AIMStream

What is AIMStream?

AIMStream is a Christian Doppler Laboratory bringing together academic research and industrial application in the field of multimedia streaming. Hosted at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), University of Klagenfurt, the laboratory investigates how artificial intelligence, adaptive networking, and edge computing can be combined to make video and immersive media delivery smarter, more efficient, and more resilient — from everyday video-on-demand to next-generation immersive formats.

In line with the Christian Doppler model of application-oriented basic research, the work is grounded in real-world streaming infrastructure, and results can be presented in the form of prototypes.

Three research pillars

Over its seven-year research program, AIMStream pursues foundational and applied work across three work packages (WP).

• WP 1

  Customer Experience & Engagement

  Understanding and improving how viewers experience streamed media in practice, through Quality of Experience (QoE) modeling, perceptual video quality assessment, and user engagement analytics.

• WP 2

  Scalable & Reliable Streaming

  AI-driven delivery mechanisms that scale to global, heterogeneous networks: edge-assisted, network-aware delivery and low-latency transport over QUIC and HTTP/3.

• WP 3

  Immersive Video Streaming

  Looking ahead to the next generation of volumetric and interactive visual media, covering 3D/4D Gaussian Splatting and immersive delivery.

Academic and industry partners

The laboratory is carried out in close collaboration with two industry leaders, Bitmovin and Tencent, and is funded within the Christian Doppler Research Association.

Key facts

Project start

January 2027

Format

Christian Doppler Laboratory, seven-year research program

Host

Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Industry partners

Bitmovin, Tencent

Laboratory director

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Farzad Tashtarian

Contact

farzad.tashtarian@aau.at