Participating Institutions & Organizations

by marc — last modified Mar 12, 2007 04:55 PM

The following institutions and organizations actively contribute to the MPEG-7/21 Community.

Institute National de Science Appliqués de Lyon

Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, RWTH Aachen University

Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry

JOANNEUM RESEARCH JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

Klagenfurt University, Department of Information Techology (ITEC)

Lehrstuhl Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen University

Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany

Department D5: Databases and Information Systems

Vienna University of Technology, Interactive Media Systems Group

Website of the Interactive Media Systems Group of the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at) of the Vienna University of Technology (http://www.tuwien.ac.at).

University of Vienna - Multimedia Information Systems Group

Website of the Multimedia Information Systems Group at the University of Vienna. The group is part of the Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems located in the Faculty of Computer Science.

Lehrstuhl für Verteilte Informationssysteme, Universität Passau

The chair of Prof. Kosch is engaged in both teaching and research related to DIstributed and Multimedia Information Systems (DIMIS). We actively contribute to the ongoing MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standardisation efforts in the areas of efficient metadata encoding, adaptation of multimedia content, and development of the MPEG-7 query language. Our other research interests lie in the conception of a distributed platform for interactive television and its efficient operation in the home environment using mobile devices, as well as in topics in Grid-based database systems.