Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Vary (i.R.)

Fellow IEEE, Fellow EURASIP, Fellow ITG

Room: 306
+49 241 80-26980
+49 241 80-22254
vary(at)iks.rwth-aachen.de

Research Topics

Digital Speech Processing:

  • speech and audio coding over mobile radio channels
  • low bit rate wideband speech coding
  • artificial wideband extension
  • combined acoustic echo cancellation and noise suppression
  • intelligibility enhancement
  • real time baseband processing

Mobile Radio Systems:

  • iterative demodulation and decoding
  • joint source channel decoding
  • radio resource management
  • wireless voice over IP

Medical Engineering:

  • electronic hearing aids in noisy environment
  • acoustic tube endoscopy

Peter Vary was the leader of the winning research team (Philips, IBM) which designed the GSM full-rate codec in 1988. Since 1990 the RWTH/IND group has a continuing tradition in contributing to international codec standards (GSM, UMTS, ITU). Furthermore, the group made numerous original proposals in the field of digital speech transmission which have opened new directions of academic research and industrial applications: e.g., combined echo cancellation and noise reduction, psychoacoustic noise reduction, artificial bandwidth extension, soft decision source decoding, iterative source-channel decoding, and turbo decodulation.

Curriculum

1972: Diploma Degree (Dipl.-Ing.) from Technical University Darmstadt

1972-1979: Research and teaching assistant in the field of Digital Signal Processing and Communications at the University of Erlangen Nürnberg

1978: PhD on Digital Polyphase Filterbanks

1980-1988: Research and Development at "Phillips Kommunikations Industrie AG", Nürnberg; head of the Digital Signal Processing Group

since 1988: Full professor at the RWTH Aachen University

1989-2015: Wiss. Arbeitskreis Regulierung (WAR), Bundesnetzagentur (bis 1997 Bundesministerium für Post u. Telekommunikation)

1992-1994: Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University

1995-2017: Tutor of the German National Academic Foundation

Awards, Recognitions, Assignments, Patents

  • Fellow ITG (2018)
  • Fellow of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
  • Fellow of the European Society for Signal  Processing  (EURASIP)
  • Distinguished Lecturer IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2003/2004
  • Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2001-2005
  • Editorial Board International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEÜ), 1998-2001
  • Chairman ITG Conferences on Source and Channel Coding (1996, 1998, 2000), ITG Conference on Speech Communication (2008), IWAENC (2012)
  • Chairman ITG Technical Committee 5.1 "Information and System Theory," 1993-1998
  • Member of program committee of numerous international conferences and workshops (e.g., ICASSP, EUSIPCO, INTERSPEECH, IWAENC, IEEE Speech Coding Workshop)
  • Tutor of the German National Academic Foundation
  • Member of the Münchener Kreis
  • 10 best paper (IEEE, EURASIP, ITG) and national awards (Philipp Reis, Vodafone)
  • 30 patents in the field of signal processing and digital radio transmission

Selected Publications

Publications from Jan/ 2024 to Oct/ 2016

Vary, P. and Martin, R.: Digital Speech Transmission and Enhancement, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Jan. 2024, ISBN: 978-1-11906-096-3


Liebich, S. and Vary, P.: Occlusion Effect Cancellation in Headphones and Hearing Devices - The Sister of Active Noise Cancellation, in (IEEE TASL), Vol. 30, No. 30, pp. 35 - 48, 2022, ISSN: 2329-9290, 10.1109/TASLP.2021.3130966


Niermann, M. and Vary, P.: Listening Enhancement in Noisy Environments: Solutions in Time and Frequency Domain, in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 29, pp. 699-709, Dec. 2020, ISSN: 2329-9304, 10.1109/TASLP.2020.3047234


Schmitz, T.: Continuous-Amplitude Error Protection of Discrete-Time Signals, Ph. D. Dissertation IND/IKS, RWTH Aachen, Aachener Beiträge zu Digitalen Nachrichtensystemen (ABDN), 46, ISBN: 978-3-95886-326-2, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-95886-326-2


Liebich, S.: Active Noise and Occlusion Effect Cancellation in Headphones and Hearing Aids, Ph. D. Dissertation IND, RWTH Aachen, Aachener Beiträge zu Digitalen Nachrichtensystemen (ABDN), 2020


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


Niermann, M.: Digital Enhancement of Speech Perception in Noisy Environments, Ph. D. Dissertation Institute of Communication Systems (IND/IKS), RWTH Aachen University, Aachener Beiträge zu Digitalen Nachrichtensystemen (ABDN), 45, ISBN: 978-3-95886-268-5, 2019, ISBN: 978-3-95886-268-5


Niermann, M., Vary, P. and Jax, P.: Near-End Listening Enhancement: The Impact of Far-End Noise Reduction, in Proceedings of German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAGA), pp. 1371-1374, 2019, ISBN: 978-3-93929-614-0


Sohn, C., Krüger, H. and Vary, P.: Logarithmic Pyramid Vector Quantization-Design and Theoretical Analysis, in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 3732 - 3744, 2019, ISSN: 1557-9654, 10.1109/TIT.2019.2947502


Schlien, T., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Acoustic Tube Interpolation for Spectral Envelope Estimation in Artificial Bandwidth Extension, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, VDE Verlag GmbH, Oct. 2018, ISBN: 978-3-80074-767-2


Liebich, S., Fabry, J., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Signal Processing Challenges for Active Noise Cancellation Headphones, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, VDE Verlag GmbH , Oct. 2018, ISBN: 978-3-80074-767-2


Fabry, J., Liebich, S., Vary, P. and Jax, P.: Active Noise Control with Reduced-Complexity Kalman Filter, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), pp. 166-170, IEEE, Sep. 2018, ISBN: 978-1-53868-151-0, 10.1109/IWAENC.2018.8521391 ©2018 IEEE


Liebich, S., Thieling, L., Fabry, J., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Natural own-voice perception while wearing headphones - Active Occlusion Cancellation with Equalized Hear-Through, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), IEEE, Sep. 2018


Saha, S., Tschauner, M., Adrat, M., Schmitz, T., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Bit-Interleaved Polar Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding, in International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems, pp. 1--8, IEEE, May. 2018, ISBN: 978-1-53864-560-4, 10.1109/ICMCIS.2018.8398698 ©2018 IEEE


Liebich, S., Brandis, R., Fabry, J., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Active Occlusion Cancellation with Hear-Through Equalization for Headphones, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 241-245, IEEE, Apr. 2018, ISBN: 978-1-53864-659-5, 10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8461834 ©2018 IEEE


Liebich, S., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Opening the Ear Digitally – Natural perception of the own voice while using hearing devices, in 45th Erlanger Kolloquium, Feb. 2018


Liebich, S., Fabry, J., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Time-Domain Kalman Filter for Active Noise Cancellation Headphones, in Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 593-597, Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2017 25th European, Aug. 2017, ISBN: 978-1-53860-751-0, ISSN: 2076-1465, 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2017.8081276


Niermann, M., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Joint Near-End Listening Enhancement and Far-End Noise Reduction, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4970-4974, Mar. 2017, 10.1109/ICASSP.2017.7953102 ©2017 IEEE


Schmitz, T., Schäfer, F., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Complexity of Analog Modulo Block Codes, in Proceedings of International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC), pp. 1-6, VDE Verlag GmbH, Feb. 2017, ISBN: 978-3-80074-362-9


Niermann, M., Thierfeld, C., Jax, P. and Vary, P.: Time Domain Approach for Listening Enhancement in Noisy Environments, in ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, pp. 282-286, VDE Verlag GmbH, Oct. 2016, ISBN: 978-3-80074-275-2


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