Dr.-Ing. Aljoscha Smolic

Aljoscha Smolic was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1969. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 1996, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical and information engineering from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany, in 2001.

He joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI), Berlin, Germany in 1994 and is employed as Scientific Project Manager since 2001. He has been involved in several national and international research projects, where he conducted research in various fields of video processing, video coding, computer vision and computer graphics and published more than 80 referred papers in these fields. In this context he has been involved in ISO standardization activities where he contributed to the development of the multimedia standards MPEG-4 and MPEG-7. In current projects he is responsible for research in free viewpoint and 3D video processing and coding, augmented reality, 3D reconstruction and video-based rendering. Since 2003 he is Adjunct Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and teaches Multimedia Communications and Statistical Communications Theory.

Dr. Smolic received the “Rudolf-Urtlel-Award” of the German Society for Technology in TV and Cinema (FKTG) for his dissertation in 2002. He is Area Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication and Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on CSVT and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is Committee Member of several conferences, including ICIP, ICME, and EUSIPCO. He chaired the MPEG ad hoc group on 3DAV pioneering standards for 3D video. Currently he is editor of the Multi-view Video Coding (MVC) standard and co-chairs a working group of the JVT for MVC.

His research is reflected in his scientific publications and MPEG contributions.