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Michael Ransburg



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Research Projects:

2004 - 2006: DANAE (Dynamic and Distributed Adaptation of scalable multimedia coNtent in a context-Aware Environment) FP6-2002-IST-1 507113
     --> Task Leader: Distributed Adaptation Framework
     --> Completed with the highest EC rating ("good to excellent project")

2006 - 2008: ENTHRONE Phase 2 (End-to-End QoS through Integrated Management of Content, Networks and Terminals)

2008 - 2010: SCALNET (Scalable Video Coding impact on Networks)
     --> Work Package Leader: Access Network and Backbone

2008 - 2010: SCALIPTV (Scalable Video Based Provisioning of TV and VoD Services over the Internet)
     --> Local Coordinator



Conference Papers:

Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Generic Streaming of Multimedia Content, Proc. of the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2005), Grindelwald, Switzerland, Feb. 2005 [ITEC/TR]

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Transport Mechanisms for Metadata-driven Distributed Multimedia Adaptation, Proc. of the First International Conference on Multimedia Services Access Networks (MSAN 2005), Orlando, Florida, June 2005 [ITEC/TR]

 Andreas Hutter, Peter Amon, Gabriel Panis, Eric Delfosse, Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Automatic Adaptation of Streaming Multimedia Content in a Dynamic and Distributed Environment, Proc. of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), Genova, Italy, September 2005 [ITEC/TR]

 Chris Poppe, Michael Ransburg, Saar De Zutter, Rick Van de Walle, Interoperable Affective Context Collection using MPEG-21, Proc. of International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Multimedia Networks (ICWMMN), Hangzhou, China, November 2006 [ITEC/TR]

 Michael Ransburg, Renaud Cazoulat, Benoit Pellan, Cyril Concolato, Saar De Zutter, Chris Poppe, Andreas Hutter, Hermann Hellwagner, Rik Van de Walle, Dynamic and Distributed Adaptation of Scalable Multimedia Content in a Context-Aware Environment, Proc. of the European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006), Alghero, Italy, September 2006 [ITEC/TR]

 Michael Ransburg, Sylvain Devillers, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Processing and Delivery of Multimedia Metadata for Multimedia Content Streaming, Proc. of the 6th Workshop on Multimedia Semantics - The Role of Metadata (WMSRM07), Aachen, Germany, March 2007 [ITEC/TR]

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Sylvain Devillers, Hermann Hellwagner, Design and Evaluation of a Metadata-Driven Adaptation Node, Proc. of the 8th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2007), Santorini, Greece, June 2007 [ITEC/TR]

 Michael Mackay, Michael Ransburg, David Hutchison, Hermann Hellwagner, Combined Adaptation and Caching of MPEG-4 SVC in Streaming Scenarios, Proc. of the 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2008), Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2008

Michael Ransburg, Hubert Gressl, Hermann Hellwagner, Efficient Transformation of MPEG-21 Metadata for Codec-agnostic Adaptation in Real-time Streaming Scenarios, Proc. of the 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2008), Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2008

C. Timmerer, M. Ransburg, I. Kofler, H. Hellwagner, P. Souto, M. Andrade, P. Carvalho, H. Castro, M. Sidibé, A. Mehaoua, L. Fang, A. Lindsay, M. Mackay, A. Lugmayr, and B. Feiten, An Integrated Management Supervisor for End-to-End Management of Heterogeneous Contents, Networks, and Terminals enabling Quality of Service, Proc. of the 2nd European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EUMOB 2008), Oulu, Finland, July 2008



Journal Papers:

Robert Kuschnig, Ingo Kofler, Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Design Options and Comparison of In-network H.264/SVC Adaptation, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, August 2008



Book Chapters:

Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, and Hermann Hellwagner, Dynamic and Distributed Multimedia Content Adaptation based on the MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework, in: Mathias Lux, et.al. (eds.), Multimedia Semantics: The role of Metadata, Springer, February 27, 2008 [Springer]

Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, and Hermann Hellwagner, Generic Multimedia Content Adaptation, long article, in: Borko Furht (ed.), Encyclopedia of Multimedia, 2nd edition, Springer, October 2008 [Springer]



Books:
 
Michael Ransburg, Codec-agnostic Dynamic and Distributed Adaptation of Scalable Media, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, March, 2009 [Amazon]



Thesis':

Michael Ransburg, Design und Prototyp-Implementierung einer MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation Engine, Master Thesis, University Klagenfurt (Prof. Hellwagner), 2003 [ITEC/TR]

Michael Ransburg, Codec-agnostic Dynamic and Distributed Adaptation of Scalable Multimedia Content, PhD Thesis, University Klagenfurt (Prof. Hellwagner), June 2008



International Standards:

Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 21000-7:2004/Amd.2:2007, Information technology – Multimedia framework (MPEG-21) – Part 7: Digital Item Adaptation – AMENDMENT 2: Dynamic and Distributed Adaptation

Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 14496-12:2005/Amd.1:2007, Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 12: ISO base media file format – AMENDMENT 1: Support for timed metadata, non-square pixels and improved sample groups [Public ISO Standard]

Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 21000-7:2007, Information technology – Multimedia framework (MPEG-21) – Part 7: Digital Item Adaptation

Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 14496-4:2004/Amd.24:2008, Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 4: Conformance testing – AMENDMENT 24: File format conformance



Other Publications:

Michael Ransburg, Codec-Agnostic Dynamic and Distributed Adaptation of Scalable Multimedia Content, PhD Abstract, Fourth ACM SIGMM eNewsletter, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Dezember 2008 [ACM]



Awards, Certificates, ...:

ISO/IEC Certificate of Appreciation for serving as a Project Editor in the development of several International Standards, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), June 2008 [PDF]

ISO/IEC Certificate of Appreciation for serving as a Project Editor in the development of several International Standards, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), July 2009 [PDF]



Project Proposals:

Celtic Call 4: Received Celtic Label for IIV@IMS (Innovative Interactive Video Services and Usages on Fixed and Mobile IMS-based Networks) project

Celtic Call 5: Received Celtic Label for SCALNET (Scalable Video Coding impact on Networks) project
     --> Work Package Leader: Access Network and Backbone



Patents (not including pending patents):

Method for synchronizing content-dependent data segments of files [DE102005016866A1][EP000001869860A1][ WO002006108750A1]



Reviews:

Referee for CLUSTER 2005, WIAMIS 2006, AXMEDIS 2006, ACM Multimedia 2007, SMAP 2007, Springer book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation and EUMOB 2009.



Demonstrations:

Michael Ransburg, 73th MPEG Meeting - Seminar on MPEG-21: An Overview of the Multimedia Framework with exhibition of developments: Demo Session: Distributed Adaptation Framework, July 2005.

Michael Ransburg, 77th MPEG Meeting - Demo Session: Distributed Adaptation Framework with Application Layer Multicast, July 2006.

Michael Ransburg, Demonstration of dynamic and distributed adaptation in the DANAE project, Midterm Audit of the DANAE EU-IST Project, September 2005

Michael Ransburg, Demonstration of dynamic and distributed adaptation in the DANAE project, including cross-session adaptation and adaptation to display size, Final Audit of the DANAE EU-IST Project, June 2006



Talks:

Michael Ransburg, Treatment of Extensive Multimedia Metadata in Multimedia Content Streaming Scenarios, Minema Workshop on a Scalable Adaptive Multimedia Delivery Middleware, Klagenfurt, Austria, June 2007

Michael Ransburg, ENTHRONE Integrated Management Supervisor - Architecture and Interfaces, ENTHRONE Workshop, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2008



DANAE Deliverables:

M. Ransburg et al., D3.3.2 - Distributed Adaptation Framework Concepts, Architecture and Tools Specification, DANAE Consortium, Confidential, June 2006.

R. Cazoulat, A. Cotarmanac, M. Ransburg et al., D2.1.2 - DANAE System Architecture Specification, DANAE Consortium, Confidential, June 2006.

A. Bhusate, P. Goulev, L. Kamara, T. Regner, J. Pitt, M. Ransburg, M. Zufferey, D3.1.1 - Context Collection, Monitoring and Updating Mechanisms Specification, DANAE Consortium, Confidential, June 2006.

E. Delfosse, F. Sanahuja, G. Panis, A. Graffunder, I. Wolf, M. Ransburg, M. Zufferey, B. Pellan, C. Concolato, C. Timmerer, I. Kofler, D3.2.1 - Dynamic Adaptation Engine Specification, DANAE Consortium, Confidential, June 2006.

A. Graffunder, M. Ransburg, S. Rauthenberg, M. Wien, F. Sanahuja, D5.1.1 - Streaming Server Specification, DANAE Consortium, Confidential, June 2006.

T. Regner, J. Barria, P. Amon, H. Kockelkorn, M. Ransburg, F. Sanahuja, D7.1.1 - Business Model Analysis Report, DANAE Consortium, Confidential, June 2006.

Official MPEG Output Documents:

Christian Timmerer, Sylvain Devillers, Michael Ransburg, TuC for DIA AMD/2 , ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N7725, Nice, October 2006

 Michael Ransburg et al., Workplan for CE on AdaptationQoS terms for stream timing, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N7860, Bangkok, January 2006

 Michael Ransburg et al., Workplan for CE on DIA extensions for BSD-based adaptation, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N7859, Bangkok, January 2006

 Christian Timmerer, Sylvain Devillers, Michael Ransburg, TuC for DIA AMD/2 , ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N7856, Bangkok, January 2006

 Christian Timmerer, Sylvain Devillers, Michael Ransburg, DoC of Comments on ISO/IEC 21000-7 PDAM/2, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N8080, Montreux, April 2006

 DANAE Consortium, Whitepaper on MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation , ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N8083, Montreux, April 2006 [MPEG]

Co-Editor, MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation Overview Presentation, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 N9184, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2007 [MPEG]



MPEG Input Contributions:

Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Status Report and Improvements of the MPEG-21 DIA Reference Software, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M10584, Munich, March 2004

 Gabriel Panis, Christian Timmerer, Joerg Heuer, Debargha Mukherjee, Michael Ransburg, Ingo Wolf, Andreas Hutter, Hermann Hellwagner, Report of CE on Bit-Stream Adaptation in Constrained and Streaming Environments, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M11405, Palma de Mallorca, October 2004

 Sylvain Devillers, Alexandre Cotarmanac'h, Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Metadata streaming use case and requirements, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M11638, Hong Kong, January 2005

 Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Gabriel Panis, J�g Heuer, Andreas Hutter, Report of CE on Bit-Stream Adaptation in Constrained and Streaming Environments, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M11706, Hong Kong, January 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Sylvain Devillers, Alexandre Cotarmanac'h, Comments and Suggestions on the DIA Configuration Tool, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12026, Busan, April 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Support for Timed Metadata in the MPEG-21 File Format, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12023, Busan, April 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Streaming Instructions for Distributed Media Adaptation, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12004, Busan, April 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Tools and Mechanisms Enabling Dynamic and Distributed Adaptation within the MPEG-21 Framework, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12027, Busan, April 2005

 Sylvain Devillers, Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Alexandre Cotarmanac'h, XML Streaming Instructions: response to the CfP for Digital Item Streaming, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12199, Poznan, July 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Sylvain Devillers, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Alexandre Cotarmanac'h, Media Streaming Instructions: response to the CfP for Digital Item Streaming, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12200, Poznan, July 2005

 Sylvain Devillers, Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Alexandre Cotarmanac'h, Properties Style Sheet: response to the CfP for Digital Item Streaming, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12201, Poznan, July 2005

 Sylvain Devillers, Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Alexandre Cotarmanac'h, Complex-mode Streaming Instructions: response to the CfP for Digital Item Streaming, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12203, Poznan, July 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Proposed amendments to 14496-12 and/or 21000-9 for storage of timed metadata, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12332, Poznan, July 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Eric Delfosse, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Proposed DIA extensions: AdaptationQoS for DI Streaming, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12333, Poznan, July 2005

 Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Comments on DI streaming requirements, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12363, Poznan, July 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Sylvain Devillers, Joseph Thomas-Kerr, Christian Timmerer, Report of Core Experiment on Fragmentation for DI Streaming, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12701, Nice, October 2005

 Michael Ransburg, Sylvain Devillers, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Alexandre Cotarmanac'h, Demonstration of gBSD-based Adaptation in Streaming Scenarios, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12634, Nice, October 2005

 Sylvain Devillers, Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Alexandre Cotarmanac'h, Updates on Media and XML Streaming Instructions, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12650, Nice, October 2005

 Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Preliminary comments on 21000-7 PDAM/2, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12869, Bangkok, January 2006

 Sylvain Devillers, Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Report of CE on DIA extensions for BSD-based adaptation, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13007, Bangkok, January 2006

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, User Characertistics Terms for AQoS Classification Scheme, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12925, Bangkok, January 2006

 Michael Ransburg, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner, Stream Timing Terms for AQoS Classification Scheme, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M12926, Bangkok, January 2006

 Michael Ransburg, Sylvain Devillers, Report of CE on DIA extensions for BSD-based adaptation, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13184, Montreux, April 2006

 Michael Ransburg, Truong Cong Thang, Sylvain Devillers, Report of CE on Stream Timing Terms for AQoS Classifciation Scheme, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13185, Montreux, April 2006

Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Austrian NB comments on ISO/IEC 21000-7 PDAM/2, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13304, Montreux, April 2006

Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Austrian NB comments on ISO/IEC 21000-18 CD, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13305, Montreux, April 2006

Thomas Rathgen, Michael Ransburg, Peter Amon, Andreas Hutter, Review of the SVC file format VM , ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13542, Klagenfurt, July 2006

Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Contribution to Reference Software for ISO/IEC 21000-7 DIA AMD/2: Simple Mode XML Fragmenter, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13560, Klagenfurt, July 2006

Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Preliminary comments on 14496-12 FPDAM/1, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13561, Klagenfurt, July 2006

Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Review of CE on BSDL extensions, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13562, Klagenfurt, July 2006

Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Michael Zufferey, Hermann Hellwagner, Preliminary comments on 21000-7 FPDAM/2, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13583, Klagenfurt, July 2006

Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Contribution to ISO Base Media File Format Reference Software, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13959, Hanghzou, October 2006

Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Austrian NB comments on ISO/IEC 21000-7 FPDAM, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M13987, Hanghzou, October 2006

Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Conformance files & Update of Reference Software for ISO/IEC 21000-7 DIA AMD/2: Simple Mode XML Fragmenter, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M14137, Marrakech, January 2007

Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Contribution to Reference Software for ISO/IEC 14496-12 AMD/1: Test Data, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M14138, Marrakech, January 2007

Michael Eberhard, Michael Sablatschan, Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, gBSDtoAU for MPEG-21 DIA Reference Software and Conformance Bitstreams, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M14231, Marrakech, January 2007

Christian Timmerer, Sylvain Devillers, Michael Ransburg, Editor's input on Draft MPEG-21 DIA 2nd edition, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M14341, San Jose, April 2007

Christian Timmerer, Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Austrian NB comments on ISO/IEC 23000-5 CD, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M14461, San Jose, April 2007

Michael Ransburg, Hermann Hellwagner, Contribution to Conformance for ISO/IEC 14496-12 AMD/1, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M14487, San Jose, April 2007

Thomas Rathgen, Michael Ransburg, Peter Amon, Andreas Hutter, Hermann Hellwagner, Extraction path description, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M14494, San Jose, April 2007

Michael Ransburg, Thomas Rathgen, Peter Amon, Andreas Hutter, Hermann Hellwagner, Terms and definitions for the SVC file format, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 M14495, San Jose, April 2007