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Dr. Thomas Schierl is the Head of the Video Communication and Applications Department at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin. Since 2010, he has led research groups in multimedia communications and video coding, co-developing key video coding standards such as H.264 SVC and HEVC. He currently heads the Video Coding & Analytics department since 2015, focusing on video compression, wireless transmission, and standardization.
Education:
- Diplom-Ingenieur (Computer Engineering) from Berlin University of Technology, 2003
- Dr.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Berlin University of Technology, 2010
Research interests span video over wireless networks, system integration of video codecs, and cellular network protocols. He contributed to MPEG-2 Transport Stream standards and co-authored IETF RFCs for video payload formats. In 2014, he received the Emmy Award for MPEG-2 Transport Stream development.
Active in standardization bodies: JCT-VC, MPEG, IETF, 3GPP, and DVB. His work includes high-level syntax for HEVC parallelism and V2X resource pooling for 5G NR.
Labs/Teams: Leads the Video Coding & Analytics team at HHI, specializing in cutting-edge video compression and communication technologies.
