Based on the extensive knowledge available at JOANNEUM RESEARCH in regards to visual processing, metadata enrichment and visual quality assessment in combination with innovative AI based methods, JOANNEUM RESEARCH conducts research on methods providing important information to make the authoring process quicker, less tedious and the resulting immersive presentation a high quality experience.
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JOANNEUM RESEARCH is a non-profit organisation concentrating on applied research with a highly qualified staff of more than 400 people. Services include specifically geared research tasks for small and medium-sized companies, complex interdisciplinary national and international assignments as well as tailored techno-economic consulting. JOANNEUM RESEARCH participates in setting up and organizing national competence centres as well as in numerous large international projects. DIGITAL - the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies - specialises in web and internet technologies, image, video and acoustic signal processing together with remote sensing, communication and navigation technologies. Results of our research are implemented in hardware and software resulting in application-oriented solutions advancing the scientific state of the art. The institute has participated in more than 100 EC and ESA funded projects since the Third Framework Programme. Early projects concentrated on developing algorithms for digital film and video restoration, resulting in DIAMANT, one of the worldwide leading commercial systems. Since several years JOANNEUM RESEARCH carries out R&D into methods for automatic analysis of video based on their large knowledge base from media analysis including automatic film restoration and content-based indexing, summarisation and retrieval. JOANNEUM RESEARCH has been involved in a large number of EU and national projects dealing with audio-visual content analysis, digital preservation and media production. The Smart Media Solutions Team at JOANNEUM RESEARCH has a strong background in developing technologies for visual content analysis and support for media production and deploying them as applications and services to be integrated with other manufacturer’s systems.
Hannes Fassold
Senior Researcher
Hannes Fassold received a MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Graz University of Technology in 2004. Since then he works at JOANNEUM RESEARCH, where he is currently a senior researcher at the Connected Computing Group of DIGITAL — the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies. His main research interests are algorithms for digital film restoration and content-based video quality analysis as well as the efficient parallelization of these algorithms on the GPU. He has published several publications in these fields and coordinates the GPU related research activities at DIGITAL.
Georg Thallinger
Research Manager Smart Media Solutions
Georg holds a Dipl.-Ing. (MSc.) in Telematics from Graz University of Technology. Since 1992 he works with JOANNEUM RESEARCH, DIGITAL - Institute of Information and Communication Technologies. As the head of business area Smart Media Solutions he is responsible for the implementation of innovative solutions in the areas of content based analysis and retrieval of audiovisual media, media monitoring, traffic telematics and security. He has successfully managed numerous national and international projects in the field (e.g. DIAMANT, FascinatE, ICoSOLE). Georg is particularly interested to apply research results from the fields stated above to new application domains and to use it for technology transfer.
Werner Bailer
Key Researcher
Werner Bailer received a degree in Media Technology and Design in 2002 for his diploma thesis on motion estimation and segmentation for film/video standards conversion. His research interests include digital film restoration, audio-visual content analysis and retrieval as well as multimedia metadata. He is working on a PhD thesis on multimedia content abstraction. He regularly contributes to standardisation in the MPEG, EBU/AMWA and the W3C.