• Kickoff meeting: Monday, February 7, 2011 at 11:00 am in our seminar room (building A5, room: C112 ).
  The goal of the meeting is to answer questions about the Teleseminar, to build teams and to organize the travel to Oslo. Bring your passport or ID so that we can directly book the flights at the end of the meeting. Please send an email to me if you are interested to participate in the teleseminar but cannot make it on Monday.
  
  
• A short trip to Oslo University is planned during the first week of the semester (February 14-16). Travel costs will be paid.
  
  
• Please, send an email to Prof. Effelsberg, Stephan Kopf or Benjamin Guthier if you want to participate (the date of your application decides whether you can participate or not).
  
  

Nowadays, it has become quite normal for computer scientists to work on an international team after they graduate. For example, consulting companies often form such international teams, with colleagues with specific competences from all over the world, to work on customer problems, using their laptops, no matter where they currently are. We intend to create a similar setting for our students in order to train them for this new scenario.

 It is the purpose of this joint seminar between six European Universities to bring together researchers and students from several places to do joint work. Another cornerstone of this joint seminar are joint six-week long lab assignments. Students from the University of Oslo (NO), Lancaster University (UK), Technical University of Darmstadt (DE), University of Mannheim (DE), and Helsinki University of Technology (FIN), and University of Coimbra (P) are encouraged to collaborate together to fulfill the mandatory requirements for this joint course. The participating universities have outstanding research groups, and it will be quite beneficial for students on both sides to learn more about international state-of-the-art research and cooperation.

The teleseminar in the Spring of 2011 will discuss advanced topics multimedia or in in future internet. The final topics depend on the interests of the students. Each participating institution provides recorded lectures held by participating European researchers. The talks will be made available as lecture recordings (videos).

The teleseminar might include the following topics in the area of multimedia:

• Content aware image and video retargeting
  Intelligent algorithms to change the resolution of images and videos
• High dynamic range (HDR) images and videos
  Image regions captured by a camera are often too dark or too bright, which makes it impossible to recognize details in some areas. HDR images overcome these problems by combining over- and underexposed pictures.

 The following topics might be selected in case a topic in the area of computer networks:

• Mobile IP
• Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
• Peer-to-Peer systems and architechtures
• Energy Efficient Sensor Networks
• Game Applications in Peer-to-Peer Networks

We will have a meeting at one of the partner Universities in February or March 2011, give an introduction to the topic and build small international teams. In a subsequent cooperation phase of approximately 6 weeks, the teams will cooperate from their home locations, working on lab assignments, prepare a short joint paper (10 page IEEE style), and present and discuss their results.

For Mannheim students the participation will either count as a seminar (3 or 4 ECTS points), as a ”Programmier-Praktikum” (6 ECTS points), or as a "Studienarbeit", depending on the amount of work you are planning to spend.

If you are interested in a really exciting international experience we invite you to apply for this teleseminar. :

• In Mannheim, please send an email with information about your studies and standing so far to Professor Effelsberg (effelsberg(at)informatik.uni-mannheim.de) .
• If you have any questions, please contact Stephan Kopf.
• The date of your application decides whether you can participate or not.