Arthur A. Webster

Arthur Webster (Webster@its.bldrdoc.gov) received the B.A. degree in English and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering. He is the chair of ITU-T SG 9, “Television and Sound Transmission and Integrated Broadband Cable Networks.” For many years, he has participated in technical standards groups, most of which are devoted to the standardization of video and multimedia quality assessment methods. He was a rapporteur (in SG9 or SG12) from 1995 to 2009 and has been the cochair of the Video Quality Experts Group since its founding in 1997. For the last 21 years, he has worked for the NTIA/ITS, where he manages two technical projects. He is a Member of the IEEE and ACM and holds two U.S. patents for innovations in objective assessment of video quality.