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The 49th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise) took place from 23.-26. August 2020. The Congress was hosted by the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering. The topics of the Congress focus on "Advances in Noise and Vibration Control Technology".
This year's "AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality (AVAR)" was a very special event: Participants from all over world met virtually in Redmond, USA, to listen to the contributions of Sebastian Nagel ("Coherence-Adaptive Binaural Cue Adaptation") and Maximilian Kentgens ("Translation of a Higher Order Ambisonics Sound Scene by Space Warping"). In spite of all restrictions due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the presentations received a good response.
At the end of the summer term, the annual GfK-meeting was held, as every year. Due to the corona pandemic and the associated restrictions, interested members met virtually in a zoom room.
PHD Exam of Dr.-Ing. Stefan Liebich
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Liebich has successfully completed his oral PHD examination. Dr. Liebich gave an overview of his work about:
"Active Noise and Occlusion Effect Cancellation in Headphones and Hearing Aids"
At this year's ICASSP Johannes Fabry presented his contribution "Primary path estimator based on individual secondary path for ANC headphones", while Maximilan Kentgens gave a talk on "Translation of a Higher Order Ambisonics Sound Sceme Based on Parametric Decomposition".
IKS and Analog Devices to Showcase AOC at ISE
The Institute of Communication Systems (IKS) and Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a leading global high performance analog technology company, unveiled the world’s first implementation of RWTH’s Active Occlusion Cancelation technologies for earbuds, headphones, hearing aids and hearables.
In Januaryr, the Institute of Communication Systems organized two events for pupils.
IKS|MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms
During the annual first semester project "MATLAB meets LEGO Mindstorms" many creative LEGO robots have been designed in the last two weeks at IKS.
Doctoral Examination of Dr.-Ing. Tim Schmitz
Dr.-Ing. Tim Schmitz has successfully completed his oral doctoral examination on December 17th. Already on Friday, 13 December 2019, Dr. Schmitz reported on his work in a 45-minute presentation with the title:
"Continuous-Amplitude Error Protection of Discrete-Time Signals"
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.