André Kaup
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
André Kaup received the Dipl.-Ing. and
Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering
from Aachen University of Technology
(RWTH), Germany, in 1989 and 1995, respectively.
From 1989 to 1995, he was with
the Institute for Communication Engineering
at Aachen University of Technology,
where he was responsible for industrial as
well as academic research projects in the areas
of high-resolution printed image compression,
object-based image analysis and coding, and models for
human perception. In 1995 he joined Siemens Corporate Technology
in Munich, where he chaired European research projects in
the area of very low bit rate video coding, image quality enhancement,
and mobile multimedia communications. In 1999 he was appointed
Head of mobile applications and services, with research
focussing on multimedia adaptation for heterogeneous communication
networks. Since 2001 he is a Full Professor and Head of
the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing
at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is a Member of the German
Informationstechnische Gesellschaft and a Senior Member of
the IEEE. He was elected Siemens Inventor of the year 1998 and is
the recipient of the 1999 ITG Award. From 1997 to 2001, he was
also the Head of the German MPEG delegation and an Adjunct
Professor at Technical University of Munich.
Biography Updated on 4 March 2005
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