Peter Grosche

Peter Grosche

Research Engineer & Data Scientist

Huawei

I am a creative engineer with a background in digital signal processing and data science and a passion for audio and music. With a strong hands-on and can-do attitude, I enjoy working on new and challenging audio technologies and love to deliver results which create a great user experience.

Interests
  • Audio Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence
  • Music Information Retrieval and Audio Data Science
  • 3D audio and Acoustic System Design
Education

  • PhD in Music Information Retrieval, 2012

    Saarland University & MPI Informatik

  • MEng in Human Machine Interaction, 2009

    TUM

  • BSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, 2008

    TUM

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Huawei European Research Institute
Researcher
Huawei European Research Institute
Nov 2012 – Present Munich, Germany

Developing audio audio-visual technologies for next generation consumer products.

Technical directions:

  • Audio signal processing, sound effects and speech enhancement
  • Aacoustic system design for 3D audio with loudspeaker arrays and headphones
  • Music information retrieval and deep learning

Responsibilities:

  • Architecting software and hardware solutions
  • Rapid prototyping and technology demonstrations to product lines
  • Ensuring deliverables to stakeholders, securing IPR
  • Technical planning and project management
 
 
 
 
 
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Jan 2002 – Present

Publications

Most recent publications below. Complete list here.
A cross-evaluated database of measured and simulated HRTFs including 3D head meshes, anthropometric features, and headphone impulse responses
The individualization of head related transfer functions (HRTFs) can make an important contribution to improving the quality of …
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A cross-evaluated database of measured and simulated HRTFs including 3D head meshes, anthropometric features, and headphone impulse responses
The HUTUBS head-related transfer function (HRTF) database
The database contains head-related transfer functions, 3D head meshes, anthropometric features, and headphone transfer functions of 96 …
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The HUTUBS head-related transfer function (HRTF) database
Extraction of anthropometric measures from 3d-meshes for the individualization of head-related transfer functions
Anthropometric measures are used for individualizing head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for example, by selecting best match HRTFs …
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Extraction of anthropometric measures from 3d-meshes for the individualization of head-related transfer functions
DIALOGUE ENHANCEMENT OF STEREO SOUND
Studies show that many people have difficulties in understanding dialogue in movies when watching TV, especially hard-of-hearing …
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DIALOGUE ENHANCEMENT OF STEREO SOUND
D7. 1: BRIDGET Authoring Tools and Player
Connected and Social media BRIDGET is opening new dimensions for multimedia content creation and consumption by enhancing broadcast …
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D7. 1: BRIDGET Authoring Tools and Player
On-line NMF-based Stereo Up-Mixing of Speech Improves Perceived Reduction of Non-Stationary Noise
Speech de-noising algorithms often suffer from introduction of artifacts, either by removal of parts of the speech signal, or imperfect …
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On-line NMF-based Stereo Up-Mixing of Speech Improves Perceived Reduction of Non-Stationary Noise
Signal processing methods for beat tracking, music segmentation, and audio retrieval
The goal of music information retrieval (MIR) is to develop novel strategies and techniques for organizing, exploring, accessing, and …
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Signal processing methods for beat tracking, music segmentation, and audio retrieval
Towards cover group thumbnailing
In this paper we investigate whether we can extract the commonalities shared by a group of cover songs or versions of the same musical …
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Towards cover group thumbnailing
A robust fitness measure for capturing repetitions in music recordings with applications to audio thumbnailing
The automatic extraction of structural information from music recordings constitutes a central research topic. In this paper, we deal …
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A robust fitness measure for capturing repetitions in music recordings with applications to audio thumbnailing
Audio Content-Based Music Retrieval
The rapidly growing corpus of digital audio material requires novel retrieval strategies for ex-ploring large music collections. …
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Audio Content-Based Music Retrieval
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Patents

Most recent patent (applications) below. Complete list here.
Apparatus and a method for unwrapping phase differences
An apparatus configured to obtain a plurality of phase differences is provided. Each phase difference represents a difference in phase …
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Method and apparatus for acoustic scene playback
A method for acoustic scene playback is described, which comprises: providing recording data comprising microphone signals of …
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Apparatus and method for weighting stereo audio signals
A signal generator has a filter bank that provides weighted versions of audio signals to speakers. The weights were derived by …
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Sound signal processing apparatus and method for enhancing a sound signal
A sound signal processing apparatus including a plurality of microphones, where each microphone is configured to receive the sound …
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Device and method for estimating direction of arrival
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Audio signal processing apparatus and method
An audio signal processing apparatus, comprising a memory configured to store a set of pairs of predefined left ear and right ear …
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Audio signal processing apparatus and method for processing an input audio signal
Example audio signal processing apparatuses and methods for processing an input audio signal into an output audio signal are disclosed. …
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Audio signal processing stage, audio signal processing apparatus, audio signal processing method, and computer-readable storage medium
An input audio signal is separated into input audio signal components (X(k,b)). A set of two or more band branches provides output …
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Audio signal processing apparatus for processing an input earpiece audio signal upon the basis of a microphone audio signal
The invention relates to an audio signal processing apparatus for processing an input earpiece audio signal upon the basis of a …
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Adaptive reverberation cancellation system
A signal processor for determining a plurality of drive signals for driving a plurality of loudspeakers to cancel a reverberation …
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