Thomas Wiegand
Thomas Wiegand (born 6 May 1970 in
Wismar) is a German
electrical engineer who substantially contributed to the creation of the
H.264/AVC,
H.265/HEVC, and
H.266/VVC video coding standards. For
H.264/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 a very active technical contributor to the
H.264/AVC,
H.265/HEVC, and
H.266/VVC video coding standards. Wiegand also holds a chairmanship position in the
ITU-T VCEG of
ITU-T Study Group 16 and previously in
ISO/
IEC MPEG standardization organizations. In July 2006, video coding work of the ITU-T was jointly led by Gary J. Sullivan and Wiegand for the preceding six years. It was voted as the most influential area of the standardization work of the CCITT and ITU-T in their 50-year history. Since 2018, Wiegand has served as chair of the
ITU/
WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H). 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.
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