Peter Kauff is the head of the "Immersive Media & 3D Video" Group at Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication from Technical University of Aachen, Germany in 1984. He has been with Heinrich-Hertz-Institute since then, involved in numerous German and European projects related to digital HDTV signal processing and coding, interactive MPEG-4-based services, as well as in a number of projects related to advanced 3D video processing for immersive tele-presence and immersive media. He has been engaged in several European research projects, such as EUREKA 95, RACE-project FLASH, ACTS-project HAMLET, COST211ter&quad, ESPRIT-Project NEMESIS, IST-Projects VIRTUE and ATTEST and the Presence Working Group of IST-FET Proactive Initiative.