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Farzad Tashtarian to give the initial talk of his habilitation at Klagenfurt University.

Posted on February 27, 2023 by

How to Optimize Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming? Challenges and Solutions Abstract: Empowered by today’s rich tools for media generation and collaborative production and convenient network access to the Internet, video streaming has become very popular. Dynamic adaptive video streaming is a … Continue reading →

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Patent approval for “Fast multi-rate encoding for adaptive HTTP streaming”

Posted on February 24, 2023 by

Fast multi-rate encoding for adaptive HTTP streaming US Patent [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Ekrem Çetynkaya (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: According to embodiments of the disclosure, information of higher and lower quality encoded video segments is … Continue reading →

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VCA v2.0 released!

Posted on February 13, 2023 by

Another Valentine’s day, another gift from ATHENA! We are delighted to share Video Complexity Analyzer (VCA) version 2.0. The new release brings add-on benefits over our previous release, v1.5, like supporting analysis of High Dynamic Range (HDR) videos. The version … Continue reading →

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EduDay 2023 a great success

Posted on February 13, 2023 by

On February 8, 2023, EduDay – organised by the educational lab and students of the HAK 1 Klagenfurt – took place for the first time. Several hundred students were guided through the laboratories and got their first insight into research. … Continue reading →

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Green Video Streaming: Challenges and Opportunities

Posted on February 6, 2023 by

ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMM) [PDF] Samira Afzal (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt and Bitmovin Inc., Austria) Introduction: Regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in … Continue reading →

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Perceptually-aware Live VBR Encoding Scheme for Adaptive AVC Streaming

Posted on February 1, 2023 by

2023 NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference April 15-19, 2023 | Las Vegas, US [PDF] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Prajit T Rajendran (Universite Paris-Saclay), Christian Feldmann (Bitmovin, Klagenfurt), Martin Smole (Bitmovin, Klagenfurt), Klaus Schoeffmann (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of … Continue reading →

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SARENA: SFC-Enabled Architecture for Adaptive Video Streaming Applications

Posted on January 19, 2023 by

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 28 May – 01 June 2023– Rome, Italy [PDF][Slides] Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Abdelhak Bentaleb (Concordia University, Canada), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surrey, UK), Radu Prodan (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), and Hermann … Continue reading →

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