• Biography, Aalto People profile
  
• Selected publications (with links), full list of publications (pdf),
• My Google Scholar citations, my ResearcherID page
• Audio Signal Processing Research Team (my research group)

Research Interests

• Headphone Audio and Augmented Reality
  
  • Digital Augmented Reality Audio Headset, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2012.
• Virtual Analog Audio Effects and Synthesis
• Sound Synthesis by Physical Modeling
  
  • Review paper (78 pages) about physical modeling techniques published in Reports on Progress in Physics
  • Piano modeling and synthesis
  • Acoustic 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
  • 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)
• Current and past research topics in audio signal processing

Teaching

• S-89.3540 Audio Signal Processing (every spring since 2001 except 2009)
  
• S-89.3580 Audio Signal Processing Seminar and S-89.4820 Postgraduate Course in Audio Signal Processing (fall, periods I-II)
  • Previous ASP seminar topics: DAFX - Digital audio effects (2012), mobile audio programming (organized by Dr. Cumhur Erkut in 2011), virtual analog audio processing (2010), digital filters in audio processing (2009), sonic interaction design (organized by Dr. Cumhur Erkut in 2008), 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 2010, period I)
  
• 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, Feb. 2008, Jan. 2010)
  
• International Advanced Course on Musical Acoustics, lectures on sound synthesis (Bologna, Italy, July 2005)
  

Supervised Doctoral Dissertations

• Jari Kleimola, March 22, 2013, topic: Abstract sound synthesis
  
• Antti Jylhä, Apr. 2012, topic: Sonic interaction design
  
• Heidi-Maria Lehtonen, Dec. 2010, topic: Sound of the piano
  
• Gaëtan Lorho, June 2010, topic: Quality evaluation of headphone sound (Main supervisor: Prof. Matti Karjalainen)
  
• Jyri Pakarinen, Mar. 2008, topic: Guitar synthesis
  
• Jukka Rauhala, Dec. 2007, topic: Piano synthesis
  
• Antti Kelloniemi, Nov. 2006, topic: Digital waveguide mesh (Co-supervised with Prof. Lauri Savioja)
  
• Henri Penttinen, Oct. 2006, topic: String instrument acoustics and signal processing
  
• Paulo A. A. Esquef, Apr. 2004, topic: Audio restoration
  
• Cumhur Erkut, Nov. 2002, topic: String instrument synthesis
  

Links

• Special issue on musical applications of real-time signal processing in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal (2011).
• Special issue on virtual analog audio effects and musical instruments in IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (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.
  
• ESUS - Extended Subtractive Synthesis of Audio Signals, Marie-Curie Action, 2012-2014
• 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
  
• COST Action IC0601: Sonic Interaction Design (SID), March 2007 - June 2011
  
• 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
  
• Audiosignaalinkäsittelyn englanti-suomisanasto (about 50% in Finnish)
  
• My doctoral dissertation on digital waveguide modeling of acoustic tubes
  
• 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
• In 2006 I made an initiative to start publishing MSc theses on-line at Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). This process is continued in the Aalto University.
  
• Recent publications in acoustics, audio, and speech by researchers of the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics: year 2010