Skip to main content

Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin

Menu Search


Trinity College Dublin By using this website you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the Trinity cookie policy. For more information on cookies see our cookie policy.

      
Profile Photo

Dr. Nils Peters

Assistant Professor (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)
      
Profile Photo

Dr. Nils Peters

Assistant Professor (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)

 


Dr. Nils Peters is an Assistant Professor for acoustics and signal processing at Trinity College Dublin. Before joining TCD he was an Associate Professor at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (a joint research institute of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität and Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS), and previously a 3D Audio research lead at Qualcomm HQ in San Diego. He holds a PhD in Music Technology from McGill University, Canada, and did postdoctoral work at University of California, Berkeley. He earned an MSc in Electrical and Audio Engineering from Graz University of Technology, Austria, where he also studied classical guitar. He serves as AES Co-Chair of the Technical Committee for Spatial Audio and is a steering board member of IEEE Internet of Sounds Emerging Technologies Initiative. His research focuses on audio signal processing, machine learning, spatial audio, XR, human-computer-interaction, and psychoacoustics. As an audio engineer, he did recording, postproduction, and sound design.
  Internet of Things   Psychoacoustics   signal processing and machine learning   spatial audio   Virtual Auditory Environments
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Basic Basic
German Fluent Fluent Fluent
Details Date From Date To
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member 2013
IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) 2013
IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) 2024
Audio Engineering Society (AES) 2007
Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Full Member 2006
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2012
Deutsche Gesellschaft füur Akustik (DEGA) 2010
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT), Affiliate Member 2006
Connect Centre (Associate Investigators) 2025
ADAPT Centre (Academic Collaborator) 2025
Virtual Events and Concerts (Virtuelle Veranstaltungen und Konzerte) in, editor(s)Sebastian Klöß , The current state of the Metaverse (Der aktuelle Stand des Metaverse: Reifegrad, Rahmenbedingungen, Technik und Anwendungsbeispiele), Bitkom, 2025, [Nils Peters and Alexander Adami], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Lorenz Paul Schmidt, Nils Peters, Concentrating Harder For Faster Audio Transformer, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025, pp5 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Unal Ege Gaznepoglu, Nils Peters, Why Disentanglement-Based Speaker Anonymization Systems Fail at Preserving Emotions?, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025, pp5 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Jeremy Lawrence, Cagdas Tuna, Andreas Walther, Nils Peters, Acoustic Position Estimation Of A Silent Listener, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Nan Zheng and Nils Peters and Enda Bates, On the relationship between objective room acoustic parameters and perceived differences in spatially interpolated RIRs, International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA), Bologna, Sept. 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED
Jürgen Herre, Sascha Disch, Christian Borss, Andreas Silzle, Alexander Adami, Nils Peters, MPEG-I Immersive Audio: A Versatile and Efficient Representation of VR/AR, Proc. of the AES 6th International Conference on Audio for Games, 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Anjana Rajasekhar, Anna Leschanowsky, Nils Peters, Towards Speech Privacy Assessment For Voice Assistants: Exploring, Proc. of the 35th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV), 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Saikeerthi Chirumamilla Hagadur, Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu, Nils Peters, Investigation of Voice Privacy Challenge Baseline B1 performance under, Proc. of the 50th Annual Meeting on Acoustics (DAGA), 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Jeremy Lawrence, Jens Ahrens, Nils Peters, Direction of Arrival Estimation with a Circularly Moving Microphone, Proc. of the 50th Annual Meeting on Acoustics (DAGA), 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Anna Leschanowsky, Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu, Nils Peters, Voice Anonymization For All - Bias Evaluation Of The Voice Privacy, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal, 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
  

Page 1 of 17
Nils Peters et al., 'Performing psychoacoustic audio coding based on operating conditions', USPTO, US12308034B2, 2025, 26 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Srivatsav Chenna, Nils Peters, Storage and Authentication of Audio Footage for IoAuT Devices Using Distributed Ledger Technology, 2021, Working Paper, PUBLISHED
Nils Peters et al., 'Determining renderers for spherical harmonic coefficients', USPTO, US9736609, 2017, 12 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Nils Peters et al., 'Editing of higher-order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US9736606, 2017, 12 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Nils Peters et al., 'Reuse of syntax element indicating quantization mode used in compressing vectors', USPTO, US9747912, 2017, 12 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Nils Peters et al., 'Switching between predictive and non-predictive quantization techniques in a higher order ambisonics (HOA) framework', USPTO, US9747910, 2017, 12 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Nils Peters et al., 'Extracting decomposed representations of a sound field based on a first configuration mode', USPTO, US9749768, 2017, 12 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Nils Peters et al., 'Reuse of syntax element indicating vector quantization codebook used in compressing vectors', USPTO, US9747911, 2017, 12 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Nils Peters et al., 'Reuse of index of Huffman codebook for coding vectors', USPTO, US9754600, 2017, 12 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Nils Peters et al., 'Extracting decomposed representations of a sound field based on a second configuration mode', USPTO, US9774977, 2017, 12 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED

  


Page 1 of 2
Award Date
Best Paper Award, 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2 2023) 2023
Teaching Award for best rated laboratory course, FAU Faculty of Engineering 2023
ISO Excellence Award 2019
Qualcomm Qualstar Diamond Award 2020
Qualcomm Qualstar Diamond Award 2016
Qualcomm Qualstar Diamond Award 2015
Best Paper Award, Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2012) 2012
McGill GREAT Award 2009
CIRMMT Student Award 2008
McGill Alma Mater Award 2007
Spatial Audio, Auditory Perception, Audio Signal Processing, Audio Coding, Machine Perception, Internet of Things, Room Acoustics, Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction