Jörg Heuer

Joerg Heuer received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen, Germany, 1997, with a specialization on digital signal processing and high-frequency engineering. Supported by the Corporate Technology of Siemens, he received a Ph.D. degree from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen in 2003 for his work on multimedia content description. He joined the Corporate Technology of Siemens AG in 2002, where he is working as a Senior Scientist in the fields of multimedia content description and metadata coding in the domain of communication applications. Further research interests include multimedia adaptation in heterogeneous environments and indexing of metadata. He has been actively contributing to the MPEG standardization activity since 1999, in particular, on MPEG-7 and MPEG-21. He is a coeditor of Part 5, “Multimedia Description Schemes,” Part 8, “Extraction and Use of MPEG-7 Descriptions,” and Amendment 1 of Part 1, “Systems” of MPEG-7. Currently he is also contributing to the DVB CBMS standardization. He has also been active in several European research projects, including IST-SAMBITS, SAVANT, and ISIS.

Biography Updated on 4 March 2005

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