Ralf Schäfer

Ralf Schäfer received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.- Ing. degrees both in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 1977 and 1984, respectively. In October 1977, he joined the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) in Berlin and since 1989, he has been the Head of the Image Processing Department, where he is responsible for 50 researchers and technicians, 25 students, and about 20 R&D projects. The main R&D fields are image processing, image coding, multimedia communication over (wireless) Internet, immersive telepresence systems and RT-SW implementations, and HW design including VLSI. He participated in several European research activities like COST, EUREKA, RACE, ACTS, ESPRIT, and IST. He was the Chairman of the task force on “Digital Terrestrial TelevisionSystem Aspects” of the DVB project, which specified the DVB-T standard. Currently, he is a Member of the German “Society for Information Technology” (ITG), where he is the Chairman of experts committee “TV Technology and Electronic Media” (FA 3.1) and Chairman of the experts group “Digital Coding” (FG 3.1.2). Furthermore, he is a Member of the German “Society for Television and Motion Picture Technology” (FKTG), where he belongs to the URTEL Award Committee.

Biography Updated on 15 June 2004

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Editorial
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, no. 6, pp. 783–785, 2004
  2. MPEG-4: a multimedia compression standard for interactive applications and services
    Electronics & Communications Engineering Journal, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 253, 1998
  3. The status of HDTV in Europe
    IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 120–125, 1996
  4. Considerations on new primaries for high definition television
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 513–522, 1988