Benjamin Bross

Benjamin Bross (Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 2008. In 2009, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany, where he is currently heading the Video Coding Systems Group, Video Coding and Applications Department and in 2011, he became a part-time Lecturer with the HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences. Since 2010, he is very actively involved in the ITU-T VCEG | ISO/IEC MPEG video coding standardization processes as a Technical Contributor, the Coordinator of core experiments, and the Chief Editor of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard [ITU-T H.265 | ISO/IEC 23008-2] and the new Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard [ITU-T H.266 | ISO/IEC 23090-3]. In addition to his involvement in standardization, his group is developing standard-compliant software implementations. This includes the development of an HEVC live software encoder that is currently deployed in broadcast for HD and UHD TV channels and most recently, the open and optimized VVC software implementations VVenC and VVdeC. He is an author or coauthor of several fundamental HEVC and VVC-related publications, and an author of two book chapters on HEVC and Inter-Picture Prediction Techniques in HEVC. Mr. Bross received the IEEE Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Berlin, in 2013, the SMPTE Journal Certificate of Merit in 2014, and an Emmy Award at the 69th Engineering Emmy Awards in 2017 as part of the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding for its development of HEVC.