In terms of research, this means performing, or participating in, excellent research projects both on the fundamental research and on the application-oriented levels. Projects of the former type were and are being funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (currently, ASSSV), examples of the latter are several projects (DANAE, ENTHRONE II, INTERMEDIA) within the EC FP6 Framework Programme (see "Projects"). In terms of publication platforms, highly ranked journals and conferences in the field are targeted, such as IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, or the International Conference on Image Processing (see "Publications").

Technology transfer is being pursued by either directly transferring our research expertise and results into applications (such as in the ANET multimedia tour guide project) or cooperating bilaterally with industry players like Frequentis GmbH (project ANTARES) or Siemens AG (project RealBiM). A specific type of effort in this area has been the group’s long-standing and intense contribution to standardization within the ISO/IEC MPEG group, mainly on MPEG-21, the Multimedia Framework.

In teaching, we are committed to giving high-quality lectures and lab courses. The teaching activities are linked with, and specifically benefit from, the research activities, most directly in that current and challenging topics for Master theses and internship work are provided within the research projects.