Jens-Rainer Ohm

Jens-Rainer Ohm (born May 7, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German communications engineer .

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After studying electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin , Ohm graduated there in 1985 and was then taken on as a research assistant at the Institute for Telecommunications Technology. In 1990 he received his doctorate with his dissertation: Freeze frame coding at low bit rates using combined block and convolutional codes . Two years later he received a teaching position and completed his habilitation in 1997 on the subject of information transmission . From 1996 to 2000, Ohm was also a project coordinator at the Heinrich Hertz Institute, responsible for the areas of video coding including 3D, content analysis and format conversion.

In 2000, Ohm followed a call to RWTH Aachen University , where he took over the chair for electrical communications engineering (IENT) within the research area of information and communication technology with a focus on image and video compression , audio signal processing , content analysis of multimedia signals and robust transmission of video signals . In addition, from 2002 to 2010 he was elected Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology . Ohm has published several scripts on communications engineering and holds the lecture Basic Areas of Electrical Engineering 3 at RWTH Aachen University and is involved as Chair or Co-Chair in several development projects.

As head of standardization working groups, Jens-Rainer Ohm played a key role in the development of the video compression standards H.264 = MPEG-4 AVC and HEVC . Since 2002 he has headed the ISO / IEC MPEG Video Subgroup. From 2005 to 2009 he was MPEG-nominated Co-Chair of the Joint Video Team (JVT), a cooperation between ISO / IEC and ITU-T. Since 2010 he has been co-chair of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), which developed the HEVC standard. Since 2015 he has been co-chair of the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET), which is currently developing the next generation of video compression standards.

Prizes and awards

• In 2009, Ohm and Ajay Luthra from Motorola received the Technology and Engineering Emmy Award 2007-2008 in Las Vegas for the Moving Picture Experts Group-4 Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 coding) project.
• In 2010 he and Thomas Wiegand won the Eduard Rhein Foundation's technology prize .
• In 2013 Ohm received the Best Paper Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for the Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (together with Gary J. Sullivan, Thomas Wiegand and Woo-Jin Han)
• In 2017, Ohm accepted a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award 2017 from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) for the development of the HEVC standard as head of the MPEG working group .
• 2018: VDE honor ring

Web links

• Jens-Rainer Ohm at RWTH Aachen

supporting documents

1. ↑ ^{a b} Brief vita on the Eduard Rhein Foundation website ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Institutes belonging to this research area on the faculty's website ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 22, 2016. 
3. ↑ MPEG Subgroups and Chairs , accessed January 31, 2018.
4. ↑ JCT-VC - Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding , accessed January 31, 2018.
5. ↑ Emmy for MPEG-4 AVC , press release from the Institute for Telecommunications at RWTH Aachen University
6. ↑ 69th Engineering Emmy Awards Recipients Announced , Internet, accessed January 31, 2018.