Publications

Conference & Workshop Papers

ELLMPEG: An Edge-based Agentic LLM Video Processing Tool Z. Azimi, R. Farahani, R. Prodan, C. Timmerer 17th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), 2026

AI-Assisted Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems Z. Azimi Ourimi Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2026, pp. 363–367

Towards an Energy-Efficient Video Processing Tool with LLMs Z. Azimi, R. Farahani, C. Timmerer, R. Prodan 4th Mile-High Video Conference, 2025 · DOI

Predicting Encoding Energy from Low-Pass Anchors for Green Video Streaming Z. Azimi, R. Farahani, V.V. Menon, C. Timmerer 1st International Workshop on Intelligent and Scalable Systems Across the Computing Continuum (ScaleSys), 2025 · DOI

Towards ML-Driven Video Encoding Parameter Selection for Quality and Energy Optimization Z. Azimi, R. Farahani, V.V. Menon, C. Timmerer, R. Prodan 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 2024 · DOI

Decoding Complexity-Aware Bitrate-Ladder Estimation for Adaptive VVC Streaming Z. Azimi, A. Premkumar, R. Farahani, V.V. Menon, C. Timmerer, R. Prodan 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2024 · DOI

Preprints & Under Review

DQ-Ladder: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Bitrate Ladder for Adaptive VVC Video Streaming R. Farahani, Z. Azimi, V.V. Menon, H. Hellwagner, R. Prodan, C. Timmerer Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Towards AI-assisted Sustainable Adaptive Video Streaming Systems: Tutorial and Survey R. Farahani, Z. Azimi, C. Timmerer, R. Prodan arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.02302, 2024 · DOI

A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming S. Afzal, N. Mehran, Z. Azimi, F. Tashtarian, H. Amirpour, R. Prodan arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.09854, 2024 · DOI