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  • 2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to digital speech processing and coding

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Peter Vary is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including Computer Science, Engineering, and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Signal Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Mechanics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Biomedical Engineering.

The key topics addressed in their work center around Speech and Audio Processing, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques, Image and Signal Denoising Methods, and Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research.

Vary has contributed to scholarly publications in venues including:

  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

Their recent papers include:

  • "Occlusion Effect Cancellation in Headphones and Hearing Devices-The Sister of Active Noise Cancellation," 2021, published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
  • "Listening Enhancement in Noisy Environments: Solutions in Time and Frequency Domain," 2020, published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
  • "Digital enhancement of speech perception in noisy environments," 2020, published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Artificial bandwidth extension of speech signals," 2020, published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Hans Wilhelm Schüßler-A Pioneer of Digital Signal Processing [Education]," 2024, published in IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

Frequent collaborators of Peter Vary include Markus Niermann, Stefan Liebich, Thomas Schlien, J. Hagenauer, and Ulrich Heute.

Among the recognitions received, Peter Vary was named an IEEE Fellow in 2009 for contributions to digital speech processing and coding.

Best Publications

  • Digital Speech Transmission: Enhancement, Coding and Error Concealment

    Peter Vary;Rainer Martin

  • A binaural room impulse response database for the evaluation of dereverberation algorithms

    Marco Jeub;Magnus Schafer;Peter Vary

  • Speech enhancement by map spectral amplitude estimation using a super-Gaussian speech model

    Thomas Lotter;Peter Vary

  • Noise suppression by spectral magnitude estimation —mechanism and theoretical limits—

    Peter Vary;Member Eurasip

  • Softbit speech decoding: a new approach to error concealment

    T. Fingscheidt;P. Vary

  • Multichannel audio database in various acoustic environments

    Elior Hadad;Florian Heese;Peter Vary;Sharon Gannot

  • On artificial bandwidth extension of telephone speech

    Peter Jax;Peter Vary

  • Frequency-domain adaptive Kalman filter for acoustic echo control in hands-free telephones

    Gerald Enzner;Peter Vary

  • A psychoacoustic approach to combined acoustic echo cancellation and noise reduction

    S. Gustafsson;R. Martin;P. Jax;P. Vary

  • Dual-channel speech enhancement by superdirective beamforming

    Thomas Lotter;Peter Vary

  • Combined acoustic echo control and noise reduction for hands-free telephony

    S. Gustafsson;R. Martin;P. Vary

  • An Improved Algorithm for Blind Reverberation Time Estimation

    Heiner Löllmann;Emre Yilmaz;Marco Jeub;Peter Vary

  • Speech codec for the European mobile radio system

    P. Vary;K. Hellwig;R. Hofmann;R.J. Sluyter

  • Near End Listening Enhancement: Speech Intelligibility Improvement in Noisy Environments

    B. Sauert;P. Vary

  • Model-Based Dereverberation Preserving Binaural Cues

    M Jeub;M Schafer;T Esch;P Vary

  • A novel psychoacoustically motivated audio enhancement algorithm preserving background noise characteristics

    S. Gustafsson;P. Jax;P. Vary

  • Iterative source-channel decoder using extrinsic information from softbit-source decoding

    M. Adrat;P. Vary;J. Spittka

  • Efficient musical noise suppression for speech enhancement system

    Thomas Esch;Peter Vary

  • Bandwidth Extension for Hierarchical Speech and Audio Coding in ITU-T Rec. G.729.1

    B. Geiser;P. Jax;P. Vary;H. Taddei

  • Noise reduction for dual-microphone mobile phones exploiting power level differences

    Marco Jeub;Christian Herglotz;Christoph Nelke;Christophe Beaugeant

  • Iterative source-channel decoding: improved system design using EXIT charts

    Marc Adrat;Peter Vary

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Martin
Rainer Martin Ruhr University Bochum
Patrick A. Naylor
Patrick A. Naylor Imperial College London
Klaus Wehrle
Klaus Wehrle RWTH Aachen University
Gerd Ascheid
Gerd Ascheid RWTH Aachen University
Sharon Gannot
Sharon Gannot Bar-Ilan University
Paris Smaragdis
Paris Smaragdis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paavo Alku
Paavo Alku Aalto University
Tiago H. Falk
Tiago H. Falk Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Walter Kellermann
Walter Kellermann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Steffen Leonhardt
Steffen Leonhardt RWTH Aachen University

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