Biography
Selected Publications

Research Interests

Sound Synthesis by Physical Modeling

• Review paper about physical modeling techniques published in Reports on Progress in Physics
• Guitar synthesis: sound examples, paper published in Computer Music Journal
• Harpsichord synthesis: sound examples, paper published in EURASIP J. Applied Signal Processing
• Clavichord synthesis: sound examples, paper published in Computer Music Journal
• Kantele synthesis: sound examples, paper published in J. Acoustical Society of America
• Guqin synthesis: sound examples, paper published in J. Acoustical Society of America
• Piano synthesis
• Virtual analog synthesis
• Virtual slide guitar: paper published in Computer Music Journal and video
Digital Filter Design

• Tools for Fractional Delay Filter Design
• A tutorial paper on fractional delay filters (presented at ICASSP'00, Istanbul, June 2000)
• Truncated Thiran fractional delay filters (presented at the EUSIPCO 2000 conference, Tampere, Finland, Sept. 2000)
• Truncated Lagrange fractional delay filters (published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters in Nov. 2007)

Teaching

S-89.3580 Audio Signal Processing Seminar and S-89.4820 Postgraduate Course in Audio Signal Processing (fall, period II)
• In fall 2009, the topic of the seminar will be Digital Filters in Audio Processing. The seminar will begin on Wednesday, November 4, 2009.
• Previous seminar topics: Sonic interaction design (2008, organized by by Dr. Cumhur Erkut), Signal processing for sound synthesis (2007), Sound analysis (2006), Mobile audio (2005), Model-based sound synthesis (2004), Audio restoration (2003), Sound synthesis (2002)
S-89-2300 Sound and Voice Technology/Ääniteknologian perusteet (fall 2009, period I)
S-89.3540 Audio Signal Processing (every spring since 2001, but not in 2009)
• The Audio Signal Processing course was not be lectured in spring 2009. The course will be organized next time in spring 2010.
S-89.3470 Noise Control, a lecture on active noise control (Fall 2006-2007)
Digital audio, Tampere Univ. of Tech. Pori Unit (Pori, Finland, Fall 2001-2006)
Sound processing, Master's Programme in Music, Mind, and Technology at the University of Jyväskylä, lectures on musical signal processing (Jyväskylä, Finland, Jan. 2006 and again in Feb. 2008)
International Advanced Course on Musical Acoustics, lectures on sound synthesis (Bologna, Italy, July 2005)

Projects and Activities

Audio Signal Processing Team
SAME, Sound and Music for Everyone Everyday Everywhere Every Way, European FP7 STREP Project
Perceptually Optimized Sound Synthesis (POpSS), Academy of Finland project no. 122815, Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2011
SID, COST Action IC0601: Sonic Interaction Design, March 2007 - June 2011
Advisory board of the TKK Main Library (pääkirjaston neuvottelukunta)
Library committee of the TKK ECA Faculty (kirjastotoimikunta)

• In 2006 we started the on-line publishing of MSc theses at TKK

Other

Special issue on virtual analog audio effects and musical instruments in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (to be published in the May 2010 issue).
DAFx-08: the 11th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (September 1-4, 2008, Espoo, Finland)
Special issue on signal processing for sound synthesis in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (March 2007). Guest editors: V. Välimäki, R. Rabenstein, D. Rocchesso, X. Serra, and J.O. Smith.
Special issue on model-based sound synthesis in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (July 2004). Guest editors: V. Välimäki, A. Sarti, M. Karjalainen, R. Rabenstein, and L. Savioja.
KaPs, Psychoacoustics of Rock Drilling, a project funded partially by the Finnish Work Environment Fund, Jan.-Dec. 2008
S2S^2 (Sound to Sense, Sense to Sound), a European FP6 FET-Open Coordination Action IST-2004-03773

• Research roadmap for sound and music technology
A portal for sound and music computing
List of journals related to audio signal processing
Audiosignaalinkäsittelyn englanti-suomisanasto (about 50% in Finnish)
Tiedekeskus Heurekan Musiikki-näyttely (in Finnish)
• TKK:n akustiikan ja äänenkäsittelytekniikan laboratorio osallistui useiden näyttelykohteiden suunnitteluun, ks. tiedote (in Finnish)
My doctoral dissertation on digital waveguide modeling of acoustic tubes
Doctoral dissertations of my previous postgraduate students
• Cumhur Erkut, Nov. 2002: String instrument synthesis
• Paulo A. A. Esquef, Apr. 2004: Audio restoration
• Henri Penttinen, Oct. 2006: String instrument acoustics and signal processing
• Antti Kelloniemi, Nov. 2006: Digital waveguide mesh
• Jukka Rauhala, Dec. 2007: Piano synthesis
• Jyri Pakarinen, Mar. 2008: Guitar synthesis
Special session on Physical Models and Virtual Musical Instruments (Session MUS-05) at the International Congress on Acoustics ICA2007 (Madrid, Spain, Sept. 2-7, 2007)
Special session on Model-Based Sound Synthesis (topic 13.14) at EUSIPCO 2005 (Antalya, Turkey, Sept. 5-8, 2005)
ALMA (Algorithms for the Modelling of Acoustic Interactions), European project IST-2001-33059, 2001-2004
ConGAS, COST Action on Gesture Controlled Audio Systems, COST-287, 2003-2007

• Virtual air guitar
Finnish Musicological Society
• Musiikki (in Finnish)
• Virtuaalista nostalgiaa (in Finnish)
Recent TKK publications in acoustics, audio, and speech: year 2009