Helge Seetzen

Helge Seetzen (born 23 June 1978) is an award-winning ^[1] German technologist, businessman and entrepreneur, known for imaging & multimedia research and commercialization. He holds a series of patents in the display and multimedia spaces.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} and has launched e start-up companies to bring his own and others inventions to market.^[7]

Seetzen was active in the development of high dynamic range imaging (HDR) technology ^[8] and several of his patents cover aspects of this technology.

Seetzen left his native Germany to study physics at the University of British Columbia in 1998.^[9]

In 2004, he became co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of BrightSide Technologies, a Vancouver-based developer of High dynamic range imaging-based electronic display technologies. After Brightside was purchased by Dolby Laboratories in 2007,^[9] he joined Dolby Canada Corp., becoming director of HDR Technology at Dolby from 2008 to 2010.

Seetzen is the Chair of the Publications committee of the Society for Information Display,^[10] where he is responsible for the society’s publications including The Journal of the SID,,^[11] Information Display magazine, and related publications. He also served as the 2010 Program Chair and 2012 General Chair of Display Week,^[11] a technical symposium on displays.

Seetzen’s work includes contributions to published research on high dynamic range display systems,^[12][13] High-Luminance HDR,^[14] and photometric image processing,.^[15]

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