Multimedia Information and Signal Processing Sektionen ved Institut for Elektroniske Systemer inviterer hermed til tiltrædelsesforelæsning ved professor Søren Bech.

Tidspunkt: Torsdag 26. januar 2012 kl. 14:00 - 17:00
Adresse: Fredrik Bajers Vej 7, Auditorium B3-104

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Abstract:

The talk is divided into five main areas: 1) Scientific career - where I will highlight results from previous projects and discuss possible future areas of research at AAU, 2) Applications of results – where I will present how basic research have been implemented into B&O products and discuss why these projects are of particular interest for students, 3) Scientific Community – where I will discuss the benefits of an active involvement in the community, 4) Education – where I will discuss my involvement in educational activities including running a three week long Innovation Camp at B&O every summer including 40 students from EU and finally 5) Collaboration – where I will discuss the importance of collaboration between academia and industry as well as within academia.

Biography

Søren Bech received an M.Sc. (1982) and a Ph.D.(1988) from the Department of Acoustic Technology (AT) of the Technical University of Denmark. From 1986 – 92 he was a research Fellow at AT studying perception and evaluation of reproduced sound in small rooms. In 1992 he joined Bang & Olufsen as Technology Specialist and from 2001 Senior Technology Specialist and Head of Research. He is Adjunct Professor at McGill University, Faculty of Music and at Aarhus University, Faculty of Science and Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, Institute of Sound Recording. The adjunct professor activities have included supervising seven PhD projects and numerous MSc projects. He has been project manager of several international collaborative research projects including ”Archimedes” (perception of reproduced sound in small rooms), ADTT (Advanced Digital Television Technologies), ”Adonis” (Image Quality of Television Displays), ”LoDist” (perception of distortion in loudspeakers units), ”Medusa” (multichannel sound reproduction systems), and ”Vincent” (Flat panel display technologies). He was co-chair of ITU task group 10/3 and member of ITU task group 10/4 that authored a range of ITU standards including BS1116. He has been chairing and member of several Conference and Convention organizing committees both in DK and abroad. He was Governor of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) (1996-98), AES Vice-President (2001–2006), chair of the AES Publications Policy Committee (1997 – 05) and Publications Policy Committee (2005 – 11) and is presently Associate Editor of JAES. He is on the review board of JAES, JASA, and Acta Acustica. He is a Fellow of AES and the Acoustical Society of America and he has published numerous papers in JAES, JASA, and other scientific journals and co-inventor in six patents. In 2006 his and Dr. Zacharov’s book “Perceptual Audio Evaluation – theory, method and application” was published by Wiley.