Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Jax

Head of the Institute

Room: 206
+49 241 80-26956
+49 241 80-22254
jax(at)iks.rwth-aachen.de

Curriculum

1997
Diploma Degree in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University

1997-2005
RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Communication Systems and Data Processing

  • 1997-2002
    Research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Communication Systems and Data Processing
  • 2002
    PhD on "Enhancement of Bandlimited Speech Signals: Algorithms and Theoretical Bounds"
  • 2003-2005
    Chief Engineer

2005-20015
Deutsche Thomson OHG, German subsidiary of Technicolor S.A. (former: Thomson S.A.)

  • 2005-2013
    Laboratory head "Digital Audio" & Project Manager
  • 2008-2013
    Center Director Research & Innovation Hannover
  • 2009-2015
    Member of the Technicolor Distinguished Scientist Network
  • 2011-2015
    General Manager of the Deutsche Thomson OHG
  • 2013-2015
    Technology Area Leader "Audio & Acoustic"

Since 04/2015
Full Professor at RWTH Aachen University, Chair of Communication Systems

Awards, Recognitions, Patents

  • Distinguished Member of Technicolor Fellowship Network, 2010
  • Johann-Philipp-Reis Preis awarded by VDE, Deutsche Telekom and the towns of Friedrichsdorf and Gelnhausen
  • Borchers Award of RWTH Aachen University
  • E-Plus Award for the best dissertation in communications engineering at RWTH Aachen
  • About 25 patents and patent applications in the field of speech and audio processing

Selected Publications

Publications from Aug/ 2021 to May/ 2019

Kabzinski, T., Biot, J. and Jax, P.: A Model-Based 2-D Head-Tracking Method Using Microphones at the Ears, in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 86-90, Aug. 2021, 10.23919/EUSIPCO54536.2021.9616104


Kentgens, M. and Jax, P.: Comparison of Methods for Plausible Sound Field Translation, in Proceedings of German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAGA), pp. 302-305, Aug. 2021


Thieling, L., Wilhelm, D. and Jax, P.: Recurrent Phase Reconstruction Using Estimated Phase Derivatives From Deep Neural Networks, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 7088-7092, IEEE, Jun. 2021, 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9413722


Lewandowsky, J., Dongare, S., Martín Lima, R., Adrat, M., Schrammen, M. and Jax, P.: Genetic Algorithms to Maximize the Relevant Mutual Information in Communication Receivers, in Electronics, Vol. 10, No. 12, p. 1434, Jun. 2021, ISSN: 2079-9292, 10.3390/electronics10121434


Airee, N., Saha, S., Adrat, M., Schrammen, M. and Jax, P.: Heuristic Power Allocation in NOMA-based Overlay Cognitive Radio Networks, in 2020 14th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), pp. 1-6, IEEE, Dec. 2020, 10.1109/ICSPCS50536.2020.9310050


Lewandowsky, J., Dongare, S., Adrat, M., Schrammen, M. and Jax, P.: Optimizing Parametrized Information Bottleneck Compression Mappings with Genetic Algorithms, in 2020 14th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), pp. 1-8, IEEE, Dec. 2020, 10.1109/ICSPCS50536.2020.9310016


Fabry, J., Kühl, S. and Jax, P.: On the Steady State Performance of the Kalman Filter Applied to Acoustical Systems, in IEEE SPL, Vol. 27, No. 1070-9908, pp. 1854-1858, Oct. 2020, ISSN: 1558-2361, 10.1109/LSP.2020.3029703


Nagel, S., Haupt, D. and Jax, P.: Coherence-Adaptive Binaural Cue Adaptation, in AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality (AVAR), pp. 1-3, Aug. 2020


Kentgens, M. and Jax, P.: Translation of a Higher-Order Ambisonics Sound Scene by Space Warping, in AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality (AVAR) , Aug. 2020


Fabry, J. and Jax, P.: Perceptual Filter Optimization for Active Acoustic Equalization, in inter-noise, Aug. 2020


Kentgens, M., Behler, A. and Jax, P.: Translation of a Higher Order Ambisonics Sound Scene based on Parametric Decomposition, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 151--155, May. 2020, 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9054414


Fabry, J. and Jax, P.: Primary path estimator based on individual secondary path for ANC headphones, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 456-460, IEEE, May. 2020, 10.1109/ICASSP40776.2020.9053601


Kabzinski, T. and Jax, P.: An Adaptive Crosstalk Cancellation System Using Microphones at the Ears, in AES Convention, p. 9, Oct. 2019


Kühl, S., Bohlender, A., Schrammen, M. and Jax, P.: Improved Change Prediction for Combined Beamforming and Echo Cancellation with Application to a Generalized Sidelobe Canceler, in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), pp. 358-362, Oct. 2019, 10.1109/WASPAA.2019.8937228 ©2019 IEEE


Schrammen, M., Bohlender, A., Kühl, S. and Jax, P.: Change Prediction for Low Complexity Combined Beamforming and Acoustic Echo Cancellation, in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Sep. 2019, 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8902726


Schrammen, M., Hamad, A. and Jax, P.: Robust Self-Localization of Microphone Arrays Using a Minimum Number of Acoustic Sources, in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Sep. 2019, 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8903077


Fabry, J., Hilkert, D., Liebich, S. and Jax, P.: Time-variant acoustic front-end measurements of active noise cancellation headphones, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), EAA, Sep. 2019


Liebich, S., Fabry, J., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Acoustic path database for ANC in-ear headphone development, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), pp. 4326--4333, EAA, Sep. 2019


Fabry, J., König, F., Liebich, S. and Jax, P.: Acoustic equalization for headphones using a fixed feed-forward filter, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 980-984, IEEE, May. 2019, 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682167 ©2019 IEEE


Kentgens, M. and Jax, P.: Space Warping based Dimensionality Reduction of Higher Order Ambisonics Signals, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May. 2019, 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8682250


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