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Today is the last day of the Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, but it's not yet the end of it. We'll host a closing symposium on October 7, 2026, to recap "Seven Years of Adaptive Streaming Research and What Comes Next" athena.itec.aau.at/2026/09/athe...

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 28/09/2026

Coffee ☕️ and Villacher Torte 🎂

A cup of black coffee paired with a generous slice of layered cake filled with berries and cream, topped with chocolate.

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Noa Zilberman @n4noa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🧑‍💻I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join the TECAN project at Oxford. If you are an expert in wired networks, hold a PhD in EE or CS, and have a passion for sustainability, consider applying! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTB009/

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Sustainable Computer Networks at University of Oxford

An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Sustainable Computer Networks is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 27/09/2026

Since 2008, I have been actively reporting on the outcomes of the #MPEG meetings, which occur four times each year. If you are interested in accessing the MPEG news archive, you can find it here: multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2013/04/mpeg...

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MPEG News Archive

This blog post provides a list of recent MPEG news reports which I'm compiling after every MPEG meeting I'm attending. I thought it's a g...

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 27/09/2026

Reza Farahani, Zoha Azimi Ourimi, Christian Timmerer, and Radu Prodan. 2026. Towards AI-Assisted Sustainable Adaptive Video Streaming Systems: Tutorial and Survey. ACM Comput. Surv. 58, 15, Article 378 (November 2026), 37 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3838...

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Towards AI-Assisted Sustainable Adaptive Video Streaming Systems: Tutorial and Survey | ACM Computing Surveys

Improvements in networking technologies and the steadily increasing number of users, as well as the shift from traditional broadcasting to streaming content over the Internet, have made video applicat...

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 26/09/2026

Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have all announced their intentions to start watermarking #AI-generated text. But will this change the meaning or quality of the output writing? buff.ly/n7UPbZi

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Ian Nock @ian.nock.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Forecast: 47m Starlink subs by 2028 www.advanced-television.com/2026/09/24/f...

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Forecast: 47m Starlink subs by 2028 | Advanced Television

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 25/09/2026

Prepare your submissions; at this time, only an extended abstract is required to secure a spot in the program. Full paper (optional) comes at a later stage.

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Proceedings of the IEEE @proceedingsieee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please join us in congratulating the recipient of the 2026 Proceedings of the IEEE Best Paper Award: "Object Detection in 20 Years: A Survey" by Zhengxia Zou, Keyan Chen, Zhenwei Shi, Yuhong Guo, and Jieping Ye Read the paper: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/100... #computervision #objectdetection

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 24/09/2026

Congrats Ayman ( @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social ) for receiving best paper award for “AGSR: Aperture-Guided Super-Resolution for Gaussian Splatting” at IEEE MMSP 2026. Paper abstract available here: AGSR: Aperture-Guided Super-Resolution for Gaussian Splatting

A Best Paper Award certificate from IEEE MMSP 2026 in Istanbul, Türkiye, presented to Ayman Alkhateeb, Hadi Amirpour, and Christian Timmerer for their paper “AGSR: Aperture-Guided Super-Resolution for Gaussian Splatting.”

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Computer History Museum Slovenia @racunalniskimuzej.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A new exhibition is just about ready! Source Code Exhibition will open next week, on Tuesday. If you're near Ljubljana join us for the grand opening with a guest of honor, Daniel Temkin! www.racunalniski-muzej.si/en/event/sou...

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 23/09/2026

If you're an academic attending NAB, the Broadcast Engineering and IT (BEIT) conference is the perfect opportunity to share the latest results with industry professionals working in this field.

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 23/09/2026

Interesting, "Multimedia Signal Processing: A history of the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee"; article is from 2023, still relevant and I wonder what has changed. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/101...

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 22/09/2026

Congratulations to @hadiamirpour.bsky.social (@uniklagenfurt.bsky.social) for winning the Multimedia Rising Star award at IEEE MMSP 2026. attend.ieee.org/mmsp-2026/ca...

Two conference attendees pose together in a bright venue in front of an IEEE banner. One holds an open certificate while the other stands beside him with a conference badge and phone, capturing a moment of recognition or award presentation at an IEEE event.

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The old internet @theoldinternet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On September 18, 1995, the Netscape Communications Corporation launched Netscape Navigator 2.0 as its new major product.

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 02/09/2026

6 papers from ATHENA Lab + international collaborators to be presented at IEEE MMSP 2026, Sept 22-24 in Istanbul, Türkiye! Gaussian Splatting streaming, super-resolution, stereo bitrate optimization, 360° video, adaptive encoding. athena.itec.aau.at?s=MMSP #MMSP2026

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 20/09/2026

We will have a huge presence at MMSP’26 and we will host MMSP’27 in Klagenfurt, Austria, @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social, @hadiamirpour.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/timm...

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 20/09/2026

Nice initiative worth to be followed (👀 @robin.berjon.com et al.)

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 19/09/2026

📢 DCC 2027 paper deadline: Oct 2, 2026! Highlights for JVET experts: 🎤 Keynote by Mathias Wien: “Beyond VVC” 🎬 Special Session: Video Coding & Quality Optimization 🟣 Special Session: Gaussian Splatting Compression Submit now: datacompressionconference.org/information-... See you in Snowbird! ❄️

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Data Compression Conference - Information for Authors

All submitted manuscripts must be PDF files that satisfy:

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 18/09/2026

Had some nice coffee ☕️ in a new cafe today #coffee

Close-up of an espresso in a white Caffè Nannini Siena cup on a turquoise outdoor café table. A glass of water, wrapped brown sugar, spoon, flower vase, and bottle surround the cup, with parked cars softly blurred in the background.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/09/2026

Summer xkcd.com/3299/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 16/09/2026

Funny, I just received a pop-up saying that my browser quit unexpectedly. I clicked "Ignore" and continued working as if nothing had happened. In fact, I'm writing this post in this browser right now 😂

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tvbeurope.bsky.social @tvbeurope.com · 15/09/2026

Bitmovin's annual Video Developer Report reveals AI has stopped being an add-on feature and is now deployed across the entire stack, often with agents operating the workflow. www.tvbeurope.com/media-delive...

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Report: AI is running the video stack; business case for MoQ continues to grow - TVBEurope

Bitmovin's annual Video Developer Report reveals AI has stopped being an add-on feature and is now deployed across the entire stack, often with agents operating the workflow

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 15/09/2026

Shape the future of resilient networked systems Three Research Area Managers (job description here: lakeside-labs.com/about/careers/) Details about the project are available here: bettstetter.com/arc-funding/

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Jobs – Lakeside Labs

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Gianni Rosato @giannirosato.com · 14/09/2026

Might be one of my more controversial posts: "The case against JPEG XL" Link: giannirosato.com/blog/post/ca... 🫡 #compression #jpegxl #av1

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The case against JPEG XL | Gianni Rosato

Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 13/09/2026

If you can’t make for the ACM MMSys 2027 submission deadline in September, there’s a 2nd chance in November!

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 12/09/2026

Prepare your submissions for this unique opportunity to connect academia with industry on recent video technology!

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 11/09/2026

Mohammad and @hadiamirpour.bsky.social will attend IEEE ICIP 2026 and present "Energy and Compression Efficiency in Large-Scale Video Streaming". Read the abstract here: athena.itec.aau.at/2026/05/6468/

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Energy and Compression Efficiency in Large-Scale Video Streaming | ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory

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Multimedia Conference DL Countdown @mmcountdown.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

📬 ⚡ 3 days left VCIP 2026 — Notification 🗓 Sep 14, 2026 🔗 vcip-2026.org #VCIP2026 Fingers crossed for good news! 🤞

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 11/09/2026

I've updated @mmcountdown.eurosky.social by adding IEEE ICC & GLOBECOM Communication Software and Multimedia symposia, resp.; add'l fixed some deadlines, updated readme (which lists now supported conferences). Please let me know in case something is missing or needs updates - thanks!

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 10/09/2026

Invitation to Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA Closing Symposium: Seven Years of Adaptive Streaming Research and What Comes Next Wed, 7 October 2026, 14:00-17:00 @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social · Stiftungssaal · Room O.0.0.1 Free admission, program, registration: athena.itec.aau.at/2026/09/athe...

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 10/09/2026

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Christian Timmerer @timmerer.com · 10/09/2026

Nice present from Korean guest researcher Hyewon who will be here at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social working in the field of video/feature coding for machines

Korean tea and coffee gifts arranged on a table. A premium Jeju Island tea set contains Halla Bong citrus tea and green tangerine tea, alongside a bag of Maxim instant coffee sticks. Handwritten notes provide preparation instructions for the Korean citrus tea and sweet coffee.

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