Category Archives: ATHENA

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

Klagenfurt, July 10, 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Babak Taraghi for successfully defending his dissertation on “End-to-end Quality of Experience Evaluation for HTTP Adaptive Streaming” at Universität Klagenfurt in the context of the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA. Abstract HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) … Continue reading

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COBIRAS: Offering a Continuous Bit Rate Slide to Maximize DASH Streaming Bandwidth Utilization

COBIRAS: Offering a Continuous Bit Rate Slide to Maximize DASH Streaming Bandwidth Utilization ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (ACM TOMM) [PDF] Michael Seufert (University of Augsburg, Germany), Marius Spangenberger (University of Würzburg, Germany), Fabian Poignée (University of … Continue reading

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Best Paper Award at PCS

The paper titled “Beyond Curves and Thresholds – Introducing Uncertainty Estimation to Satisfied User Ratios for Compressed Video,” co-authored by Jingwen Zhu, Hadi Amirpour, Raimund Shatz, Patrick Le Callet, and Christian Timmerer, received the Best Paper Award at the 37th … Continue reading

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ACM TOMM Special Issue on ACM Multimedia Systems 2024 and Co-located Workshops

This special issue aims to collect extended versions of the accepted papers at ACM Multimedia Systems 2024 and co-located workshops (i.e., NOSSDAV, MMVE, and GMSys). Similarly, as for 2023, it is planned that all accepted MMSys full research papers and … Continue reading

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Christian Timmerer presents at Telecom Seminar Series at TII about HTTP Adaptive Streaming

HTTP Adaptive Streaming – Quo Vadis? Jun 27, 2024, 04:00 PM Dubai [Slides] Abstract: Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major technical breakthrough and enabler … Continue reading

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Patent Approval for “Per-Title Encoding Using Spatial and Temporal Resolution Downscaling”

Per-Title Encoding Using Spatial and Temporal Resolution Downscaling US Patent [PDF] Hadi Amirpour (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) and Christian Timmerer (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)   Abstract: Techniques relating to per-title encoding using spatial and temporal resolution downscaling is disclosed. A method for per-title encoding … Continue reading

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Samira Afzal talk at 11th Fraunhofer FOKUS MWS

Energy Efficient Video Encoding for Cloud and Edge Computing Instances 11th FOKUS Media Web Symposium  11th JUN 2024 | Berlin, Germany   Abstract: The significant increase in energy consumption within data centers is primarily due to the exponential rise in … Continue reading

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