Sensory Experience Lab

Call for Papers
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)

Multiple Sensorial (MulSeMedia) Multi-modal Media: Advances and Applications

Multimedia applications have primarily engaged two of the human senses – sight and hearing. With recent advances in computational technology, however it is possible to develop applications that also consider, integrate and synchronize inputs across all senses, including tactile, olfaction, and gustatory. This integration of multiple senses leads to a paradigm shift towards a new mulsemedia (multiple sensorial media) experience, aligning rich data from multiple human senses. Mulsemedia brings with itself new and exciting challenges and opportunities in research, industry, commerce, and academia. This special issue solicits contributions dealing with mulsemedia in all of these areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Continue reading →

Fifth International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience
QoMEX 2013
3-5 July 2013
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria
http://www.qomex2013.org
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The fifth international workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience
(QoMEX) will bring together leading professionals and scientists
interested in evaluating multimedia quality and user experience. QoMEX
is the flagship workshop of the European COST action Qualinet, which
serves as its technical and financial sponsor. After San Diego (2009),
Trondheim (2010), Mechelen (2011), and Yarra Valley (2012), QoMEX 2013
will be held in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria.
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SELab is offering a number of Master Theses and an SW-Internship. In the following an overview of the different offers is given.

• Master Thesis or SW-Internship on the Development of an Online Annotation Tool for Sensory Effects
• Master Thesis on the Evaluation of Scent Effects
• Master Thesis on the Evaluation of Different Color Algorithms

Interested students should contact us for additional information via selab [at] itec [dot] uni-klu [dot] ac [dot] at

We are happy to announce that we are going to attend this year’s ACM Multimedia 2012 (ACMMM’12), Nara, Japan (29. Oct.-2. Nov).

At the ACMMM 2012, we will present our open-source software at the Open-Source Software Competition (OSSC). The title and the abstract of the OSSC paper are:

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Special thank to the organizers of QoMEX2012 which was a wonderful event. We attended with two papers as announced previously. With this post we’d like to provide our presentations given during the workshop.

The first presentation presents our joint work with RMIT and UoW on the impact of sensory effects on QoE and emotional response in Web videos.

The second presentation provides our dataset and test setups which we’ve used for our previous subjective quality assessments in this domain.

Finally, the 5th Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience 2013 will be hosted in Klagenfurt, Austria. More details to come soon, stay tuned…

We are happy to announce our MPEG-V Validator which is available here.

The validator offers the possibility to validate descriptions for MPEG-V Part 2 (CIM), 3 (SEM), 4 (VWOC), and 5 (IIM). This can either be done via file upload, URL or direct input of the description. Furthermore, the validator checks not only schema compliance but also semantic compliance of a description as specified in the corresponding parts of the standard.

Feel free to test the MPEG-V validator (examples are provided) and provide us with your feedback.