MWC Shanghai: Enter a New Transformative Era of Voice and Audio Communication

As networks expand beyond terrestrial coverage and user expectations continue to rise, reliable, immersive, and efficient audio becomes a decisive factor. Fraunhofer IIS addresses today's and tomorrow’s communication challenges at MWC Shanghai 2026 – enabling new services, broader coverage, and better user experiences.

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IMF workshops for experts in audiovisual archiving and preservation

Making movies is a costly and time-consuming endeavor, thus archiving and preserving them is crucial. A suitable file type for this task is the Interoperable Master Format (IMF), a recognized and SMPTE-standardized intermediate format for the creation and distribution of complex audiovisual content. On September 13, 2019, Siegfried Foessel, head of the Moving Picture Technologies department at Fraunhofer IIS and speaker of the Fraunhofer Alliance Digital Media, will chair a workshop...

Computer Science meets Musicology

Where else could the disciplines of computer science and musicology meet than in digital humanities – the intersection of digital technologies and humanities? This is precisely where Meinard Müller and Christof Weiß of the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen search for computational answers to musicological questions within the works of Richard Wagner and Ludwig van Beethoven.