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 Sep/ 2024 to Sep/ 2022
Fleischhauer, E., Nagel, S. and Jax, P.: Binaural Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Incorporating Head Movement Information, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), pp. 1-5, IEEE, Sep. 2024, 10.1109/IWAENC61483.2024.10694619
Hilgemann, F. and Jax, P.: Low-Order Controllers for Active Noise Cancellation Based on Hankel Matrix Rank Minimization, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), pp. 399-403, IEEE, Sep. 2024
Weyer, C. and Jax, P.: Analysis of Earbud-Mounted Bone-Conduction Microphones, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), IEEE, Sep. 2024
Fleischhauer, E., Nagel, S., Balachanthiran, A. and Jax, P.: On the Use of Dereverberation Algorithms in Binaural Cue Adaptation, in Proceedings of German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAGA), pp. 1600-1603, Apr. 2024
Duque, V., Lewandowsky, J., Adrat, M., Hardenbicker, T. and Jax, P.: Autoencoders for Signal Enhancement in Communication Systems, in 2024 International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS), pp. 1-9, IEEE, 2024, ISBN: 979-8-35037-319-6, 10.1109/ICMCIS61231.2024.10540784
Hardenbicker, T. and Jax, P.: Online System Identification on Learned Acoustic Manifolds using an Extended Kalman Filter, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2024
Kabzinski, T. and Jax, P.: A Flexible Framework for Expectation Maximization-Based MIMO System Identification for Time-Variant Linear Acoustic Systems, in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, Vol. 5, No. , pp. 112--121, Nov. 2023, ISSN: 2644-1322, 10.1109/OJSP.2023.3337721
Thieling, L. and Jax, P.: Beyond Clean Phase: Using Silence-Generating Phase for DNN-Based Speech Enhancement, in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 111-115, EURASIP, Sep. 2023, ISBN: 978-9-46459-360-0, ISSN: 2076-1465, 10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289814
Hilgemann, F. and Jax, P.: Adaptive Feedback Active Noise Control by Robust Controller Interpolation, in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 81-85, EURASIP, Sep. 2023, ISBN: 978-9-46459-360-0, ISSN: 2076-1465, 10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289884
Nagel, S. and Jax, P.: Evaluation of HRTF Models for Binaural Cue Adaptation, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, pp. 166-170, VDE, Sep. 2023, 10.30420/456164032
Förster, J., Janning, H., Nagel, S. and Jax, P.: Reduced-Complexity Binaural Source Localization for Headphones and Hearing Aids using Low-Rank DRTF Approximations, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, pp. 91-95, VDE, Sep. 2023, 10.30420/456164017
Hilgemann, F., Weyer, C. and Jax, P.: Design of Low-Order IIR Filters Based on Hankel Nuclear Norm Regularization for Achieving Acoustic Transparency, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, pp. 136-140, VDE, Sep. 2023, ISBN: 978-3-80076-164-7, 10.30420/456164026
Thieling, L., Nippert, L. and Jax, P.: Using Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) Loss for DNN-Based Speech Enhancement, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, pp. 61-65, VDE, Sep. 2023, ISBN: 978-3-80076-164-7, 10.30420/456164011
Hardenbicker, T. and Jax, P.: Fast Tracking of Time-Variant Systems Using Local Affine Subspaces, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, pp. 141-145, Sep. 2023, ISBN: 978-3-80076-164-7, 10.30420/456164027
Hilgemann, F. and Jax, P.: Order Reduction of Multi-Channel FIR Filters by Balanced Truncation, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1-5, IEEE, Jun. 2023, ISBN: 978-1-72816-327-7, ISSN: 1520-6149, 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096830
Kabzinski, T., Hilgemann, F. and Jax, P.: Design of Crosstalk Cancellation Filters: Combining Inverse Filtering and Optimal Control, in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), EURASIP, 2023, ISBN: 978-9-46459-360-0, 10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289795
Weyer, C., Hilgemann, F. and Jax, P.: Empirical Analysis of Waterbed-like Performance Trade-Off for a Feedforward Occlusion Effect Reduction System, in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2023, ISBN: 978-9-46459-360-0, 10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289996
Weyer, C. and Jax, P.: Feedback-Aware Design of an Occlusion Effect Reduction System Using an Earbud-Mounted Vibration Sensor, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-80076-164-7, 10.30420/456164044
Kabzinski, T., Nagel, S. and Jax, P.: Towards a Natural Reproduction of Binaural Recordings: Combining Binaural Cue Adaptation and Adaptive Crosstalk Cancellation, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, pp. 31-35, VDE, 2023, ISBN: 978-3-80076-164-7, 10.30420/456164005
Thieling, L. and Jax, P.: Two-Stage Speech Enhancement Using Gated Convolutions, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), pp. 1-5, IEEE, Sep. 2022, ISBN: 978-1-66546-867-1, 10.1109/IWAENC53105.2022.9914693