Jacob Ström
Principal Researcher, media coding
Ericsson Research
Kista, Sweden
Jacob works with video compression where he has contributed to the standardization of the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), and more recently to the work in MPEG and JCT-VC regarding High Dynamic Range (HDR) video. He is co-author of more than 120 granted patents and has a similar amount of patents pending.
In 2022, Jacob and the Ericsson Video Codec Research and Standardization (VISTA) team received the Ericsson Inventor of the Year award.
Jacob holds a Ph.D. in Image Coding from Linköping University, Sweden, and has been a visiting Ph.D. student at UCSD and MIT.