Research in audiovisual content analysis, search & retrieval and summarisation
multimedia metadata and digital film restoration
Career
Werner Bailer received a degree in Media Technology and Design from the Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences (Upper Austria) in 2002 for his diploma thesis on "Motion Estimation and Segmentation for Film/Video Standards Conversion and Restoration".
He is working at the Institute of Information Systems since 2001 and has been involved in a number of national and European research projects in the area of audiovisual archiving, digital cinema production, digital film restauration and quality analysis and interactive TV. He has experience in development of image and video processing algorithms, metadata modelling and software architectures.
Since 2007 he is working on a PhD thesis on the topic of multimedia content abstraction.