Data Analytics & Visual Computing

Data analytics and visual computing help to filter useful information out of huge volumes of complex data. Researchers in the data analytics focus area use automated data analysis methods from the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science and statistics in order to process data. Visual computing research is centred on generating and processing visual information.

The increasing quantity of readily available data is opening up numerous opportunities to enhance technological advances and commercial success in various fields. But data collection and storage are developing more rapidly than our ability to analyse that data and use it to support decision making. The data analytics and visual computing research focus provides support in teasing meaningful information out of large quantities of data.

Data visualisation is about transforming numbers and images. It makes complex information more accessible to users, opening up new insights and promoting increases in knowledge. Visual analytics overcomes the related challenges by combining visual perception and human judgement with the strengths of automated, IT-based data analysis. Research into computer vision is focused on obtaining information from image and video data, and automating people’s visual capabilities.

Institutes & Research Groups

Institute of
Media Economics
Media systems in flux, new organisational forms and business models, and the effect and use of media
Institute of
Creative\Media/Technologies
Digital Technologies, Media Computing, Media Creation
Institute of
IT Security Research
Security Management & Privacy, System & Application Security, Applied Security & Data Science
Research Group
Media Computing

Projects

MEETeuX

Multi-Device Ecologies Towards Elaborate User Experience discusses issues of relevance regarding interaction design and user experience design and aims at an integrated use of media technology...

VAST – Virtual Airspace and Tower

VAST aims at improving situation awareness of Air Traffic Control Officers and makes way for new technologies in European aviation.

DALICC – Data Licenses Clearance Center

DALICC is a software framework that supports the automated clearance of rights thus supporting the legally secure and time-efficient reutilization of third party data sources.

VALiD - Visual Analytics in Data-Driven Journalism

Visual Analytics in Data-Driven Journalism: As data journalists face increasingly complex and heterogeneous data, the research project works on suitable Visual Analytics methods and their...

VisOnFire. Understanding and visualizing workflows

Visual Analysis of Large and Heterogeneous Scientific Workflows for Analytical Provenance. - A new visual forensic tool realizes the visualisation of data analysis workflows and helps to increase...

InfraBASE: automatic analysis of satellite imagery

The project deals with the fully automatic analysis of satellite imagery. The goal is to extract a pixel-accurate segmentation of building roofs to generate a rich meta-data layer.

ImmBild

Location is key – especially when it comes to real estate value. “ImmBild” aims at developing a new method for estimating property value using computer vision of satellite data.

KAVA-Time – How man and machine analyze data

Knowledge-Assisted Visual Analytics Methods for Time-Oriented Data. New methods will take advantage of explicit expert knowledge in the Visual Analytics process of data.

Pitoti 3D

Italy’s petroglyphs were carved into rock faces by prehistoric cultures. This project sets out to investigate and document the 3D nature of these petroglyphs for the first time.

ImmoAge

Year of construction, architectural period and architectural style have a significant impact on property prices. New methods of classifying and evaluating real estate have been developed on the...

SoniControl - the first ultrasonic firewall

The project SoniControl aims at developing an application to detect and block unwanted audio tracking on mobile devices.

SoniTalk

While interconnectedness amongst our devices increases rapidly, SoniTalk aims at developing an open protocol for ultrasonic device communication that fully preserves the privacy of the user.

ContractVis - a visual assistant for the small print

The ContractVis application translates the wording of contracts into clear visual results and helps to protect user rights.

InnoFIT - novel forecasting tools

Improvement of forecasting processes and planning quality with the use of information technologies to increase the competitiveness of Austrian companies in the global market.

Researchers

Dr. Wolfgang Aigner
  • Head of Research Institute
    Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies
  • Lecturer
  • Department of Media and Digital Technologies
P: +43 (676) 847 228 611
Dipl.-Ing. Peter Kieseberg
  • Head of Research Institute
    Institute of IT Security Research
  • Lecturer
  • Department of Computer Science and Security
P: +43/676/847 228 696
FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Tassilo Pellegrini
  • Lecturer
  • Department of Media and Economics
P: +43/676/847 228 417
FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sebastian Schrittwieser Bakk.
  • Head of Research Institute
    Institute of IT Security Research
  • Head of Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks
  • International Coordinator
  • Department of Computer Science and Security
P: +43/676/847 228 648
FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Markus Seidl Bakk.
  • Head of Research Institute
    Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies
  • Head of
    Media Computing Research Group
  • Lecturer
  • Department of Media and Digital Technologies
P: +43/676/847 228 245
Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Marlies Temper Bakk.
  • Academic Director Data Science and Business Analytics (BA)
  • Department of Computer Science and Security
P: +43/676/847 228 711
FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Dr. Matthias Zeppelzauer
  • Senior Researcher
    Media Computing Research Group
    Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies
  • Department of Media and Digital Technologies
P: +43/2742/313 228 652