Albertus C Den Brinker

Albertus C. den Brinker received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1983 from Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT). In 1989, he received the Ph.D. degree for his work on dynamic models of the human visual system.

From 1987 to 1999 he worked in the Signal Processing Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Eindhoven University of Technology. His educational activities included electrical network theory and digital filter theory. His research activities concerned diverse topics from fields like approximation, identification, digital signal processing and applications of orthogonal series expansions to (local) signal analysis and adaptive filtering.

In 1999, he joined the Digital Signal Processing Group at Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, being active in the field of Signal Processing of Audio and Speech.

One of the activities concerned standardization of audio coders, especially standardization within MPEG. Major contributions were made to MPEG-4 Amendment 2 (High-quality Parametric Audio Coding) and MPEG Surround. Thereafter, systems and algorithms for classification and interpretation of audio signals became one of the key expertises. Recent activities include signal processing, data analysis and data mining for healthcare applications, in particular contactless monitoring of patients.

Dr. den Brinker publishes regularly in international scientific journals and proceedings of scientific conferences and is (co-)author of various patents.