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Thomas Wiegand

 

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.