Curriculum Vitae

Lars studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich with focus on signal processing, haptics and acoustics. He finished his bachelor studies (B.Sc.) in 2019 and his masters (M.Sc.) in 2022. Since April 2022 he is PhD candidate at the Chair of Media Technology at the Technical University of Munich.

Projects/co-operation within CeTI you are already involved in:
Haptic codecs, human haptic quality assessment

What is your research interest?

My research interest are signal processing and machine learning. My main focus is the development of vibrotactile codecs.

What motivated you to do what you do today?

I used to work on topics related to audio and acoustics and find the similarities between audio and haptics interesting, while haptics is a much newer field that has high potential.

What do you find particularly interesting about CeTI?

I like the interdisciplinary approach, which guarantees that we learn about interesting projects outside of our own area.

How do you spend your free time?

A lot of things related to music, I particularly like to play electric bass and record bands.

Publications

1.

Lars Nockenberg; Wenxuan Wei; Mariam Navai; Eckehard Steinbach

Deep learning-based perceptual vibrotactile codec with rate scalability (Proceedings Article)

In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025.

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2.

Philippe Guillotel; Yeshwant Muthusamy; Quentin Galvane; Eric Vezzoli; Lars Nockenberg; Iraj Sodagar; Henry Da Costa; Alexandre Hulsken; Gurvan Lecuyer; Matthieu Perreira Da Silva; François Bouffard; Heather Culbertson; Sandeep Kollannur; David Gueorguiev

Adding touch to immersive media: An overview of the MPEG haptics coding standard (Journal Article)

In: IEEE Transactions on Haptics, pp. 1–15, 2025, (early access).

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3.

Lars Nockenberg; Eckehard Steinbach

Vibrotactile signal compression using perceptually trained autoencoders (Book Section)

In: Kajimoto, Hiroyuki; Lopes, Pedro; Pacchierotti, Claudio; Basdogan, Cagatay; Gori, Monica; Lemaire-Semail, Betty; Marchal, Maud (Ed.): Haptics: Understanding Touch; Technology and Systems; Applications and Interaction, vol. 14769, pp. 264–277, Springer, 2024.

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4.

Lars Nockenberg; Andreas Noll; Sabrina Panëels; Ayoub Ben Dhiab; Charles Hudin; Eckehard Steinbach

MVibCode: Multi-channel vibrotactile codec using hierarchical perceptual clustering (Journal Article)

In: IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 646–651, 2023.

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5.

Andreas Noll; Lars Nockenberg; Başak Güleçyüz; Eckehard Steinbach

VC-PWQ: Vibrotactile signal compression based on perceptual wavelet quantization (Proceedings Article)

In: Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2021.

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