Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Reiter

Ulrich Reiter received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1999. In his diploma thesis he developed a physical model of the human vocal tract to simulate the singing voice.

After staying shortly at the RWTH’s Institute of Technical Acoustics with Prof. Michael Vorländer, he joined the Institute of Media Technology (IMT), then in the course of formation, at Technische Universität Ilmenau in 1999. He was responsible for the technical design and set-up of the IMT’s audio recording, processing, and routing facilities in Germany’s first and largest university-owned virtual studio complex. He also accounted for the technical design and set-up of the IMT’s ITU-R BS.1116 compliant listening lab. He was the senior manager of these laboratories until 2007.

At TU Ilmenau, he was a lecturer for ‘Applied Recording Studio Technology’ for seven years and for ‘Applied and Virtual Acoustics’ for five years, both courses that he developed. He also has teaching experience with seminars in ‘Electroacoustics’ and ‘Sound Design’.

From 2004 to 2007 he has been supervising the development of TANGA, the modular real-time audio engine used in the IMT’s MPEG-4 player ‘I3D’. Based on the I3D, he developed an integrated system for performing subjective assessments of perceived quality of interactive audiovisual applications.

Ulrich Reiter has been a PhD student with Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg at TU Ilmenau, from where he received a PhD on the topic of human audiovisual perception in object based multimedia applications.

In 2008, Ulrich joined Q2S, the Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems – Centre of Excellence, located at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, to work with Prof. U. Peter Svensson. At Q2S, he is heading an interdisciplinary project funded by The Research Council of Norway on perceptual and cognitive evaluation techniques for audiovisual systems (PERCEVAL). He is also giving lectures on ‘3D Sound in Multimedia Systems’ at NTNU.

Ulrich is the author or co-author of more than 50 articles for scientific books, journals, and conferences, including the AES, and the IEEE. His publications focus on the subjective assessment of perceived audiovisual quality, on MPEG-4 audio at the scene reproduction level, and on virtual acoustics in interactive applications. More recently, he has been involved in designing novel subjective assessment methodologies for the comparison of different types of video artefacts and for evaluating the content-dependent quality trade-off between modalities in audiovisual media.

He received the ‘IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) Best Paper Award’ in 2005 and 2007, and the ‘T-Labs Best Paper Award’ in 2010. Since 2006 he is a member of the review board for the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.

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