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- Effective October 2024, I am officially retired. I’ll continue to work on the Horizon Europe project “Scalable Platform for Innovations on Real-time Immersive Telepresence” (SPIRIT), though.
- October 3, 2024: It was a pleasure to give my „farewell lecture“ and be part of a great farewell event. Lecture slides: in German / in English.
- October 3, 2024: I am honored to have received the award „Großes Ehrenzeichen des Landes Kärnten“, presented by Landeshauptmann Dr. Peter Kaiser (governor of the federal state Carinthia) as part that farewell event.
Verleihung des Großen Ehrenzeichens; LPD Kärnten / Kuess
- August 31, 2023: I delivered a keynote presentation „Advances in Edge-Based and In-Network Media Processing for Adaptive Video Streaming“ to the IEEE MIPR 2023 conference in Singapore.
- December 28, 2022: I am honored to have received the „Appreciation Award 2022 in Science and Engineering“ („Würdigungspreis 2022 für Naturwissenschaften / technische Wissenschaften“) from the federal state Carinthia, a prize awarded every four years for outstanding scientific achievements.
- October 2022: The Horizon Europe project “Scalable Platform for Innovations on Real-time Immersive Telepresence” (SPIRIT) started. Most important partners: Ericsson GmbH, Deutsche Telekom AG (and associated companies), Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Ghent University, University of Surrey.
Research Group
The research group „Multimedia Communication (MMC)“ was founded and led by Prof. Hermann Hellwagner.
The research activities of the group were in the areas of
- Adaptive video streaming: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH)
- Multimedia Quality of Service/Experience (QoS/QoE)
- 360° video and point cloud streaming over 5G; edge computing
- Standardization within ISO/IEC MPEG
- Communication in UAV systems
The focus of the MMC group was clearly on adaptive delivery of audio-visual contents.
The group actively participated in several international and national research projects on all levels, ranging from basic research to application-oriented projects and direct cooperation with industry.
In teaching, the MMC group covered the technical courses of the Informatics study programme such as Computer Organization, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Servers and Clusters, Multimedia Technology, and Adaptive Media Streaming.
Most of the work is being continued by Prof. Christian Timmerer and his research group and projects.
