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Thomas Wiegand is Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the Technical University of Berlin chairing
the Image Communication laboratory and is jointly heading
the Image Processing department of the Fraunhofer Institute
for Telecommunications – Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin,
Germany.
He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering
from the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany,
in 1995 and the Dr.- Ing. degree from the University of
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 2000. He joined the Heinrich
Hertz Institute in 2000 as the head of the Image
Communication group in the Image Processing department and
remains also active in this role. His research interests
include video processing and coding, multimedia transmission,
semantic image representation, as well as computer vision
and graphics.
From 1993 to 1994, he was a Visiting Researcher at Kobe
University, Japan. In 1995, he was a Visiting Scholar at the
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. From 1997 to
1998, he was a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University,
USA and served as a consultant to 8x8, Inc., Santa Clara,
CA, USA. From 2006-2008, he was a consultant to Stream
Processors, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA. From 2007-2009, he was
a consultant to Skyfire, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA. Since
2005, he is a member of the technical advisory boards of
Vidyo, Inc., Hackensack, NJ, USA.
Since 1995, he is an active participant in standardization
for multimedia with successful submissions to ITU-T VCEG,
ISO/IEC MPEG, 3GPP, DVB, and IETF. In October 2000, he was
appointed as the Associated Rapporteur of ITU-T VCEG. In
December 2001, he was appointed as the Associated Rapporteur
/ Co-Chair of the JVT. In February 2002, he was appointed as
the Editor of the H.264/AVC video coding standard and its
extensions (FRExt and SVC). From 2005-2009, he was Co-Chair
of MPEG Video.
In 1998, he received the SPIE VCIP Best Student Paper Award.
In 2004, he received the Fraunhofer Award for outstanding
scientific achievements in solving application related
problems and the ITG Award of the German Society for
Information Technology. In 2009, he received the Innovations
Award of the Vodafone Foundation, the EURASIP Group
Technical Achievement Award, and the Best Paper Award of
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology.
Since January 2006, he is an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
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