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Dr. Nils Peters

Assistant Professor (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)
      
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Dr. Nils Peters

Assistant Professor (Electronic & Elect. Engineering)

 NILS.PETERS@tcd.ie

 


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
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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
Nils Peters, The Influence of Binauralizer and HRTF Processing on Objective Loudness in Ambisonics, AES 6th International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality and Immersive Games (AVARIG), Paris, France, 2026, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu, Frank Zalkow, Mohammad Joshaghani, Emanuël A.P. Habets, Nils Peters, Christian Dittmar, Revisiting Vocos: That Phasiness Business In Time-Frequency Neural Vocoding, 19th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Cremona, Italy, 2026, IEEE, 2026, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED
Nils Peters, Andreas Silzle, Sascha Disch, Accessible 6DoF rendering with MPEG-I Immersive Audio, Forum Acusticum, Graz, Austria, 2026, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED
Jeremy Lawrence, Andreas Walther, Emanuël A. P. Habets, Nils Peters, SuRIR: A Dataset of Successively Measured Room Impulse Responses for Localizing Silent Humans, Forum Acusticum, Graz, Austria, 2026, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED
Otavio Colella Gomes, Nils Peters, Simulation-based prediction of RIR measurement locations, Forum Acusticum, Graz, Austria, 2026, Conference Paper, ACCEPTED
Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing - Special Issue on Signal Processing for the Internet of Sounds, (2026), Nils Peters, Luca Turchet, Tuomas Virtanen, Toon van Waterschoot, Journal, PUBLISHED
Jeremy Lawrence, Zeyu Xu, Andreas Walther, Emanuël A. P. Habets, Nils Peters, Integrating Atmospheric Fluctuations into the Image Source Method, JASA Express Letters, 2026, Journal Article, ACCEPTED
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
  

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Nils Peters et al., 'Performing psychoacoustic audio coding based on operating conditions', USPTO, US12308034B2, 2025, 26 May 2025, Patent, GRANTED
Nils Peters et al., 'Method and apparatus for location-based audio signal compensation', USPTO, US12490042B2, 2025, 7 January 2026, Patent, GRANTED
Unal Ege Gaznepoglu, Anna Leschanowsky, Ahmad Aloradi, Prachi Singh, Daniel Tenbrinck, Emanuël Habets, Nils Peters, FAU-Erlangen System Description for the 1 st VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge, 2025, Report, PUBLISHED
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

  


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Award Date
Trinity College TRDA Group Award 2026
ADAPT Acorns Award 2026
Best Paper Award, 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2 2023) 2023
Best Student Paper Award at the 35th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing (ESSV) for my Student Anjana Rajasekhar 2024
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