Professor of Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen
University, Germany.
He received his diploma degree in electrical engineering
from the Technical University of Darmstadt and his Ph.D. degree in
electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg in
1978. He joined Philips Communications Industry and became head of
the digital signal processing group.
Since 1989 he has been a member of the faculty of electrical
engineering and information technology at RWTH. He has been
involved in various standardization processes (GSM / UMTS / ITU).
The main research activities of his group at Aachen University are
speech enhancement, coding and transmission with regard to cellular
radio systems and digital hearing aids, specifically speech coding,
noise suppression, acoustic echo control, channel coding, iterative
source-channel-(de)coding, error concealment, and artificial
wideband extension.
Peter Vary has been an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions
on Speech and Audio Processing and is a member of various
scientific and industrial commissions on information technology and
communications. He is a fellow of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society and served as a distinguished lecturer. Besides having
numerous journal papers and conference contributions, he is
co-author of the text books "Digitale Sprachsignalverarbeitung"
(1998), and "Digital Speech Transmission: Enhancement, Coding &
Error Concealment". Information about research projects and
publications can be found on the WEB-pages: http://www.ind.rwth-aachen.de
Professor Vary has been a member of the CEI-Europe Faculty since
1992.
Course #50
Digital Speech Transmission: Enhencement, Coding and Error
Concealment