News Archive
Welcoming the new batch of the Master Communications Engineering
The new batch of the major "Communications Engineering" was welcomed during the "welcome week" by Prof. Jax, Johannes Fabry and Stefan Liebich.
Justus Thorau and Melanie Plank visiting our IKS|Lab
Justus Thorau, the musical director of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, and Melanie Plank, orchestra director, visited our institute to listen to the latest recordings of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony at the IKS|Lab.
In the course of the upcoming release of our 3D recordings, we invited Arnd Sartor, oboeist and English hornist of the Aachen Symphony Orchestra.
Challenge in Recording the Resurrection Symphony
On request of the music director Justus Thorau we recorded the 1. Symphony concert of the season 2017/2018 with our 360 ° camera and the Eigenmike® in the Higher Order Ambisonics format of order 4.
Conferences: ICSV and EUSIPCO 2017
In the summer, we attended two european conferences. Stefan Liebich travelled to the International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV, July 23rd - 27th) in London and participated, together with Johannes Fabry, at the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO, August 28th - September 2nd ) on Kos in Greece.
It was our pleasure to welcome Prof. Hanseok Ko from the Korea University in Seoul in our Institute. Previously, he reported on "Overview of Deep Learning Based on acoustic signal processing research activities at Korea University" during his visit of the Institute of Technical Acoustics.
Scientific Colloquium at the end of the summer semester 2017
As every year, the institute organized the Colloquium Communications Technology on Friday of the last semester week.
Moderated by Thomas Schlien, a number of diverse presentations by IKS-members and the guest speaker Dr.-Ing. Laurent Schmalen have been offered to the participants. These presentations have been followed by numerous demonstrations of current research and student projects.
Best Master Thesis Award 2017 for Tobias Hübschen
This year, a graduate received the Best Master Thesis Award 2017 during the Colloquium Communications Technology. Tobias Hübschen was awarded for his outstanding master thesis "Decorrelation Techniques for Kalman Filter based Echo Control".
Science Journalist Dipl.-Ing. Jean Pütz at the IKS
Together with the physics student and tour guide from RWTHextern at the RWTH Aachen Felix Engelhardt and the science journalist Dipl.-Ing. Jean Pütz took an information tour on the RWTH campus. Among other things, he visited our Institute. We reported on current research activities in the field of speech and audio signal processing.
Creative Film Editing with Justus Thorau
After finishing the recordings with four artificial heads and the corresponding GoPro HERO4 cameras in June, one of the next workpackages was to identify sound passages for demonstration purposes and to cut and edit the different audio and video tracks. Our research assistants Maximilian Kentgens and Stefan Kühl were professionally supported by Justus Thorau, the conductor from the Aachen Symphony Orchestra.