Media Coding Industry Forum Progress Report

Jonatan Samuelsson is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Divideon, Stockholm, Sweden, a software development and technology licensing company. Divideon develops the open-source software-defined video codec xvc. Before starting up Divideon, he worked as a researcher and project manager at Ericsson Stockholm, Sweden. He has an MSc degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, and started working on video compression research and development in 2007. He was actively involved in the standardization of high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) and is currently contributing to the standardization of versatile video coding (VVC) and to essential video coding (EVC), where he is one of the editors of the standard. He has also contributed to standardization works in digital video broadcasting (DVB), Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). He has been involved in setting up the Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) and is serving as the MC-IF board director and chief communications officer.