Multimedia Realtime Systems

Fraunhofer IIS is the leading international research institution in the field of high quality low bit rate audio coding. It has been the main developer of the most advanced audio coding schemes, like MPEG Layer-3 (MP3) and MPEG AAC (Advanced Audio Coding). In its Audio & Multimedia Realtime Systems departments, a team of 100 engineers focuses on the development of audiovisual solutions.

Research items of the business field Audio & Multimedia include:

• Audio and video coding
• Surround audio technologies
• Audio communication technologies
• Semantic audio processing
• Technologies for digitale broadcasting systems
• Multimedia security technologies
• Real-time implementations

Fraunhofer IIS contributes to standardization boards like MPEG, 3GPP, AES, DMDA, DRM, DVB, DVD, EBU, ISMA, ITU-R WP6A and ITU-R WP6Q.

The Audio & Multimedia Realtime Systems departments of Fraunhofer IIS have joined with the Fraunhofer Institue for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau into an Audio & Multimedia (AMM) departments cluster. The research of Fraunhofer IDMT focuses on the development of new media technologies for professional markets as well as for the home entertainment sector.