Category Archives: ATHENA

End-to-end Quality of Experience Evaluation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming

ACM MM’21: The 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 20-24 October, 2021 | Chengdu, China Conference Website [PDF][Slides][Video][Poster] Babak Taraghi (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Exponential growth in multimedia streaming traffic over the Internet motivates the research and further investigation of the … Continue reading

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CTU Depth Decision Algorithms for HEVC: A Survey

Signal Processing: Image Communication [PDF] Ekrem Çetinkaya* (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour*, (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Mohammad Ghanbari (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, University of Essex),  and Christian Timmerer (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) *These authors contributed equally … Continue reading

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Vignesh V Menon to give a talk at the Research@Lunch Special

Vignesh V Menon is invited to talk on “Video Coding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming” on the Research@Lunch, which is a research webinar series by Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, India, exclusively for Ph.D. Scholars, UG, and PG … Continue reading

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ATHENA Papers Accepted at ACM MMSys’21 Doctoral Symposium

ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) 2021 | Doctoral Symposium September 28 – October 01, 2021 | Istanbul, Turkey Conference Website Information about the individual papers can be found below. CDN and SDN Support and Player Interaction for HTTP Adaptive Video … Continue reading

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LwTE: Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge

IEEE ACCESS [PDF] Alireza Erfanian* (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hadi Amirpour*, (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Farzad Tashtarian (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt),  Christian Timmerer (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Hermann Hellwagner (Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt) *These … Continue reading

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WISH: User-centric Bitrate Adaptation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming on Mobile Devices

IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) October 06-08 2021 | Tampere, Finland [PDF][Slides][Video] Minh Nguyen (AAU, Austria), Ekrem Çetinkaya (AAU, Austria),  Hermann Hellwagner (AAU, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Recently, mobile devices have become paramount … Continue reading

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INCEPT: INTRA CU Depth Prediction for HEVC

 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing October 06–08, 2021, Tampere, Finland [PDF][Slides][Video] Vignesh V Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt); Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt); Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria); Mohammad Ghanbari (University of Essex, UK). Abstract: High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) improves … Continue reading

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