (Tsinghua University, China),  Lingfeng Qu (Guangzhou University, China), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Xingjun Wang (Tsinghua University, China),  Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Zhihong Tian (Guangzhou University, China) Abstract: … Continue reading

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Video Encoding Enhancement via Content-Aware Spatial and Temporal Super-Resolution

European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 26-30 August 2024, Lyon, France [PDF] Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria),  Ahmed Telili (INSA Rennes, France), Wassim Hamidouche (INSA Rennes, France), Guo Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Content-aware deep … Continue reading

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Antrittsvorlesung von Christian Timmerer

Das Original befindet sich hier. Am 5. Juni 2024 findet an der Universität Klagenfurt die Antrittsvorlesung von Christian Timmerer vom Institut für Informationstechnologie zum Thema „Video Streaming: Then, Now, and in the Future“ statt.    Das Rektorat der Universität Klagenfurt und … Continue reading

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Content-aware Reference Frame Synthesis for Enhanced Inter Prediction

European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 26-30 August 2024, Lyon, France [PDF] Mohammad Ghasempour (AAU, Austria), Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria),  and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Video coding relies heavily on reducing spatial and temporal redundancy to enable efficient … Continue reading

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