Probably the last summer day of the year at lake Wörthersee (Austria).

Outdoor drone area in the making @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social. It will be available soon, just in time for our new project FruitScope. More details soon…

MPEG won another Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for the Standardization of Common Media Application Format (CMAF). Congrats, Krasimir Kolarov, who has led the development, and everyone within MPEG Systems who has contributed. theemmys.tv/wp-content/u...

We just submitted a paper to IEEE ICASSP 2026 with id>17000. This is crazy, as it means that the number of submissions increased significantly compared to last year (more than 3x).

The 9th Bitmovin Video Developer Report is available incl. answers to questions such as "which streaming formats are you using...". Get your personal copy here for free: bitmovin.com/video-develo...

The 3rd Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems (EMS) was successfully held on Monday, September 8th, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2025. Thanks to Farzad Tashtarian from @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social for organizing and chairing!

Economic pressures continue to shape strategy across the industry, says Bitmovin’s Video Developer Report www.tvbeurope.com/media-delive...

For everyone who wants to participate in a hackathon/game jam but is unsure how: This is your guide! ✍️ The #acmmm2025 hackathon invites everyone to join and create some awesome games that focus on health, AI, and LLM's acmmm2025.org/hackathon/ 🕹 🎮 Stay tuned for more on the hackathon ✨

I just accepted the invitation to join the TPC of ACM MMSys 2026 and invite you to submit paper to the Multimedia Systems conference. CfP is available here: 2026.acmmmsys.org/call-for-pap...

Breaking: Brightcove owner Bending Spoons acquires Vimeo in $1.38 billion deal www.tvbeurope.com/business/bri...

Full Professor of Virtual and Augmented Reality at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social with application deadline: September 28, 2025 multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2025/07/full...

Will you get one?

VVC ‘delivering 20 per cent bitrate savings in real-time, live environments’ www.tvbeurope.com/media-manage...

Full Professor of Virtual and Augmented Reality (all genders welcome) position available at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social. Application deadline: September 28, 2025 multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2025/07/full... #AcademicSky 🧪

I'm happy to announce our second keynote speaker: Silvia Miksch from TU Wien will speak about "Where Complexity Meets Clarity: Visual Analytics in Time and Space." 🚨 Submission deadline: July 21, 2025 👉 vcip2025.itec.aau.at Share your latest on image processing, visual comms & AI!

🚨 1 week left to submit to #VCIP2025! Our first keynote: Thomas Wiegand from Fraunhofer HHI / TU Berlin, sharing insights on Trustworthy Multimedia Communication in the Age of AI Deep Fakes. Share your latest on image processing, visual comms & AI! 👉 vcip2025.itec.aau.at

“The company has set out two strategies going forward: innovation and quality of experience. This will see the introduction of Ultra HD streaming and a native recommendations engine to the Brightcove platform.”

O QoE, Where Art Thou? Tobias and I brainstormed on Quality of Experience (QoE) incl. (early) definitions, standardization, and open issues, with the result here: records.sigmm.org/2025/05/02/o... #AcademicSky 🧪

Are any of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 matches made available in 4K, or at least HDR?

“Your thesis,” Eco foretells, “is like your first love: it will be difficult to forget.” 😂❤️ #AcademicSky 🧪

Umberto Eco’s enduringly popular manual “How to Write a Thesis” is more than a guide for undergraduates; the book is a celebration of the magical process of self-realization.

Time to go back home. Thank you ICME’25. It’s fun to stay at the ICME 😂. Special thanks to the host Patrick and Giuseppe!

Meet the general chair of IEEE ICME 2025 in Nantes 😂

AV1 @ Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening netflixtechblog.com/av1-scale-fi...

Announcing MP4Box.js 1.0.0 with TypeScript support gpac.io/2025/06/19/a...

2025/2026 Video Developer Report Survey. We’re getting ready for the 9th Annual Bitmovin Video Developer Report, and every voice helps build a clearer view of where the video industry stands — and where it’s going. Your input matters! bitmovin.typeform.com/vdr-survey

Yiying presenting NSVC, Neural Representations for Scalable Video Coding at IEEE ICME 2025. Congratulation and well done!

Today, we will host a panel at IEEE ICME 2025 on "Multimedia 2035: Trends, Challenges and Careers of the Future" together with Fernando Pereira and our wonderful panelists Zicheng Liu, Chang-Wen Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Frédéric Dufaux: 2025.ieeeicme.org/panel-multim...

Attending IEEE ICME 2025 welcome reception 😎

Wow, already 60 experts on my Video Tech starter pack: go.bsky.app/KMv5Lid

While we're doing our tutorial at ICME'25, there's also the MPEG meeting ongoing in Daejeon (KR). Here are some updates from enhanced compression beyond VVC capability (-27.27%) and neural network-based coding technology (-8.21%), from JVET-AM0006 freely available at jvet-experts.org.

Our tutorial on "Video Coding Advancements in HTTP Adaptive Streaming" with @hadiamirpour.bsky.social will start soon at IEEE ICME 2025.

Leaving LJU, next stop Nantes with layover in Paris for IEEE ICME 2025

Working hard and final preparations for our tutorial tomorrow at IEEE ICME 2025 in Nantes. See you there…

Austrian telco LIWEST selects AgileTV to develop TV-as-a-service platform www.tvbeurope.com/media-delive...

Big news for the European streaming landscape. Will this be transformative for RTL? Or are they catching a falling knife? deadline.com/2025/06/rtl-...

Breaking: RTL Group acquires Sky Deutschland in €150 million deal www.tvbeurope.com/business/rtl...

Full specifications released for HDMI 2.2 www.tvbeurope.com/media-delive...

MOQtail Draft 11-compliant Media-over-QUIC (MoQ) libraries for publisher, subscriber (moqtail-ts) and relay (moqtail-rs) components with a sample application using the Low Overhead Media Container (LOC) format. moqtail.dev

Please welcome our newest ATHENA member and welcome back; it‘s actually a new one, the old one was broken. Downtime was a few days but it felt like months 😂

Streaming Viewership Surpassed Cable and Broadcast Combined for the First Time Ever in May, Nielsen Finds. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Games Intersectional at Klagenfurt University is organizing an online symposium for underrepresented voices in games, including queer, BIPOC, disabled, neurodivergent, migrant and other marginalized researchers, devs, students, artists. Apply here: gamesintersectional.github.io/gi-symposium...

Check out the 13 entries of our last #klujam 🎉 It was part GSE (Game Studies and Engineering) students, part psychology students working on two different blends: Making a game in 48h & making a game that fosters wisdom & wise decision! 🧠 Find the entries at itch.io/jam/klagenfu... #gse #gamejam 🎮✨

Up to 4 Predoc Scientist Positions (all genders welcome) in our Karl Popper Kolleg (graduate school) entitled “FruitScope: A DroneScope for Smart Agriculture”. Application deadline: August 20, 2025 multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2025/06/up-t... #AcademicSky 🧪

Kind reminder: Invitation to Submit Proposals for Hosting QoMEX 2026 and 2027 Deadline: June 20th, 2025 qomex.org/hosting/

VVC in the Spotlight: Post NAB Impressions www.linkedin.com/pulse/vvc-sp...

„Ich möchte ein Eisbär sein“ 😂(sorry, this doesn’t translate well to English)

„iPhone-exclusive trailer for its forthcoming F1 The Movie film that vibrates in time with the action“ reminds me about our research on sensory effects or Mulsemedia, see our paper from 2014 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

What’s new in HTTP Live Streaming 2025: developer.apple.com/streaming/Wh...

Austrian Game Industry Experts (Pioneers of Game Development Austria) visit our department ITEC @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social on Friday, 13 June, between 11.45am and 06.00pm in S.2.42. Programm and free registration here: itec.aau.at/austrian-gam...