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`Thomas Wiegand
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`Thomas Wiegand (born 6 May 1970 in Wismar) is a German electrical
`engineer who substantially contributed to the creation of the H.264/MPEG-4
`AVC and H.265/MPEG-H HEVC video coding standards. For H.264/MPEG-4
`AVC, Wiegand was one of the chairmen of the Joint Video Team (JVT)
`standardization committee that created the standard and was the chief editor
`of the standard itself. He was also an active technical contributor to both
`standards. Wiegand also holds a chairmanship position in the ITU-T VCEG
`and previously in ISO/IEC MPEG standardization organizations. In July 2006,
`the video coding work of the ITU-T jointly led by Gary J. Sullivan and Wiegand
`for the preceding six years was voted as the most influential area of the
`standardization work of the CCITT and ITU-T in their 50-year history.[1]
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`Contents
`Current work
`Early background
`Standardization
`Awards
`Other positions held
`References
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`Current work
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`Wiegand is Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and executive
`director of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute,[2] Berlin, Germany. He
`heads research teams working on
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`Video processing and coding
`Multimedia transmission
`Applied machine learning
`Mobile Communications (management)
`Computer Vision (management)
`Early background
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`Thomas Wiegand
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`Born
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`Thomas Wiegand
`May 6, 1970
`Wismar, Bezirk
`Rostock, East
`Germany
`Citizenship German
`Alma mater Technical University of
`Hamburg,
`University of
`Erlangen-Nuremberg
`Known for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
`video coding standard
`Primetime Emmy
`Engineering Award
`(2008),
`Karl Heinz Beckurts
`Award (2011),
`IEEE Masaru Ibuka
`Consumer Electronics
`Award (2012)
`Scientific career
`Fields
`Electrical engineering
`Institutions Berlin Institute of
`Technology
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`Awards
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`Thomas Wiegand was born in and spent his early life in East Germany, where he decided to make an apprenticeship as an
`electrician instead of studying, because everyone who wanted to go to the university had to serve for three years in the
`National People's Army which he chose to avoid. After the "Wende" he started to study electrical engineering at the
`Technical University of Hamburg, where he earned his Diplom in 1995. In the same year Wiegand stayed for some time as
`a guest scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2000 he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Erlangen-
`Nuremberg.
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`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)
`2005-2009: Associated Chair of MPEG Video (Moving Pictures Experts Group - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11)
`Since 2018: Chair of the ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H)[3]
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`Awards
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`1998: SPIE VCIP Best Student Paper Award (together with Eckehard Steinbach, Peter Eisert and Bernd Girod)
`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)
`2006: The video coding work of the ITU-T led by Gary Sullivan and Thomas Wiegand jointly since 2000 was voted as
`the most influential area of the standardization work of the CCITT and ITU-T in their 50-year history
`2008: Primetime Emmy Engineering Award (awarded to the JVT standards committee by the Academy of Television
`Arts and Sciences for development of the High Profile of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, for which Wiegand served as
`associated rapporteur/co-chair, editor, and technical contributor)
`2009: Paired Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards (one awarded to VCEG and one to MPEG (https://web.archiv
`e.org/web/20090327025620/http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/tech_2k8_winners.html) by the National
`Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard)
`2009: Group Technical Achievement Award of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) for active
`contributions to video coding research and standardization activities
`2009: Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (together with Heiko
`Schwarz and Detlev Marpe)
`2009: Innovation Award of Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications
`2010: Technology Award of Eduard Rhein Foundation (together with Jens-Rainer Ohm)[4]
`2011: Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to video coding and its standardization
`2011: Best Paper Award of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) (together with Karsten Müller,
`Aljoscha Smolic, Kristina Dix, Philipp Merkle and Peter Kauff)
`2011: Karl Heinz Beckurts Award (together with Heiko Schwarz and Detlev Marpe)
`2012: IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award - IEEE Technical Field Award
`2013: Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (together with Gary
`Sullivan, Jens-Rainer Ohm, and Woo-Jin Han)[5]
`2013: Best Journal Paper Award of the IEEE Communications Society MMTC (together with Patrick Ndjiki-Nya,
`Martin Koppel, Dimitar Doshkov, Haricharan Lakshman, Philipp Merkle and Karsten Müller)
`2013: International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) Leadership Award
`2013: Research Award for Technical Communication of Alcatel Lucent Foundation
`2014: Best Paper Award of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) (together with P. Merkle, Y.
`Morvan, A. Smolic, D. Farin, K. Müller and P.H.N. de With)
`2014: Richard Theile Medal of the German Television and Cinema Technology Society
`2015: ITU150 Award[6] (the other ITU 150 awards went to Bill Gates, Robert E. Kahn, Mark I. Krivocheev, Martin
`Cooper, and Ken Sakamura)
`2016: Elected member of the German National Academy of Engineering (Acatech)
`2017: Primetime Emmy Engineering Award (awarded to the JCT-VC standards committee of VCEG and MPEG by the
`Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the H.265/MPEG-H HEVC standard, for which Wiegand
`served as associated rapporteur of VCEG and technical contributor)
`2018: Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
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`Other positions held
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`1993–1994: Visiting Researcher, Kobe University, Japan
`1995: Visiting Scholar, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.
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`1997–1998: Visiting Researcher, Stanford University, California, USA
`1997–1998: Consultant to 8x8, Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA
`Since 2006: Member of technical advisory board, Vidyo, Inc., Hackensack, New Jersey, USA
`2006–2008: Member of technical advisory board, Stream Processors, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, USA
`2007–2009: Consultant, Skyfire, Inc. (acquired by Opera Software ASA), Mountain View, California, USA
`2011–2012: Visiting Professor, Stanford University, USA
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`References
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`1. "Video Coding Work Voted Most Influential" (https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155432/http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/ne
`wslog/Video+Coding+Work+Voted+Most+Influential.aspx). ITU-T Newslog. International Telecommunication Union.
`October 2, 2006. Archived from the original (http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog/Video+Coding+Work+Voted+Most+Influ
`ential.aspx) on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
`2. Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de) official web site.
`3. ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H) (https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4h/P
`ages/default.aspx)
`4. Technology Award of Eduard Rhein Foundation 2010 (http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/hauptseite_e.html)
`Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20081120123056/http://www.eduard-rhein-stiftung.de/html/hauptseite_e.html)
`2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
`5. CSVT Transactions – Best Paper Award (http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/csvt-transactions-best-paper-award)
`Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20130623002814/http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/csvt-transactions-best-pape
`r-award) 2013-06-23 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society web site.
`6. ITU150 Award (http://itu150.org/awards/ITU150Awards)
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