Category Archives: ATHENA

OPTE: Online Per-title Encoding for Live Video Streaming

2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) May 22-27, 2022 | Singapore [PDF][Slides] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK), … Continue reading

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HxL3: Optimized Delivery Architecture for HTTP Low-Latency Live Streaming

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia [PDF] Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Abdelhak Bentaleb (NationalUniversity of Singapore), Alireza Erfanian (AAU, Austria), Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), and Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore). Abstract: While most of the HTTP adaptive streaming … Continue reading

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LEADER: A Collaborative Edge- and SDN-Assisted Framework for HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) May 16–20, 2022 | Seoul, South Korea [PDF][Slides][Video] Reza Farahani (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Farzad Tashtarian (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK), … Continue reading

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CODA: Content-aware Frame Dropping Algorithm for High Frame-rate Video Streaming

Data Compression Conference (DCC) March 22-25, 2022 | Snowbird, Utah, US [PDF] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt). … Continue reading

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VQEG NORM talk on Video Quality Analyzer

Vignesh V Menon and Hadi Amirpour gave a talk on ‘Video Complexity Analyzer for Streaming Applications’ at the Video Quality Experts Group (VQEG) meeting on December 14, 2021. Our research activities on video complexity analysis were presented in the talk. … Continue reading

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Quality Optimization of Live Streaming Services over HTTP with Reinforcement Learning

IEEE Global Communications Conference December 07-11, 2021 | Madrid, Spain Conference website [PDF] Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), R. Falanji (Sharif University of Technology), Abdelhak Bentaleb (National University of Singapore), Alireza Erfanian (AAU, Austria), P. S. Mashhadi (Halmstad University), Christian Timmerer … Continue reading

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VCIP’21 Tutorial: A Journey towards Fully Immersive Media Access

VCIP 2021 Sunday, December 5, 2021 https://www.vcip2021.org/call-for-tutorials/ Lectures: Christian Timmerer, AAU, AT Tobias Hoßfeld, Univ. Würzburg, DE Raimund Schatz, AIT, AT Abstract: Universal access to and provisioning of multimedia content is now a reality. It is easy to generate, distribute, share, … Continue reading

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