Category Archives: ATHENA

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation Special Issue on Multimodal Learning for Visual Intelligence: From Emerging Techniques to Real-World Applications Link to the Special Issue In recent years, the integration of vision with complementary modalities such as language, audio, … Continue reading →

Visual Quality Assessment Competition VQualA co-located with ICCV 2025 https://vquala.github.io/ Visual quality assessment plays a crucial role in computer vision, serving as a fundamental step in tasks such as image quality assessment (IQA), image super-resolution, document image enhancement, and video … Continue reading →

Pattern Recognition Special Issue on Advances in Multimodal-Driven Video Understanding and Assessment Link to the Special Issue The rapid growth of video content across various domains has led to an increasing demand for more intelligent and efficient video understanding and … Continue reading →

HTTP Adaptive Streaming: A Review on Current Advances and Future Challenges ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications [PDF] Christian Timmerer (AAU, AT), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, AT), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, AT), Samira Afzal (AAU, AT), Amr Rizk (Leibniz University … Continue reading →

Neural Representations for Scalable Video Coding IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2025 June 30 – July 4, 2025 Nantes, France [PDF] Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria),  and Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Abstract: Scalable video coding encodes a video stream … Continue reading →

VQM4HAS: A Real-time Quality Metric for HEVC Videos in HTTP Adaptive Streaming IEEE Transactions on Multimedia [PDF]  Hadi Amirpour (AAU, AT), Jingwen Zhu (Nantes University, FR), Wei Zhu (Cardiff University, UK), Patrick Le Callet (Nantes University, FR), and Christian Timmerer … Continue reading →

ACM MM 2025 October 27, 2025 Dublin, Ireland https://acmmm2025.org/tutorial/ Tutorial speakers: Wei Zhou (Cardiff University) Hadi Amirpour (University of Klagenfurt) Tutorial description: As multimedia services like video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to expand, ensuring … Continue reading →