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This page gives you an overview on the various
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Acoustical Quality Control of Workpieces
Industrial production is always closely connected to quality
control. Already in the production process it has to be guaranteed
that only best quality products leave the factory. Until now,
the common test scenarios for the quality of rooftiles involved
a sound check which is usually done by sorters. Using the example of roofing tiles, the Fraunhofer
IDMT developed a method for the automated acoustical quality testing of workpieces.
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AudioID
Locating and identifying audio content has become a key issue
in today's music distribution business and database administration.
The AudioID system is a recognition technology that detects
audio material automatically and provides content information
like song title, interpret etc.
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Audio Source Localization
Within the project audio source localization the researchers
focus on the ability of the human hearing concerning the identification
and localization of sound sources. By means of modern technology
the properties of the human hearing are simulated in order
to apply them to new applications.
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Bass Drum Filter
With the new bass drum filter, it is now possible to switch specific individual audio tracks in songs to mute. The advantage over the EQ and the so-called Kill-switches: All other sounds, such as the bass line, are maintained without sound distortion.
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Beat Tracking
The synchronization of multimedia content to musical signals
often has real-time requirements. Thereby, the determination
of the temporal positions of beats in a piece of music is
of major importance. For this purpose, Fraunhofer IDMT developed
the so called Beat Tracking for the synchronization of any
audio and video software via a MIDI interface.
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CARROUSO
Within the EU-project Carrouso, European members from industry,
research und universities merged their expertise in the field
of advanced audio, multimedia and telecommunication. The key
object of the project was to provide a new technology that
enables the transfer of a sound field – in combination with
visual data – to any remote located space.
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Cochlear Implant Strategies
Millions of people are handicapped by severe hearing loss or deafness. Electronic inner ear prostheses, so-called cochlear implants, which try to substitute the function of the damaged inner ear, can improve the quality of life significantly. Thereby, the right sound processing strategy of the implants plays a decisive role for speech comprehension. The newly developed software, based on a neurophysiological modeling approach, achieves more natural pattern of activation of the cochlear implant electrodes, which manifests itself in more comfortable auditory sensation.
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DIVAS – Direct Video & Audio Search Engine
The IST project of the European Union DIVAS represents the combined efforts of eight companies and institutions to design and develop a multimedia search engine based on advanced direct video and audio search algorithms applied on encoded (compressed) content.
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DJ-Tools
The unique and innovative Harmonic Mixing Tool and Bass Drum Filter of the Fraunhofer IDMT provides you with two novel features that enhance your DJ software with significant WOW effects.
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EDMedia
Merging of recent findings in the areas of information and
communications technology, web-based learning, cognition and
user-centred system development efficiently supports online
learning. Simultaneously, this integration can powerfully
increase the learner's motivation and improve human learning.
Enhanced concepts of use and interaction are the basis for
success due to addressing the aspects of human recognition,
user acceptance and useful application.
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Flat Panel Loudspeakers
Why choose between flat design and good sound? The flat panel loudspeaker developed by Fraunhofer IDMT in cooperation with Sennheiser electronic combines both.
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Freebies
The music fans of today buy their albums less and less in
music stores – they rather simply recommend music to each
other and exchange files or CDs. This exchange of music happens
unfortunately mostly illegal. With the development of Freebies,
online sales could be increased and negative effects on the
music industry could be restricted.
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Gaze Communicator
In working with computers, disabled people are still handicapped.
Together with the Erlangen Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated
Circuits IIS and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar researchers
at Fraunhofer IDMT develop the so called Gaze Communicator
– an intelligent tool which will assist people with different
disabilities in their work with computers.
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GenreID
To help consumers find new tracks matching their preferred
music style, an application for musical genre description,
"GenreID", has been created by the Fraunhofer Institute.
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GestureID
GestureID enables the communication between human and machine via gestures based on a method of optical pattern recognition.
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Harmonic Mixing Tool
The Harmonic Mixing Tool of the Fraunhofer IDMT enhances your DJ software with a unique feature. DJs can now pick automatically recommended appropriate follow-up titles without having to undergo the tedious task of scanning large MP3 databases.
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HD-AAC
The new audio format MPEG High Definition AAC (HD-AAC) for lossless storage
of audio data is the ideal solution for demanding high-quality audio applications.
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HearingAssistance4Conferencing
HearingAssistance4Conferencing offers full voice communication over the telephone or Internet even under difficult acoustic conditions for normal hearing persons as well as for people with hearing deficiencies. Additional to an enhanced speech quality HearingAssistance4Conferencing compensates the hearing loss for hearing impaired people. Thereby, 80 percent of the users having a hearing loss, but not using a hearing aid, are enabled to communicate over the phone or Internet with better speech intelligibility and less hearing effort.
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IAVAS
Within the project “Interactive Audiovisual Application
Systems (IAVAS)” different object-based multimedia applications
on the basis of the MPEG-4 object and scene concept will be
developed. The focus lies on 2- and 3-dimensional scenes with
both natural and synthetic aural and visual elements.
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iKabel
Information Services and Interactive Services in Broadband Cable Networks
Within the public-funded research project iKabel, a technology platform will be developed, that enables service providers to broadcast information services and interactive services in broadband cable networks.
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IOSONO
IOSONO is the name for soft- and hardware products utilizing
the Wave Field Synthesis technology. Since December 2004,
the IOSONO products are distributed by the IOSONO GmbH.
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IOSONO Spatial Audio Workstation
The IOSONO® Spatial Audio Workstation (SAW) Plugin is a versatile, object-based authoring Plug-in and allows the user to easily create and edit complex sound scenes. These sound scenes can be played back through all standard multi-channel audio systems or through an IOSONO® sound system. The IOSONO® sound format allows for an immersive audio experience without the limitations of specific reproduction systems or speaker setups and offers future-proof mastering of auditory scene data.
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Melody Extraction for Music Games
With the automated Melody Extraction of the Fraunhofer IDMT, you will receive innovative software that quickly and reliably detects the melody even under difficult acoustic conditions. This tool is as such ideal for karaoke games that necessitate the compilation of the music according to the respective notes.
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MetaStoRe
Within the 11 months EU-project MetaStoRe partners from research
and industry cooperate in order to create an extensible metadata
base for international and alternative music for world-wide
usage.
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Mood-Player
Every day, people are exposed to a huge amount of visual and auditory stimuli. Nowadays, music and images are digitally stored and so the space on hard disks occupied by multimedia data is growing rapidly. Therefore organizing and retrieving photos and music has become very expensive and existing management options are often too cumbersome.
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Music Production Tools
There is an increasing number of tools in the field of music
production that facilitate the editing and mixing with the
help of automatically generated musical features. With metadata
technologies descriptions of music will be extracted and allocated
for different music production applications.
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Photo and Video Analysis
In addition to audio data, pictures and videos can be analyzed
due to distinctive recognition features. The aim is to reach
a better content based photo and video enquiry in archives,
online search portals and TV programs.
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PhotoID
The search for multimedia content can only be handled by effective
content based retrieval methods. "PhotoID" is a
method for finding images with similar content present in
a database by means of an image example.
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Photo Summary
Are your customers tired of having to painfully click through the rather unmanageably large collection of pictures from their last vacation? Why not make this time consuming selection process easier to handle? With Photo Summary, the Fraunhofer IDMT has developed a technology through which a representative selection can almost immediately be compiled from a digital photo collection.
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PotatoSystem
The PotatoSystem is a platform for music distribution via
the Internet. It aims at the protection of the common interests
of music producers and consumers.
Thus, the PotatoSystem makes customers to business partners
who can use and redistribute the purchased music files.
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Privacy4DRM
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research, Fraunhofer IDMT jointly with the Independent Centre
for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein and the Institute
of Media and Communication Science (TU Ilmenau) conducted
a survey about Digital Rights Management systems.
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Query by Humming
The Melody Search Query by Humming complements your music portal or your online music store with an attractive search facility: Instead of having to enter the title or artist of a song into a search box, the user simply sings or whistles the desired melody to the computer.
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Retrieval and Recommendation Tools
In contrast to text-based search engines, multimedia data
retrieval requires new specialized search methods due to the
non-explicit availability of the relevant information. Several
technologies for automatic multimedia analysis enable the
user to seek for music or images via semantic queries.
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Semantic HiFi
The goal of the European Union project "Semantic HiFi",
completed in 2006, has been the development of a new generation of intelligent
HiFi systems including new functionalities for browsing and
downloading of soundfiles and web catalogs as well as interacting
with further multimedia devices and the creation and rendering
of personalized playlists which play the music according to
the HiFi system.
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SIP-Toolbox
The quality of acoustic communication in everyday life strongly depends on the specific surroundings.
Therefore a reliable estimation of the perceived intelligibility, loudness or overall quality is essential for many applications.
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SoundPrism
Nowadays, thousands of titles are available to music lovers via television, internet or radio. This huge amount of content is difficult to overview. But how can you find the songs matching to your personal style and mood in this "music jungle"? The Fraunhofer IDMT has developed an innovative system that is able to analyze pieces of music and to recommend similar items to the user, thus serving as a fully automated recommendation engine.
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SoundsLike
Nowadays, thousands of titles are available to music lovers via television, internet or radio. This huge amount of content is difficult to overview. But how can you find the songs matching to your personal style and mood in this "music jungle"? The Fraunhofer IDMT has developed an innovative system that is able to analyze pieces of music and to recommend similar items to the user, thus serving as a fully automated recommendation engine.
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Spatial Mixing Desk
Professional audio technology requires the correct acoustic
perspective of sound perception. This calls for a sound system
which enables a perfect directional hearing and distance perception
for the listener. In close collaboration with Bregenz Festival
and Lawo AG, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology
developed a new spatial audio mixing desk. The system was
optimized for both static and dynamic sound sources and represents
the state-of-the-art of directional hearing.
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Spatial Pan System
Three-dimensional audio reproduction systems, such as the Wave Field Synthesis based
IOSONO® sound system, use a large number of speakers
to create a natural, spatial sound experience. With its Spatial
Pan system, Fraunhofer IDMT has developed an audio system for
spatial sound reproduction that manages with a reduced number
of loudspeakers.
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Speech and Noise Analysis
Metadata technologies are not only suitable for innovative
applications in the field of entertainment and music, but
also offer numerous interesting starting points for industrial
utilization.
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THESEUS
THESEUS is a research program initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi), with the goal of developing a new Internet-based infrastructure in order to better use and utilize the knowledge available on the Internet.
31 research institutions, universities, and companies – including nine institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft – have joined the THESEUS program with planned projects.
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Ultrafast Eye Tracker
Eye tracking is one of the key technologies in the field of
medical technology for eye diagnostics and surgeries. The
researchers in Ilmenau intend to develop an Ultrafast Eye
Tracker with more than 800 frames per second which takes high
speed pictures of the movements of the human pupil and analyzes
these pictures in real-time.
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Ultra Low Delay Coding
Digital transmission of audio signals requires very low encoding/decoding
delays. The new Ultra Low Delay Codec, developed on behalf
of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, obtains
a very low coding delay with basically no loss of compression
performance.
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Video Classification
The automatic methods of video classification based on
signal analysis analyze and classify features like mood
and genre in movies. This way, already existing manual
or collaborative movie description technologies can be
extended. Fraunhofer IDMT‘s automatic solution reasonably
supplements the manual and collaborative technologies for
content description. This creates new and more convenient
movie search opportunities.
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VoiceCam
Nowadays, video conferencing systems are part of the state-of-the-art
communication in companies. However, most of today’s video
conferencing systems are still expensive and quite complicated
to handle. Using motor driven webcams with PC based video
conferencing software is a low-price and easy-to-use solution.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer IDMT developed a voice controlled
camera solution for video conferencing via PC localizing and
tracking speakers in the surrounding environment.
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