Research areas of the DMS group are:

• Self-organizing video delivery
• Adaptation based on advanced video coding
• Video summarization and non-linear video browsing
• Content managemet for rich multimedia
• Multimedia metadata and semantics
• Social computing in multimedia
• Scene-based adaptation and video retargeting
• Programming languages and compilers for multimedia applications
• History of computer science and eistemological backgrounds of cognition

The areas of research and keywords of important results of the MMC group are summarized as follows:

• Communication and adaptation of multimedia content w.r.t. network, device, and usage contexts: 
   
  • Adaptive video streaming server and protocols
  • Knowledge-based multimedia adaptation
  • Ambient, personalized, user-centric multimedia
    
    
• Standardization within the ISO/IEC MPEG group:
  
  
  • MPEG-21 DIA (Digital Item Adaptation within the Multimedia Framework)
  • Metadata compression (MPEG-B) and streaming
  • File format for MPEG-4 H.264/AVC - Scalable Extensions
    
    
• Distributed MPEG-21 infrastructure and multimedia QoS provisioning
  
  
  • Generic, distributed adaptation of scalable multimedia resources
  • Metadata streaming and compressed processing
  • Cross-layer QoS mapping and provisioning
    
    
• Prototype Adaptive Multimedia Tools and Services
  
  
  • MultiMundus and ANET tour guides