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Multimedia Communication- Towards AI-Assisted Sustainable Adaptive Video Streaming Systems: Tutorial and Survey September 9, 2026
- MPEG news: a report from the 155th meeting July 31, 2026
- ACM Mile-High Video 2027: Call for Contributions July 29, 2026
- Call for presentations for ITU-T SG 21 and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 joint workshop on Media Streaming Services - What’s next May 27, 2026
- MPEG news: a report from the 154th meeting May 15, 2026
- Sustainability in Video Encoding and Streaming March 27, 2026
- MPEG news: a report from the 153rd meeting February 20, 2026
ITEC Homepage- Paper accepted @ VCIP 2026 September 16, 2026
- Game Design workshop @ Kwadrat September 16, 2026
- Journal publication accepted @ IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting September 16, 2026
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Recent Posts
- 3D Gaussian Splatting Rendering Performance Trade-offs on the Meta Quest 3 September 16, 2026
- Bitrate Ladder Analysis for UHD Adaptive Streaming: From AVC to AV2 September 16, 2026
- Efficient Quality Controller for Video Encoding September 16, 2026
- Cloud, Edge, or Split? Profiling Onboard and Split Vision-Language Model Deployment for Drone AI September 16, 2026
- ATHENA Closing Symposium September 10, 2026
Category Archives: ATHENA
ANGELA: HTTP Adaptive Streaming and Edge Computing Simulator
ANGELA: HTTP Adaptive Streaming and Edge Computing Simulator *** 2nd Best Paper Award *** The 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks (PEMWN) Conference Website [PDF][Slides][Video] Jesús Aguilar Armijo (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt), Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität … Continue reading
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Days of Future Past: An Optimization-based Adaptive Bitrate Algorithm over HTTP/3
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
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
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
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
FaRes-ML paper is Nominated for the Best New Streaming Innovation Award in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards 2021
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
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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