Yuri Vatis received Dipl.-Ing. degree in computer engineering with an emphasis on telecommunications from the Technical University Berlin in 2003. Since then he has been working torwards the PhD degree at the Insitut für Informationsverarbeitung of Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research interests are image processing, conventionell as well as distributed video coding. He is an active contributer to the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC / ITU-T Joint Video Team (JVT). His works on adaptive interpolation filtering are in the current exploration software of VCEG.