Finished projects

The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the DFG Priority Program Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments (AUDICTIVE).

Project duration: Jan. 2021 - Dec. 2023

Interactive virtual environments (IVEs) aim to replace real-world sensory input with corresponding streams of artificial stimulation. If successful, such a replacement will make the technology transparent and allow the user to interact naturally in a virtual world. IVEs bring new challenges to quality evaluation and render current evaluation approaches in the audio and video communities partially inapplicable. The QoEVAVE project aims at finding and closing the gaps in current quality evaluation methodologies for audio and video, and examines the feasibility of inferring quality from human behavior in an IVE.

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The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - 437543412

Project duration: September 2020 - August 2023

The project "Effect of photos in social media" (SoPhoAppeal) deals with the aesthetics of photos in the context of social media websites.

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The project was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Project duration: 2020 - 2023

The proposed large-scale device is a system for the production and analysis of high-quality media content, which represents the essential measurement signal for algorithms and systems for processing, encoding, transmission and playback of media signals. The audiovisual (A/V) measurement signals are enriched with metadata at every point in the end-to-end chain and as part of measurements or user tests.

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The project was funded by the Zentralen Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM).

Project duration: June 2018 - May 2020

With previously used methods for noise measurement, no reliable correlation of the measured noise level to the source to be identified is established. As part of the MSensNet project, methods and technologies for noise immission measurement in outdoor areas were developed with the measurement and studio microphone manufacturer Microtech Gefell.

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The project is funded by Deutsche Telekom AG (Telekom Innovation Laboratories).

Project duration: 2016 - 2019

The goal of this project was to develop quality control solutions for current and emerging technologies in the application areas of video streaming, web experience and virtual reality.

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The project was funded by the Zentralen Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM).

Project duration: March 2018 - March 2019

In the ZIM cooperation project "Network-based stereoscopic camera array system for audiovisual production of 360° movies for cinema and virtual reality applications" (NestVR360) with the company Stereoscopic Technologies GmbH (stereotec), a multi-camera system with synchronized camera and lens controls for stereoscopic 360° cinema production was investigated.

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The project was sponsored by Huawei Technologies CO. Ltd.

Project duration: 15.11.2017 - 14.11.2018

In the research project in collaboration with Huawei company, the focus was to investigate the user-perceived quality (Quality of Experience, QoE) in omnidirectional videos (videos that map the whole room) in live streaming scenarios.

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The project was funded by the Zentralen Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM).

Project duration: October 2014 - May 2018

The goal of the project was the development of a parameterized model, which is able to evaluate the quality of voice transmissions via VoIP.

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The project was funded by the Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (ZIM).

Project duration: 2015 - 2017

Within the framework of the ZIM project VerMi (Networked Microphones), which was carried out together with the industrial partner Microtech Gefell, hardware and software components for the transmission of microphone signals and metadata via Ethernet were developed.

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The project was funded by Deutsche Telekom AG (Telekom Innovation Laboratories).

Project duration: 01.11.2015 - 31.03.2016

The aim of this project is to identify quantitative relationships between measured Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of an ICT service and collected information about the perceived quality of this service.

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