Mathias Wien

Mathias Wien received the Diploma and Dr.-Ing. degrees from Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University), Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and 2004, respectively. He received his habilitation in 2018 and was appointed as associated professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University in 2025, leading the Visual Media Communication group at the Chair of Imaging and Computer Vision. His research interests include image and video processing, immersive, space-frequency adaptive and scalable video compression, and visual quality assessment. Since 2020, Mathias serves as Convenor of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29/AG5 “MPEG Visual Quality Assessment”. Mathias has been an active contributor to H.264/AVC, HEVC, and VVC. He has participated and contributed to ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC MPEG, the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) and preceding joint teams on video coding of ITU-T and ISO/IEC. He is the ISO/IEC Convenor-elect of JVET for the period 2027-2030. Mathias has published more than 80 scientific articles and conference papers in the area of video coding and video quality assessment and has co-authored several patents in the area of video compression. Mathias has further authored and co-authored more than 250 standardization documents. He has published the Springer textbook “High Efficiency Video Coding: Coding Tools and Specification”.