Biography

Detlev Marpe received the Dipl.-Math. degree (with highest honors) from the Technical University of Berlin (TUB), Germany, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in Computer Science from University of Rostock, Germany. He is Head of the Video Coding & Analytics Department and Head of the Image & Video Coding Group at Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin. He is also active as a part-time lecturer at TUB.

For nearly 20 years, he has successfully contributed to the standardization activities of ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC JPEG, and ISO/IEC MPEG in the area of still image and video coding. During the development of the H.264 | MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard, he was chief architect of the CABAC entropy coding scheme as well as one of the main technical and editorial contributors to its Fidelity Range Extensions (FRExt) including the now ubiquitous High Profile. Marpe was also one of the key people in designing the basic architecture of Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Multiview Video Coding (MVC) as algorithmic and syntactical extensions of H.264 | AVC. He also made successful contributions to the recent development of the H.265 | MPEG-H High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, including its Range Extensions and 3D extensions.

For his substantial contributions to the field of video coding, he received numerous awards, including a Nomination for the 2012 German Future Prize, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award 2011, the 2009 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize 2004, and the Best Paper Award of the German Information Technology Society in 2004. As a co-editor and key contributor of the High Profile of H.264 | AVC as well as a member and key contributor of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding for the development of H.265 | HEVC, he was corecipient of the 2008 and 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, respectively.

Detlev Marpe is author or co-author of more than 200 publications in the area of video coding and signal processing, and he holds numerous internationally issued patents and patent applications in this field. His current citations are available at Google Scholar. He has been named a Fellow of IEEE, and he is a member of the DIN (German Institute for Standardization) and the Information Technology Society in the VDE (ITG). He also serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. His current research interests include image and video coding, signal processing for communications as well as computer vision and information theory.