Frederik Temmermans
Frederik Temmermans is postdoctoral researcher at ETRO, an imec research group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Belgium), where he obtained his Engineering PhD in 2014. His current research focus is on image processing, interoperable access to image data and image search. He has been involved in several research projects in the medical, mobile and cultural domains. Frederik is an active member of the JPEG standardization committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1) where he is currently involved in the privacy and security, and the metadata activities. He is also a co-founder of Universum Digitalis, a VUB spin-off.

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JPEG - From mediaeval paintings to holography
Since their inception, digital cameras and displays have revolutionized consumer photography and professional imaging. Imec's Peter Schelkens and Frederik Temmermans have been at the heart of that effort. Today Peter Schelkens is also involved in JPEG Pleno, a new standard for innovative imaging modalities such as point cloud, light field and holographic imaging. Peter talks about how these will drive many exciting developments. But he also enthuses about how his team recently helped reveal fascinating details in the paintings of Pieter Bruegel.
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