The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (FhG) is Europe’s biggest non-profit research organization consisting of currently 60 institutes for applied research. Fraunhofer IDMT, located in Ilmenau, Thuringia, conducts applied research in the field of digital media technologies. Its preferred business model is technology marketing of research results via licensing patents and software components to commercial customers for integration, or indirect technology marketing via integration partners. After being a subsidiary of Fraunhofer IIS (“Home of MP3”), the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT became an independent institute in January 2004. About 60 full-time employees along with the same number of students are working in various research fields, including e.g. acoustics, A/V analysis and search, security and privacy protection, interactive A/V applications, content distribution, copyright management, etc…
Know-how and technologies regarding visual analysis, media security and security, privacy protection and privacy-enhancement technologies, content aggregation and storage; know-how regarding collaborative project management, requirement analysis and system design