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Dr. Nils Peters

Dr. Nils Peters

Assistant Professor, Electronic & Elect. Engineering

https://nilspeters.info

Biography

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.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Jerremy Lawrence and Jens Ahrens and Nils Peters, Direction of Arrival Estimation Using the Rotating Equatorial Microphone, Frontiers in Signal Processing, 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
  • Luca Turchet, Mathieu Lagrange, Cristina Rottondi, György Fazekas, Nils Peters, Jan Østergaard, Frederic Font, Tom Bäckström, Carlo Fischione, The Internet of Sounds: Convergent Trends, Insights and Future Directions, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI
  • Anna Leschanowsky and Birgit Popp and Nils Peters, Debiasing Strategies for Conversational AI: Improving Privacy and Security Decision-Making, Digital Society, 2023Journal Article, 2023, DOI
  • R. L. Bleidt et. al, Development of the MPEG-H TV Audio System for ATSC 3.0, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 63, (1), 2017, p202-236Journal Article, 2017, DOI
  • Nils Peters, Deep Sen, Moo-Young Kim, Oliver Wuebbolt, and Merrill S. Weiss, Scene-based audio implemented with higher order ambisonics, SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, 125, (9), 2016, p16--24Journal Article, 2016, DOI
  • Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, and Jan C. Schacher, The Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format - Principles, Specification, and Examples, Computer Music Journal, 37, 2013, p11--22Journal Article, 2013, DOI
  • Benjamin Elizalde, Howard Lei, Gerald Friedland, Nils Peters, An i-vector based approach for audio scene detection, 2013Conference Paper, 2013
  • Juan A. Colmenares, Nils Peters, Gage Eads, Ian Saxton, Israel Jacques, John D. Kubiatowicz, David Wessel, A Multi-core Operating System with QoS Guarantees for Network Audio Applications, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES), 61, (4), 2013, p174--184Journal Article, 2013
  • Nils Peters and Stephen McAdams, A Perceptual Analysis of Off-Center Sound Degradation in Surround-Sound Reproduction Based on Geometrical Properties (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 131, 2012, p3256-3256Journal Article, 2012, DOI , URL
  • Nils Peters and Andrew W. Schmeder, Synthesizing classic recording microphones characteristics using a spherical microphone array (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 130, (4), 2011, p2507Journal Article, 2011, DOI
  • Nils Peters and Jonas Braasch and Stephan McAdams, Sound Spatialization Across Disciplines Using Virtual Microphone Control {(ViMiC), Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (JIMS), 5, (2), 2011Journal Article, 2011
  • Nils Peters and Georgios Marentakis and Stephen McAdams, Current technologies and compositional practices for spatialization: A qualitative and quantitative analysis, Computer Music Journal, 35, (1), 2011, p10--27Journal Article, 2011, DOI
  • Georgios Marentakis, Nils Peters, Stephan McAdams, Making Spatial Music Accessible: Investigating elementary spatial movements, Echoes - Newsletter of the Acoustical Society of America, 18, (2), 2008, p3 -- 4Journal Article, 2008
  • Georgios Marentakis, Nils Peters, Stephen McAdams, Auditory resolution in virtual environments: Effects of spatialization algorithm, off-center listener positioning and speaker configuration (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 123, (5), 2008, p3798Journal Article, 2008
  • Jonas Braasch, Nils Peters, Daniel L. Valente, A Loudspeaker-Based Projection Technique for Spatial Music Applications Using Virtual Microphone Control, Computer Music Journal, 32, (3), 2008, p55--71Journal Article, 2008
  • Nils Peters, Sean Ferguson, Stephen McAdams, Towards a Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format (SpatDIF), Canadian Acoustics, 35, (3), 2007, p64 -- 65Journal Article, 2007
  • Georgios Marentakis, Nils Peters, Stephan McAdams, Auditory resolution in auditory virtual environments (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122, (5), 2007, p3054Journal Article, 2007
  • Nils Peters, Jonas Braasch, Stephen McAdams, Determining the area of the sweet spot in a surround loudspeaker setup for various microphone techniques (A), J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 310, (5), 2006, p3125Journal Article, 2006
  • 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, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
  • 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, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
  • 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, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
  • 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, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
  • 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, 2024Conference Paper, 2024
  • Nils Peters, Dominik Häußler, Clara Romero Soria, Matthias Geier, Edwin Mabande, Alexander Adami, Stefan Döhla, Demonstrating Interoperable Immersive Audio Communication for the, IEEE 5th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, Erlangen, Germany, 2024, 2024Conference Paper, 2024, URL
  • Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp, Nils Peters, Uncertain yet rational - Uncertainty as an Evaluation Measure of Rational, Proc. of the 25th International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction, 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Nils Peters, Improving scene classification models for audio coding artifacts, Proc. of the 49th Annual Meeting on Acoustics (DAGA), 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Andreas Silzle, Sascha Disch, Alexander Adami, Nils Peters, Jürgen Herre, MPEG-I Immersive Audio - The Upcoming New Audio Standard for Virtual /, Proc. of the 49th Annual Meeting on Acoustics (DAGA), 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Nils Peters, Nicolas Epain, Loudness Perception of Scene-Based Audio across Loudspeaker Configurations, Proc. of the 154th AES Convention, 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Lorenz P. Schmidt, Beran Kiliç, Nils Peters, Submission to DCASE 2023 Task 1: Device Invariant Training with Structured, DCASE Challenge 2023, 2023, 2023Report, 2023
  • Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu, Nils Peters, Deep Learning-based F0 Synthesis for Speaker Anonymization, Proc. of the 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu, Nils Peters, Evaluation of the Speech Resynthesis Capabilities of the VoicePrivacy, Proc. of the 3rd ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech, 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Anna Leschanowsky, Birgit Popp, Nils Peters, Privacy Strategies for Conversational AI and their Influence on Users' Perceptions and Decision-Making, Proc. of the European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Lorenz P. Schmidt , Nils Peters, Device Generalization with Inverse Contrastive Loss and Impulse Response, Proc. of the 2023 Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic, 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Marcelo Moreno, Nils Peters, Pedro H. V. de Almeida, Carlos Pernisa Jr., Towards a Representation Model and Fog-Based Device Orchestration for, Proc. of the 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2), 2023, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
  • Jeremy Lawrence, Jens Ahrens, Nils Peters, Comparison of Position Estimation Methods for the Rotating Equatorial, Proc. of the 17th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, 2022, 2022Conference Paper, 2022
  • Lorenz P. Schmidt, Beran Kiliç, Nils Peters, Feature Selection using Alternating Direction Method of Multiplier for, Proc. of the 2022 Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic, 2022, 2022Conference Paper, 2022
  • Rao Nagashree K., Peters Nils, On the Effect of Coding Artifacts on Acoustic Scene Classification, Proc. of the 2021 Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic, 2021, 2021Conference Paper, 2021
  • Leschanowsky Anna, Brüggemeier Birgit, Peters Nils, Design Implications for Human-Machine Interactions from a Qualitative, Proc. of the 1st ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech, 2021, 2021Conference Paper, 2021
  • Graham Davis, Andre Schevciw, Isaac Munoz, and Nils Peters, Perceptual evaluation of personalized BRIRs and headphone compensation, 2019 AES International Conference On Headphone Technology, 2019, 2019Conference Paper, 2019
  • Ferdinando Olivieri, Nils Peters, Deep Sen, Scene-Based Audio and Higher Order Ambisonics: A technology overview and, European Broadcast Union, 2019, 2019Report, 2019
  • Shankar Shivappa, Martin Morrell, Deep Sen, Nils Peters, S. M. Akramus Salehin, Efficient, Compelling, and Immersive VR Audio Experience Using Scene Based, 2016 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented, 2016, 2016Conference Paper, 2016
  • Deep Sen, Nils Peters, Mooyoung Kim and Martin Morrell, Efficient Compression and Transportation of Scene-Based Audio for, 2016 AES International Conference on Sound Field Control, 2016, 2016Conference Paper, 2016
  • Jan C Schacher, Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, Chikashi Miyama, Authoring spatial Music with SpatDIF Version 0.4, Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), 2016, 2016Conference Paper, 2016
  • Joao F. Santos, Nils Peters and Tiago H. Falk, Towards blind reverberation time estimation for non-speech signals, Proc. of the 21st International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), 2013, 2013Conference Paper, 2013
  • Marc Schoenwiesner, Jonas Braasch, Nils Peters, and Robert Zatorre, Posterior Superior Temporal Sulcus Extracts Reverberation Cues, Proc. of the 21e Journée scientifique, CERNEC - Centre de Recherche en, 2013, 2013Conference Paper, 2013
  • Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, Timothy Place, An Automated Testing Suite for Computer Music Environments. Nominated for, Proc. of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), 2012, 2012, pp107-112-Conference Paper, 2012
  • Nils Peters, J. Choi, and Howard Lei, Matching artifcial reverb settings to unknown room recordings: a, Proc. of the 133rd AES Convention, Preprint 8700, 2012, 2012Conference Paper, 2012
  • Nils Peters, Trond Lossius and Jan C. Schacher, SpatDIF: Principles, Specification, and Examples. Best Paper Award, Proc. of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC), 2012, 2012, pp500-505-Conference Paper, 2012
  • Nils Peters, Howard Lei and Gerald Friedand, Name That Room: Room Identification Using Acoustic Features in a Recording, Proc. of ACM Multimedia, 2012, 2012Conference Paper, 2012
  • Nils Peters, Andrew Schmeder, Beamforming using a spherical microphone array based on legacy microphone, Proc. of the International Conference on Spatial Audio, 2011, 2011Conference Paper, 2011
  • Juan Colmenares, Ian Saxton, Eric Battenberg, Rimas Avizienis, Nils Peters, Krste Asanovic, John D. Kubiatowicz and David Wessel, Real-Time Musical Applications on an Experimental Operating System for, Proc. International Computer Music Conference, 2011, 2011Conference Paper, 2011
  • Nils Peters, Jonas Braasch, Compensation of undesired Doppler artifacts in virtual microphone, Deutsche Jahrestagung fÃŒr Akustik, 2011, 2011Conference Paper, 2011
  • Nils Peters, Trond Lossius and Jan C. Schacher, 'Specification of the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format', 0.3, 2013, -Protocol or guideline, 2013
  • Timothy Place, Trond Lossius, and Nils Peters, A Flexible And Dynamic C++ Framework And Library For Digital Audio Signal, Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference, 2010, 2010, pp157-164-Conference Paper, 2010
  • Timothy Place, Trond Lossius, and Nils Peters, The Jamoma Audio Graph Layer, Proc. of the 13th Int. Conference on Digital Audio Effects, 2010, 2010Conference Paper, 2010
  • A Spatial Auditory Display for Telematic Music Performances in, editor(s)Y. Suzuki, D. Brungart, Y. Iwaya, K. Iida, D. Cabrera, H. Kato , First International Workshop on IWPASH, Scientific World, 2010, [Jonas Braasch, Nils Peters, Doug Van Nort, Pauline Oliveros, and Chris Chafe]Book Chapter, 2010
  • Nils Peters, Trond Lossius, Jan Schacher, Pascal Baltazar, Charles Bascou, and Timothy Place, A stratified approach for sound spatialization, Proc. of the 6th Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2009, 2009, pp219-224-Conference Paper, 2009
  • Timothy Place, Trond Lossius, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Nils Peters, Pascal Baltazar, Addressing Classes by Differentiating Values and Properties in OSC, Proc. of the Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2008, 2008, pp181-184-Conference Paper, 2008
  • Nils Peters, Tristan Matthews, Jonas Braasch, Stephen McAdams, Spatial Sound Rendering in Max/MSP with ViMiC, Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference, 2008, 2008, pp755-758-Conference Paper, 2008
  • Georgios Marentakis, Joseph Malloch, Nils Peters, Mark T. Marshall, Stephen McAdams, Marcelo M. Wanderley, The Influence of the Performer's Gesture on the Identification of Spatial, Proc. of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), 2008, 2008Conference Paper, 2008
  • Tim Place, Trond Lossius, Alexander Refsum Jensenius, and Nils Peters, Flexible control of composite parameters in Max/MSP, Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference, 2008, 2008, pp233-236-Conference Paper, 2008
  • Gary S. Kendall, Nils Peters, Matthias Geier, Towards an Interchange Format for Spatial Audio Scenes, Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference, 2008, 2008, pp295-296-Conference Paper, 2008
  • Nils Peters, Jonas Braasch, Stephen McAdams, Evaluating Off-Center Sound Degradation in Surround Loudspeaker Setups for, 123rd AES Convention, Preprint 7197, 2007, 2007Conference Paper, 2007
  • Nils Peters, Megan Evans, Eliot Britton, TrakHue - Intuitive gestural control of live electronics, Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference, 2007, 1, 2007, pp500-503-Conference Paper, 2007
  • Georgios Marentakis, Nils Peters, Stephen McAdams, DJ SPAT: Spatialized interactions for DJs, Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference, 2007, 2, 2007, pp360-363-Conference Paper, 2007
  • Mark T. Marshall , Nils Peters , Alexander Refsum Jensenius , Julien Boissinot, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Jonas Braasch, On the Development of a System for Gesture Control of Spatialization, Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference, 2006, 2006, pp360-366-Conference Paper, 2006
  • Nils Peters, Bruno L. Giordano, Sungyoung Kim, Jonas Braasch, Stephen McAdams, Predicting perceived off-center sound degradation in surround loudspeaker, 125th AES Convention, Preprint 7580, 2008, 2008Conference Paper, 2008
  • Nils Peters, Proposing SpatDIF - The Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format, Proc. of the International Computer Music Conference, 2008, 2008Conference Paper, 2008
  • Gaznepoglu Ünal Ege, Peters Nils, Exploring the Importance of F0 Trajectories for Speaker Anonymization, Proc. of the 2021 Workshop on Machine Learning in Speech and Language, 2021, 2021Conference Paper, 2021
  • Lalor, E., Mesgarani, N., Rajaram, S., O'Donovan, A., Wright, J., Choi, I., Brumberg, J., Ding, N., Lee, K. C., Peters, Nils, Ramenahalli, S., Pompe, J., Shinn-Cunningham, B., Slaney, M., and Shamma, S., Decoding Auditory Attention (in Real Time) with EEG, Proc. of the 37th ARO MidWinter Meeting, 2013, Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2013Conference Paper, 2013
  • Lorenz Paul Schmidt, Nils Peters, Concentrating Harder For Faster Audio Transformer, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025, pp5Conference Paper, 2025
  • 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, pp5Conference Paper, 2025
  • 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, 2025Conference Paper, 2025
  • Peters, Nils and others, 'Room Identification using acoustic features in a recording', 2013, 28 April 2025Patent, 2013
  • 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, 2025Conference Paper, 2025, DOI
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Room Identification using acoustic features in a recording', USPTO, US09449613B2, 2013, 11 May 2025Patent, 2013
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Binauralization of rotated higher order ambisonics', USPTO, US9384741, 2016, 11 May 2025Patent, 2016
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Binaural rendering of spherical harmonic coefficients', USPTO, US9420393, 2016, 11 May 2025Patent, 2016
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Coding of spherical harmonic coefficients', USPTO, US9466302, 2016, 11 May 2025Patent, 2016
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Performing positional analysis to code spherical harmonic coefficients', USPTO, US9466305, 2016, 11 May 2025Patent, 2016
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Indicating frame parameter reusability for coding vectors', USPTO, 2016, 11 May 2025Patent, 2016
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Identifying sources from which higher order ambisonic audio data is generated', USPTO, US9495968, 2016, 11 May 2025Patent, 2016
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Coding independent frames of ambient higher-order ambisonic coefficients', USPTO, US9502045, 2016, 11 May 2025Patent, 2016
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Compression of decomposed representations of a sound field', USPTO, US9502044, 2016, 11 May 2025Patent, 2016
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Editing of higher-order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US9536531, 2017, 11 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Uncertain yet rational - Uncertainty as an Evaluation Measure of Rational Privacy Decision-Making in Conversational AI in, editor(s)Gavriel Salvendy, June Wei , HCII 2023: Design, Operation and Evaluation of Mobile Communications, Springer, 2023, pp203 - 220, [Anna Leschanowsky and Birgit Popp and Nils Peters]Book Chapter, 2023
  • 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, 2025
  • A Multi-core Operating System with QoS Guarantees for Network Audio Applications in, editor(s)Dennis Gannon and Michael Wrinn , he Berkeley Par Lab: Progress in the Parallel Computing Landscape, UC Berkeley, 2013, [Juan Colmenares, Nils Peters, G. Eads, Ian Saxton, I. Jacques, John Kubiatowicz, David Wessel]Book Chapter, 2013
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Obtaining sparseness information for higher order ambisonic audio renderers', USPTO, US9609452, 2017, 11 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Determining between scalar and vector quantization in higher order ambisonic coefficients', USPTO, US9620137, 2017, 11 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Coding numbers of code vectors for independent frames of higher-order ambisonic coefficients', USPTO, US9653086, 2017, 11 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Filtering with binaural room impulse responses', USPTO, US9674632, 2017, 11 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Transforming spherical harmonic coefficients', USPTO, US9685163, 2017, 11 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Coding higher-order ambisonic audio data with motion stabilization', USPTO, US9712936, 2017, 11 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Compensating for error in decomposed representations of sound fields', USPTO, US9716959, 2017, 11 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Analysis of decomposed representations of a sound field', USPTO, US9763019, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Performing order reduction with respect to higher order ambisonic coefficients', USPTO, US9769586, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Reducing correlation between higher order ambisonic (HOA) background channels', USPTO, US9838819, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Interpolation for decomposed representations of a sound field', USPTO, US9854377, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Coding vectors decomposed from higher-order ambisonics audio signals', USPTO, US9852737, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent, 2017
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Obtaining sparseness information for higher order ambisonic audio renderers', USPTO, US9870778, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Normalization of ambient higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US9875745, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Transformed higher order ambisonics audio data', USPTO, US9883312, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Obtaining symmetry information for higher order ambisonic audio renderers', USPTO, US9883310, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Mapping virtual speakers to physical speakers', USPTO, US9913064, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Transitioning of ambient higher-order ambisonic coefficients', USPTO, US9922656, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Screen related adaptation of HOA content', USPTO, US9940937, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Coding higher-order ambisonic coefficients during multiple transitions', USPTO, US9959880, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Closed loop quantization of higher order ambisonic coefficients', USPTO, US9959876, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Signaling channels for scalable coding of higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US9984693, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Screen related adaptation of higher order ambisonic (HOA) content', USPTO, US10070094, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Bitrate allocation for higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US10075802, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Crossfading between higher order ambisonic signals', USPTO, US10134403, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Signaling layers for scalable coding of higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US10140996, 2018, 12 May 2025Patent, 2018
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Signaling audio rendering information in a bitstream', USPTO, US10178489, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'User preference selection for audio encoding', USPTO, US10346126B2, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'System and method for mixing and adjusting multi-input ambisonics', USPTO, US10390166, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Mixed-order ambisonics (MOA) audio data for computer-mediated reality systems', USPTO, US10405126, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Signaling layers for scalable coding of higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US10403294, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Inserting audio channels into descriptions of soundfields', USPTO, US10412522, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Systems and methods for reducing vibration noise', USPTO, US10433087B2, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Rendering for computer-mediated reality systems', USPTO, US10469968B2, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Ambisonic signal generation for microphone arrays', USPTO, US10477310B2, 2019, 12 May 2025Patent, 2019
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Priority information for higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US10657974, 2020, 12 May 2025Patent, 2020, URL
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Audio parallax for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality', USPTO, US10659906, 2020, 12 May 2025Patent, 2020
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Transporting coded audio data', USPTO, US10693936B2, 2020, 12 May 2025Patent, 2020
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Selecting codebooks for coding vectors decomposed from higher-order ambisonic audio signals', USPTO, US10770087B2, 2020, 12 May 2025Patent, 2020
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Audio parallax for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality', USPTO, US10952009B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Adapting audio streams for rendering', USPTO, US10972852B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Signalling beam pattern with objects', USPTO, US10972853B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Six degrees of freedom and three degrees of freedom backward compatibility', USPTO, US11019449B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Spatially formatted enhanced audio data for backward compatible audio bitstreams', USPTO, US11062713B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Embedding enhanced audio transports in backward compatible audio bitstreams', USPTO, US11081116B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Representing occlusion when rendering for computer-mediated reality systems', USPTO, US11128976B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Timer-based access for audio streaming and rendering', USPTO, US11140503B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Signaling layers for scalable coding of higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US11138983B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Audio-driven viewport selection', USPTO, US11164606B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Rendering metadata to control user movement based audio rendering', USPTO, US11184731B2, 2021, 12 May 2025Patent, 2021
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Rendering audio data from independently controlled audio zones', USPTO, US11240623B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US11270711B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Soundfield adaptation for virtual reality audio', USPTO, US11317236B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Controlling rendering of audio data', USPTO, US11356793B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Priority-based soundfield coding for virtual reality audio', USPTO, US11356796B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Privacy zoning and authorization for audio rendering', USPTO, US11354085B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Coding scaled spatial components', USPTO, US11361776B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Scalable unified audio renderer', USPTO, US20190239015A1, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Using GLTF2 extensions to support video and audio data', USPTO, US20210099773A1, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'User interface for controlling audio rendering for extended reality experiences', USPTO, US11432097B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'User interface for controlling audio zones', USPTO, US11432071B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Audio capture and rendering for extended reality experiences', USPTO, US11429340B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Correlating scene-based audio data for psychoacoustic audio coding', USPTO, US11538489B2, 2022, 12 May 2025Patent, 2022
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Sound field adjustment', USPTO, US11558707B2, 2023, 12 May 2025Patent, 2023
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Smart hybrid rendering for augmented reality/virtual reality audio', USPTO, US11601776B2, 2023, 12 May 2025Patent, 2023
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Spatial transformation of ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US11664035B2, 2023, 12 May 2025Patent, 2023
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Correlation-based rendering with multiple distributed streams accounting for an occlusion for six degree of freedom applications', USPTO, US11743670B2, 2023, 12 May 2025Patent, 2023
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Flexible rendering of audio data', USPTO, US11798569B2, 2023, 12 May 2025Patent, 2023
  • Nils Peters et al., 'User interface feedback for controlling audio rendering for extended reality experiences', USPTO, US11812252B2, 2023, 12 May 2025Patent, 2023
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Six degrees of freedom and three degrees of freedom backward compatibility', USPTO, US11843932B2, 2023, 12 May 2025Patent, 2023
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Adjustment of parameter settings for extended reality experiences', USPTO, US11937065B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Signaling for rendering tools', USPTO, US11967329B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Mixed-order ambisonics (MOA) audio data for computer-mediated reality systems', USPTO, US12047764B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Psychoacoustic audio coding of ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US12073842B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Sound field adjustment', USPTO, US12120497B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., '3D sound orientation adaptability', USPTO, US12120498B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Sound field adjustment', USPTO, US12126982B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Quantizing spatial components based on bit allocations determined for psychoacoustic audio coding', USPTO, US12142285B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Selective adjustment of sound playback', USPTO, US12141498B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Signalling of audio effect metadata in a bitstream', USPTO, US12177644B2, 2024, 12 May 2025Patent, 2024
  • Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu and Anna Leschanowsky and Ahmad Aloradi and Prachi Singh and Daniel Tenbrinck and Emanuel A. P. Habets and Nils Peters, You Are What You Say: Exploiting Linguistic Content for VoicePrivacy Attacks, Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, NL, August 17-21, 2025, 2025Conference Paper, 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, 2026Conference Paper, 2026
  • Jeremy Lawrence, Zeyu Xu, Andreas Walther, Emanuël A. P. Habets, Nils Peters, Integrating Atmospheric Fluctuations into the Image Source Method, JASA Express Letters, 2026Journal Article, 2026
  • 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, 2026Conference Paper, 2026
  • Nils Peters, Andreas Silzle, Sascha Disch, Accessible 6DoF rendering with MPEG-I Immersive Audio, Forum Acusticum, Graz, Austria, 2026Conference Paper, 2026
  • 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, 2026Conference Paper, 2026
  • Otavio Colella Gomes, Nils Peters, Simulation-based prediction of RIR measurement locations, Forum Acusticum, Graz, Austria, 2026Conference Paper, 2026
  • 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 WaterschootJournal, 2026
  • Srivatsav Chenna, Nils Peters, Storage and Authentication of Audio Footage for IoAuT Devices Using Distributed Ledger Technology, 2021Working Paper, DOI
  • Nils Peters, Acoustical Modeling and Analysis of the St. Stephans Cathedral Vienna, Graz Technical University, Austria, 2005Report
  • Spatial Display for Telematic Music Performances in, editor(s)Y. Suzuki, D. Brungart, Y. Iwaya, K. Iida, D. Cabrera, H. Kato , Principles and Applications of Spatial Hearing: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on IWPASH, World Scientific Publishing, 2010, [Jonas Braasch, Nils Peters, Doug Van Nort, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Chafe:]Book Chapter
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Determining renderers for spherical harmonic coefficients', USPTO, US9736609, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Editing of higher-order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US9736606, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Reuse of syntax element indicating quantization mode used in compressing vectors', USPTO, US9747912, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Switching between predictive and non-predictive quantization techniques in a higher order ambisonics (HOA) framework', USPTO, US9747910, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Extracting decomposed representations of a sound field based on a first configuration mode', USPTO, US9749768, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Reuse of syntax element indicating vector quantization codebook used in compressing vectors', USPTO, US9747911, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Reuse of index of Huffman codebook for coding vectors', USPTO, US9754600, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Extracting decomposed representations of a sound field based on a second configuration mode', USPTO, US9774977, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Intermediate compression for higher order ambisonic audio data', USPTO, US9847088, 2017, 12 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Performing psychoacoustic audio coding based on operating conditions', USPTO, US12308034B2, 2025, 26 May 2025Patent
  • Nils Peters et al., 'Method and apparatus for location-based audio signal compensation', USPTO, US12490042B2, 2025, 7 January 2026Patent
  • 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, 2025Report

Research Expertise

Spatial Audio, Auditory Perception, Audio Signal Processing, Audio Coding, Machine Perception, Internet of Things, Room Acoustics, Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction

Communications engineering, Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics, Computer and information sciences, Performing arts,

Recognition

  • Trinity College TRDA Group Award 2026
  • McGill GREAT Award 2009
  • ISO Excellence Award 2019
  • Qualcomm Qualstar Diamond Award 2016
  • Best Paper Award, 4th International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS2 2023) 2023
  • Qualcomm Qualstar Diamond Award 2020
  • 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
  • Best Paper Award, Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2012) 2012
  • McGill Alma Mater Award 2007
  • Qualcomm Qualstar Diamond Award 2015
  • ADAPT Acorns Award 2026
  • CIRMMT Student Award 2008
  • Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Full Member
  • Audio Engineering Society (AES)
  • IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft füur Akustik (DEGA)
  • ADAPT Centre (Academic Collaborator)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT), Affiliate Member
  • Connect Centre (Associate Investigators)