Audio and Media Technologies / 21.12.2020
Dr. Bernhard Grill, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, was a guest speaker at the 19th Bavarian SME Conference in December 2020. There he talked about “Erlangen’s Audio Revolution – mp3, Fraunhofer and big business with compressed file formats.”
Audio and Media Technologies / 14.12.2020
When Elena Burdiel talks about her work in the Audio Coding & Multimedia Software group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, you immediately notice her enthusiasm and how her eyes light up. It quickly becomes clear that her world revolves (almost) entirely around music and sound. But delving a little deeper reveals that the 29-year-old has many exciting qualities that make her a unique “innovation artist” in the Nuremberg metropolitan region.
Audio and Media Technologies / July 14, 2020
Audio description for video over MPEG-H audio now available in eight languages.
Audio and Media Technologies / Engineering of Adaptive Systems / Fraunhofer IIS / 25.06.2020
Speakers tell us about their experience with the webinar series at Fraunhofer IIS.
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Voice assistants such as Alexa, Siri and the like are becoming more and more popular, but the systems struggle when it comes to understanding complex contents and context or deriving semantic meaning. Birgit Brüggemeier knows what the problem is: »The machine lacks common sense.« Together with her project team, she is working on the European version of a voice assistant, looking at how these error messages can be communicated to the user without them getting annoyed and ending their interaction with the voice assistant.
Audio and Media Technologies / 16.5.2019
In this interview, Prof. Albert Heuberger and Dr. Bernhard Grill explain why the time is ripe for artificial intelligence and how AI can make technological developments for customers even more beneficial.
Audio and Media Technologies / 5.9.2018
Fraunhofer IIS is presenting the latest audio and media technologies at IBC 2018. Some of them can be seen here in a series of short employee films. Take a look!
Audio and Media Technologies / 11.7.2018
Until now, recording high-quality 360° sound or enjoying immersive audio in a home theater was exclusive to users willing to install and operate a multitude of microphones or loudspeakers. Such complex setups will, however, soon be a thing of the past. Thanks to the special algorithms of the Fraunhofer upHear family of technologies capturing and playback of 3D sound is now possible just with a single device.
Audio and Media Technologies / 23.6.2017
„The positive work environment and being together with long-standing colleagues mean a lot to me”, explains Dr. Bernhard Grill, director and division head at Fraunhofer IIS. Grill has been at the institute since the early days and played a key part in its rise from the level of a working group to become a world-renowned research institute. He has also been a member of the institute’s management team since 2016. We asked him about his professional responsibilities and his most special places away from work.
Audio and Media Technologies / 8.3.2017
For the first time in decades, a revolution in TV sound is about to enter our homes. With the exception of the introduction of 5.1 surround sound, TV has previously offered little in the way of audio innovations. Now, sound on TV and the Internet is about to become individual and capable of filling whole rooms. With the new audio codec MPEG-H Audio, TV and Internet audiences will be able to adjust their own soundmix and bring 3D cinema sound to their own homes.
Audio and Media Technologies / 8.3.2016
Fraunhofer IIS has been successfully developing audio coding technologies for many years. The goal of these technologies is to store and transmit audio signals in optimum quality. But what good is having the best audio quality if devices can only reproduce it inadequately? To address this prob- lem, scientists at Fraunhofer IIS have developed the Cingo® and Symphoria® technologies to improve playback sound quality.
Audio and Media Technologies / 8.3.2016
Shooting is finished. During post-production, errors are discovered that had previously gone unnoticed. With light-field processing, this is no problem. The technology offers new possibilities for film production and allows scenes to be modified.
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