Thomas Wiegand
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Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute |
Thomas Wiegand (born 6 May 1970 in
WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H).[2]
Since 2014, Thomson Reuters named Wiegand in their list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” as one of the most cited researchers in his field.
Current work
Wiegand is Professor at the Technical University of Berlin and executive director of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute,[3] Berlin, Germany. He heads research teams working on:
- Video processing and coding
- Multimedia transmission
- Machine learning
- Mobile Communications (management)
- Computer Vision (management)
Since 2020 he is a Principal Scientist at the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD).[4]
Early background
Thomas Wiegand was born in and spent his early life in
University of California at Santa Barbara and Stanford University
, USA, where he also returned as a visiting professor.
Standardization
- Since 2000: Associated Rapporteur of VCEG (Video Coding Experts Group - ITU-TSG16 Q.6)
- Since 2001: Associated Rapporteur / Co-chair of JVT
- Since 2002: Editor of the AVCvideo coding standard and its extensions (FRExt and SVC)
- 2005-2009: Associated Chair of JTC1/SC29/WG11)
- Since 2018: Chair of the WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H)[5]
Awards
- 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: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, for which Wiegand served as associated rapporteur/co-chair, editor, and technical contributor)
- 2009: Paired H.264/MPEG-4 AVCstandard)
- 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 IEEETransactions 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)[6]
- 2011: Fellow of the IEEEfor 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)[7]
- 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[8] (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: VCEGand technical contributor)
- 2018: Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
- 2019: Best Poster Presentation Paper Award, Picture Coding Symposium, Ningbo, China (PCS 2019) (together with Wang-Q Lim, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe)
- 2022: EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal (together with R. Reisenhofer, S. Bosse, G. Kutyniok)
- 2022: Fellow of the Information Technology Society in VDE (ITG) 2022, for his "outstanding achievements in the field of communications and information technology, noted by the entire professional community, in conjunction with [his] commitment to our professional society."
Other positions held
- 1993–1994: Visiting Researcher, Kobe University, Japan
- 1995: Visiting Scholar, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.
- 1997–1998: Visiting Researcher, Stanford University, California, USA
- 1997–1998: Consultant to 8x8 Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA
- 2006–2011: 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
External links
- Official website
- Thomas Wiegand publications indexed by Google Scholar
References
- ^ "Video Coding Work Voted Most Influential". ITU-T Newslog. International Telecommunication Union. October 2, 2006. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
- ^ ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H)
- ^ Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute official web site.
- ^ "Thomas Wiegand". BIFOLD. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H)
- ^ Technology Award of Eduard Rhein Foundation 2010 Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
- IEEECircuits and Systems Society web site.
- ^ ITU150 Award[permanent dead link]
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