Thomas Wiegand

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Thomas Wiegand (born 1970 in Wismar, Germany) is a German electrical engineer who actively participated in the creation of the H.264/AVC video coding standard. He was one of the chairmen of the standardization committee (Joint Video Team (JVT) and the editor of the standard itself. He was also an active technical contributor to the standard. Wiegand is the head of the Image Communication Group in the Image Processing Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications – Heinrich Hertz Institute ([1]), Berlin, Germany. At Heinrich Hertz Institute, he is heading a research team ([2]) working on

Video processing and coding
Multimedia transmission
Semantic approaches in image processing
Coding, interactive streaming, and visualization of 3D environments

1 Education
2 Standardization
3 Awards
4 Other
5 References

[edit] Education

1995: Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
2000: Dr.-Ing. degree from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

[edit] Standardization

Since 2000: Associated Rapporteur of VCEG (Video Coding Experts Group - ITU-T SG16 Q.6)
Since 2001: Associated Rapporteur / Co-Chair of JVT
Since 2002: Editor of the H.264/AVC video coding standard and its extensions (FRExt and SVC)
Since 2005: Associated Chair of MPEG Video (Moving Pictures Experts Group - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11)

[edit] Awards

1998: SPIE VCIP Best Student Paper Award
2004: Fraunhofer Award (together with Detlev Marpe and Heiko Schwarz)
2004: ITG Award of the German Society for Information Technology (together with Detlev Marpe and Heiko Schwarz)

[edit] Other

1993-1994: Visiting Researcher at Kobe University, Japan]
1995: Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, USA
1997-1998: Visiting Researcher at Stanford University, CA, USA
1997-1998: Consultant to 8x8, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Since 2006: Member of technical advisory board of Layered Media, Inc, Rochelle Park, NJ, USA
Since 2006: Member of technical advisory board of Stream Processors, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA