Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI)
Einsteinufer 37
10587 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 30 31002 433
philipp.merkle@hhi.fraunhofer.de
Philipp Merkle received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 2006 and 2016, respectively.
He joined Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications – Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, in 2003 and has been a Research Associate since 2006. Since 2005, he has been an active participant in standardization activities of ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) with successful contributions to the Multiview Video Coding (MVC) amendment of the H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard, and the multiview and 3D video extensions of the H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. His research interests include 3D video and television, MVC, representation and compression of multiview video plus depth scenes, free viewpoint video, 2D and 3D video-based rendering, and 3D scene reconstruction.
He received the Rudolf-Urtel Prize of the German Society for Technology in Television and Cinema for his journal paper on MVC in IEEE Transactions on Cicuits and Systems for Video Technology in 2006. He received the EURASIP Best Paper Award for his journal paper on multiview depth compression in Signal Processing: Image Communication (Elsevier) in 2014.