Stages of academic/professional career
Since 2022: Director Ilmenau Interactive Immersive Technologies Center (I3TC)
Since 2020: Director Institute of Media Technology (IMT)
Since 2015: W3 Professorship Audiovisual Technology Group, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
2013-2015: W2 Professor (S-Prof., Deutsche Telekom AG / TU Berlin), Telekom Innovation Labs (T-Labs), TU Berlin, Head Assessment of IP-based Applications (AIPA) Group
2011: Successful evaluation Assistant Professorship TU Berlin ("’habilitation equivalence"’)
2009-2013: Assistant Professor (S-Juniorprof., funded by Deutsche Telekom), Head AIPA Group, T-Labs, TU Berlin
2005-2009: Senior Scientist, Quality & Usability Lab, T-Labs, TU Berlin, Germany
2004-2005: Post-doc, LIMSI-CNRS, Comm. Homme-Machine (CHM), Orsay, France
Degree programme and Doctorate
1999-2005 - Doctorate under supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Blauert and Prof. Dr.-Ing. S. Möller. “Speech Quality of VoIP – Assessment and Prediction”, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
1995-1996 - Erasmus exchange student, Electrical Engineering, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France
1991-1997 - Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering, B Sc. -equivalent Physics, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Activities in the Research System
- Head study commission “Media Technology”/ “Research in Media Engineering” TU Ilmenau (since 2020)
- Associate editor for journals: Acta Acustica (speech production and perception), Quality and User Experience (Springer). Reviewer for journals, e.g.: IEEE –J. Sel. Topics Sig. Proc., Access, TASL, TMM, TComm., TCSVT, Netw. Mag., Comm. Mag.; Comm. ACM; Sig., Image & Video Proc. (Springer); ActaAcustica, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (JASA).
- TPC chair and member for conf. and workshops, e.g. IEEE ICME, IEEEISCC, IEEE QoMEX (TPC Co-Chair 2011, 2012, 2014, 2020, 2022; General chair 2017), IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, ACM MMSys, ACM MM, Packet Video Works., diff. AES Conf. (Audio Eng. Soc.); INTERSPEECH; EUSIPCO; Member Steering Comm. IEEE QoMEX Conf. series.
- Co-organizer international Dagstuhl Seminar at Leibniz-Zentrum f. Informatik, Germany.
- Int. standardization (ITU-T, Co-Rapp. Q14 SG 12; Video Quality Experts Group, VQEG).
- Active member in different scientific communities, e.g., IEEE, ACM, DEGA, VDE, FKTG.
- Reviewer DFG since 2011
- chair / co-chair DEGA technical committee "Speech Acoustics" (since 2016)
Selection of Important Scientific Publications
Döring, N., De Moor, K., Fiedler, M., Schoenenberg, K., & Raake, A. (2022). Videoconference Fatigue: A Conceptual Analysis. Int. J. Env. Res. & Public Health, 19(4), 2061. doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042061
(Holistic review paper on videoconferencing / zoom fatigue, relevant for mediated interaction also in PT)
Lebreton, P., & Raake, A. (2018). GBVS360, BMS360, ProSal: Extending existing saliency prediction models from 2D to omnidirectional images. Sig. Proc. - image Comm., 69, 69–78. doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2018.03.006
(Award-winning 360° image saliency model (IEEE ICME 2018 challenge), addresses visual attention in complex scenes)
Lebreton, P., Raake, A., Barkowsky, M., & Le Callet, P. (2012). Evaluating Depth Perception of 3D Stereoscopic Videos. IEEE J. Sel. Topics Sig. Proc., 6(6), 710–720. doi.org/10.1109/jstsp.2012.2213236
(Analysis of monoscopic / stereoscopic information for 3D video, underlying knowledge relevant for XR-based interfaces and real-world scene perception in PT)
Möller, S., & Raake, A. (2014). Quality of Experience: Advanced Concepts, Applications and Methods. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02681-7
(First holistic book on Quality of Experience; principles can be applied to assessing PT-related processes and communication)
Raake, A. et al. (2020). Multi-Model Standard for Bitstream-, Pixel-Based and Hybrid Video Quality Assessment of UHD/4K: ITU-T P.1204. IEEE Access, 8, 193020–193049. doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3032080
(First comprehensive standard for higher-resolution perceptual video quality prediction; perceptual processes relevant for visual evaluation of XR-systems in PT)
Raake, A. et al. (2011). IP-Based Mobile and Fixed Network Audiovisual Media Services. IEEE Signal Proc. Mag., 28(6), 68–79. doi.org/10.1109/msp.2011.942472
(1st standardized audiovisual quality model, with aspects of human vision & audition)
Schoenenberg, K., Raake, A., & Koeppe, J. (2014). Why are you so slow? – Misattribution of transmission delay to attributes of the conversation partner at the far-end. Int. J. of Human-computer Studies, 72(5), 477–487. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.02.004
(Work proofs misattribution of system lag to personality traits of conversation partners, relevant also for H2M communication)
Singla, A., Fremerey, S., Robitza, W., & Raake, A. (2017). Measuring and comparing QoE and simulator sickness of omnidirectional videos in different head mounted displays. In 2017 Int. Conf. Quality of Multimedia Exp. (QoMEX), IEEE. doi.org/10.1109/QoMEX.2017.7965658
(1st paper holistically addressing 360° video percept. Including cybersickness)
Skowronek, J., Raake, A., et al. (2022). Quality of Experience in Telemeetings and Videoconferencing: A Comprehensive Survey. IEEE Access, 10, 63885–63931. doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3176369
(Survey of research on H2H comm. and experience with videoconference Systems)
Spors, S., Wierstorf, H., Raake, A., Melchior, F., Frank, M., & Zotter, F. (2013). Spatial Sound With Loudspeakers and Its Perception: A Review of the Current State. Proc. of the IEEE, 101(9), 1920–1938. doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2013.2264784
(Comprehensive review showing influence factors for spatial audio fidelity, relevant for PT-related XR audio systems and digital twin simulations)
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Academic Distinctions (selection)
2020 Nominated for Innovation Award of State of Thuringia
2019 Best Paper Award IEEE QoMEX 2019, Berlin (Co-author with D. Keller et al.)
2017 Best Head-saliency model Grand Challenge Salient360!, IEEE ICME 2017 (with P. Lebreton)
2015 Best Student Paper QoMEX 2015 (Co-author & supervisor Robitza et al.)
2013 Deutsche Telekom AG, Patent Award 2013
2011 ITG/VDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Preis
2011 Best Paper Award QoMEX 2011, Mechelen, Belgium
2010 Best Paper Award ISSPA 2010, Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia (Co-author M.-N. Garcia)
2007 ITG Literature Price for book "’Speech Quality of VoIP"’, Wiley & Sons
