Postdoc Nils Peters Wins Best Paper Award

Nils Peters, ICSI postdocJuly 27, 2012
Postdoctoral fellow Nils Peters won a best paper award at the Sound and Music Computing Conference for a paper on the Spatial Sound Description Interchanges Format (SpatDIF). Peters's research in signal processing and spatial acoustics aims to analyze and semantically describe fields of sound. He works with an array of 150 microphones built by UC Berkeley's Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and Meyer Sound. The microphone array senses the sounding objects in a room environment, and the captured data are processed by algorithms to identify the room environment and to classify and detect the location of the sounding objects. SpatDIF is used to organize these sound field descriptions in a structured way. Another paper by Nils was nominated for the best paper award. Read the award-winning paper, "SpatDIF: Principles, Specification, and Examples." Peters is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service.