Research Projects

During my different appointments I have been leader and coworker of several national and international research projects.

• Project leader
  • Austrian Science Fund-Project 15170: Adaptive Security Techniques for Visual Data in Wavelet-based Representation (January 2002 - December 2003)
  • Austrian Science Fund-Project 13903: Parallel Algorithms for Wavelet-based Video Coding (March 2000 - March 2003)
  • Industry funded project with Dallmeier Electronic GmbH (Rosenheim, Germany) and DGK (Traunstein, Germany): Wavelet Compression for Video Surveillance Applications (October 1999 - September 2001)
  • Project 6900 of the ``Jubiläumsfonds'' of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank: Fast block-matching algorithms for multimedia applications (April 1998 - October 2000)
  • ParWave: Project 11745 of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart HLRS (1999 - 2003)
  • Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing: Parallel Wavelet/Fractal Compression (1999 - 2003)
  • NIC Jülich: Parallel Algorithms for Wavelet-based Video Compression (2000 - 2001)
• Project coordinator (proposal writing, coordination, executive project leader)
  • Austrian Science Fund-Project 13732: Object-based image and video compression with Wavelets (July 1999 - March 2003)
  • Austrian Science Fund-Project 11045: Adaptive, Parallel and Hybrid Wavelet Image Coding (Februar 1996 - Juni 1999)
• Project coworker
  • COOPERATE: Austrian ministry for education, science, and research funded project on ``Distrubuted and Cooperative Working Environments''
  • VROEIG: Austrian ministry for education, science, and research funded project on ``Virtual Reality and the Austrian Information Society''
  • PARAGRAPH (Parallel Graphics): Austrian ministry for education, science, and research funded project on parallel computer graphics in the framework of the Austrian Center for Parallel Computation (ACPC).
  • CEI-PACT Project (Programming Environments, Algorithms, Applications, Compilers and Tools for Parallel Computation): Austrian ministry for education, science, and research funded project on parallel processing in the framework of the Central European Initiative (CEI).
  • EERP-Project ``Wavelet transform of Rough Surfaces'': Project on the analysis of clean room particle counts and chip surfaces, funded by DEC CEC-Vienna.