Karlheinz Brandenburg [SEP] place of birth
Karlheinz Brandenburg
Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunhofer IIS), he developed the widespread MP3 method for audio data compression. He is also known for his elementary work in the field of audio coding, the perception measurement, the wave field synthesis and psychoacoustics. Brandenburg has received numerous national and international research awards, prizes and honors for
Karlheinz
Karlheinz is a German given name, composed of Karl and Heinz. Notable people with that name include:
- Karlheinz Böhm (1928–2014), Austrian actor
- Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 1954), audio engineer
- Karlheinz Deschner (born 1924), German agnostic
- Karlheinz Essl (born 1960), Austrian composer, performer, sound artist, improviser and composition teacher
- Karlheinz Förster (born 1958), former German football player
- Karlheinz Hackl (born 1949), Austrian actor