Karlheinz Brandenburg

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Karlheinz Brandenburg, 2010
Brandenburg (right) and the comic artist Manniac 2014 at the SUMA Congress & Award "Ways out of the surveillance catastrophe" in the New Town Hall of Hanover

Karlheinz Brandenburg (born June 20, 1954 in Erlangen ) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician . Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former director of Fraunhofer IIS ), Bernhard Grill , Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunhofer IIS), he developed the widely used mp3 method for audio data compression . He is also known for his fundamental work in the field of audio coding, perception measurement, wave field synthesis and psychoacoustics . Brandenburg has received numerous national and international research prizes, awards and honors for his work. Since 2000 he has held the chair for electronic media technology at the Technical University of Ilmenau . There he was instrumental in founding the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT , of which he was director until 2019.

Life

After his Abitur in 1973 Brandenburg began his electrical engineering - and math - studying at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , be received diploma in 1980 (electrical) and 1982 (mathematics). He then became a research assistant at the chair for technical electronics and received his doctorate in 1989. In his dissertation he described techniques that form the basis for many modern audio coding and audio data compression processes. From 1989 to 1990 he was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories ( USA ). In Erlangen he was an academic advisor for a time until 1993 and then until 1999 as a department head at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. In 2000, Karlheinz Brandenburg moved to Ilmenau and became the holder of the Chair of Electronic Media Technology at the Institute for Media Technology at the Technical University of Ilmenau . In May 2000 he was appointed head of the Fraunhofer Working Group for Electronic Media Technology AEMT in Ilmenau, which he transferred to the independent Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT on January 1, 2004.

Karlheinz Brandenburg is a member of various international standardization committees, Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) as well as a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (Acatech) . Brandenburg currently holds more than 100 patents. He is the author of numerous scientific articles. Together with Mark Kahrs (Rutgers University) he published the specialist book Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics .

Brandenburg has received numerous prizes for its research work. In 2000, he and his colleagues from Erlangen, Harald Popp and Bernhard Grill, received the German Future Prize . Since May 2004 the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award for his scientific achievements in the field of digital audio coding has been added to the series of his awards. In December 2006 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

In addition, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has chosen him as one of the 120 most important thought leaders in electrical engineering of all time and has included him in the “Hall of Fame” of the most important personalities in their craft. In March 2007, the American Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) recognized Karlheinz Brandenburg together with Professors Dieter Seitzer and Heinz Gerhäuser for the development and distribution of the mp3 format and accepted them into the "CE Hall of Fame" on behalf of the entire Fraunhofer development team on.

Brandenburg is a board member of the Suma e. V. , who advocates free access to knowledge and operates the MetaGer search engine .

Brandenburg is Protestant . He sees no contradiction between his beliefs and his work as a scientist. On the other hand, he says: "I hate Christian fundamentalism, fundamentalists betray the ideas of Christianity to the point of denying evolution."

Awards

2015

  • Technology Prize of the Eduard Rhein Foundation (together with Bernhard Grill and Jürgen Herre)

2014

  • IMTC Leadership Award for his contribution to audio coding and the standardization of the mp3 format (together with Bernd Edler)
  • Honorary doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia for the introduction and establishment of modern methods of audio coding, hearing-adapted perception measurement and psychoacoustics
  • Inclusion in the "Internet Hall of Fame" as an innovator because of its important role in the development of the mp3 format and the effects on this development in order to increase the reach of the Internet by the Internet Society (ISOC)
  • AES Board of Governors Award in recognition of his co-chairing the 53rd AES International Conference

2011

  • "Distinguished Heyser Memorial Lecturer" of the AES 130th Convention
  • AES Board of Governors Award in recognition of co-chairing the AES 42nd International Conference

2009

  • Honorary doctorate from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg for co-development of the mp3 format and his work in the field of audio coding
  • Appointment to the “Hall of Fame of German Research” of manager magazin for his outstanding contribution to the further development of Germany as a research location
  • Ambassador for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009

2008

2007

  • Admission to the »CE Hall of Fame« of the Consumer Electronics Association CEA for the development and distribution of the mp3 format (together with Prof. Dieter Seitzer and Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser)

2006

  • Inclusion in the "Hall of Fame" of the 120 most important inventors and thought leaders in the field of electrical engineering with the leading inventors, scientists and standards by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
  • Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

2004

  • IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award for important contributions to the coding of digital audio sources
  • Thuringian Research Prize 2003 in the category "Applied Research" (together with Sandra Brix and Thomas Sporer)
  • Sputnik Innovator Award - honor for visionaries of the digital transformation of the entertainment industry

2003

  • Publications Award from the Audio Engineering Society (AES) for the best paper of the year 2000/2001; “PEAQ - the ITU Standard for the Objective Measurement of Perceived Audio Quality” (together with John G. Beerends, Roland Bitto, Catherine Colomes, Bernhard Feiten, Michael Keyhl, Christian Schmidmer, Thomas Sporer, Gerhard Stoll, Thilo Thiede, William C. Loyalty rivet)

2002

  • ISO / IEC 13818-7: 1997 Award / Information Technology - Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information - Part 7: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), together with Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre, Ralph Sperschneider, ISO / IEC Certificate of Appreciation (Project Editor in the development of International Standard) for works on MPEG-2 AAC

2001

  • German Internet Award NEO, for the significant development, standardization and successful marketing of the data format MPEG Layer-3 (MP3)

2000

  • IEEE Engineering Excellence Award - The Region 10th Chapters of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
  • AES Board of Governors Award for co-chairmanship of the AES 17th International Conference
  • German Future Prize, Federal President's Prize for Technology and Innovation (together with Bernhard Grill, Harald Popp)

1998

  • AES silver medal award for further contributions and guidance on the art and science of perceptual audio coding

1996

  • Bavarian Innovation Award: Recognition from the Bavarian State Government

1994

  • AES Fellowship Award for significant work in perceptual audio coders and psychoacoustics

Suzanne Vega as the "mother of mp3"

During the development phase of mp3, Brandenburg read in a German hi-fi magazine that they were testing their speakers with the a cappella version of the song Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega . From then on, the progress of the mp3 process was tested using this song.

Tom's Diner , a song about a small restaurant in New York, thus became the world's first song in mp3 format. Since then, Suzanne Vega has been known as the “mother of mp3”.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Karlheinz Brandenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg - Fraunhofer IDMT. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ Karlheinz Brandenburg: Fundamentalism reveals the ideas of Christianity in: Chrismon special from October 31, 2014.
  3. ^ Norbert Lossau: Innovations: How Suzanne Vega got mp3 up and running . In: THE WORLD . October 16, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed December 20, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Podcast "Green Luck": Suzanne Vega on her role as the "mother of mp3"
personal data
SURNAME Brandenburg, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer, one of the fathers of the MP3 audio codec
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH gain