Category Archives: ATHENA

Farzad Tashtarian completed his habilitation on Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration

Posted on January 9, 2026 by

Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration Farzad Tashtarian Habilitation On 14.11.2025, Farzad Tashtarian defended his habilitation “Network-Assisted Adaptive Streaming: Toward Optimal QoE through System Collaboration” at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Abstract: Providing seamless, low-latency, and energy-efficient … Continue reading →

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Interactive Stereoscopic Videos On Head-mounted Displays

Posted on January 7, 2026 by

Interactive Stereoscopic Videos On Head-mounted Displays IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Afshin Gholami(AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: This paper presents ISV-Demo, a novel system for delivering interactive … Continue reading →

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STACK: Spatial Tower Assembly using Controlled Kinetics

Posted on January 7, 2026 by

Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Milad Ghanbari (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), M.H. Izadimehr (AAU, Austria), Wei Zhou (Cardiff … Continue reading →

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Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention

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Perceptual JND Prediction for VMAF Using Content-Adaptive Dual-Path Attention IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] MohammadAli Hamidi (University of Cagliari, Italy),  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, … Continue reading →

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Is there a relationship between Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Just Noticeable Difference (JND)?

Posted on January 7, 2026 by

Is there a relationship between Mean Opinion Score (MOS) and Just Noticeable Difference (JND)? IEEE VCIP 2025 December 1 – December 4, 2025 Klagenfurt, Austria [PDF] Jingwen Zhu (Nantes Université, France),  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Wei Zhou (Cardiff, UK), Patrick … Continue reading →

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Patent Approval for “Efficient two-pass encoding scheme for adaptive live streaming”

Posted on January 7, 2026 by

Efficient two-pass encoding scheme for adaptive live streaming US Patent [PDF] Vignesh Menon (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria), and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: Techniques for efficient two-pass encoding for live streaming are described herein. A method … Continue reading →

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X4-MATCH: Sustainable Prediction-based Distribution of Video Encoding on Cloud and Edge

Posted on December 23, 2025 by

X4-MATCH: Sustainable Prediction-based Distribution of Video Encoding on Cloud and Edge 40th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium May 25-29, 2026 New Orleans, USA https://www.ipdps.org/ [PDF] Samira Afzal (Baylor University), Narges Mehran (University of Salzburg), Andrew C. Freeman (Baylor … Continue reading →

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