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The Düsseldorf office "RKW Architektur +" wins the public procurement of the Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW (BLB NRW) Aachen for the "Cube 3". The building complements the existing institute buildings "Cube 1" and "Cube 2" of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.
Measurement series: Time variant impulse responses of ANC headphones
The performance of ANC headphone systems depends strongly on the underlying acoustic paths. Former measurements have shown that these can vary significantly from person to person. This effect can partly be reduced by a calibration the acoustic front end.
In a long tradition, the IKS team celebrated the end of the year together with the students. With hot drinks, waffles and grilled food all culinary wishes could be fulfilled.
PHD Exam of Dr.-Ing. Markus Niermann
Dr.-Ing. Markus Niermann has successfully completed his oral PHD examination. In the morning, Dr. Niermann gave a 45-minute lecture on his work on the topic:
"Digital Enhancement of Speech Perception in Noisy Environments"
Award: "Patent of the Month December"
In November 2017 we reported on the successful patent application for active suppression of the occlusion effect (DE102016011719B3) by the inventors Stefan Liebich, Carlotta Anemüller, and Daniel Rüschen.
Our research assistants were with their company Ferncast and Mayah Communications at the "30. Tonmeistertagung" in Cologne. There they presented methods and devices for streaming complex scenarios, e.g. from a radio station to the internet.
This year the IKS took part in the RWTH Science Night "5 vor 12". On Friday, 9 November 2018, between 7 p.m. and midnight, science could be experienced.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vary | ITG Fellow
On November 5, 2018 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vary has been named as Fellow of the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) at VDE. With this decision, the award committee and the ITG executive board honored his outstanding merits, his commitment and his excellent scientific achievements in the field of mobile communications.
2nd Place at the AES MATLAB Plugin Student Competition
The student project "Binaural Piano", which was developed in the "Real-time Audio Processing" laboratory, was especially successful. At the 145th AES Convention in New York, a jury awarded Maximilian Kentgens, Tobias Kabzinski, Sebastian Nagel, Till Hardenbicker and Benjamin Agthe a second place in the AES MATLAB Plugin Student Competition for their student project. A great joint success of students and staff!
First Semester Students at IKS
For a successful start of the first semester students we once again provided presentations and demonstrations in our institute. We prepared special experiments and demos, easy to understand, in our typical research topics "digital speech and audio processing" and "communications".