Biography
Ralf Schäfer received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees both in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 1977 and 1984 respectively. In October 1977 he joined the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) in Berlin . From this time he worked in various fields of signal processing and image coding and he was leader of several research projects. Since 1989 he is head of the Image Processing Department. In the department he is responsible for about 50 researchers and technicians, about 40 students and about 30 R&D projects funded by the German Government (BMBF, BMWi), by the German Science Foundation (DFG), by the European Commission and by industries.
He participated in several European research activities like COST, EUREKA , RACE, ACTS, ESPRIT and IST and for a long period he was member of the Technical Module of the European DVB-project (TM-DVB), where he was chairing the Task Force on "Digital Terrestrial Television - System Aspects, which specified the DVB-T standard. He coordinated the German joint research projects HDTV-T, MINT and GigaMedia and INVINET.
Ralf Schäfer is member of the German "Society for Information Technology" (ITG), where he is chairman of experts committee "TV Technology and Electronic Media" (FA 3.1) and chairman of the experts group "Digital Coding" (FG 3.1.2). Furthermore he is member of the German "Society for Television and Motion Picture Technology" (FKTG), where he belongs to the URTEL Award Committee.
He serves permanently as independent expert and reviewer for the European Commission and he was Chairman or member of Programme Committees of many national and international conferences.
Ralf Schäfer is co-founder of the companies 2SK Media Technologies and MikroM GmbH.
In 1986 he received the paper award of the ITG, in 2000 the Richard Theile Medal of the FKTG and in 2001 the President's Award of the IBC.
|
Start
Staff