Vesa Välimäki

Vesa Välimäki was born in Kuorevesi, Finland, in 1968. He received the M.S. degree, the Licentiate of Science degree, and the Doctor of Science degree, all in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), Espoo, Finland, in 1992, 1994, and 1995, respectively. He was with the HUT Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing from 1990 to 2001. In 1996, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the University of Westminster, London, UK. During the academic year 2001-2002 he was Professor of signal processing at the Pori School of Technology and Economics, Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Pori, Finland. In August 2002 he returned to HUT, where he is currently Professor of audio signal processing. He was appointed Docent in signal processing at the Pori School of Technology and Economics, TUT, in 2003. His research interests are in the application of digital signal processing to audio and music. Dr. Välimäki is a Senior Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and is a Member of the Audio Engineering Society, the Acoustical Society of Finland, and the Finnish Musicological Society.

Biography Updated on 27 June 2004

Personal Home Page

http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~vpv/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Fast automatic inharmonicity estimation algorithm
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 121, no. 5, p. EL184, 2007
  2. Fractional Delay Filter Design Based on Truncated Lagrange Interpolation
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 816–819, 2007
  3. Signal Processing for Sound Synthesis: Computer-Generated Sounds and Music for All [From the Guest Editors]
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 8–10, 2007
  4. Synthesis of Hand Clapping Sounds
    IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1021–1029, 2007
  5. Analysis and modeling of piano sustain-pedal effects
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 122, no. 3, p. 1787, 2007
  6. Neural Representations Of The Hierarchical Scale Pitch Structure
    Music Perception, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 281–296, 2007
  7. Toward Next-Generation Digital Keyboard Instruments
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 12–20, 2007
  8. Antialiasing Oscillators in Subtractive Synthesis
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 116–125, 2007
  9. Oscillator and Filter Algorithms for Virtual Analog Synthesis
    Computer Music Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 19–31, 2006
  10. Model-based sound synthesis of the guqin
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 120, no. 6, p. 4052, 2006
  11. Tunable Dispersion Filter Design for Piano Synthesis
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 253–256, 2006
  12. Discrete-time modelling of musical instruments
    Reports on Progress in Physics, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 1–78, 2005
  13. Spatial Filter-Based Absorbing Boundary for the 2-D Digital Waveguide Mesh
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 126–129, 2005
  14. Discrete-Time Synthesis of the Sawtooth Waveform With Reduced Aliasing
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 214–217, 2005
  15. Editorial
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, no. 7, pp. 923–925, 2004
  16. A time-domain approach to estimating the plucking point of guitar tones obtained with an under-saddle pickup
    Applied Acoustics, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 1207–1220, 2004
  17. Sound Synthesis of the Harpsichord Using a Computationally Efficient Physical Model
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, no. 7, pp. 934–948, 2004
  18. Cortical Correlates of Acquired Deafness to Dissonance
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 999, no. 1, pp. 158–160, 2003
  19. Interpolated rectangular 3-D digital waveguide mesh algorithms with frequency warping
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 783–790, 2003
  20. Commuted Waveguide Synthesis of the Clavichord
    Computer Music Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 71–82, 2003
  21. Parameter Estimation of a Plucked String Synthesis Model Using a Genetic Algorithm with Perceptual Fitness Calculation
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2003, no. 8, pp. 791–805, 2003
  22. Robust loss filter design for digital waveguide synthesis of string tones
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 18–20, 2003
  23. Frequency-Zooming ARMA Modeling for Analysis of Noisy String Instrument Tones
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2003, no. 10, pp. 953–967, 2003
  24. Perception and Adjustment of Pitch in Inharmonic String Instrument Tones
    Journal of New Music Research, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 311–319, 2002
  25. Acoustical analysis and model-based sound synthesis of the kantele
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 112, no. 4, p. 1681, 2002
  26. An Overview of New Techniques and Effects in Model-based Sound Synthesis
    Journal of New Music Research, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 203–212, 2001
  27. Multiwarping for enhancing the frequency accuracy of digital waveguide mesh simulations
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 134–136, 2001
  28. Methods for Modeling Realistic Playing in Acoustic Guitar Synthesis
    Computer Music Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 38–49, 2001
  29. Modeling of tension modulation nonlinearity in plucked strings
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 300–310, 2000
  30. Polynomial filtering approach to reconstruction and noise reduction of nonuniformly sampled signals
    Signal Processing, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 567–575, 2000
  31. Reducing the dispersion error in the digital waveguide mesh using interpolation and frequency-warping techniques
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 184–194, 2000
  32. Energy-based effective length of the impulse response of a recursive filter
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 7–17, 1999
  33. Reduction of the dispersion error in the triangular digital waveguide mesh using frequency warping
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 58–60, 1999
  34. Suppression of transients in variable recursive digital filters with a novel and efficient cancellation method
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 3408–3414, 1998
  35. Plucked-String Models: From the Karplus-Strong Algorithm to Digital Waveguides and beyond
    Computer Music Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, p. 17, 1998
  36. Low-order modeling of head-related transfer functions using balanced model truncation
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 39–41, 1997
  37. Splitting the unit delay [FIR/all pass filters design]
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 30–60, 1996