work_institution birth_name birth_place field birth_date known_for prizes article_title citizenship alma_mater
berlin institute of technology thomas wiegand wismar electrical engineering 06 may 1970 h. 264/mpeg -4 avc video coding standard primetime heinz beckurts award -lrb- 2011 -rrb- , ieee masaru ibuka emmy consumer electronics award -lrb- 2012 -rrb- engineering award -lrb- 2008 -rrb- , karl thomas wiegand
 german technical university of hamburg , university of erlangen-nuremberg
thomas wiegand

thomas wiegand -lrb- born 6 may 1970 in wismar -rrb- is a german electrical engineer who substantially contributed to the creation of the h. 264/mpeg -4 avc and h. 265/mpeg-h hevc video coding standards .
for h. 264/mpeg -4 avc , wiegand was one of the chairmen of the joint video team -lrb- jvt -rrb- standardization committee that created the standard and was the chief editor of the standard itself .
he was also an active technical contributor to both standards .
wiegand also holds a chairmanship position in the itu-t vceg and previously in iso/iec mpeg standardization organizations .
in july 2006 , the video coding work of the itu-t jointly led by gary j. sullivan and wiegand for the preceding six years was voted as the most influential area of the standardization work of the ccitt and itu-t in their 50-year history .
