Bringing Reality Closer Through Holography
HoloSense is a cooperative project funded by AdaLovelace Programm . It brings together expertise from Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt, including the Department of Information Technology (ITEC) and the Family and Health lab from the Institute of Psychology.
Project Description:
HoloSense Project explores how holographic content can be streamed efficiently while ensuring a high quality of experience (QoE) for users. The project explores strategies to make holography more perceptual realism, responsive, and accessible across diverse application, and make holography practical for real-world deployment. By developing innovative strategies for delivering lifelike 3D content, HoloSense evaluates both technical performance and human-centered impact. With applications spanning AR/VR, telepresence, healthcare, design, and scientific visualization, this work positions holography as a key enabler of next-generation communication and immersive interaction.
Publications:
1. Ayman Alkhateeb, Hadi Amirpour, and Christian Timmerer. 2025. Resolution vs Quantization: A Trade-Off for Hologram Compression. In Proceedings of the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS 2025). Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria.
Team Members
Christian Timmerer (head of ATHENA) is a full professor of computer science at Klagenfurt University, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC). He is a Co-Founder of Bitmovin Inc. where he is the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) and the Head of Research and Standardization. His research interests include immersive multimedia communication, streaming, adaptation, and quality of experience. Further information is available here.
Heather Foran is head of the department of health psychology in the Institute of Psychology. She is also coordinator of the university-wide research cluster in “Public Health”. Prof. Foran has been involved in coordinating international projects regarding family maltreatment as well as prevention of mental health symptoms across multiple countries and governmental organizations. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in the U.S. and a licensed psychotherapist in Germany. She has been funded to evaluate long-term data for parenting interventions and to conduct cross-cultural evaluations. here.
Hadi Amirpourazarian is a tenure-track assistant professor at Institute of Information Technology (ITEC). He received his B.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, and he pursued his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. He got his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Klagenfurt in 2022. He was involved in the project EmergIMG, a Portuguese consortium on emerging imaging technologies, funded by the Portuguese funding agency and H2020. Currently, he is working on the ATHENA project in cooperation with its industry partner Bitmovin. His research interests are image processing and compression, video processing and compression, quality of experience, emerging 3D imaging technology, and medical image analysis. Further information is available here.
Ayman Alkhateeb is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC). He received the B.Sc. degree in Communication Engineering from the university of Aleppo. He pursued M.Sc. in Communication Technologies and Multimedia at the University of Brescia, Italy, where his master’s thesis earned the Best Student Paper Award at MMSP 2024. He previously served as a lecturer at Aleppo University and as a researcher at the University of Brescia. His research interests include holographic image and video coding, computer vision, and machine learning.
