For outstanding constributions in the field of video coding, Prof. Dr. Thomas Wiegand and his team have received the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.
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The Image Processing (IP) Research Department contributes in the fields of efficient signal processing and compression methods, adaptation of coding schemes to transmission protocols and methods, implementation of hard- and software components, development of interactive services and applications based front edge technologies, integration of real and virtual worlds for immersive multimedia applications.
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Wiegand, Dr. Detlev Marpe and Dr. Heiko Schwarz have received the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award 2011 for high-efficiency video coding solution.
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On Thursday, October 27, 2011, a press conference will be organized by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and Max-Planck Gesellschaft at the Wissenschaftsforum Berlin showing their results of joint collaboration.
