Main Responsibilities

• Head of Web-based information systems group
• deputy of director

 
Career

Harald Mayer was awarded a MSc (Technical Mathematics - branch: information sciences) by the University of Technology in Graz for his master thesis "Progressive Transmission and Compressed Storage of Digital Images".

Since 1990, Harald Mayer works as a research engineer and project manager with JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Institute of Information Systems. His areas of experience and interest cover Web based information systems and multimedia technology. He was also lecturing at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz (Unix seminar).

He has about 9 years experience in project management and published about 20 papers within his research areas.

• APOSDLE - Advanced Process-Oriented Self-Directed Learning Environment
• BIRTH - Building of an Interactive Research and Delivery Network for Television Heritage
• CLINICIP - Closed Loop Insulin Infusion for Critically Ill Patients
• INNONETZ - Innovations- und Kompetenznetzwerke: Grundlagen, Förderung und Evaluierung
• PRESTO - Preservation Technologies for European Broadcast Archives
• RAA - Recognition and Analysis of Audio
• Scalex - Scalable Exhibition Server
• UAd - Understanding Advertising
• Web of Data

• Content-based Identification of Audio Titles on the Internet
• Content-based video retrieval and summarization using MPEG-7
• Deploying Multimedia Metadata in Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web
• Deployment scenarios of DVEs in Education
• Ein offenes, multimediales Lernsystem für Fachhochschulen
• IMB - Ein XML-basiertes Retrievalframework für digitales Audio und Video
• NEW MEDIA FOR A NEW MILLENIUM: SEMANTISCHE SYSTEME FÜR DIE PRODUKTION VON NICHTLINEAREN, INTERAKTIVEN MEDIEN
• Real Time Monitoring of Radio and TV Broadcasts
• Robust Sound Modeling for Song Detection in Broadcast Audio
• Standardized Access to Broadcast Archive Catalogue Data
• Virtual European School (VES)
• Virtual European School - A Multimedia Service for Teachers and Pupils
• Virtual European School - An Infrastructure to Deliver High-quality Contents to Second-level Schools
• Visualizing Results from Transient Flow Simulations
• Vom audiovisuellen Content zum semantischen Wissensraum
• XML and MPEG-7 for Interactive Annotation and Retrieval using Semantic Meta-data