Juha Merimaa's Publications

Theses

  1. J. Merimaa (2006). "Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Spatial Sound - Binaural Auditory Modeling and Multichannel Loudspeaker Reproduction," Ph.D. Thesis, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
  2. J. Merimaa (2000). "Reaaliaikainen auralisaatio signaaliprosessorilla (Real-Time Auralization using a Signal Processor)," M.Sc. Thesis, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. In Finnish.

International Journal Articles

  1. V. Pulkki and J. Merimaa (2006). "Spatial Impulse Response Rendering II: Reproduction of diffuse sound and listening tests," J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 3-20.
  2. J. Merimaa and V. Pulkki (2005). "Spatial Impulse Response Rendering I: Analysis and synthesis," J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1115-1127.
  3. C. Faller and J. Merimaa (2004). "Source localization in complex listening situations: Selection of binaural cues based on interaural coherence," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 116, no. 5, pp. 3075-3089.
  4. J. Merimaa, L. F. Perondi, and K. Kaski (2000). "An interactive simulation program for visualizing complex phenomena in solids," Comp. Phys. Comm., vol. 124, no. 1, pp. 60-75.

International Conference Articles

  1. S. Vassilantonopoulos, P. Hatziantoniou, J. Worley, J. Mourjopoulos, and J. Merimaa (2005). "The acoustics of Roman Odeion of Patras: Comparing simulations and acoustic measurements," in Proc. Forum Acusticum, Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, pp. 2197-2202.
  2. V. Pulkki and J. Merimaa (2005). "Spatial Impulse Response Rendering: Listening tests and applications to continuous sound," in AES 118th Convention, Barcelona, Spain, May 28-31. Preprint 6371.
  3. J. Merimaa and W. Hess (2004). "Training of listeners for evaluation of spatial attributes of sound," in AES 117th Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA, Oct. 28-31. Preprint 6237.
  4. J. Merimaa and V. Pulkki (2004). "Spatial Impulse Response Rendering," in Proc. 7th Int. Conf. on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Naples, Italy, Oct. 5-8, 2004, pp. 139-144. Invited paper.
  5. V. Pulkki, J. Merimaa, and T. Lokki (2004). "Reproduction of reverberation with Spatial Impulse Response Rendering," in AES 116th Convention, Berlin, Germany, May 8-11. Preprint 6057.
  6. V. Pulkki, J. Merimaa, and T. Lokki (2004). "Multi-channel reproduction of measured room responses," in Proc. Int. Congress on Acoustics, Kyoto, Japan, Apr. 4-9, pp. II 1273-1276.
  7. J. Merimaa and V. Pulkki (2003). "Perceptually-based processing of directional room responses for multichannel loudspeaker reproduction," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Appl. of Sig. Proc. to Audio and Acoust., New Paltz, NY, USA, Oct. 19-22, pp. 51-54.
  8. J. Merimaa (2002). "Applications of a 3-D microphone array," in AES 112th Convention, Munich, Germany, May 10-13. Preprint 5501.
  9. J. Merimaa, T. Lokki, T. Peltonen, and M. Karjalainen (2001). "Measurement, analysis, and visualization of directional room responses," in AES 111th Convention, New York, NY, USA, Nov. 30 - Dec. 3. Preprint 5449.
  10. T. Peltonen, T. Lokki, B. Goutarbes, J. Merimaa, and M. Karjalainen (2001). "A system for multi-channel and binaural room response measurements," in AES 110th Convention, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 12-15. Preprint 5289.
  11. J. Merimaa and M. Karjalainen (2000). "Implementation of a general-purpose auralizer on a floating point signal prosessor," in Proc. EUSIPCO-2000, Tampere, Finland, Sept. 5-8.

International Patents

  1. T. Lokki, J. Merimaa and V. Pulkki (2003). "A method for reproducing natural or modified spatial impression in multichannel listening, patent applications FI 20030294, US 10/547,151, and JP 2006502072.

Other Publications (reports, national conferences, www)

  1. J. Merimaa (2006). "Yliopistojen systeeminen tutkimusympäristö ja uusi palkkausjärjestelmä (Systemic Research Environment at Universities and the New Salary Determination Method)," in R. P. Hämäläinen and E. Saarinen (eds.) "Systeemiäly 2006," Helsinki University of Technology, Systems Analysis Laboratory, Report B26, pp. 159-166. In Finnish.
  2. J. Merimaa, T. Peltonen, and T. Lokki (2005). "Concert Hall Impulse Responses - Pori, Finland," a free documented room response database available at http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/projects/poririrs/.
  3. J. Merimaa, W. Hess, and J. Blauert (2005). "Der auditive Raumeindruck in zwei Konzertsälen stark unetrschiedlicher Größe (The auditory spatial impression in two concert halls of considerably different size)," Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, DAGA '05, Munich, Germany, March 14-17. In German.
  4. J. Merimaa (2002). "Objective vs. subjective evaluation of concert hall acoustics," in M. Karjalainen (ed.) "Measurements and Modeling in Acoustics and Audio," Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Report 65, pp. 377-399.
  5. J. Merimaa (2001). "Differential microphone array techniques," in M. Karjalainen (ed.) "Electroacoustic Transducers and DSP," Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Report 64, pp. 139-159.

Invited Talks and Presentations

  1. "Source localization in complex listening situations: Selection of binaural cues based on interaural coherence," SARA project seminar, Helsinki University of Technology, March 3, 2005.
  2. "Source localization in complex listening situations: Selection of binaural cues based on interaural coherence," Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 2004.
  3. "Microphone array techniques for room acoustical analysis," University of Patras, Greece, May 24, 2004.
  4. "Multichannel reproduction of measured room responses," University of Patras, Greece, May 24, 2004.
  5. "Source localization in complex listening situations: Selection of binaural cues based on interaural coherence," University of Patras, Greece, May 24, 2004.
  6. "Auditorily motivated analysis of directional room responses," First ISCA Tutorial & Research Workshop on Auditory Quality of Systems, Akademie Mont-Cenis, Germany, April 23-25, 2003. Invited talk.