Nachrichtenübertragung

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Sikora

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Sikora

Technische Universität Berlin
Institut Telekommunikationssysteme
Fachgebiet Nachrichtenübertragung
Sekr. E-N 1
Einsteinufer 17
10587 Berlin

Raum: EN 302
Tel.: (030) 314 - 25799
Fax: (030) 314 - 22514
E-Mail: sikora(at)nue.tu-berlin.de

 

 

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Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Sikora is professor and director of the Communication Systems Lab (Nachrichtenübertragung) at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

He received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from Bremen University, Bremen, Germany, in 1985 and 1989, respectively. In 1990, he joined Siemens Ltd. and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, as a Project Leader responsible for video compression research activities in the Australian Universal Broadband Video Codec consortium. Between 1994 and 2001, he was the Director of the Interactive Media Department, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) Berlin GmbH, Germany. Dr. Sikora is co-founder of Vis-a-Pix GmbH (www.visapix.com) and imcube media GmbH (www.imcube.com), two Berlin-based start-up companies involved in research and development of audio and video signal processing and compression technology. He is an Appointed Member of the Advisory and Supervisory board of a number of German companies and international research organizations. He frequently works as an industry consultant and patent reviewer on issues related to interactive digital audio and video.

Dr. Sikora has been involved in international ITU and ISO standardization activities as well as in several European research activities for more than 15 years. As the Chairman of the ISO-MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) video group, he was responsible for the development and standardization of the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 video algorithms. He also served as the chairman of the European COST 211ter video compression research group. He was appointed as Research Chair for the VISNET and 3DTV European Networks of Excellence.

Dr. Sikora is a member of the German Society for Information Technology (ITG) and recipient of the 1996 ITG Award. He received the 1996 engineering Emmy Award of the US National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) as a member of the ISO MPEG-2 video standars group.

He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers related to audio and video processing and he is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences. He co-authored three books: "Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface", Wiley 2002, "MPEG-7 Audio and Beyond: Audio Content Indexing and Retrieval", Wiley 2005 and "3D Videocommunication: Algorithms, Concepts and Real-Time Systems in User-Centered Communications", Wiley 2005.

He is a past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. From 1998 to 2002, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is an Advisory Editor for the EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal and was an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Signal Processing Journal.

Publications

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2018

  • Sebastian Knorr, Matis Hudong, Julian Cabrera, Thomas Sikora, Aljosa Smolic
    [Lumiere Award] DeepStereoBrush: Interactive Depth Map Creation
    International Conference on 3D Immersion, Brussels, Belgium, 05.12.2018 - 06.12.2018
    Received the Lumiere Award for the best scientific paper
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  • Erik Bochinski, Tobias Senst, Thomas Sikora
    Extending IOU Based Multi-Object Tracking by Visual Information
    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signals-based Surveillance, 27.11.2018 - 30.11.2018, pp. 441-446
    ISBN: 978-1-5386-9294-3/18
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  • Gregory Schröder, Tobias Senst, Erik Bochinski, Thomas Sikora
    Optical Flow Dataset and Benchmark for Visual Crowd Analysis
    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signals-based Surveillance, Auckland, New Zealand, 27.11.2018 - 30.11.2018, pp. 7-11
    ISBN: 978-1-5386-9294-3/18
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  • Siwei Lyu, Ming-Ching Chang, Dawei Du, Wenbo Li, Yi Wei, Marco Del Coco, Pierluigi Carcagnì, Arne Schumann, Bharti Munjal, Dinh-Quoc-Trung Dang, Doo-Hyun Choi, Erik Bochinski, Fabio Galasso, Filiz Bunyak, Guna Seetharaman,Jang-Woon Baek, Jong Taek Lee, Kannappan Palaniappan, Kil-Taek Lim, Kiyoung Moon, Kwang-Ju Kim, Lars Sommer, Meltem Brandlmaier, Min-Sung Kang, Moongu Jeon, Noor M. Al-Shakarji, Oliver Acatay, Pyong-Kun Kim, Sikandar Amin, Thomas Sikora, Tien Dinh, Tobias Senst, Vu-Gia-Hy Che, Young-Chul Lim, Young-min Song, and Yun-Su Chung
    UA-DETRAC 2018: Report of AVSS2018 & IWT4S Challenge on Advanced Traffic Monitoring
    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signals-based Surveillance, Auckland, New Zealand, 27.11.2018 - 30.11.2018
    ISBN: 978-1-5386-9294-3/18
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  • Markus Küchhold, Maik Simon, Volker Eiselein, Thomas Sikora
    Scale-Adaptive Real-Time Crowd Detection and Counting for Drone Images
    25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Athens, Greece, 07.10.2018 - 10.10.2018
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  • Erik Bochinski, Rolf Jongebloed, Michael Tok, Thomas Sikora
    Regularized Gradient Descent Training of Steered Mixture of Experts for Sparse Image Representation
    IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Athens, Greece, 07.10.2018 - 10.10.2018
    DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2018.8451823 Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4799-7061-2 Print on Demand(PoD) ISBN: 978-1-4799-7062-9 Electronic ISSN: 2381-8549
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  • Pengfei Zhu, Longyin Wen, Dawei Du, Xiao Bian, Haibin Ling, Qinghua Hu, Hao Cheng, Chengfeng Liu, Xiaoyu Liu, Wenya Ma, Qinqin Nie, Haotian Wu, Lianjie Wang, Arne Schumann, Dan Wang, Diego Ortego, Elena Luna, Emmanouil Michail, Erik Bochinski, Feng Ni, Filiz Bunyak, Gege Zhang, Guna Seetharaman, Guorong Li, Hongyang Yu, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Jianfei Zhao, Jie Gao, Jose Martinez, Juan Miguel, Kannappan Palaniappan, Konstantinos Avgerinakis, Lars Sommer, Martin Lauer, Mengkun Liu, Noor Al-Shakarji, Oliver Acatay, Panagiotis Giannakeris, Qijie Zhao, Qinghua Ma, Qingming Huang, Stefanos Vrochidis, Thomas Sikora, Tobias Senst, Wei Song, Wei Tian, Wenhua Zhang, Yanyun Zhao, Yidong Bai, Yinan Wu, Yongtao Wang, Yuxuan Li, Zhaoliang Pi, Zhiming Ma
    VisDrone-VDT2018: The Vision Meets Drone Video Detection and Tracking Challenge Results
    ECCV 2018 Workshops, volume Part V, Munich, Germany, 08.09.2018 - 14.09.2018, pp. 496-518
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  • Erik Bochinski, Ghassen Bacha, Volker Eiselein, Tim J. W. Walles, Jens C. Nejstgaard and Thomas Sikora
    Deep Active Learning for In Situ Plankton Classification
    Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery (CVAUI) IPCRW, volume ICPR 2018 Workshops, LNCS 11188, Beijing, China, 20.08.2018 - 24.08.2018, pp. pp. 5–15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05792-3 eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05792-3 Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05791-6
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  • Rolf Jongebloed, Ruben Verhack, Lieven Lange, Thomas Sikora
    Hierarchical Learning of Sparse Image Representations using Steered Mixture-of-Experts
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo Workshops (ICMEW), San Diego, CA, USA, 23.07.2018 - 27.07.2018
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  • Markus Küchhold, Maik Simon, Thomas Sikora
    Restricted Boltzmann Machine Image Compression
    Picture Coding Symposium (PCS 2018), San Francisco, CA, USA, 24.06.2018 - 27.06.2018
    DOI: 10.1109/PCS.2018.8456279
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  • Michael Tok, Rolf Jongebloed, Lieven Lange, Erik Bochinski, Thomas Sikora
    An Mse Approach for Training and Coding Steered Mixtures of Experts
    Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), San Francisco, California USA, 24.06.2018 - 27.06.2018
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  • Emilie Dumont, Bernard Merialdo, Slim Essid, Werner Bailer, Daragh Byrne, Hervé Bredin, Noel E. O'Connor, Gareth Jones, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora, Tomas Piatrik
    A Collaborative Approach to Video Summarization
    3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2008), Koblenz, Germany, 03.12.2008 - 05.12.2008
    Poster
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  • P. Wilkins, D. Byrne, Gareth J.F.Jones, H. Lee, G. Keenan, K. McGuinness, N. E. O'Connor, N. O'Hare, A. F. Smeaton, T. Adamek, R. Troncy, A. Amin, R. Benmokhtar, E. Dumont, B. Huet, B. Merialdo, G. Tolias, E. Spyrou, Y. Avrithis, G. Th. Papadopoulous, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, R. Mörzinger, P. Schallauer, W. Bailer, K. Chandramouli, E. Izquierdo, Lutz Goldmann, Martin Haller, Amjad Samour, Andreas Cobet, Thomas Sikora, P. Praks, D. Hannah, M. Halvey, F. Hopfgartner, R. Villa, P. Punitha, A. Goyal, J. M. Jose
    K-Space at TRECVid 2008
    Proceedings of the TRECVID Workshop 2008, Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, 17.11.2008 - 18.11.2008
    Oral Presentation
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  • Ronald Glasberg, Sebastian Schmiedeke, Hüseyin Oguz, Pascal Kelm and Thomas Sikora
    Real-Time Detection of Sport in MPEG-2 Sequences using High-Level AV-Descriptors and SVM
    Third International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM November 13-16, 2008, London, UK, volume November 2008, London, UK, 13.11.2008 - 16.11.2008
    oral presentation ; eingereicht ; ISBN 978-1-4244-2917-2 ; TACD//-ICDIM-08
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  • Emilie Dumont, Bernard Merialdo, Slim Essid, Werner Bailer, Herwig Rehatschek, Daragh Byrne, Hervé Bredin, Noel E. O'Connor, Gareth J.F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora, Tomas Piatrik
    Rushes Video Summarization using a Collaborative Approach
    TRECVID BBC Rushes Summarization Workshop (TVS 2008) at ACM Multimedia 2008, Vancouver, Canada, volume October 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 27.10.2008 - 01.11.2008, pp. 90-94
    ISBN 978-1-60558-303-7
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  • Sebastian Knorr
    Synthese stereoskopischer Sequenzen aus 2-dimensionalen Videoaufnahmen
    2008
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  • Lutz Goldmann, Tomasz Adamek, Peter Vajda, Mustafa Karaman, Roland Mörzinger, Eric Galmar, Thomas Sikora, Noel O'Connor, Thien Ha-Minh, Touradj Ebrahimi, Peter Schallauer, Benoit Huet
    Towards Fully Automatic Image Segmentation Evaluation
    Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS, 10th International Conference, Proceedings, October 2008, Juan-les-Pins, France, volume 2008, 20.10.2008 - 24.10.2008, pp. 566-577
    ISBN 978-3-540-88457-6 ; TAGU-//-ACIVS-08
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  • Matthias Kunter, Philipp Krey, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora
    Extending H.264/AVC with a Background Sprite Prediction Mode
    15th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Proceedings ICIP 2008, October, San Diego, California, USA, volume October 2008, United States, 12.10.2008 - 15.10.2008, pp. 2128 - 2131
    ISBN 978-1-4244-1764-3 ; ISSN 1522-4880
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  • Engin Kurutepe, Thomas Sikora
    Multi-View Video Streaming over P2P Networks With Low Start-Up Delay
    15th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Proceedings ICIP 2008, October, San Diego, California, USA, volume October 2008, San Diego, USA, 12.10.2008 - 15.09.2008, pp. 3088 - 3091
    ISBN 978-1-4244-1764-3 ; ISSN 1522-4880
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  • Lutz Goldmann, Antonio Rama, Thomas Sikora, Francesc Tarres
    On the Detection and Localization of Facial Occlusions and its Use within Different Scenarios
    IEEE 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 8-10 October 2008, Proceedings, Cairns, Australia, volume October 2008, Australia, 08.10.2008 - 10.10.2008, pp. 592-597
    ISBN 978-1-4244-2295-1
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  • Andreas Krutz, Sebastian Knorr, Matthias Kunter, Thomas Sikora
    Camera Motion-Constraint Video Codec Selection (invited)
    IEEE 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, MMSP 8-10 October 2008, Proceedings, Cairns, Australia, volume October 2008, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 08.10.2008 - 10.10.2008, pp. 58 - 63
    Special Session on Global Motion Estimation and Mosaicing for Applications in Video Analysis and Coding ; ISBN 978-1-4244-2295-1
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  • Dirk Farin, Martin Haller, Andreas Krutz, Thomas Sikora
    Recent Developments in Panoramic Image Generation and Sprite Coding (invited)
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2008), volume October 2008, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 08.10.2008 - 10.10.2008, pp. 64-69
    Special Session on Global Motion Estimation and Mosaicing for Applications in Video Analysis and Coding ; ISBN 978-1-4244-2294-4
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  • Sebastian Knorr, Matthias Kunter, Thomas Sikora
    Stereoscopic 3D from 2D Video with Super-Resolution Capability
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V., vol. Vol. 23, no. 9, October 2008, pp. 665-676
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2008.07.004 ; ISSN: 0923-5965
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  • Antonio Rama, Lutz Goldmann, Francesc Tarres, Thomas Sikora
    More Robust Face Recognition by Considering Occlusion Information
    8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, volume September 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 17.09.2008 - 19.09.2008
    Poster?
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  • Andreas Krutz, Alexander Glantz, Thomas Sikora, Paulo Nunes, Fernando Pereira
    Automatic Object Segmentation Algorithms for Sprite Coding using MPEG-4
    50th International Symposium ELMAR-2008, September, Proceedings, Zadar, Croatia, Vol. 2 of 2, volume Vol. 2, September 2008, Department of Wireless Communications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computering, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 10.09.2008 - 12.09.2008, pp. 459 - 462
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  • Daniel Rodriguez, Lutz Goldmann, Surachai Ongkittikul, Mustafa Karaman, Thomas Sikora
    A System for Personalized Human Computer Interaction
    50th International Symposium ELMAR-2008, September, Proceedings, Zadar, Croatia, Vol. 2 of 2, volume Vol. 2, September 2008, Department of Wireless Communications, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computering, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 10.09.2008 - 12.09.2008, pp. 439 - 442
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  • Jang Heon Kim
    The Robust 3-D Sceneflow
    2008
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  • Sebastian Wegener, Martin Haller, Juan José Burred, Thomas Sikora, Slim Essid, Gaël Richard
    On the Robustness of Audio Features for Musical Instrument Classification
    16th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2008, Proceedings, Lausanne, Switzerland, volume August 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, 25.08.2008 - 29.08.2008
    Oral presentation
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  • Andreas Krutz, Alexander Glantz, Michael Frater, Thomas Sikora
    Local Background Sprite Generation
    International Workshop on Local and Non-Local Approximation in Image Processing, LNLA 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, volume August 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, 23.08.2008 - 24.08.2008
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  • Ronald Glasberg, Sebastian Schmiedeke, Martin Mocigemba, Thomas Sikora
    Real-Time Approaches for Video-Genre-Classification using new High-Level Descriptors and a Set of Classifiers
    2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, volume 2008, Santa Clara/ USA, 04.08.2008 - 07.08.2008, pp. 120 - 127
    oral presentation; eingereicht; ISBN 978-0-7695-3279-0
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  • Woong Hee Kim, Thomas Sikora
    Noise Filtering Method for Color Images based on LDA and Nonlinear Diffusion
    IEEE Int. Conference on Multimedia & Expo, ICME 2008, Proceedings, Hannover, Germany, volume June 2008, Hannover, Germany, 23.06.2008 - 26.06.2008, pp. 1017 - 1020
    ISBN 978-1-4244-2571-6
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  • Juan Jose Burred
    From Sparse Models to Timbre Learning: New Methods for Musical Source Separation
    2008
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  • Andreas Krutz, Alexander Glantz, Martin Haller, Michael Droese, Thomas Sikora
    Multiple Background Sprite Generation using Camera Motion Characterization for Object-based Video Coding
    3DTV Conference 2008, The True Vision Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, May 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, volume Mai 2008, Ankara, Turkey, 28.05.2008 - 30.05.2008, pp. 313 - 316
    ISBN 978-1-4244-1760-5, CD ISBN 978-1-4244-1755-1
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  • Engin Kurutepe, Thomas Sikora
    Feasibility of Multi-View Video Streaming over P2P Networks
    3DTV Conference 2008, The True Vision Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video, May 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, volume Mai 2008, Ankara, Turkey, 28.05.2008 - 30.05.2008, pp. 157 - 160
    CD ISBN 978-1-4244-1755-1
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  • Ronald Glasberg, Sebastian Schmiedeke, Pascal Kelm, Thomas Sikora
    An automatic system for real-time video-genres detection using high-level-descriptors and a set of classifiers
    12th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, ISCE 2008, Algarve, Portugal, volume April 2008, Algarve, Portugal, 14.04.2008 - 16.04.2008, pp. 1 - 4
    oral presentation; eingereicht; ISBN 978-1-4244-2422-1
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  • Fernando Pereira, Anthony Vetro, Thomas Sikora
    Multimedia Retrieval and Delivery: Essential Metadata Challenges and Standards (invited)
    Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Press, vol. 96, no. 4, April 2008, pp. 721 - 744
    ISSN: 0018-9219
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  • Matthias Kunter
    Advances in Sprite-based Video Coding - Towards Universal Usability
    2008
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  • Juan José Burred, Martin Haller, Shan Jin, Amjad Samour, Thomas Sikora
    Audio Content Analysis
    in Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Paola Hobson (ed(s).), Springer Verl., London, UK, January 2008, pp. 123-161
    ISBN 978-1-84800-075-9
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  • Gunnar Eisenberg
    Identifikation und Klassifikation von Musikinstrumentenklängen in monophoner und polyphoner Musik
    2008
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