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PhD video research: From the ATHENA lab to Bitmovin products

Introduction The story of Bitmovin began with video research and innovation back in 2012, when our co-founders Stefan Lederer and Christopher Mueller were students at Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) Klagenfurt. Together with their professor Dr. Christian Timmerer, the three co-founded Bitmovin in 2013, with their research providing the foundation for Bitmovin’s groundbreaking MPEG-DASH player and Per-Title Encoding….

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GAIA Research Project : A 3 Month Look Back

A few months ago, Bitmovin and the University of Klagenfurt announced a new collaboration on a research project called GAIA, which aims to make video streaming more sustainable. Project ‘GAIA’ is co-funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and will focus on helping the video-streaming industry reduce its carbon footprint.  Dr Christian Timmerer is…

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The GAIA Research Project: Creating a Climate-Friendly Video Streaming Platform

We’re excited to share that Bitmovin and the University of Klagenfurt are collaborating on a new research project with the goal of making video streaming more sustainable. Project ‘GAIA’ is co-funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and will help enable more climate-friendly video streaming solutions by providing better energy awareness and efficiency through…

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ATHENA Lab: Fast Multi-Resolution and Multi-Rate Encoding for HTTP Adaptive Streaming Using Machine Learning (FaRes-ML)

The heterogeneity of the devices on the Internet and the difference among the network conditions of the users make designing a video delivery tool that can adapt to all these differences while maximizing the quality of experience (QoE) for each user a tricky problem. HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is the de-facto solution for video delivery…

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ATHENA Lab: Improving Viewer Experiences with Scalable Light Field Coding (SLFC)

Immersive Viewer Experiences with Light Field Imaging  Light field imaging is a promising technology that will provide a more immersive viewing experience. It enables some post-processing tasks like depth estimation, changing the viewport, refocusing, etc. To this end, a huge amount of data needs to be collected, processed, stored, and transmitted, which leaves the challenging…

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Innovation

ATHENA Labs: Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Live Video Streaming with Optimizing Resource Utilization in Live Video Streaming (OSCAR)

Live video streaming is a specific type of streaming that a video is broadcasted in real-time. The actual source of the video can be pre-recorded or simultaneously recorded. Live streaming is suitable for live venues, conferences, and gaming. In recent years the demands for watching live venues such as news, concerts, and sports have increased,…

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Bitmovin & Austrian University to team up for innovative Video Transmission Technology research

Bitmovin and the University of Klagenfurt Collaborate on Innovative Video Transmission Technology Klagenfurt, Austria / 21 January 2020 – Bitmovin, a world leader in online video technology, is teaming up with the University of Klagenfurt and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW) in a multi-million Euro research project to uncover video…

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