Marian Kogler studied informatics at Klagenfurt University with a focus on distributed multimedia systems. Beside his studies he worked at the M3-Systems research lab and at BAP enterprise, developing enterprise resource planning software.  He finished his studies in April 2009 with his master’s thesis entitled “command protocols in distributed and video-supported traffic management systems“, which was written as part of a national project with ASFINAG as the industrial partner.  He joined the Distributed Multimedia Systems group in May 2009, where he is currently working on his PhD thesis within a Lakeside Labs research project called SOMA.

Klaus Schöffmann received his Ph.D. degree (Dr.techn.) from Klagenfurt University in June 2009. In his Ph.D. thesis he investigated possibilities to combine video browsing, video retrieval, and video summarization in order to allow for immediate video exploration. His current research focuses on user-centric video search, including user interfaces, content visualization and interaction models for video search and retrieval as well as integration of users and their potential knowledge about the content to be found.  He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications on video browsing, video exploration, and video content analysis. Furthermore, he teaches various courses (ranging from programming languages over operating systems to multimedia systems) and he has (co-)organized special sessions at international conferences and workshops. He is a member of the IEEE society and a reviewer for international conferences and journals in the field of multimedia.

Anita Sobe finished her master´s degree in informatics at Klagenfurt University in spring 2008. She wrote her diploma thesis at the NEC Network Labs in Heidelberg about the interworking of the Generic Bootstrapping Architecture and the Liberty Alliance Identity Provider in IMS-based IPTV systems. 
Before that, she completed an internship (Praxissemester) at the IBM Zurich Research Lab. She teaches practical courses in distributed systems and programming. In her current research as a university assistant, she is concentrating on self-organizing multimedia delivery.

Martina Steinbacher graduated from  the business school Feldkirchen in 1996. In the years following she served as the front-office-manager in a hotel. During winter seasons she was responsible for the administration of a ski school and also worked as a skiing instructor. She joined the Distributed Multimedia Systems group in 2001 and since then has handled the various administrative activities of  the research group and of ITEC. In particular, she is in charge of project management, conference organization and graphic design activities.

Mario Taschwer completed his  master´s degree in mathematics and physics at Vienna University in 1996. Between 1998 and 2001 he worked as a university assistant  for the System Security research group at Klagenfurt University´s Institute of Applied Informatics. After a year of working as a free RTLinux consultant and developer for FSMLabs Inc. in Austria, he was employed by Quant-X GmbH, St. Veit/Glan, as an HPC (High Performance Computing) consultant in 2002. Since 2003 he has been responsible for managing the server systems and networking infrastructure at ITEC, where he also gives courses in computer organization and compiler construction.

Roland Tusch is currently a Postdoc researcher in the Lakeside Labs project “Self-organizing Multimedia Architecture” (SOMA) at Klagenfurt University. His current research interests focus on the development of a common architecture for self-organizing multimedia systems, which can easily be specialized for various application domains. One of the target domains is the traffic domain, where this self-organizing multimedia architecture helps to rapidly detect and verify traffic situations on the roads, and to improve the accuracy of published traffic messages. He received both his master and PhD degree in applied computer science from Klagenfurt University.

Stefan Wieser studied applied computer science at Klagenfurt University. After conducting independent research projects in bioinformatics during an exchange semester at the University of Northern Iowa, USA, he moved to the University of Tasmania, Australia, to perform research on video acquisition on unmanned underwater vehicles in cooperation with the Australian Maritime College. During this time, he was also responsible for tutoring computer science related classes. He completed his Master of Computing in 2008 with high distinction  and then began his current work on self-organizing networks back at Klagenfurt University. Currently, he is focusing on communication and network topologies in self-organizing systems and networks, in cooperation with the Lakeside Labs, SOMA project.