Digital Processing Medal Recipients

The Digital Processing Medal, established in 2012, recognizes significant technical achievements related to the development of digital processing of content for cinema, television, games, or other related media.

In recognition of his contributions to image and video compression. LeGall is a visionary, pioneer, and expert in the video compression industry who has authored and co-authored many digital-video-related patents. He spearheaded the MPEG standardization effort and served as chair of the MPEG Video Group from 1989 to 1995, delivering the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 international standards. LeGall also contributed to many of the techniques that are fundamental to video coding, including adaptive transform coding of still images, sub-band coding of images with low computational complexity, format conversion pre-processing, and the multichannel HDTV system.