Detlev Marpe

For nearly 20 years, he has successfully contributed to the standardization activities of ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC JPEG, and ISO/IEC MPEG in the area of still image and video coding. During the development of the H.264 | MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard, he was chief architect of the CABAC entropy coding scheme as well as one of the main technical and editorial contributors to its Fidelity Range Extensions (FRExt) including the now ubiquitous High Profile. Marpe was also one of the key people in designing the basic architecture of Scalable Video Coding (SVC) and Multiview Video Coding (MVC) as algorithmic and syntactical extensions of H.264 | AVC. He also made successful contributions to the recent development of the H.265 | MPEG-H High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, including its Range Extensions and 3D extensions.

For his substantial contributions to the field of video coding, he received numerous awards, including a Nomination for the 2012 German Future Prize, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award 2011, the 2009 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize 2004, and the Best Paper Award of the German Information Technology Society in 2004. As a co-editor and key contributor of the High Profile of H.264 | AVC as well as a member and key contributor of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding for the development of H.265 | HEVC, he was corecipient of the 2008 and 2017 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award, respectively.