Since forming in October 2019, the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA at Universität Klagenfurt, run by Bitmovin co-founder Dr. Christian Timmerer, has been advancing research and innovation for adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming technologies. Over the past five years, the lab has addressed critical challenges in video streaming from encoding and delivery to playback and end-to-end quality…
Bitmovin was founded on research and that commitment to innovation never stopped. This post spotlights the ATHENA Lab, a joint research program between Bitmovin and the University of Klagenfurt, as its first cohort of PhD students completed their dissertations. Covering four major projects across edge computing, machine learning-based video encoding, adaptive bitrate streaming, and multi-access edge computing, the research tackles some of the streaming industry’s hardest problems.
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