Biography

Thomas Schierl received the Diplom-Ingenieur degree (passed with distinction) in Computer Engineering from the Berlin University of Technology (TUB), Germany in December 2003 and the Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften (Dr.-Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (passed with distinction) from Berlin University of Technology (TUB) in October 2010.

Since 2010, Thomas is head of the Multimedia Communications Group in the Image Processing Department of Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin. Since September 2004, Thomas is a Senior Researcher in the Image processing department of Dr. Ralf Schäfer and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wiegand, where Thomas is responsible as a project manager for various scientific as well as Industry-funded research projects.

Thomas is the co-author of various IETF RFCs, beside others he is author of the IETF RTP Payload Format for H.264 SVC (Scalable Video Coding), the IETF RTP Payload for Multi View Coding (MVC) as well as of the IETF RFC updating RTP - RFC 3550 - On Rapid Synchronization of RTP flows (RFC 6051). In the ISO/IEC MPEG group, Thomas is co-editor of the MPEG Standard on Transport of H.264 SVC as well as H.264 MVC over MPEG-2 Transport Stream. Thomas is also a co-editor of the AVC File Format.

Typically, he is participating MPEG, IETF, 3GPP and DVB meetings.

In 2007, he visited the Image, Video, and Multimedia Systems group of Prof. Bernd Girod at Stanford University, CA, USA for different research activities.

Thomas' research interests include real-time media delivery over IP networks, which may be mobile or wired, with or without infrastructure (e.g., Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)), or based on traditional as well as on overlay/Peer-to-Peer (P2P) mobile IP-TV approaches. Currently, Thomas is working on mobile media content delivery over HTTP.