Category Archives: ATHENA

BMVC’25: Cross-Modal Scene Semantic Alignment for Image Complexity Assessment

Posted on July 31, 2025 by

Cross-Modal Scene Semantic Alignment for Image Complexity Assessment British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2025 November, 2025 Sheffield, UK [PDF] Yuqing Luo, YIXIAO LI, Jiang Liu, Jun Fu, Hadi Amirpour, Guanghui Yue, Baoquan Zhao, Padraig Corcoran, Hantao Liu, Wei Zhou Abstract: Image complexity assessment (ICA) is a challenging task in … Continue reading →

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Interns at ATHENA (Summer 2025)

Posted on July 30, 2025 by

      In July 2025, the ATHENA Christian Doppler Laboratory hosted four interns working on the following topics: Leon Kordasch: Large-scale 4K 60fps video dataset Theresa Petschenig: Video generation and quality assessment At the conclusion of their internships, the … Continue reading →

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ACM MM’25 Open Source: diveXplore – An Open-Source Software for Modern Video Retrieval with Image/Text Embeddings

Posted on July 25, 2025 by

diveXplore – An Open-Source Software for Modern Video Retrieval with Image/Text Embeddings ACM Multimedia 2025 October 27 – October 31, 2025 Dublin, Ireland [PDF] Mario Leopold (AAU, Austria), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Klaus Schöffmann (AAU, Austria) Abstract:Effective video retrieval in large-scale … Continue reading →

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Patent Approval for “Content-adaptive encoder preset prediction for adaptive live streaming”

Posted on July 15, 2025 by

Content-adaptive encoder preset prediction 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 content-adaptive encoder preset prediction for adaptive live streaming are described herein. … Continue reading →

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ICCV VQualA’25: VQualA 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment: Methods and Results

Posted on July 14, 2025 by

VQualA 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment: Methods and Results ICCV VQualA 2025 October 19 – October 23, 2025 Hawai’i, USA [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), et al. Abstract: This paper presents the ISRGC-Q Challenge, built upon … Continue reading →

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ICCV VQualA’25: VQualA 2025 Challenge on Face Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results

Posted on July 14, 2025 by

VQualA 2025 Challenge on Face Image Quality Assessment: Methods and Results ICCV VQualA 2025 October 19 – October 23, 2025 Hawai’i, USA [PDF] MohammadAli Hamidi (University of Cagliari, Italy), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), et al. Abstract: Face images have become … Continue reading →

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ICCV VQualA’25: A Lightweight Ensemble-Based Face Image Quality Assessment Method with Correlation-Aware Loss

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A Lightweight Ensemble-Based Face Image Quality Assessment Method with Correlation-Aware Loss ICCV VQualA 2025 October 19 – October 23, 2025 Hawai’i, USA [PDF] MohammadAli Hamidi (University of Cagliari, Italy), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Luigi Atzori (University of Cagliari, Italy), Christian … Continue reading →

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