Category Archives: ATHENA

Days of Future Past: An Optimization-based Adaptive Bitrate Algorithm over HTTP/3

Posted on October 21, 2021 by

The ACM CoNEXT 2021 Workshop on the Evolution, Performance, and Interoperability of QUIC (EPIQ) 07 December 2021  | Munich, Germany (Online) [PDF][Slides][Video] Daniele Lorenzi (University of Padua), Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Simone Milani (University of Padua), Herman Hellwagner … Continue reading →

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Farzad Tashtarian to give a talk at the University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Posted on October 5, 2021 by

Farzad Tashtarian is invited to talk on “Network-Assisted Video Streaming” at the University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

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Best Doctoral Symposium Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2021

Posted on October 4, 2021 by

Ekrem Çetinkaya got the Best Doctoral Symposium Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2021 for his paper titled “Machine Learning Based Video Coding Enhancements for HTTP Adaptive Streaming”. More information about the paper can be found in the blog post.

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FAUST: Fast Per-Scene Encoding Using Entropy-Based Scene Detection and Machine Learning

Posted on September 29, 2021 by

FAUST: Fast Per-Scene Encoding Using Entropy-Based Scene Detection and Machine Learning 30th IEEE Conference of the Open Innovations Association FRUCT 27-29 October 2021 https://www.fruct.org/ [PDF][Slides][Video] Anatoliy Zabrovskiy, Prateek Agrawal, Christian Timmerer, and Radu Prodan Abstract: HTTP adaptive video streaming is … Continue reading →

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FaRes-ML paper is Nominated for the Best New Streaming Innovation Award in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2021

Posted on September 21, 2021 by

The Fast Multi-Resolution and Multi-Rate Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Using Machine Learning paper from ATHENA lab is nominated for the Best New Streaming Innovation Award in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2021. Voting can be done on the awards’ website. The voting … Continue reading →

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Improving Per-title Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming by Utilizing Video Super-resolution

Posted on August 30, 2021 by

Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2021) 5-8 December 2021, Munich, Germany [PDF][Slides] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hannaneh Barahouei Pasandi (Virginia Commonwealth University), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK), and Christian Timmerer … Continue reading →

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On the Impact of Viewing Distance on Perceived Video Quality

Posted on August 30, 2021 by

IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP 2021) 5-8 December 2021, Munich, Germany [PDF][Slides] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Raimund Schatz (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria), Mohammad Ghanbari (School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK), … Continue reading →

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