Autor/-in: Mathias Wien

Dr. Ing. Mathias Wien is a recognized expert in the field of video coding. He is working as a senior research scientist and head of administration at the Institute of Communications Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. His research interests are in the area of image and video processing, space-frequency adaptive and scalable video compression and robust video transmission. He has more than 10 years of experience in video coding standardization. He was an active contributor to the first version of the H.264/AVC standard and to VCEG, MPEG and the Joint Video Team (JVT) where he co-chaired several AdHoc Groups. He served as one of the editors of the amendment to H.264/AVC for Scalable Video Coding (SVC, 2007). He has participated as a proponent in the Call for Proposals for HEVC and closely follows the JCT-VC development.