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💥Our tutorial proposal titled "Optimizing Low-Latency Video Streaming: AI-Assisted Codec-Network Coordination" has been accepted for ACM SIGCOMM 2025. Click here for more details.
🎉Our paper "Real-Time AI-Driven Avatar Generation for Sign Language in HTTP Adaptive Streaming" has been accepted by the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS'25), September 2025.
🎉Our paper "HTTP Adaptive Streaming: A Review on Current Advances and Future Challenges", has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), March 2025.
📰 The DORBINE project has been featured in DER STANDARD, a prominent Austrian newspaper (link).
🏆My first FFG project, DORBINE, has been approved, click here for more details!
🎉Our paper "End-to-End Learning-based Video Streaming Enhancement Pipeline: A Generative AI Approach", has been accepted by ACM 35th Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV’25), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 31 March – 3 April 2025.
🎉Our paper "ALPHAS: Adaptive Bitrate Ladder Optimization for Multi-Live Video Streaming", has been accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), London, United Kingdom, May 19–22, 2025, (acceptance rate: 18.6; quality factor: A*).
🎉Our paper "Adaptive Quality and Energy Enhancement in Video Streaming with RecABR", has been accepted by the 4th Mile-High Video Conference (MHV’25), Marriott DTC, Denver, February 18–20, 2025.
🎉Our paper "Generative AI for Realistic Voice Dubbing Across Languages", has been accepted by the 4th Mile-High Video Conference (MHV’25), Marriott DTC, Denver, February 18–20, 2025.
📢I presented a talk on "Bitrate Ladder Optimization for Live Video Streaming", at Netflix, November 18, 2024.
🎉Our paper "In-Band Quality Notification from Users to ISPs, ", has been accepted by the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27–29 November 2024.
📢 I presented a talk on "Green Video Streaming", Dagstuhl Seminar 24402, Greening Networking: Toward a Net Zero Internet, Sep 29 – Oct 02, 2024.
🎉Our paper "MVCD: Multi-Dimensional Video Compression Dataset, ", has been accepted by the IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP) Conference, Tokyo, Japan, December 2024.
🎉 Our paper "MEDUSA: A Dynamic Codec Switching Approach in HTTP Adaptive Streaming", has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, 2024.
📢 I have been invited to serve as an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications.
🎉 Our paper "PyStream: Enhancing Video Streaming Evaluation ", has been accepted by the 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys'24), Technical Demo Track, 15-18 April, 2024, Bari, Italy.
🎉 Our paper "COCONUT: Content Consumption Energy Measurement Dataset for Adaptive Video Streaming ", has been accepted by the 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys'24)- Open-source Software and Datasets Track, 15-18 April, 2024, Bari, Italy.
🎉 Our paper "VEEP: Video Encoding Energy and CO2 Emission Prediction ", has been accepted by the 2nd Second International ACM Green Multimedia Systems Workshop (GMSys'24), 15-18 April, 2024, Bari, Italy.
📢 Proceeding Chair, ACM Multimedia Systems conference 2024 (MMSys'24).
🎉Our paper "DIGITWISE: Digital Twin-based Modeling of Adaptive Video Streaming Engagement ", has been accepted by the 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, 15-18 April, 2024, Bari, Italy.
🎉Our paper "E-WISH: An Energy-aware ABR Algorithm For Green HTTP Adaptive Video Streaming", has been accepted by the International Conference on Mile-Highe Video, Marriott DTC, Denver on Feb. 11-14, 2024.
📢 Proceeding Chair "Mile-High Video 2024 (MHV'24)",
🎉Our paper "Empowerment of Atypical Viewers via Low-Effort Personalized Modeling of Video Streaming Quality", has been accepted by the 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Paris, France, December 5-8, 2023.
🎉Our paper "ARTEMIS: Adaptive Bitrate Ladder Optimization for Live Video Streaming", has been accepted by 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24 Spring) (acceptance rate: 18.6; quality factor: A*).
📢 Guest editor of the special issue on "Advancements in Network-Assisted Video Streaming: Optimization and Performance Analysis", IEEE Network Magazine
🎉Our paper "On Optimizing the Charging Trajectory of Mobile Chargers in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach" , has been accepted by Wireless Networks Springer journal, 2023.
🎉Our paper "Performance Analysis of H2BR: HTTP/2-based Segment Upgrading to Improve the QoE in HAS" , has been accepted by Multimedia Tools and Applications journal, 2023.
📢 I gave the initial talk of my habilitation at Klagenfurt University:"How to Optimize Dynamic Adaptive Video Streaming? Challenges and Solutions"
🎉 Our paper "Which CDN to Download From? A Client and Server Strategies " , has been accepted by Mile-High Video (MHV), 8-10 May, Denver, USA, 2023.
🎉 Our paper "LALISA: Adaptive Bitrate Ladder Optimization in HTTP-based Adaptive Live Streaming " , has been accepted by IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS).
🎉 Our paper "CD-LwTE: Cost- and Delay-aware Light-weight Transcoding at the Edge" , has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2022.
🎉 Our paper "OTEC: An Optimized Transcoding Task Scheduler for Cloud and Fog Environments" , has been accepted by ACM CoNEXT - ViSNext Workshop 2022.
🎉 Our paper "MCOM-Live: A Multi-Codec Optimization Model at the Edge for Live Streaming " , has been accepted by IEEE MMM Conference, 2022.
🎉 Our paper "DoFP+: An HTTP/3-based Adaptive Bitrate Approach Using Retransmission Techniques" , has been accepted by IEEE ACCESS Journal, 2022.
📢 I am pleased to announce that our workshop proposal titled "2nd ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Design, Deployment, and Evaluation of Network-assisted Video Streaming (ViSNext'22)", has been accepted by the 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Rome, Italy, 2022.