Yaowu Xu
Dr. Yaowu Xu is currently a Distinguished Software Engineer at Google, Leading Google's Open Codecs Group. Dr. Xu’s group is responsible for developing the core technology that enables the delivery of Video, Image, Audio, and 3D Reality over the internet, powering a broad range of products and services at Google and the industry, such as YouTube, Meet, Photos, Image Search, Ads, and AR Shopping. World-class experts in his group have been the driving force of many open-source media compression projects such as VP9, AV1, AV2, WebP, AVIF, Lyra, and Draco. Besides leading engineering teams and projects, Dr. Xu was the executive sponsor of Chrome & Photos' mentoring program, a faculty member of Google's Manager Development program that trains Google's people managers, and a volunteer mentor to Google’s talents at various career stages.
Prior to joining Google, Dr. Xu was the vice president of codec development at On2 Technologies.
Dr. Xu holds a Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester in 2003. He has been granted over two hundred patents.
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AN OVERVIEW OF CORE CODING TOOLS IN THE AV1 VIDEO CODEC
Adrian Grange
Andrey Norkin
Ching-Han Chiang
Hui Su
Jean-Marc Valin
Luc Trudeau
Nathan Egge
Paul Wilkins
Peter de Rivaz
Sarah Parker
Steinar Midtskogen
Thomas Davies
Zoe Liu
The Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) (2018)
Novel inter and intra prediction tools under consideration for the emerging AV1 video codec
Sarah Parker
Hui Su
Angie Chiang
Zoe Liu
Chen Wang
Emil Keyder
SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 10396 (2017), 10396 - 10396 - 13
An estimation-theoretic approach to video denoising
Timothy Kopp
2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE, pp. 4273-4277
The latest open-source video codec VP9 - An overview and preliminary results
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Adrian Grange
John Koleszar
Paul Wilkins
Ronald S Bultje
Picture Coding Symposium (2013)
