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(f.l.t.r.) Dr.-Ing. Detlev Marpe, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wiegand, Dr.-Ing. Heiko Schwarz
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wiegand, Dr.-Ing. Detlev Marpe and Dr.-Ing. Heiko Schwarz know the answer: the key is in a sophisticated compression of videos and international standardization of the data formats. The three scientists have made decisive contributions to both applications – and thus laid the foundation for the triumphant progress of the moving pictures worldwide. Thomas Wiegand is a professor at the Technical University (TU) Berlin and heads the image signal processing department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications – Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI). Detlev Marpe is a researcher at HHI and a part-time lecturer at TU Berlin as well as at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economy. Heiko Schwarz together with Detlev Marpe heads the image and video coding group at HHI.
A sizeable amount of the data traffic on the Internet in the meantime is films and video clips. It is hard to imagine life without the evening movie that is downloaded “on demand” from an online video store, or the short home movie filmed with a camcorder that is put online to entertain friends. The volume of bits and bytes that is transported in the form of moving images continues to grow. The portion of video signals of the Internet traffic has grown to more than 50 percent. In the meantime, more than 10 to the power of 19 bytes are transmitted via the web every month – this is equivalent to the content of over 2 billion DVDs. The trend to high-resolution films in HD format and 3-D videos as well as streaming, for example, of sports broadcasts on laptops or smart phones is causing the flood of data to swell further. Moreover, the data-intensive applications of video-supported communication from the video chat to HD video systems in telemedicine are becoming ever more popular.
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wiegand
- 06.05.1970
- Geboren in Wismar/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- 1976 – 1986
- Schule in Wismar
- 1986 – 1988
- Lehre zum Elektromonteur
- 1988 – 1989
- Hochschulreife an der Technischen Hochschule Wismar
- 1989 – 1991
- Studium der Elektrotechnik an der Technischen Hochschule Wismar, Vordiplom
- 1991 – 1995
- Studium der Elektrotechnik an der Technischen Universität Hamburg-Harburg
Diplomarbeit „Entzerrung und Synchronisation von MDFT-Transmultiplexer-Filterbänken“
- 1993 - 1994
- Studienarbeit an der Universität in Kobe in Japan
- 1995
- Forschungsaufenthalt an der Universität Kalifornien in Santa Barbara, USA. Beginn mit den Arbeiten zur Videocodierung
- 1995 – 2000
- Promotionsstelle an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 1997 – 1998
- Forschungsaufenthalt an der Universität Stanford, Stanford, CA, USA
- 2000
- Promotion zum Thema „Bewegungskompensierte Prädiktion mit mehreren Referenzbildern zur Videoübertragung“
- 2000 – 2008
- Leiter der Gruppe Bildkommunikation am Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik – Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin
- seit 2008
- Professur (W3) für Bildkommunikation an der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informatik der Technischen Universität Berlin
- seit 2008
- Leiter der Abteilung Bildverarbeitung am Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik – Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin
- 2011 – 2012
- Gastprofessor an der Universität Stanford, Stanford, CA, USA
Weitere Tätigkeiten:
- seit 2000
- Associate Rapporteur für die Visual Coding Experts Group der ITU-T SG 16. Zuständig für die Standards H.26x und T.80/.800 (ITU-T-Teil von JPEG)
- seit 2001
- Editor des H.264/AVC-Standards
- 2003 – 2009
- Co-Editor der Videospezifikation in DVB TS 101 154 und TS 102 005
- 2005 – 2009
- Mitglied des Leitungsteams von MPEG Video (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11)
- seit 2006
- Berater für die Firma Vidyo, Inc. in Hackensack, NJ, USA
Ehrungen:
- 1998
- SPIE VCIP Best Student Paper Award
- 2004
- Preis der ITG
- 2004
- Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Preis
- 2009
- Group Technical Achievement Award der EURASIP (Europäische Vereinigung für Signalverarbeitung)
- 2009
- Best Paper Award der IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- 2009
- Innovationspreis der Vodafone-Stiftung für Forschung in der Mobilkommunikation
- 2010
- Technologiepreis der Eduard-Rhein-Stiftung
- 2011
- Fellow der IEEE
- 2011
- Best Paper Award der EURASIP
- 2011
- Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Preis
- 2012
- IEEE Masaru Ibuka Technical Field Award
Dr.-Ing. Detlev Marpe
- 30.8.1958
- Geboren in Kirchen/Sieg
- 1977
- Abitur am Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium Betzdorf-Kirchen
- 1977 – 1979
- Studium der Mathematik und Physik an der Technischen Universität Berlin, Vordiplom
- 1980 – 1983
- Studium der Mathematik und Physik an der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen und an der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- 1984 – 1987
- Systemanalytiker und –programmierer, Mathware-Verlag, Berlin
- 1987– 1989
- Studium der Mathematischen Physik an der Technischen Universität Berlin
- 1990
- Diplom in Mathematik (mit Auszeichnung), Thema: „Existenz und Invarianzeigenschaften modifizierter Wellenoperatoren“
- 1990 – 1994
- Promotionsstipendiat bzw. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin
- 1994 – 1998
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Telekom Fachhochschule Berlin bzw. Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
- 1998
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Charité, Berlin
- 1998 – 2001
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Technische Universität Berlin und Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin
- 2001– 2010
- Projektleiter, Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik – Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Abteilung Image Processing
- 2004
- Promotion zum Thema „Adaptive Context-Based and Tree-Based Algorithms for Image Coding and Denoising“
- Seit 2006
- Lehraufträge an der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin und an der Technischen Universität Berlin und Gastvorlesung am Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie
- Seit 2010
- Leiter der Forschungsgruppe „Image and Video Coding“ am Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik – Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin
Weitere Tätigkeiten:
- Seit 2001
- Mitbegründer und Gesellschafter der daviko GmbH, Berlin
- 2001 – 2007
- Chair bzw. Co-Chair verschiedener Ad-hoc-Gruppen in der H.264/AVC-Standardisierung
- 2004 – 2005
- Koordinator der Referenzsoftware für H.264/AVC Fidelity Range Extensions (FRExt)
- 2004 – 2005
- Co-Editor des H.264/AVC-Standards bzw. des FRExt-Amendments von H.264/AVC
- Seit 2004
- Mitglied im Verband der Elektrotechnik und Elektronik (VDE)
- Seit 2008
- Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Ehrungen:
- 2002
- Erster Preis im Gründerwettbewerb Multimedia
- 2004
- Preis der Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft (ITG) im VDE
- 2004
- Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Preis
- 2009
- Best Paper Award der IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- 2011
- Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Preis
Dr.-Ing. Heiko Schwarz
- 03.10.1971
- Geboren in Dohna, Sachsen
- 1978 – 1986
- Polytechnische Oberschule „Heinrich Heine“ in Karlshagen
- 1986 – 1990
- Spezialschule math.-nat.-tech. Richtung in Rostock
- 1990
- Erlangung der allgemeinen Hochschulreife
- 1990 – 1991
- Grundwehrdienst in Peenemünde
- 1991 – 1996
- Studium der Elektrotechnik an der Universität Rostock
- 1995 – 1996
- Auslandspraktikum an der University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Erste Arbeiten zur Videocodierung.
- 1996
- Abschluss als Diplom-Ingenieur
- 1996 – 1999
- Promotionsstipendiat an der Universität Rostock
- seit 1999
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik – Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin
- 2000
- Promotion „Untersuchungen zur objektbasierten Video-Codierung mit einer 3-D-Wavelet-Transformation“ an der Universität Rostock
- seit 2010
- Leiter der Gruppen „Image and Video Coding“ am Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik – Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Abteilung Image Processing
Weitere Tätigkeiten:
- seit 2006
- Koordinator der Referenzsoftware für H.264/SVC
- seit 2007
- Co-Editor des H.264-Standards
- 2008-2009
- Co-Editor der Videospezifikation in DVB TS 101 154 und TS 102 005
Ehrungen:
- 2004
- Preis der Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft im VDE
- 2004
- Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Preis
- 2009
- Best Paper Award der IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- 2011
- Karl-Heinz-Beckurts-Preis
Contact
Spokesperson
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wiegand
Abteilungsleiter Image Processing
Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik - Heinrich Hertz Institut HHI
Leiter des Fachgebiets Bildkommunikation, TU Berlin
Einsteinufer 37
10587 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 / 31 00 26 17
E-Mail: thomas.wiegand@hhi.fraunhofer.de
Press
Dr. Gudrun Quandel
Corporate Communications
Fraunhofer Institut für Nachrichtentechnik - Heinrich Hertz Institut HHI
Einsteinufer 37
10587 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 / 31 00 24 00
Mobil: +49 (0) 171 / 19 95 334
E-Mail: gudrun.quandel@hhi.fraunhofer.de
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A picture may paint a thousand words but moving pictures speak volumes. It’s certainly true that we are now living through a watershed period in terms of the ways and the speed with which we communicate with one another across the world, flash news around the globe and consume what entertains and moves us. For example, the protest movements across the Arab world have shown how video on mobile phones or the Internet can influence the world.
One immediate technological effect of this change is that the ratio of video signals in overall Internet data traffic has increased to clearly more than 50 percent. A foundation for this video revolution has been laid by scientific technological innovations in video coding without which efficient transmission of digital video signals would not be possible.
Practically all applications of digital video – including the traditional fields of film and television – need efficient and thus resource-sparing transmission of video signals. Yet this is only viable with substantial compression of the raw data. The raw data throughput rate of a high definition television signal (HDTV), for instance, is around 600 megabit/sec while typical transmission capacity offers a bit rate of 5-10 megabit/sec.
The prime goal of video coding is to achieve the best possible picture quality at any given bit rate. For that algorithms are employed that are based on mathematical methods whose origins lie in information theory. As these algorithms are run on digital computers or special hardware, they must also fulfill the complexity requirements for implementation on the hardware deployed.
This makes video coding a key technology in our information age. Indeed, exponential growth in the volume and resolution of video signals has led to an ever more pressing need for efficient compression methods.
International Standards
Video transmission requires that the receiver must understand the format generated on the sender side. A secure and reliable basis for investment and ubiquitous use of video coding has been established by specifying video formats and decoding algorithms through international standards. In the development of a coding standard, all technical proposals submitted are subject to rigorous evaluation of their coding efficiency and complexity. This gives the baseline on which the experts involved decide whether or not a technology will be included in the standard, and which ensures that all the technologies accepted in the standard have been strenuously verified for quality. In submitting their proposals for standardization, stakeholders also make a binding agreement that technologies accepted in the standard will be licensed at reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
H.264/AVC together with its extensions is currently the most efficient and most widely used format for video coding; the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have both ratified it as a world standard. The standard is suitable for all known types of resolution, quality and bit rates. Its areas of application include mobile phones, HDTV, video conferencing, 3DTV, Blu-Ray disc as well as services like video on demand, IPTV, or video-based security and medical technology.
A large amount of bits on the Internet is now encoded in H.264/AVC while more than 1 billion end devices throughout the world now feature the standard. One of the main reasons for such broad acceptance is that H.264/AVC enables much more efficient transmission of video signals than was ever previously possible and this, in turn, has opened up the way to a totally new dimension of products and applications. Users too benefit from the high efficiency H.264/AVC offers. Without H.264/AVC many areas of HDTV would not be possible or simply uneconomical – a fact from which TV channels and IPTV, satellite and cable TV companies can draw major benefits. Moreover, the standard has found its way into telemedicine, e-learning and video security systems. At the same time the scalable coding in H.264/AVC has driven the great advances made in video conferencing over the Internet and mobile networks – and this is not just economically advantageous but also brings positive environmental effects too.
From Basic Research to Industrial Applications
The scientific and technical work of Prof. Wiegand, Dr. Marpe and Dr. Schwarz has made a decisive contribution to progress in the field of video coding and the development and establishment of H.264/AVC and its extensions as the international standard for video coding.
One of the key methods in video coding involves the use of decoded pictures to make predictions about the current frame for coding. For instance, image content that does not change can be simply copied. If a motion is carried from frame to frame this can be compensated so that only the non-predictable part remains to be transmitted. Prof. Wiegand and the team have investigated means of raising the efficiency of such motion-compensated prediction providing the possibility of exploiting statistical long-term dependencies. Put simply, this means that if image content cannot be predicted from the previous frame then perhaps it can be from a frame decoded earlier than that.
Apart from prediction of image content, entropy coding is another crucial instrument for efficient video compression. Entropy coding involves representing of frequently occurring data with fewer bits than infrequently occurring data so that the average number of bits is reduced. Dr. Marpe and the team successfully investigated an adaptive arithmetic entropy coding technique and brought it to the standardization process. This technique can be adapted to the data and enables use of a higher order of statistical bindings. With these two advances and their proposal for Lagrangian coder control and numerous other contributions, the team has succeeded in significantly improving the coding efficiency of H.264/AVC.
Furthermore, the team supplied the reference model for all three extensions to the H.264/AVC standard. In the first extension of H.264/AVC the team introduced coding methods for enhanced efficiency in coding of HD video signals, partly drawing on the work of the group of Prof. Jens-Rainer Ohm (RWTH Aachen). The High Profile of H.264/AVC their work gave birth to is now the format for most of the world’s HDTV channels and thus also features in all associated HDTV end devices. What’s more, High Profile is increasingly being used on smart phones and camcorders.
The work of Dr. Schwarz and the team has also had a marked influence on the field of scalable video coding which covers efficient transmission of a signal with multiple resolutions or quality levels in a single bitstream. The scalable extension of H.264/AVC enables HD video conferencing over the Internet on laptops and tablet PCs. The scalable video coding developed by the team became the reference model for the scalable extension of H.264/AVC. This involved the researching of several new algorithms and their further development for use in products.
Finally, the team’s proposal for the extension of H.264/AVC towards efficient coding of 3D video signals was also accepted as the reference model. Stereoscopic video enables rendering of 3D video on flat screens with the aid of 3D glasses. It involves transmission of two separate video signals showing different views of the same scene to create the 3D effect. This technology now features in all Blu-ray disc players with 3D capability.
In short we may say that these innovations in video coding and their implementation as standardization proposals have made a decisive contribution to provide brilliant video everywhere. Video signals can be transmitted at much higher efficiency than was previously possible and this has opened up the way to a completely new dimension of applications. And if H.264/AVC can be found in a huge range of applications, this is also with the help of the pioneering work of the team. Moreover, the team did also supply the reference models for all three extensions of H.264/AVC. At the same time Prof. Wiegand as a chair of the standardization committee together with Dr. Marpe and Dr. Schwarz as chairs of sub groups in the standardization process and as editors of the standardization text itself have played crucial roles in supporting the international standardization process. With their proposals for application standardization (DVB, 3GPP and IETF) and in their numerous collaborations with industry, the team has made an important contribution to the implementation of the H.264/AVC standard.
Profile: Fraunhofer HHI
The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich Hertz Institute is a world leader in the research and development of mobile and fixed broadband communication networks and multimedia systems. Together with its strong network of national and international partners from research and industry the areas that are being worked on include photonic components and networks, wireless transmission, video processing, coding and transmission, 3D displays, as well as man-machine interaction through control by gesture.
Profile: TU Berlin
The internationally renowned Technische Universität Berlin is located in Germany's capital city at the heart of Europe. Our activities focus on building a distinctive profile for our university, ensuring exceptional performance in research and teaching, providing our graduates with excellent qualifications, in addition to a forward-looking approach to efficient university governance. Our research and teaching endeavors are characterized by a broad spectrum of academic disciplines. The TU Berlin is one of the top addresses for the research field electrical engineering and computer science in Germany in which the institution has gained a high international reputation.
The right to nominate outstanding achievements for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis is incumbent upon leading German institutions in science and industry as well as foundations
The project “Brilliant Videos Everywhere – Efficient Encoding with International Standards” was nominated by the Fraunhofer Society.
