Michael J. Horowitz

Michael J. Horowitz (born 2 January 1964 in Ames, Iowa) is an American electrical engineer who actively participated in the creation of the H.264/AVC video coding standard. He is co-inventor of flexible macroblock ordering (FMO),^[1] one of the standard’s essential features.

Horowitz also has contributed to the early productization of several video coding standards facilitating commercial adoption of those standards including:

• 2000 – At Polycom, architect and developer of the first commercially available in-product implementation of macroblock-adaptive multiple reference frames (H.263 Annex U).^[2] 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.^[3]
• 2008 – At Vidyo, architect and lead engineer of the team that developed the first commercially available in-product implementation of H.264 SVC ^[4]

Horowitz is Managing Partner of Applied Video Compression and leads the Algorithms Team at Vidyo Inc. He has served on the Technical Advisory Boards of Vidyo, Inc., Hackensack, New Jersey, USA since 2006 and RipCode,^[5] Dallas, Texas, USA since 2009.

Education

• A.B. degree with distinction in physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 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, in 1998.

Standardization

• 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
• Since 2008 – VCEG Chair, Ad hoc Group on Computational Efficiency

References

1. ^ United States Patent 7,239,662
2. ^ Wiegand, T., Girod, B. “Multi-frame motion-compensated prediction for video transmission”, page xi, Springer, 2001.
3. ^ [www.wainhouse.com/bulletin/archives04.html, Andrew W. Davis, "The Wainhouse Bulletin," Volume 4 Issue #8, February 2003]
4. ^ [www.vidyo.com/news_products_012808.html]
5. ^ [www.ripcode.com]

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