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| Hoerim Choi, KT, Rep. of Korea |
Hoerim Choi currently works for KT Technology Strategy Office. He builds strategy and occasionally designs new business model based on key insights drawn from both technology and business trends. Hoerim is also involved in variety of GSMA activities including 5G, ID & Access Management, VoLTE & roaming. |
Kenya Suzuki, NTT, Japan
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Kenya Suzuki is a Senior Research Engineer and Supervisor at the 2020 Epoch-making Project of NTT Service Evolution Laboratories. He joined NTT Human Interface Laboratories in 1995. He has been engaged in research on human-computer interaction and multimedia applications including web-based signage system development.
He is currently interested in media art project such as Immersive Telepresence technologies - Kirari!. Kenya is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan and the Physical Society of Japan and received the B.E. degree in electro-communications from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, and the M.E. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1993 and 1995, respectively. |
Rob KOENEN, TNO, Netherlands
| Rob Koenen is a Founder VR streaming company tiledmedia, He is also Principal at TNO, a leading independent research organization in the Netherlands. Rob's activities include the development of multimedia technologies, systems and standards, and their application in novel services. Rob is President of the VR Industry Forum, and member of the Forum's Board, and serves as an elected member on the Steering Group of HbbTV (www.hbbtv.org). He chaired MPEG's Requirements Group from 1996 to 2005, and played a key role in the development of the MPEG-4 standard. He is co-editor of the MPEG-4 Systems Standard, initiated the MPEG Industry Forum in 1999, and served as its President for the first five years, successfully bringing MPEG-4 technology from a paper specification to a dominant market force. Mr. Koenen received his MSEE (‘ingenieur') degree in 1989 from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands where he studied electrical engineering, specializing in information theory. Prior to joining TNO, Mr. Koenen served as Intertrust Technologies' VP of Standards and Community Initiatives. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and holds a number of patents in media processing and visual quality metrics.
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Thomas Stockhammer, Qualcomm, USA
| Thomas is Director Technical Standards at Qualcomm Incorporated and lives in Germany.
He received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees from the Munich University of Technology, Munich, Germany. After acting as cofounder and CEO of Novel Mobile Radio (NoMoR) Research for 10 years, he joined Qualcomm in 2014 as Director Technical Standards. In his different roles he has co-authored more than 200 research publications and more than 100 patents. In his day job, he is the active and has leadership and rapporteur positions in 3GPP, DVB, MPEG, IETF, ATSC, CTA and the DASH-Industry Forum in the area of multimedia communication, TV-distribution, content delivery protocols, virtual reality and adaptive streaming. |
Masayuki TANIMOTO, Nagoya University, Japan
| Retired from Nagoya University in 2012, Emeritus Prof Masayuki Tanimoto is a Senior Research Fellow at Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute. His research interests include image coding, image processing and 3D imaging and ITS. He developed TAT (Time-Axis Transform) system for HDTV compression, one of the two candidates for HDTV satellite broadcast system in Japan. He also developed FTV (Free-viewpoint Television), which allows users to see a 3D scene by freely changing the viewpoint. Since 2001, he has been promoting the standardization of FTV at MPEG. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to the development of free-viewpoint television and its MPEG standard. He was the president of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE). He is Honorary Member of the ITE, Fellow of the IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers) and IEEE Life Fellow. He received the ITE Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award, the IEICE Achievement Award, and the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. He received the B.E., M.E., and Dr.E. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1970, 1972, and 1976, respectively. From 1994 to 1995, he stayed at Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He joined Nagoya University in 1976. He was a Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University from 1991 to 2012, when he became an Emeritus Professor. |
Zhou JIAJUN, China Mobile, China
| Jiajun Zhou works at China Mobile Research Institute and received his master degree in pattern recognition from Tsinghua University, China, in 2013. He has worked on mobile HD/4K live streaming and unmanned aerial vehicle live broadcasting for several years. From 2016, Jiajun changed the main research focus onto virtual reality and augmented reality video processing, including video recognition tasks.
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