Jens Brandenburg

Articles in Journals


2024

  • Valeri George, Jens Brandenburg, Gabriel Hege, Tobias Hinz, Adam Wieckowski, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe
    Efficient VVC Encoding Using Hierarchical Parallelization: A Comprehensive Analysis,
    International Journal of Semantic Computing, ISSN: 1793-351X, vol. 18, no. 02, pp. 175-204, February 2024, doi: 10.1142/S1793351X2450003X, Open Access


2022

  • Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe
    VVC Search Space Analysis Including an Open, Optimized Implementation,
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 2, no. 68, pp. 127-138, May 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCE.2022.3148813, Open Access


2016

  • Jens Brandenburg, Benno Stabernack
    Simulation-based HW/SW Co-Exploration of the Concurrent Execution of HEVC Intra Encoding Algorithms for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures,
    Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture JSA, December 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2016.12.009


2010

  • C. Silvano, W. Fornaciari, S. Crespi Reghizzi, G. Agosta, G. Palermo, V. Zaccaria, P. Bellasi F. Castro, S. Corbetta, A. Di Biagio, E. Speziale, M. Tartara, D. Siorpaes, Heiko Hübert, Benno Stabernack, Jens Brandenburg, M. Palkovic, P. Raghavan, C. Ykman-Couvreur, A. Bartzas, S. Xydis, D. Soudris, T. Kempf, G. Ascheid, H. Meyr, J. Ansari, P. Mähönen, Bart Vanthournout
    Parallel Paradigms and Run-time Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures: The 2PARMA Approach,
    IEEE Micro Special Issue European Multicore Processing Projects, September 2010, Special Issue

Conference Contributions


2024

  • Vignesh Vijayakumar Balakrishna Menon, Adam Wieckowski, Christian Stoffers, Jens Brandenburg, Christian Lehmann, Benjamin Bross, Thomas Schierl, Detlev Marpe
    Enhancing Film Grain Coding in VVC: Improving Encoding Quality and Efficiency,
    International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2024, https://www.ibc.org/technical-papers/ibc2024-tech-papers-enhancing-film-grain-coding-in-vvc-improving-encoding-quality-and-efficiency/12055.article
  • Anastasia Henkel, Benjamin Bross, Jens Brandenburg, Adam Wieckowski, Detlev Marpe, Andoni Morales, Sergio Sanchez
    Optimizing an Open VVC Encoder for Low Delay Remote Desktop Applications,
    2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW), Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, IEEE, pp. 1-6, July 2024, doi: 10.1109/ICMEW63481.2024.10645432
  • Anastasia Henkel, Christian R. Helmrich, Tobias Hinz, Jens Brandenburg, Adam Wieckowski, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
    Fast First Pass in Two-Pass Video Encoding Using Sub-Sampling,
    2024 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Taichung, Taiwan, IEEE, pp. 1-5, June 2024, doi: 10.1109/PCS60826.2024.10566444
  • Valeri George, Jens Brandenburg, Gabriel Hege, Tobias Hinz, Adam Wieckowski, Benjamin Bross, Thomas Schierl, Detlev Marpe
    Inter-Frame Parallelization in an Open Optimized VVC Encoder,
    Proceedings of the 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, Bari, Italy, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, ISBN: 9798400704123, pp. 202 – 209, April 2024, doi: 10.1145/3625468.3647624
  • Vignesh Vijayakumar Balakrishna Menon, Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Benjamin Bross, Thomas Schierl, Detlev Marpe
    Gain of Grain: A Film Grain Handling Toolchain for VVC-based Open Implementations,
    MHV '24: Proceedings of the 3rd Mile-High Video Conference, Denver, CO, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, ISBN: 9798400704932, pp. 47–53, February 2024, doi: 10.1145/3638036.3640805


2023

  • Christian R. Helmrich, Christian Bartnik, Jens Brandenburg, Adam Wieckowski, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe
    A Constrained Variable Bit Rate (CVBR) Algorithm for VVenC, an Open VVC Encoder Implementation,
    2023 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Jeju, Republic of Korea, December 2023, doi: 10.1109/VCIP59821.2023.10402647


2022

  • Valeri George, Jens Brandenburg, Gabriel Hege, Tobias Hinz, Adam Wieckowski, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe
    Efficient Multi-Threading Strategies in VVenC, an Open and Optimized VVC Encoder Implementation,
    IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Naples, Italy, pp. 18-25, December 2022, doi: 10.1109/ISM55400.2022.00009
  • Christian R. Helmrich, Christian Bartnik, Jens Brandenburg, Valeri George, Tobias Hinz, Christian Lehmann, Ivan Zupancic, Adam Wieckowski, Benjamin Bross
    A Scene Change and Noise Aware Rate Control Method for VVenC, an Open VVC Encoder Implementation,
    2022 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), San Jose, CA, USA, pp. 241-245, December 2022, doi: 10.1109/PCS56426.2022.10018041


2021

  • Christian R. Helmrich, Ivan Zupancic, Jens Brandenburg, Valerie George, Adam Wieckowski, Benjamin Bross
    Visually Optimized Two-Pass Rate Control for Video Coding Using the Low-Complexity XPSNR Model,
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Munich, Germany, IEEE, December 2021
  • Jens Brandenburg, Adam Wieckowski, Anastasia Henkel, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe
    Pareto-optimized coding configurations for VVenC, a fast and efficient VVC encoder,
    2021 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Tampere, Finland, IEEE, pp. 1-6, October 2021, doi: 10.1109/MMSP53017.2021.9733433
  • Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Tobias Hinz, Christian Bartnik, Valeri George, Gabriel Hege, Christian R. Helmrich, Anastasia Henkel, Christian Lehmann, Christian Stoffers, Ivan Zupancic, Benjamin Bross, Detlev Marpe
    VVenC: An Open and Optimized VVC Encoder Implementation,
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), Shenzhen, China , July 2021, doi: 10.1109/ICMEW53276.2021.9455944, Best Open Source Project Award Winner


2020

  • Jens Brandenburg, Adam Wieckowski, Tobias Hinz, Anastasia Henkel, Valeri George, Ivan Zupancic, Christian Stoffers, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe
    Towards Fast and Efficient VVC Encoding,
    IEEE 22nd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Tempere, ISBN: 978-1-7281-9323-6, September 2020, doi: 10.1109/MMSP48831.2020.9287093


2016

  • Jens Brandenburg, Benno Stabernack
    Simulation based Analysis of Memory Access Conflicts for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Platforms,
    12th Workshop on Parallel Algorithms and Systems and Algorithms (PASA), Nürnberg, Germany, April 2016


2015

  • Jens Brandenburg, Benno Stabernack
    Exploring the Concurrent Execution of HEVC Intra Encoding Algorithms for Heterogeneous Multi Core Architectures, Electronic Systems and Chip Initiative,
    Conference on Design & Architectures for Signal & Image Processing (DASIP2015), Krakow, Poland, September 2015
  • Benno Stabernack, Jan Möller, Jan Hahlbeck, Jens Brandenburg
    Demonstrating an FPGA Implementation of a Full HD Real-time HEVC Decoder with Memory Optimizations for Range Extensions Support,
    Conference on Design & Architectures for Signal & Image Processing(DASIP2015), Krakow, Poland, September 2015


2013

  • Jens Brandenburg, Benno Stabernack
    Memory Access Analysis and Optimization of a Parallel H.264/SVC Decoder for an Embedded Multi-Core Platform,
    Electronic Systems and Chip Initiative, Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (IEEE DASIP2013), Cagliari, Italy, October 2013
  • Benjamin Bross, Valeri George, Mauricio Alvarez-Mesa, Tobias Mayer, Chi Ching Chi, Jens Brandenburg, Thomas Schierl, Detlev Marpe, Ben Juurlink
    HEVC Performance and Complexity for 4K Video,
    IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin 2013, Germany, pp. 44-47, September 2013, Best Paper Award of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin
  • A. Bartzas, P. Bellasi, Jens Brandenburg, W. Fornaciari, I. Koutras, G. Massari, G. Palermo, E. Paone, C. Silvano, D. Soudris, S. Xydis, V. Zaccaria
    Cooperative Design Space Exploration and Run-Time Resource Management for Application Adaptivity on Multi-Core Platforms: A Networked Video Surveillance Use Case,
    Proceedings of the DATE 2013 International Conference, DEPCP2013, WORKSHOP: Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools and Applications, Grenoble, France, March 2013
  • Jens Brandenburg, Benno Stabernack
    Performance and Memory Access Analysis for Embedded Multi-Core Media Signal Processing Platforms using NoCTrace,
    Proceedings of 8th International Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC) / Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multi-Core Embedded Computing Platforms, Berlin, Germany, January 2013


2012

  • Benno Stabernack, Jens Brandenburg
    A Novel Profiling Methodology for Many-Core Simulation Models aiming HW/SW Co-Optimization,
    Proceedings of the DATE 2012 International Conference, DEPCP2012, WORKSHOP: Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools and Applications, Dresden, Germany, March 2012
  • Jens Brandenburg, Benno Stabernack
    A Generic and Non-Intrusive Profiling Methodology for SystemC Multi-Core Platform Simulation Models,
    Proceedings of ARCS 2012 - Architecture of Computing Systems Conference, Munich, Germany, February 2012
  • Benno Stabernack, Jens Brandenburg
    NoCTrace - A Non Intrusive System Level Architecture Exploration Tool for Network on Chip Architectures,
    Proceedings of 7th International Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC) / Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multi-Core Embedded Computing Platforms, Paris, France, January 2012


2011

  • C. Silvano, W. Fornaciari, S. Crespi Reghizzi, G. Agosta, G. Palermo, V. Zaccaria, P. Bellasi, F. Castro, S. Corbetta, E. Speziale, D. Melpignano, J.M. Zins, H. Hubert, Benno Stabernack, Jens Brandenburg, M. Palkovic, P. Raghavan, C. Ykman-Couvreur, A. Bartzas, D. Soudris, T. Kempf, G. Ascheid, H. Meyr, J. Ansari, P. Mahonen, B. Vanthournout
    Parallel Paradigms and Run-time Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures: The 2PARMA Approach,
    Proceedings of IEEE 9th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN'2011), Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2011, Invited Paper
  • C. Silvano, W. Fornaciari, S. Crespi Reghizzi, G. Agosta, G. Palermo, V. Zaccaria, P. Bellasi, F. Castro, S. Corbetta, E. Speziale, D. Melpignano, J.M. Zins, H. Hubert, Benno Stabernack, Jens Brandenburg, M. Palkovic, P. Raghavan, C. Ykman-Couvreur, I. Anagnostopoulos, A. Bartzas, D. Soudris, T. Kempf, G. Ascheid, H. Meyr, J. Ansari, P. Mahonen, B. Vanthournout
    Parallel programming and Run-time Resource Management Framework for Many-core Platforms: The 2PARMA Approach,
    Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC'2011), Montpellier, France, June 2011, Invited Paper
  • Benno Stabernack, Jens Brandenburg
    NoCTrace - A System Level Architecture Exploration Tool for Network on Chip Architectures,
    DATE Friday Workshop on Designing for Embedded Parallel Computing Platforms: Architectures, Design Tools, and Applications (DEPCP 2011), Grenoble, France, March 2011


2010

  • C. Silvano, W. Fornaciari, S. Crespi Reghizzi, G. Agosta, G. Palermo, V. Zaccaria, P. Bellasi, F. Castro, S. Corbetta, A. Di Biagio, E. Speziale, M. Tartara, D. Siorpaes, H. Hübert, Benno Stabernack, Jens Brandenburg, M. Palkovic, P. Raghavan, C. Ykman-Couvreur, A. Bartzas, S. Xydis, D. Soudris, T. Kempf, G. Ascheid, H. Meyr, J. Ansari, P. Mähönen, B. Vanthournout
    2PARMA: Parallel Paradigms and Run-time Management Techniques for Many-Core Architectures,
    IEEE Computer Society, Annual Symposium on VLSI 2010, Lixouri, Kefalonia, Greece, July 2010
  • Thomas Wirth, Lars Thiele, Thomas Haustein, Jens Brandenburg, Benno Stabernack
    Scalable Video Broadcasting Trials in 4G Cellular Deployments,
    Proceedings of the Future Network Mobile Summit, Florence, Italy, June 2010


2009

  • Benno Stabernack, Heiko Hübert, Jens Brandenburg, Jan Möller
    An Experimental Mobile Terminal for Scalable Video Coding Applications using a H.264/AVC Decoder SOC,
    Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, Mielparque-Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, May 2009

Contributions to Standardizations


2023

  • Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Christian Bartnik, Valerie George, Jens Güther, Gabriel Hege, Christian R. Helmrich, Anastasia Henkel, Tobias Hinz, Christian Lehmann, Christian Stoffers, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl
    Update on open, optimized VVC implementations VVenC and VVdeC,
    JVET-AC0266, Teleconference, January 2023


2022

  • Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Christian Bartnik, Valerie George, Jens Güther, G. Hege, Christian Helmrich, Anastasia Henkel, Tobias Hinz, Christian Lehmann, Christian Stoffers, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl
    Update on open, optimized VVC implementations VVenC and VVdeC,
    JVET-AB0044, Mainz, October 2022
  • Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Christian Bartnik, Valeri George, Jens Güther, Gabriel Hege, Christian Helmrich, Anastasia Henkel, Tobias Hinz, Christian Lehmann, Christian Stoffers, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl
    Update on Open optimized VVC Implementations VVenC and VVdeC,
    JVET-AA0154, JVET Teleconference, July 2022
  • Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Christian Bartnik, Valeri George, Jens Güther, Gabriel Hege, Christian Helmrich, Anastasia Henkel, Tobias Hinz, Christian Lehmann, Christian Stoffers, Ivan Zupancic, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl
    Update on open, optimized VVC implementations VVenC and VVdeC,
    JVET-Y0136, Teleconference, January 2022
  • D. Rusanovskyy, M. Karczewicz, K. Andersson, R. Sjöberg, L. Litwic, P. Nikitin, G. Martin-Cocher, Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Benjamin Bross
    AHG10: VTM encoder configurations for tests targeting improved coding performance,
    JVET-Y0126, Teleconference, January 2022


2021

  • Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Christian Bartnik, Valeri George, Jens Güther, Gabriel Hege, Christian R. Helmrich, Anastasia Henkel, Tobias Hinz, Christian Lehmann, Christian Stoffers, Ivan Zupancic, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl
    Update on open, optimized VVC implementations VVenC and VVdeC,
    Doc. JVET-X0184, JVET Teleconference, October 2021


2020

  • Adam Wieckowski, Jens Brandenburg, Christian Bartnik, Valerie George, Jens Güther, Gabriel Hege, Christian Helmrich, Anastasia Henkel, Tobias Hinz, Christian Lehmann, Christian Stoffers, Ivan Zupancic, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe
    Open optimized VVC encoder (VVenC) and decoder (VVdeC) implementations,
    Document JVET-T0099 of the JVET, 2020


2019

  • Santiago De-Luxán-Hernández, Valerie George, Gayathri Venugopal, Jens Brandenburg, Benjamin Bross, Tung Nguyen, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
    Non-CE3: Proposed ISP cleanup,
    Document JVET-O0502 of the JVET, 2019
  • Santiago De-Luxán-Hernández, Valeri George, Gayathri Venugopal, Jens Brandenburg, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
    AHG13: Additional ISP Tool-off tests,
    Document JVET-P0970 of the JVET , 2019
  • Santiago De-Luxán-Hernández, Valeri George, Gayathri Venugopal, Jens Brandenburg, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
    Non-CE6: Combination of ISP and LFNST,
    Document JVET-P0392 of the JVET , 2019
  • Santiago De-Luxán-Hernández, Valeri George, Gayathri Venugopal, Jens Brandenburg, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand, M. Koo, M. Salehifar, J. Lim, S. Kim, J. Lainema
    Non-CE6: Combination of JVET-P0196 and JVET-P0392 on applying LFNST for ISP Blocks and simplifying the transform signalling,
    Document JVET-P1026 of the JVET, 2019


2018

  • Jens Brandenburg, Robert Skupin, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wiegand
    CE4-5 related: Inter/Intra Boundary Padding,
    Doc. JVET-K0195, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2018
  • Adam Wieckowski, Tobias Hinz, Valeri George, Jackie Ma, Jens Brandenburg, Christian Lehmann, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wiegand
    Thread Parallel Encoding,
    Doc. JVET-J0036, San Diego, CA, USA, April 2018
  • Jackie Ma, Adam Wieckowski, Valeri George, Tobias Hinz, Jens Brandenburg, Santiago De-Luxán-Hernández, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Robert Skupin, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wiegand
    Quadtree plus binary tree with shifting (including software),
    Doc. JVET-J0035, San Diego, CA, USA, April 2018
  • Matthias Albrecht, Christian Bartnik, Sebastian Bosse, Jens Brandenburg, Benjamin Bross, Johannes Erfurt, Valeri George, Paul Haase, Philipp Helle, Christian Helmrich, Anastasia Henkel, Tobias Hinz, Jonathan Pfaff, Jennifer Rasch, Roman Rischke, Christian Rudat, Michael Schäfer, Thomas Schierl, Heiko Schwarz, Mischa Siekmann, Robert Skupin, Björn Stallenberger, Jan Stegemann, Karsten Sühring, Gerhard Tech, Gayathri Venugopal, Simone Walter, Adam Wieckowski, Thomas Wiegand, Martin Winken
    Description of SDR, HDR and 360° video coding technology proposal by Fraunhofer HHI,
    Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) of ITU-T SG16 WP3 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, JVET-J0014, San Diego, CA, USA, April 2018
  • Adam Wieckowski, Tobias Hinz, Valeri George, Jens Brandenburg, Jackie Ma, Santiago De-Luxán-Hernández, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
    AHG10: Updated NextSoftware as an alternative implementation of the Joint Exploration Model (JEM),
    Doc. JVET-I0034, Gwangju, South Korea, January 2018


2017

  • Adam Wieckowski, Tobias Hinz, Valeri George, Jens Brandenburg, Jackie Ma, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
    NextSoftware: An alternative implementation of the Joint Exploration Model (JEM),
    Doc. JVET-H0084, Macau, China, October 2017

Books/Chapters


2011

  • C. Silvano, W. Fornaciari, S. Crespi Reghizzi, G. Agosta, G. Palermo, V. Zaccaria, P. Bellasi, F. Castro, S. Corbetta, A. Di Biagio, E. Speziale, M. Tartara, D. Melpignano, J.-M. Zins, D. Siorpaes, H. Hubert, Benno Stabernack, Jens Brandenburg, M. Palkovic, P. Raghavan, C. Ykman-Couvreur, A. Bartzas, S. Xydis, D. Soudris, T. Kempf, G. Ascheid, R. Leupers, H. Meyr, J. Ansari, P. Mahonen, B. Vanthournout
    2PARMA: Parallel Paradigms and 3 Run-time Management Techniques for Many-Core Architectures,
    In: VLSI 2010 Annual Symposium, Selected Papers, Editors: N. Voros, A. Mukherjee, N. Sklavos, K. Masselos, M. Huebner, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer Verlag, Netherlands, vol. 57, pp. 65-79, August 2011, Book Chapter