Team

Christian Timmerer is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group (MMC), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. His research interests include the transport of multimedia content, multimedia adaptation in constrained and streaming environments, distributed multimedia adaptation, and Quality of Service / Quality of Experience. He was the general chair of WIAMIS 2008 and EUMOB 2009 and has participated in several EC-funded projects, notably DANAE, ENTHRONE, P2P-Next, ALICANTE, QUALINET, and SocialSensor. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Computer Science Computing Now, Area Editor for Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication, and a Key Member of the Interest Group on Image and Video Coding of IEEE MMTC. He also participated in ISO/MPEG work for several years, notably in the area of MPEG-21, MPEG-M, MPEG-V, and DASH. He received his PhD in 2006 from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Publications and MPEG contributions can be found under http://research.timmerer.com, follow him on http://www.twitter.com/timse7, and subscribe to his blog http://blog.timmerer.com. Full bio can be found at http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/~timse/cv/.

Markus Waltl is a research assistant in the Multimedia Communication (MMC) research group at the Department of Information Technology (ITEC), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, where he received his B.Sc. (Bakk.techn.), M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) and PhD (Dr.techn.) degrees in Computer Science. His research interests are Quality of Experience, Sensory Effects and MPEG-V. Publications and MPEG contributions can be found under http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/~mwaltl/

Benjamin Rainer is a PostDoc researcher at the Department of Information Technology (ITEC) in the Multimedia Communication (MMC) research group, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, where he received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) and Ph.D. (Dr. techn.) degree with distinction in computer science. His research interests are audio/video encoding, parallel computing, Quality of Experience and ICN/NDN.