Michael J. Horowitz
Michael J. Horowitz (born January 2, 1964, in Ames, Iowa) is an American electrical engineer who actively participated in the creation of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and H.265/HEVC video coding standards. He is co-inventor of flexible macroblock ordering (FMO) [1] and tiles,[2] essential features in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and H.265/HEVC, respectively. He is managing partner of Applied Video Compression and has served on the technical advisory boards of Vivox, Inc., Vidyo, Inc., and RipCode, Inc.
Education[edit]
- A.B. degree with distinction in physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1986.
- M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, New York, 1988.
- Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1998.
Professional work[edit]
Horowitz also has contributed to the early productization of several video coding standards:
- 2000 – At Polycom, architect and developer of the first commercially available in-product implementation of macroblock-adaptive multiple reference frames (H.263 Annex U).[3] Macroblock-adaptive multiple reference frames has become a mainstay in subsequent video coding standards.
- 2003 – At Polycom, architect and lead engineer of the team that produced the first commercially available in-product implementation of H.264/AVC.[4]
- 2008 – At Vidyo, architect and lead engineer of the team that developed the first commercially available in-product implementation of H.264 SVC[5]
- 2012 – At eBrisk Video, architect and lead engineer of the team that developed one of the first commercially available implementations of H.265/HEVC.[6]
- 2020 – At Google, Technical Lead of the AV1 for Duo project that became the first commercially available real-time interactive video implementation of AV1.[7]
Standardization[edit]
- 2001-2002 – VCEG Chair, Ad hoc Group on H.26L Complexity Reduction
- 2002-2003 – JVT Chair, Ad hoc Group on H.26L Complexity Reduction
- 2002-2003 – JVT Chair, Ad hoc Group on Robustness
- 2008-2010 – VCEG Chair, Ad hoc Group on Computational Efficiency
- 2011-2012 – JCT-VC Chair, Ad hoc Group on High-level Parallelism
- 2020 – Alliance for Open Media Co-chair, RTC Subgroup
References[edit]
- ^ United States Patent 7,239,662
- ^ United States Patent 9,060,174
- ^ Wiegand, T., Girod, B. “Multi-frame motion-compensated prediction for video transmission”, page xi, Springer, 2001.
- ^ Andrew W. Davis, "The Wainhouse Bulletin," Volume 4 Issue #8, February 2003.
- ^ "IP Video Conferencing | Desktop Video Conferencing | Vidyo". Archived from the original on May 7, 2009. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
- ^ Horowitz, M., Kossentini, F., Mahdi, N., Xu, S., Guermazi H., Tmar, H., Li B., Sullivan, G. J., Xu, J., "Informal subjective quality comparison of video compression performance of the HEVC and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standards for low-delay applications”, Proc. SPIE 8499, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXV, October 15, 2012.
- ^ Nick Statt, "Google Duo video calls are about to look a whole lot better," The Verge, April 22, 2020.