Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT
Prof. Dr. -Ing. Thomas Sporer
| ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND | |
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| since 2010 | professor at Berlin University of the Arts |
| since 2004 | deputy director of Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT |
| 2000 – 2003 | research fellow, Fraunhofer Working Group for Electronic Media AEMT, Ilmenau (since 2004 Fraunhofer IDMT) |
| since 1999 | lectureship at Technische Universität Ilmenau |
| 1998 | received Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in electrical engineering |
| 1997 – 2000 | research fellow, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS |
| 1989 – 1997 | research fellow, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| 1988 – 1989 | research fellow, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS |
| 1983 – 1988 | study of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Main Research |
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| audio coding |
| filter-banks |
| psychoacoustics |
| quality assessment |
| sound evaluation |
Memberships |
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| Member of the ITU-R (International Telecommunication Union, Radiocommunication Sector) |
| Member of IEC TC100 |
| Member of Audio Engineering Society (AES) |
| Member of EBU (European Broadcasting Union) |
| Rapporteur on audio quality assessment in ITU-R WP6C |
| Member of ITU-R WP6B, SMPTE DC28 and IEC TC100/TA11 |
Awards |
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| 2004 | Thuringian Research Award (Thüringer Forschungspreis) 2003, category "Applied Research" (together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg and Dr.-Ing. Sandra Brix) |