 Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa
COO and Co-founder of Spin Digital Labs
Mauricio is the COO and co-founder of Spin Digital Labs, a Berlin-based company specialized in high performance video codecs for next-generation media. He is responsible for business development, industry initiatives and projects, linking the companies’ technology to the products and services required by the industry. He has been part of several international R&D projects and demos related to video compression, 8K live streaming, and immersive technologies. His work and interests lie in the confluence of video coding and streaming, immersive media, vision science, cinema and art, and high tech. businesses. Mauricio holds a PhD degree in Computing Engineering from UPC (Barcelona, Spain) and an Electrical Engineering degree from University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia). |
 Jill Boyce
Distinguished Scientist, Nokia Technologies
Jill Boyce is Distinguished Scientist at Nokia Technologies. She was formerly CEO of Vimmerse, Chief Media Architect and Fellow at Intel, Director of Algorithms at Vidyo, and VP Research & Innovation at Technicolor. She is an IEEE Fellow, recognized in 2019 for contributions to video coding. She is a longtime contributor to video coding standardization, including MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, HEVC, VVC, and VSEI. She is an editor of the Versatile Supplemental Enhancement Information (VSEI) standard. From 2014 to 2021, she was Associate Rapporteur of ITU-T Study Group 16 Question 16, one of the two JVET parent bodies. She has an MSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Kansas.
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Kwang Pyo Choi
Technical Vice President, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics
Kwang Pyo Choi, PhD., is a Master (Technical Vice President), who leads a team of multimedia standards, at Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics. He has been contributing to the development of video codecs and standardizations. Since 2010, he has made numerous contributions to ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC MPEG for several standards such as High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), Versatile Video Coding (VVC) and Essential Video Coding (EVC). He has also been involved for many years in the development of technology for real-time image and video codecs for various devices from mobile devices to large scale television such as 8K-TV. His research interests lie in the area of image and video processing, with emphasis on compression, streaming and real-time processing. In recent years, he has focused on image and video compression and quality enhancement technology using artificial intelligence.
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 Tony Jones
Principal Technologist, MediaKind
Tony Jones has advanced the cutting edge of digital video technology for the past 30 years. Starting in R&D designing post-production digital video effects technology at Questech, he moved to digital transmission systems for satellite, cable, IPTV and OTT, through Tandberg Television, Ericsson and now MediaKind. As Principal Technologist, he is currently part of the MediaKind strategy group working on a wide range of technologies including compression, cloud technology, machine learning and ABR delivery optimization. Jones has a BSc(Eng) degree from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and has had 12 patents granted relating to advanced digital media.
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Ted Hsieh
Principal Engineer, Qualcomm
Ted Hsieh, received his M.S. degree in Electric Engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY. He joined Qualcomm as a hardware design engineer, and currently is the Principal Engineer and manager as a leader for video codec hardware design projects with a focus in hardware-efficient video coding algorithms. He is also an active contributor for the developments of hardware-befitting tools for HEVC and VVC standards. His research interests include VLSI architectures and algorithms for video coding applications, and data compression.
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 Li Lin
Chief Expert, China Mobile Group
Dr. Li Lin, a professor-level senior engineer, is currently the chief expert of China Mobile Group, member of the Metaverse Standardization Working Group of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He has more than 20 years of work experience at home and abroad, and has been deeply involved in technical innovation and research, standard development and industrial application in the fields of ultra-high-definition audio and video, artificial intelligence content production, 5G video ringback tone, etc. He leads major national science and technology projects, the National Natural Science Foundation, and China Mobile's major strategic scientific research projects. He leads and participates in several C-end products with a scale of over 100 million, such as Migu Video and 5G video ringtones, and experienced the top-level test of major events such as the National Day Parade, the Olympic Games, the Winter Olympics, and the World Cup. He has applied for more than 160 patents, led and participated in the formulation of more than 20 international and domestic standards and white papers. He has won many honors such as the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, etc.
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Noah Luo
Chair ITU-T SG21
Dr Noah Luo is the Chair of ITU-T Study Group 21. Dr.Luo had been ITU-T Study Group 16's chairman in the period 2016-2024. Dr.Luo works for Huawei Technologies,co.,Ltd as a senior consultant in the field of international standardization and industry development. Dr.Luo has a long career of working in mulmedia related technical research and development and standardization since 1996 for organizations including Chinese Academey of Sciences and Huawei with ten year or so based in Europe .
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 Jens-Rainer Ohm
Chair, JVET
Jens-Rainer Ohm holds the chair position at the Institute of Communication Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany since 2000. His research and teaching activities cover the areas of multimedia signal processing, analysis, compression, transmission and content description, including 3D and VR video applications, bio signal processing and communication, application of deep learning approaches in the given fields, as well as fundamental topics of signal processing and digital communication systems. Since 1998, he participates in the work of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). He has been chairing/co-chairing various standardization activities of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (MPEG) in video coding, namely the MPEG Video Subgroup 2002-2018, the Joint Video Team (JVT) of MPEG and ITU-T SG16/Q6 (VCEG) 2005-2009, the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) 2010-2020, as well as the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) since 2015. In 2020, after disbanding of WG11, he was appointed convenor of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG5, and since then, he is chairing JVET on behalf of both ISO and ITU-T parent bodies.
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 Joern Ostermann
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Jörn Ostermann, Fellow IEEE, studied Electrical Engineering and Communications Engineering at the University of Hannover and Imperial College London, respectively. He received Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. from the University of Hannover in 1988 and 1994, respectively. From 1988 till 1994, he worked as a Research Assistant at the Institut für Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik conducting research in video coding. In 1994 and 1995 he worked in the Visual Communications Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs on video coding. He was a member of Image Processing and Technology Research within AT&T Labs - Research from 1996 to 2003. Since 2003 he is Full Professor and Head of the Institut für Informationsverarbeitung at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. From 2008 until the reorganization of SC29 in July 2020, he was the Chair of the Requirements Group of MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 WG11). In July 2020 he was appointed Convenor of MPEG Technical Coordination (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 AG2).
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 Nicolai Otto
Project Management Director, MainConcept GmbH
Nicolai Otto oversees the development of the SDK portfolio at MainConcept, interfacing between customers and engineering teams. For over 30 years, MainConcept has been supplying the video production industry with software codec implementations like MPEG-2, AVC/H.264, HEVC/H.265 and lastly VVC/H.266. Prior to joining MainConcept in 2011, Nicolai worked as Product Manager for DVD and Blu-ray authoring products at Sonic Solutions. He graduated from the University of Applied Science in Wiesbaden, followed by almost a decade of working in TV Postproduction, getting valuable first-hand knowledge and experience during the “analog days”.
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 Stefano Polidori
Counsellor, TSB, ITU
Stefano is a Counsellor at the International Telecommunication Union and currently responsible for the technical secretariat of ITU-T Study Group 21 “Technologies for multimedia, content delivery and cable television”. He is also responsible for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) activities, including the Symposium on the Future Networked Car. Stefano is the ITU representative to the European Multi Stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardization at the European Commission. After few years in the private sector, joined the ITU in 2004 covering various positions including Coordinator for ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference and Counsellor for Study Group 9 “Broadband cable and TV” and Study Group 11 “Signalling, protocols and test specifications”. Stefano holds a Master in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome, Italy and a Master of Science in mobile communication from Aalborg University, Denmark.
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 Andrew Segall
Head of Video Coding Standards, Amazon
Andrew Segall received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University. He currently is the Head of Video Coding Standards at Amazon Prime Video. Previously, he was a Director at Sharp Labs of America, where he led the Department of Systems, Algorithms and Services while simultaneously holding the position of Distinguished Scientist at Sharp Corporation. He is an active participant in the international standardization community and has developed and contributed technology to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC), High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), and ATSC 3.0 projects. He currently serves as co-chair of the Neural Network Video Coding activity in the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) of ITU-T SG21 Question 6 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG5, HDR Chair for the MPEG Visual Quality Assessment Advisory Group (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/AG5), and represents Amazon on the AOMedia Steering Committee.
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 Gary J. Sullivan
ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC29 Chair / Director, Video Research and Standards, Dolby Laboratories
Gary J. Sullivan is a Director of Video Research and Standards at Dolby Laboratories, United States. He has been a chair and co-chair of various video and image coding standardization activities in ITU-T’s VCEG (now Q6/21), ISO/IEC’s MPEG and JPEG, and in their joint collaborative teams since 1996, and since 2021 he has been the chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 29, the parent organization of JPEG and MPEG. He has led the development of the Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard (ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10), the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard (ITU-T H.265 | ISO/IEC 23008-2), the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard (ITU-T H.266 | ISO/IEC 23090-3), the extensions of those standards, and various other standardization projects. He was previously at Microsoft Corporation where he was also the originator and lead designer of the DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) video decoding feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The standardization projects that Sullivan has led have been recognized by three Emmy Awards. As an author, his publications have been cited more than 50,000 times in scholarly works tracked by Google Scholar. He has received the SMPTE Digital Processing Medal, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, and various other awards. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, SMPTE, and SPIE.
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 Mathias Wien
Scientist, RWTH Aachen University
Mathias Wien received the Diploma and Dr.-Ing. degrees from Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University), Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and 2004, respectively. In 2018, he achieved the status of the habilitation, which makes him an independent scientist in the field of visual media communication. His research interests include image and video processing, immersive, space-frequency adaptive and scalable video compression, and visual quality assessment. Since 2020, Mathias serves as Convenor of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 29/AG 5 “MPEG Visual Quality Assessment”. Mathias has been an active contributor to H.264/AVC, HEVC, and VVC. He has participated and contribute to ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC MPEG, the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) and preceding joint teams of VCEG and ISO/IEC MPEG. Mathias has published more than 80 scientific articles and conference papers in the area of video coding and has co-authored several patents in this area. Mathias has further authored and co-authored more than 250 standardization documents. He has published the Springer textbook “High Efficiency Video Coding: Coding Tools and Specification”, which fully covers Version 1 of HEVC.
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 Yan Ye
Head of DAMO Video Technology Lab, Alibaba Group U.S.
Dr. Yan Ye currently is the head of the Video Technology Lab of Alibaba’s Damo Academy, Alibaba Group U.S.. Her group’s video codec product solutions power Alibaba Cloud, Youku, DingTalk, Alipay and many other video businesses inside and outside of Alibaba. Prior to Alibaba, she held various management and technical positions at InterDigital, Dolby Laboratories, and Qualcomm. Dr. Ye has been actively involved in developing international video coding and video streaming standards in ITU-T SG21/Q.6 Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). She is currently an Associate Rapporteur of the ITU-T SG21/Q.6, the Group Chair of INCITS/MPEG task group, and a focus group chair on 2D video quality metrics of the ISO/IEC SC 29/AG 5 MPEG Visual Quality Assessment. She has made many technical contributions to video coding and streaming standards including SVC of H.264, H.265/HEVC, H.266/VVC, MPEG DASH and MPEG OMAF. She is an editor of the scalable extensions and the screen content coding extensions of the H.265/HEVC standard.
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 Yuan Zhang
Deputy Director, Big Data and AI Department, China Telecom Research Institute
Ms. Yuan Zhang, Deputy Director of Big Data and AI Department in China Telecom Research Institute, is the Co-chair of ITU-T WP3/21 and Rapporteur of Q7/21, focusing on standardization on intelligent video applications. Yuan is the co-chair of MPEG AhG VCM, focusing on video coding for machine intelligence. Yuan is responsible for R&D and standardization of AI and video coding.
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