News Archive
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.
Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 in 3D
In early July we had the opportunity to record Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony in the Eurogress. The bright, uniform illumination of the performance area and the proper positioning of the recording unit have led to particularly good results in this extraordinary performance. This recording profited definitely from all our experience gained out of previous measurement campaigns in the orchestra.
Compact Course of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vay for Development Engineers
From June 29th to 30th 2017 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vary presented a compact course for development engineers in the area of signal processing and communication technology at Rohde & Schwarz in Munich. The course comprises the theoretical basics of digital modulation and spreading.
Excursion to the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Dr.-Ing. Habil. Gerald Enzner invited Prof. Jax and some scientific staff to a scientific exchange at the Institut für Kommunikationsakustik of the Ruhr-University Bochum.