Christian Doppler Research Association approves ATHENA project proposal

ATHENA stands for Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services and has been jointly proposed by the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC; http://itec.aau.at) at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) and Bitmovin GmbH (https://bitmovin.com) to address current and future research and deployment challenges of HTTP adaptive steaming (HAS) and emerging streaming methods.

AAU (ITEC) has been working on adaptive video streaming for more than a decade, has a proven record of successful research projects and publications in the field, and has been actively contributing to MPEG standardization for many years, including MPEG-DASH; Bitmovin is a video streaming software company founded by ITEC researchers in 2013 and has developed highly successful, global R&D and sales activities and a world-wide customer base since then. 

The aim of ATHENA is to research and develop novel paradigms, approaches, (prototype) tools and evaluation results for the areas (1) multimedia content provisioning (i.e., video coding), (2) content delivery (i.e., multimedia networking) and (3) content consumption (i.e., HAS player aspects) in the media delivery chain as well as for (4) end-to-end aspects, with a focus on, but not being limited to, HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS). The new approaches and insights are to enable Bitmovin to build innovative applications and services to account for the steadily increasing and changing multimedia traffic on the Internet.

The project has been approved by the Christian Doppler Research Association as a CD pilot laboratory -- the first such kind of project at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt -- with a duration of two years including a five year extension after successful review after the first two years (i.e., seven years in total). Thus, stay tuned for details and yes, I'm hiring PhD students for the areas above (detailed job description will be published soon).

Recent and Future Multimedia Events co-organized by ITEC Researchers

The aim of this post is to highlight recent and future multimedia events (workshops, special sessions, etc.) co-organized by ITEC researchers.

• PV'18: Packet Video Workshop, June 12, 2018, co-organized by Ali C. Begen and Christian Timmerer
• MMSys'18: Multimedia Systems Conference, June 12-15, 2018, co-organized by Christian Timmerer (Overview Talk Chair)
• MMSys'17: Multimedia Systems Conference, June 20-23, 2017, Special Session on Immersive Experiences in AR and VR, organized by Simon Gunkel, Christian Timmerer, Jacob Chakareski, and Daisuke Iwai 
• MMSys'17: Multimedia Systems Conference, June 20-23, 2017, Special Session on multi-sensory experiences, organized by Niall Murray, George Ghinea, Christian Timmerer, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Weisi Lin, and Wu-Yuin Hwang.
• MMSys'16: Multimedia Systems Conference, May 10-13, 2016, organized by Christian Timmerer and Ali Begen. 
• MuSIC'15: Workshop on Multimedia Streaming in Infomation-Centric Networks (MuSIC), co-located with IEEE ICME'15, Torino, July 2015, organized by Hermann Hellwagner and George C. Polyzos.
• VideoNext'14: Design, Quality and Deployment of Adaptive Video Streaming, co-located with CoNEXT'14, Sidney, Australia, December 2, 2014 organized by Mahbub Hassan, Ali C. Begen, and Christian Timmerer
• VisHMC'14: 2014 IEEE International Workshop on the Visualization of Heterogeneous Multimedia Content (VisHMC) co-located with ICME'14, Chengdu, China, July 14-18, 2014, organized by Esra Acar, Frank Hopfgartner, Jialie Shen, Klaus Schoeffmann.
• PCM'14: 15th Annual Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, Dec 2-4, 2014, organized by ..., Klaus Schoeffmann (publicity co-chair) and Christian Timmerer (demo co-chair)
• MMC'14: 2014 IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Computing (MMC 2014), in conjunction with the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2014), Chengdu, China, July 14-18, 2014, organized by Wen-Huang Cheng, Kai-Lung Hua, and Klaus Schoeffmann
• CBMI'14: 12th Int'l Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, June 18-20, 2014, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, organized by Mathias Lux, Georges Quenot, Harald Kosch, Bernard Merialdo, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, László Czúni, Laszlo Böszörmenyi
• QCMan'14: 2nd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on QoE Centric Management - QCMAN 2014, May 9, 2014, Krakow, Poland organized by Christian Timmerer, Filip De Turck, and Steven Latré.
• MMSys'14: Multimedia Systems Conference, March 19-21, 2014, Singapore, organized by Roger Zimmermann, Wei Tsang Ooi, Vu Thanh Nguyen, and Mathias Lux
• MMM'14: Video Browser Showdown at 20th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, January 8-10, 2014, Dublin, Ireland, organized by Werner Bailer and Klaus Schöffmann
• PV'13: 20th International Workshop on Packet Video 2013, December 12-13, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA, organized by Ali Begen, Bernd Girod, John Apostolopoulos, Pål Halvorsen, Christian Timmerer, Zhi Li
• QoMEX'13: 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), July 3-5, 2013, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria, organized by Christian Timmerer
• CBMI'13: 11th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, June 17-19 2013, Veszprém, Hungary, organized by László Czúni, Klaus Schöffmann, Tamás Szirányi
• NOSSDAV'13: 23rd ACM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, February 27, 2013, Oslo, Norway, organized by Pål Halvorsen and Laszlo Böszörmenyi
• MMM'13: Video Browser Showdown at 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, January 7-9, 2013, Huangshan, China, organized by Klaus Schöffmann
• TEMU'12: 2nd Workshop on Multimedia-Aware Networking (WoMAN), July 30 - August 1, 2012, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, organized by Daniel Negru, Eugen Borcoci, Christian Timmerer, George Xilouris, Evangelos Markakis
• EUSIPCO'12: Special Session on Multimedia Delivery over Content Aware Networks, August 27-31, Bucharest, Romania, organized by S. Obreja, D. Negru, G. Xilouris, C. Timmerer
• MMM'12: The 18th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, January 4-6, 2012, Klagenfurt, Austria, organized by Klaus Schoeffmann et al.
• MMWeb'11: Workshop on Multimedia on the Web, September 8, 2011, Graz, Austria, organized by Mathias Lux et. al
• ICME'11: Workshop on Multimedia-Aware Networking (WoMAN), July 11-15, 2011, Barcelona, Spain, organized by Christian Timmerer, Daniel Negru, Eugen Borcoci), George Xilouris
• ICMR'11: Special Session on Video Content Visualization for Improved Interactive Search, April 17-20, 2011, Trento, Italy, organized by Frank Hopfgartner and Klaus Schoeffmann
• WIAMIS'11: Special Session on User Intentions in Image Production, Sharing, and Retrieval, April 13-15, 2011, Delft, The Netherlands, organized by Mathias Lux and Oge Marques
• MMSys'11: Special Session Modern Media Transport (MMT) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), February 23-25, 2011, San Jose, California, organized by Christian Timmerer
• MMM'11: Special Session on Interactive Image and Video Search, January 5-7, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, organized by Klaus Schoeffmann and Frank Hopfgartner
• ACMMM'10: Workshop on Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks and social networking, October 29, 2010, Florence, Italy, organized by Gabriella Olmo, Christian Timmerer, Pascal Frossard, Keith Mitchell

Further workshop proposals and special issues are in the pipeline and, thus, ... to be continued and stay tuned!