Breaking the Wall of the Flat World of TV

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In only 15 years' time, we will be watching television in a radical, three-dimensional form. This 2009 Falling Walls lecture video features Thomas Wiegand, professor at the Technische Universität Berlin and head of the Image Processing Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institut, whose work is transforming television and our viewing habits. Having studied electrical engineering at the Universities of Hamburg and Erlangen-Nuremburg, Wiegand quickly became one of the pioneers writing the code for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, the standard for video compression. His forays into coding, visualizing, and streaming 3-D environments are regarded as the most promising developments in the telecommunications standardization sector. In 2009, Wiegand received the Innovation Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications. Watch him transform our ways of seeing.