Biography

Jeroen Breebaart Jeroen is a Principal Scientist and Cluster Manager at Philips Research, The Netherlands. Jeroen received an MSc degree in biomedical engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1997, and a PhD degree in psychophysics from the same university in 2001.

From 2001 to 2007, Jeroen was with the Digital Signal Processing group at Philips Research, conducting research in the areas of spatial hearing, parametric audio coding, automatic audio content analysis and audio effects processing. His work on audio compression has been incorporated in several international standards, including MPEG-4, MPEG Surround, 3GPP, DVB and the upcoming standard for spatial audio object coding (SAOC).

Since 2007 he has been the leader of the Signal Processing for Safety cluster of the Information and System Security Group at Philips Research, expanding his signal processing expertise towards biometrics and safety. He actively participates in the ISO/IEC IT security techniques standardization committee, the ISO/IEC Biometrics standardization committee, and is involved in several EU-funded projects (3D FACE and TURBINE).

Jeroen is a member of the IEEE and the Audio Engineering Society. He regularly acts as peer reviewer, published about 60 papers for external conferences and journals, co-authored and co-edited two books and was granted several patents. In his free time, he develops audio signal processing algorithms for professional use. Jeroen Breebaart on LinkedIn