Thomas Wiegand - Awards

Awards

• 1998: SPIE VCIP Best Student Paper Award
• 2004: Fraunhofer Award (together with Detlev Marpe and Heiko Schwarz)
• 2004: ITG Award of the German Society for Information Technology (together with Detlev Marpe and Heiko Schwarz)
• 2006: The video coding work of the ITU-T led by Gary Sullivan and Thomas Wiegand jointly since 2000 was voted as the most influential area of the standardization work of the CCITT and ITU-T in their 50-year history
• 2008: Primetime Emmy Engineering Award (awarded to the JVT standards committee by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the High Profile of H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, for which Wiegand served as associated rapporteur/co-chair, editor, and technical contributor)
• 2009: Paired Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards (one awarded to VCEG and one to MPEG by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for development of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard)
• 2009: Group Technical Achievement Award of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) for active contributions to video coding research and standardization activities
• 2009: Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (together with Heiko Schwarz and Detlev Marpe)
• 2009: Innovation Award of Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications
• 2010: Technology Award of Eduard Rhein Foundation (together with Jens-Rainer Ohm)
• 2011: Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to video coding and its standardization
• 2011: Best Paper Award of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) (together with Karsten Müller, Aljoscha Smolic, Kristina Dix, Philipp Merkle and Peter Kauff)
• 2011: Karl Heinz Beckurts Award (together with Heiko Schwarz and Detlev Marpe)
• 2012: IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
• 2013: Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (together with Gary Sullivan, Jens-Rainer Ohm, and Woo-Jin Han)