Ronald Aarts was born in 1956, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He received a BSc degree in electrical engineering in 1977, and a PhD in physics from Delft University of Technology in 1995. He joined the Optics group at Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1977 and initially investigated servos and signal processing for use in both Video Long Play players and Compact Disc players. In 1984 he joined the Acoustics group at Philips Research Laboratories and worked on the development of CAD tools and signal processing for loudspeaker systems. In 1994 he became a member of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) group at Philips Research Laboratories and has led research projects on the improvement of sound reproduction, by exploiting DSP and psycho-acoustical phenomena.
In 2003 he became a Research Fellow at the Philips Research Laboratories, and extended his interests in engineering to medicine and biology. He has published a large number of papers and reports and holds over 140 first patent application filings including over thirty granted US-patents in the afore mentioned fields. He has served on a number of organizing committees and as chairman for various international conventions.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Silver Medal recipient, Fellow, and past-governor of the AES (Audio Engineering Society),
a member of the NAG (Dutch Acoustical Society), the ASA (Acoustical Society of America),
the VvBBMT (Dutch Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering), and the NSWO (Dutch Society for Sleep and Wake Research).
Ronald is part-time full-professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).
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R.M. Aarts and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
On-axis and far-field sound radiation from resilient flat and
dome-shaped radiators.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 125(3):1444-1455, March 2009.
R.M. Aarts and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
Sound radiation quantities arising from a resilient circular
radiator.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 126(4):1776-1787, October 2009.
R.M. Aarts and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
Estimating the velocity profile and acoustical quantities of a
harmonically vibrating loudspeaker membrane from on-axis pressure data.
J. Audio Eng. Soc., 57(12):1004-1015, December 2009.
Clemens J.M. Lasance, Celine Nicole, Ronald M. Aarts, Okke Ouweltjes, Gerben
Kooijman, and Joris Nieuwendijk.
Synthetic Jet Cooling Using Asymmetric Acoustic Dipoles, Semitherm
2009, 25th Semiconductor Thermal MMM (San Jose CA), received the `Best Paper
Award', March 2009.
A.W.M. (Aad) van der Voort and R.M. Aarts.
Development of Dutch sound locators to detect airplanes (1927 -
1940), Proceedings NAG/DAGA conference, March 2009 23-26, Rotterdam, the
Netherlands.
R.M. Aarts and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
Estimating the velocity profile and acoustical quantities of a
harmonically vibrating membrane from on-axis pressure data, Proceedings
NAG/DAGA conference, March 23-26 2009, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
R.M. Aarts and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
Estimating the velocity profile and acoustical quantities of a
harmonically vibrating loudspeaker membrane from on-axis pressure data,
Convention Paper 7678 Presented at the 126th Convention 2009 May 7-10
Munich, Germany.
Anmin Jin, Bin Yin, Geert Morren, Haris Duric, and Ronald M. Aarts.
Performance Evaluation of a Tri-axial Accelerometry-based
Respiration Monitoring for Ambient Assited Living.
EMBC'09; 31st Ann. Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Soc.(Minneapolis, MN), paper SaDPo01.6, September 2-6
2009, pages 5677-5680.
Xi Long, Bin Yin, and Ronald M. Aarts.
Single-accelerometer-based daily physical activity classification.
EMBC'09; 31st Ann. Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Soc.(Minneapolis, MN), paper SaDPo13.8, September 2-6
2009, pages 6107-6110.
R.W.C.G.R. Wijshoff, J. Veen, O. Such, R.M. Aarts, and J.W.M. Bergmans.
Towards a hemodynamic model to characterize motion artifacts in
pulse oximetry, 4th Ann.Symp. of the IEEE-EMBS Benelux Chapter (Enschede,
Netherlands.) November 9-10 2009.
Xi LONG, Steffen Pauws, Marten Pijl, Joyca Lacroix, A.H.C. Goris, and Ronald M.
Aarts.
Analysis and prediction of daily physical activity level data using
autoregressive integrated moving average models.
BMI'09; 3rd Workshop Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation
(Ghent, Be.).
M. Mischi, H.C.M. van den Bosch, A.H.M. Jansen, M. Sieben, R.M. Aarts, and
H.H.M. Korsten.
Quantification of Regional Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony by Magnetic
Resonance Imaging.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 55(3):985-995,
March 2008.
R.M. Aarts, J.J.M. Braat, P. Dirksen, S. van Haver, C. van Heesch, and A.J.E.M.
Janssen.
Analytic expressions and approximations for the on-axis,
aberration-free Rayleigh and Debye integral in the case of focusing fields on
a circular aperture.
Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid Publications,
Vol. 3 (08039), pages 1-10, December 2008.
O. Eerenberg, R.M. Aarts, and P.H.N. de With.
System Design of Advanced Video Navigation Reinforced with Audible
Sound in Personal Video Recording, Paper 1.3-5 (cr1084), IEEE-ICCE Las Vegas,
Jan.9-13, 2008.
M. Mischi, R. Hermens, J.M.G. Borsboom, M. Böhmer, R.M. Aarts, N. de Jong,
and H.H.M. Korsten.
Effects of nonlinear ultrasound propagation through varying
contrast-agent concentrations.
The Thirteenth European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast
Imaging, pp. 80-83, January 24-25, 2008 Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Clemens J.M. Lasance and Ronald M. Aarts.
Synthetic Jet Cooling Part I: Overview of Heat Transfer and
Acoustics.
SEMI-THERM, March 16-20, 2008, San Jose, CA, pages 20-25.
Clemens J.M. Lasance, Ronald M. Aarts, and Okke Ouweltjes.
Synthetic Jet Cooling Part II: Experimental Results of an Acoustic
Dipole Cooler.
SEMI-THERM, March 16-20, 2008, San Jose, CA, pages 26-32.
G. de Bruijne, P. Sommen, and R.M. Aarts.
Detection of epileptic seizures through audio classification.
4th European Congress of the International Federation for
Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), 23-27 Nov. 2008, Antwerpen
Belgium.
J.J.F.A.H. Grootens, M. Mischi, M. Böhmer, H.H.M. Korsten, and R.M. Aarts.
Modeling of ultrasound propagation through contrast agent.
4th European Congress of the International Federation for
Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), 23-27 Nov. 2008, Antwerpen
Belgium.
T.M.E. Nijsen, R.M. Aarts, J.B.A.M. Arends, and P.J.M Cluitmans.
Automated detection of tonic seizures using 3-d accelerometry.
4th European Congress of the International Federation for
Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), 23-27 Nov. 2008, Antwerpen
Belgium.
R.M. Aarts.
The application of illusions and psychoacoustics to small loudspeaker
configurations.
In Illussions in sound - AES 22nd UK Conference, Paper 7, pp.
7.1-7.7, 2007, 11-12 April 2007, Cambridge, Engeland, 2007.
Wieslaw Woszczyk, Jan Engel, John Usher, Ronald M. Aarts, and Derk Reefman.
Which of the two digital audio systems best matches the quality of
the analog system?
AES 31st International Conference London, UK, Paper 2.1, pp.
1-19, June 25-27, 2007.
Tamara M.E. Nijsen, Ronald M. Aarts, Johan B.A.M. Arends, and Pierre J.M.
Cluitmans.
Model for arm movements during myoclonic seizures.
Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the IEEE EMBS Lyon
(FrA02.4), pp. 1582-1585, France, Aug. 23-26 2007.
M. Mischi, H.C.M. van den Bosch, A.H.M. Jansen, R.M. Aarts, and H.H.M. Korsten.
Assessment of ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony by short-axis
MRI.
Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the IEEE EMBS Lyon
(SaD03.5), pp. 6011-6014, France, Aug. 23-26 2007, 2007.
Tamara M.E. Nijsen, A.J.E.M. Janssen, and Ronald M. Aarts.
Analysis of a wavelet arising from a model for arm movements during
epileptic seizures.
ProRISC Workshop, Veldhoven 29-30 November 2007, Nov. 2007,
pages 238-241.
T.M.E. Nijsen, R.M. Aarts, P.J.M. Cluitmans, and P.A.M. Griep.
Evaluation of time-frequency based detection method for myoclonic
seizures.
Annual Symposium of the IEEE/EMBS Benelux Chapter, 6-7
December, 2007 Heeze, the Netherlands, page 29.
B. Hermens, M. Mischi, M. Böhmer, R.M. Aarts, and H.H.M. Korsten.
Nonlinear propagation of ultrasound through varying contrastagent
concentrations.
Annual Symposium of the IEEE/EMBS Benelux Chapter, 6-7
December, 2007 Heeze, the Netherlands, pages 42-44.
R.M. Aarts, J.A.M. Nieuwendijk, and Okke Ouweltjes.
Efficient Resonant Loudspeakers with Large Form-Factor Design
Freedom.
J. Audio Eng. Soc., 54(10):940-953, October 2006.
R.M. Aarts.
Method and apparatus for reducing the word length of a digital input
signal and method and apparatus for recovering a digital input signal, August
2006.
US patent 7,088,779.
R.M. Aarts, Fransiscus Marinus Jozephus de Bont, Paulus Henricus Antonius
Dillen, and Augustus Josephus Elizabeth Maria Janssen.
Multichannel audio signal processing device, September 2006.
US patent 7,110,556.
R.M. Aarts, J.A.M. Nieuwendijk, and Okke Ouweltjes.
Efficient resonant loudspeakers with large form-factor design
freedom.
120th AES Convention Paris 2006 May 20-23, Convention paper
6780.
T.M.E. Nijsen, P.J.M. Cluitmans, P.A.M. Griep, and R.M. Aarts.
Short time Fourier and wavelet transform for accelerometric
detection of myoclonic seizures.
First IEEE/EMBS Benelux Symposium Brussels, Dec. 7-8, 2006.
R.M. Aarts.
AmIware Hardware Technology Drivers of Ambient Intelligence,
chapter Enabling Technologies and Devices. Sec. 6.3 Hardware for Ambient
Sound Reproduction, pages 403-419.
Springer Philips Research Book Series Volume 5, 2006.
Ed. S. Mukherjee et al.
R.M. Aarts.
Revision for the Chapter `Audio Systems' of the 5th ed. of the
Standard Handbook of Electronic Engineering, McGraw-Hill, ed. D. Christiansen
et al., ISBN 0-07-138421-9, 2005.
D.W.E. Schobben and R.M. Aarts.
Personalized multi-channel headphone sound reproduction based on
active noise cancellation.
Acta Acoustica, 91(3):440-450, 2005.
R.M. Aarts, O. Ouweltjes, and D.W.E. Schobben.
A low-cost, lightweight, flat and very-high-efficiency loudspeaker
system for low frequencies.
NAG J. Nr. 174 March 2005, pages 1-4, 2005.
Nicolas Le Goff, R.M. Aarts, and A.G. Kohlrausch.
Thresholds for hearing mistuning of the fundamental component in a
complex sound.
In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Acoustics
(ICA2004), Paper Mo.P3.21, p. I-865, (Kyoto, Japan), 2004.
R.M. Aarts, D. Reefman, and Erwin Janssen.
Super audio CD - An overview.
In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Acoustics
(ICA2004), Paper No.We4.E.3, p. III-2179-III-2182, (Kyoto, Japan), 2004.
Esko Dijk, K. van Berkel, R.M. Aarts, and E. van Loenen.
A 3-D Indoor Positioning Method using a Single Compact Base
Station.
Proceedings of the Second IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive
Computing and communication (PERCOM'04) Orlando, pp. 101-110, March 14-17
2004.
J. Rodenas, R.M. Aarts, and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
Derivation of an optimal directivity pattern for sweet spot widening
in stereo sound reproduction.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 113(1):267-278, 2003.
R.M. Aarts and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
Approximation of the Struve function H1 occurring in impedance
calculations.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 113(5):2635-2637, May 2003.
J. Vanderkooy, P.M. Boers, and R.M. Aarts.
Direct-Radiator Loudspeaker Systems with High Bl.
Convention Paper 5742 Presented at the AES 114th Convention
2003 March 22-25, Amsterdam, 2003.
R.M. Aarts, Erik Larsen, and O. Ouweltjes.
A unified approach to low- and high-frequency bandwidth extension.
Convention Paper 5921 Presented at the AES 115th Convention
2003, Oct. 10-13, New York, USA, 2003.
R.M. Aarts and D.W.E. Schobben.
3D headphones based on active noise cancellation.
International Workshop on Spatial and Binaural Hearing, June
16-19, Utrecht, 2003.
Esko Dijk, K. van Berkel, R.M. Aarts, and E. van Loenen.
Ultrasonic 3D position estimation using a single base station.
European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (EUSAI 2003), 3-4
November 2003, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Esko Dijk, K. van Berkel, R.M. Aarts, and E. van Loenen.
Estimation of 3D device position by analyzing Ultrasonic reflection
signals.
ProRISC 2003: 14th Workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal
Processing, Veldhoven The Netherlands, November 26-27 2003.
Esko Dijk, K. van Berkel, R.M. Aarts, and E. van Loenen.
Single Base-station Positioning Method using Ultrasonic
Reflections.
Ubicomp 2003, 5th Int. Conf. pp. 199-200, Seattle, WA, October
12-15 2003.
R.M. Aarts and C.-J.L. van Driel.
The new everyday: Views on Ambient Intelligence, chapter
Ambient Video, displays, audio and lighting.
010 Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-6450-502-0,
2003.
E. Aarts and Stefano Marzano, eds.
R.M. Aarts, R. Irwan, and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
Efficient tracking of the cross-correlation coefficient.
IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Proc., 10(6):391-402,
September 2002.
E. Larsen, R.M. Aarts, and Michael Danessis.
Efficient high-frequency bandwidth extension of music and speech.
Proceedings of the 112th AES Convention, Munich, Convention
paper 5627, May 2002.
D. Schobben and R.M. Aarts.
Three-dimensional Headphone Sound Reproduction Based on Active Noise
Cancellation.
Convention Paper 5713 Presented at the AES 113th Convention,
Los Angeles, CA, USA, Oct. 5-8 2002.
R.M. Aarts, H. Greten, and P. Swarte.
A special form of noise reduction.
In Conference paper of the 21st AES Conference St. Petersburg
Russia. Audio Eng. Soc., June 2002.
R.M. Aarts, E. Larsen, and D. Schobben.
Improving perceived bass and reconstruction of high frequencies for
band limited signals.
Proceedings first IEEE Benelux workshop on MPCA-20 Leuven,
Belgium, Nov. 15 2002, pages 59-71.
R.M. Aarts.
Review of the book `The estimation and tracking of frequencies' by
B.G. Quinn and E.J. Hannan.
Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 5/3(3):271, September 2002.
R. Irwan and Ronald M. Aarts.
A method to convert stereo to multi-channel sound.
The proceedings of the AES 19th International Conference,
Schloss Elmau (Kleis), Germany, June 21-24, pages 139-143, 2001.
J.A. Rodenas and R.M. Aarts.
Sweet spot widening for stereophonic sound reproduction.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal
processing to Audio and Acoustics (Mohonk 2001), pages 191-194, October
2001.
R.M. Aarts and A.J.E.M. Janssen.
On analytic design of loudspeaker arrays with uniform radiation
characteristics.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 107(1):287-292, January 2000.
R.M. Aarts and R.T.J Toonen Dekkers.
Mono-stereo conversion device, an audio reproduction system using
such a device and a mono-stereo conversion method, July 2000.
US patent 6,084,970.
R.M. Aarts, J. Smeets, and P.C.W. Sommen.
Bandwidth extension of narrow-band speech, Proceedings of 2nd IEEE
Benelux Signal Processing Symposium (SPS-2000), Hilvarenbeek, March 23-24,
2000.
R.M. Aarts.
Device for indicating a probability that a received signal is a
speech signal, March 1999.
US patent 5,878,391 (Priority date BE9300775 July 26 1993).
R.M. Aarts, P.A.C. Beijer, and R.T.J Toonen Dekkers.
Arrangement, a system, a circuit and a method for enhancing a stereo
image, Dec. 1999.
US patent 6,002,774.
Catherine Polisset, E. Larsen, and R.M. Aarts.
Ultra bass and extensions.
Philips Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Veldhoven, 9-10
November 1999.
R. Irwan, R.M. Aarts, and D.A.C.M. Roovers.
Multi-channel reproduction of stereo sound using space mapping.
Philips Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Veldhoven, 9-10
November 1999.
R.M. Aarts.
Signal processing circuit including a signal combining circuit
stereophonic audio reproduction system including the signal processing
circuit and an audio-visual reproduction system including the stereophonic
audio reproduction system (aka `incredible sound'), April 1998.
US patent 5,742,687.
R.M. Aarts, A.W.M. Mathijssen, P.C.W. Sommen, and J. Garas.
Efficient Block Frequency Domain Filtered-x applied to Phantom Sound
Source Generation.
In preprint 4650 of the 104th AES Convention Amsterdam, May
1998.
P.C.W. Sommen, R.M. Aarts, A.W.M. Mathijssen, J. Garas, and Haiyan He.
Efficient realizations of phantom sources.
ProRISC/IEEE workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal
Processing (CSSP-97), Mierlo, the Netherlands, November 27-28, 1997.
R.M. Aarts, Haiyan He, and P.C.W. Sommen.
Phantom sources applied to stereo-base widening using long frequency
domain adaptive filters.
ProRISC/IEEE workshop on Circuits, Systems and Signal
Processing, Mierlo, the Netherlands, November 27-28, 1996.
M.R. Gander, editor.
Loudspeakers Vol. 4: Transducer, Measurement and Evaluation
(Selections from Vol.32-39 (1984-1991)) R.M. Aarts: Calculation of the
Loudness of Loudspeakers during Listening Tests.
Audio Eng. Soc., 1996.
ISBN 0-937803-29-4.
M.R. Gander, editor.
Loudspeakers Vol. 3: Systems and Crossover Networks (Selections
from Vol.32-39 (1984-1991)), R.M. Aarts: A New Method for the Design of
Crossover Filters .
Audio Eng. Soc., 1996.
ISBN 0-937803-28-6.
M.R. Gander, editor.
Loudspeakers Vol. 3: Systems and Crossover Networks (Selections
from Vol.32-39 (1984-1991)), R.M. Aarts and A.J.M. Kaizer: Simulation of
Loudspeaker Crossover Filters with a Digital Signal Processor.
Audio Eng. Soc., 1996.
ISBN 0-937803-28-6.
R.M. Aarts.
System for deriving a center channel signal from an adapted weighted
combination of the left and right channels in a stereophonic audio signal,
1995.
US patent 5,426,702.
R.M. Aarts.
Enlarging the sweet-spot for stereophony by time-intensity trading.
In preprint 3473(C1-1) of the 94th AES Convention Berlin, pages
1-15. Audio Eng. Soc., March 1993.
R.M. Aarts and S.M. Verduyn Lunel.
Symbolic Analysis of loudspeaker crossover filters.
J. Wiley, 1993.
In: Computer Algebra in Industry Edited by: A.M. Cohen.
R.M. Aarts.
Time/intensity trading stereophony for (HD)TV and audio
applications.
In 14th International Congress on Acoustics (Beijing, China),
September 1992.
(session L8-3).
P.M. Boers and R.M. Aarts.
Signal processing for binaural applications: Adapting loudspeaker
signals for headphone reproduction.
NAG journaal, (104):71-79, September 1990.
R.M. Aarts.
Calculation of the loudness of loudspeakers during listening tests.
In preprint 2928(J-4) of the 88th AES Convention Montreux March
13-16. Audio Eng. Soc., 1990.
R.M. Aarts.
Een nieuwe ontwerpmethode voor luidspreker overnamefilters (A new
method for the design of crossover filters).
NAG journaal, (97):27-40, March 1989.
R.M. Aarts.
A new method for the design of loudspeaker crossover filters.
In Session (J-5) of the 86th Audio Eng. Soc. Convention Hamburg
March 7-10 1989, (published in JAES, 37(6) pp.445-454, June 1989).
R.M. Aarts and A.J.M. Kaizer.
Simulation of loudspeaker crossover filters with a digital signal
processor.
J. Audio Eng. Soc., 36(3):115-121, March 1988.
Appeared earlier as preprint 2471 (K-1) at the 82nd AES Convention,
March 1987, London.
K.A. Schouhamer Immink, R.M. Aarts, and J.A.H.M. Kahlman.
Color video system with digital audio pulse width modulation, April
1987.
US patent 4,660,097.
R.M. Aarts and A.J.M. Kaizer.
Simulation of loudspeaker crossover filters with a digital signal
processor.
In preprint 2471(K-1) of the 82nd AES Convention London 10-13
March. Audio Eng. Soc., 1987.
K.A. Schouhamer Immink, R.M. Aarts, and W.G. Ophey.
Method of recording a digital information signal on a record carrier
having a radiation-sensitive information layer, apparatus for carrying out
the method, and optical record carrier provided with such a digital
information signal, 1984.
US patent 4,473,829.
K.A. Schouhamer Immink and R.M. Aarts.
Maximization of recording density obtainable in Te-alloys.
Proceedings of SPIE- The Int. Soc. for Optical Eng., April
19-20, Geneva, Switzerland., pages 181-188, 1983.
J.G. Dil, N.C.J.A. van Hijningen, F. van Dorst, and R.M. Aarts.
Improved tandem Fabry-Perot interferometer.
Philips Research Newsletter, 88:10-11, 1982.
J.G. Dil, N.C.J.A. van Hijningen, F. van Dorst, and R.M. Aarts.
Tandem multipass Fabry-Perot interferometer for Brillouin
scattering.
Applied Optics, 20(8):1374-1381, 1981.
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