Selected Publications

Vesa Välimäki

Here are some of my publications in reverse chronological order. Some of these are available in electronic form (PDF).

• V. Välimäki, J. D. Parker, L. Savioja, J. O. Smith, and J. S. Abel, “Fifty Years of Artificial Reverberation,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 1421–1448, July 2012.
• K.-S. Lee, J. S. Abel, V. Välimäki, T. Stilson, and D. P. Berners, “The switched convolution reverberator,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 227–236, April 2012.
• J. Pekonen, J. Nam, J. O. Smith, and V. Välimäki, “Optimized polynomial spline basis function design for quasi-bandlimited classical waveform synthesis,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 159–162, Mar. 2012.
• J. Kleimola and V. Välimäki, “Reducing aliasing from synthetic audio signals using polynomial transition regions,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 67–70, Feb. 2012.
• V. Välimäki, J. Pekonen, and J. Nam, “Perceptually informed synthesis of bandlimited classical waveforms using integrated polynomial interpolation,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 131, no. 1, pt. 2, pp. 974–986, Jan. 2012.
• G. Varni, G. Dubus, S. Oksanen, G. Volpe, M. Fabiani, R. Bresin, J. Kleimola, V. Välimäki, and A. Camurri, “Interactive sonification of synchronisation of motoric behaviour in social active listening to music with mobile devices,” Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, vol. 5, no. 3–4, pp. 157–173, 2012.
• N. Lindroos, H. Penttinen, and V. Välimäki, “Parametric electric guitar synthesis,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 18–27, Fall 2011.
• A. Pérez Carrillo, J. Bonada, J. Pätynen, and V. Välimäki, “Method for measuring violin sound radiation based on bowed glissandi and its application to sound synthesis,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. 1020–1029, Aug. 2011.
• J. Pakarinen, J. S. Abel, F. Fontana, V. Lazzarini, and V. Välimäki, “Musical applications of real-time signal processing – Editorial,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, doi:10.1186/1687-6180-2011-108, 2 pages, 2011.
• J. Pakarinen, V. Välimäki, F. Fontana, V. Lazzarini, and J. S. Abel, “Recent advances in real-time musical effects, synthesis, and virtual analog models,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 15 pages, 2011.
• J. Pekonen, V. Lazzarini, J. Timoney, J. Kleimola and V. Välimäki, “Discrete-time modelling of the Moog sawtooth oscillator waveform,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 15 pages, 2011.
• J. Kleimola, V. Lazzarini, V. Välimäki, and J. Timoney, “Feedback amplitude modulation synthesis,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, doi:10.1155/2011/434378, 18 pages, 2011.
• R. C. D. de Paiva, J. Pakarinen, V. Välimäki, and M. Tikander, “Real-time audio transformer emulation for virtual tube amplifiers,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, doi:10.1155/2011/347645, 15 pages, 2011.
• L. Savioja, V. Välimäki, and J. O. Smith, “Audio signal processing using graphics processing units,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 59, no. 1/2, pp. 3–19, Jan./Feb. 2011.
• V. Välimäki, J. Parker, and J. S. Abel, “Parametric spring reverberation effect,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 58, no. 7/8, pp. 547–562, July/August 2010.
• N. Lee, J. O. Smith, and V. Välimäki, “Analysis and synthesis of coupled vibrating strings using a hybrid modal-waveguide synthesis model,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 833–842, May 2010.
• V. Välimäki, J. Nam, J. O. Smith, and J. S. Abel, “Alias-suppressed oscillators based on differentiated polynomial waveforms,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 786–798, May 2010.
• J. Nam, V. Välimäki, J. S. Abel, and J. O. Smith, “Efficient antialiasing oscillator algorithms using low-order fractional delay filters,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 773–785, May 2010.
• V. Välimäki, F. Fontana, J. O. Smith, and U. Zölzer, “Introduction to the Special Issue on Virtual Analog Audio Effects and Musical Instruments,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 713–714, May 2010.
• J. S. Abel, V. Välimäki, and J. O. Smith, “Robust, efficient design of allpass filters for dispersive string sound synthesis,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 406–409, April 2010.
• V. Välimäki, J. S. Abel, and J. O. Smith, “Spectral delay filters,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 57, no. 7/8, pp. 521–531, July/Aug. 2009.
• H.-M. Lehtonen, A. Askenfelt, and V. Välimäki, “Analysis of the part-pedaling effect in the piano,” JASA Express Letters, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. EL49–EL54, Aug. 2009.
• R. Milovanov, M. Huotilainen, P. A. A. Esquef, P. Alku, V. Välimäki, and M. Tervaniemi, “The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration processing in school-aged children,” Neuroscience Letters, vol. 460, no. 2, pp. 161–165, 28 Aug. 2009.
• J. Rauhala, M. Laurson, V. Välimäki, H.-M. Lehtonen, and V. Norilo, “A parametric piano synthesizer,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 17–30, Winter 2008.
• J. Pakarinen, T. Puputti, and V. Välimäki, “Virtual slide guitar,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 42–54, Fall 2008.
• H.-M. Lehtonen, V. Välimäki, and T. I. Laakso, “Canceling and selecting partials from musical tones using fractional-delay filters,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 43–56, Summer 2008.
• V. Välimäki, S. González, O. Kimmelma, and J. Parviainen, “Digital audio antiquing—Signal processing methods for imitating the sound quality of historical recordings,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 115–139, March 2008.
• R. Milovanov, M. Huotilainen, V. Välimäki, P. A. A. Esquef, and M. Tervaniemi, “Musical aptitude and second language pronunciation skills in school-aged children: neural and behavioral evidence,” Brain Research, vol. 1194, pp. 81–89, 15 Feb. 2008.
• V. Välimäki and A. Haghparast, “Fractional delay filter design based on truncated Lagrange interpolation,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 14, no. 11, pp. 816–819, Nov. 2007.
• G. Widmer, D. Rocchesso, V. Välimäki, C. Erkut, F. Gouyon, D. Pressnitzer, H. Penttinen, P. Polotti, and G. Volpe, “Sound and music computing: Research trends and some key issues,” Journal of New Music Research, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 169–184, Sept. 2007 (published in March 2008).
• H.-M. Lehtonen, H. Penttinen, J. Rauhala, and V. Välimäki, “Analysis and modeling of piano sustain-pedal effects,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 1787–1797, Sept. 2007.
• J. Rauhala, H.-M. Lehtonen, and V. Välimäki, “Fast automatic inharmonicity estimation algorithm,” JASA Express Letters, vol. 121, no. 5, pp. EL184–EL189, May 2007.
• V. Välimäki, R. Rabenstein, D. Rocchesso, X. Serra, and J. O. Smith, “Signal Processing for Sound Synthesis: Computer-Generated Sounds and Music for All,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 8–10, March 2007.
• J. Rauhala, H.-M. Lehtonen, and V. Välimäki, “Toward next-generation digital keyboard instruments,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 12–20, March 2007.
• V. Välimäki and A. Huovilainen, “Antialiasing oscillators in subtractive synthesis,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 116–125, March 2007.
• L. Peltola, C. Erkut, P. R. Cook, and V. Välimäki, “Synthesis of hand clapping sounds,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1021–1029, March 2007.
• K. I. Krohn, E. Brattico, V. Välimäki, and M. Tervaniemi, “Neural representations of the hierarchical scale pitch structure,” Music Perception, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 281–296, Feb. 2007.
• H. Penttinen, J. Pakarinen, V. Välimäki, M. Laurson, H. Li, and M. Leman, “Model-based sound synthesis of the guqin,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 120, no. 6, pp. 4052–4063, Dec. 2006.
• V. Välimäki and A. Huovilainen, “Oscillator and filter algorithms for virtual analog synthesis,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 19–31, Summer 2006.
• J. Rauhala and V. Välimäki, “Tunable dispersion filter design for piano synthesis,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 253–256, May 2006.
• V. Välimäki, J. Pakarinen, C. Erkut, and M. Karjalainen, “Discrete-time modelling of musical instruments,” Reports on Progress in Physics, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 1-78, Jan. 2006. Invited paper.
• V. Välimäki and A. Huovilainen, “Virtuaalista nostalgiaa – digitaalinen vähentävä äänisynteesi,” Musiikki, vol. 35, no. 1–2, pp. 78–98, 2005. Special issue on music and technology (in Finnish).
• V. Välimäki, “Discrete-time synthesis of the sawtooth waveform with reduced aliasing,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 214–217, March 2005.
• J. Pakarinen, V. Välimäki, and M. Karjalainen, “Physics-based methods for modeling nonlinear vibrating strings,” Acta Acustica united with Acustica, vol. 91, no. 2, pp. 312–325, March/April 2005. Special issue on string instruments.
• H. Penttinen, C. Erkut, J. Pölkki, V. Välimäki, and M. Karjalainen, “Design and analysis of a modified kantele with increased loudness,” Acta Acustica united with Acustica, vol. 91, no. 2, pp. 261–268, March/April 2005. Special issue on string instruments.
• A. Kelloniemi, L. Savioja, and V. Välimäki, “Spatial filter-based absorbing boundary for the 2-D digital waveguide mesh,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 126–129, Feb. 2005.
• H. Penttinen and V. Välimäki, “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, Dec. 2004. Special issue on musical acoustics.
• V. Välimäki, “Physics-based modeling of musical instruments,” Acta Acustica united with Acustica, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 611–617, July/August 2004. Invited paper.
• V. Välimäki, H. Penttinen, J. Knif, M. Laurson, and C. Erkut, “Sound synthesis of the harpsichord using a computationally efficient physical model,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, no. 7, pp. 934–948, June 2004. Special issue on model-based sound synthesis.
• E. Brattico, M. Tervaniemi, V. Välimäki, T. van Zuijen, and I. Peretz, “Cortical correlates of acquired deafness to dissonance,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 999, pp. 158–160, Dec. 2003.
• L. Savioja and V. Välimäki, “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, Nov. 2003.
• P. A. A. Esquef, M. Karjalainen, and V. Välimäki, “Frequency-zooming ARMA modeling for analysis of noisy string instrument tones,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2003, no. 10, pp. 953–967, Sept. 2003.
• J. Riionheimo and V. Välimäki, “Parameter estimation of a plucked string synthesis model using genetic algorithm with perceptual fitness calculation,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2003, no. 8, pp. 791–805, July 2003.
• P. A. A. Esquef, L. W. P. Biscainho, and V. Välimäki, “An efficient algorithm for the restoration of audio signals corrupted with low-frequency pulses,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 502–517, June 2003.
• A. Mäkivirta, P. Antsalo, M. Karjalainen, and V. Välimäki, “Modal equalization of loudspeaker-room responses at low frequencies,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 324–343, May 2003.
• V. Välimäki, M. Laurson, and C. Erkut, “Commuted waveguide synthesis of the clavichord,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 71–82, Spring 2003.
• B. Bank and V. Välimäki, “Robust loss filter design for digital waveguide synthesis of string tones,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 18–20, ­Jan. 2003.
• H. Järveläinen, T. Verma, and V. Välimäki, “Perception and adjustment of pitch in inharmonic string instrument tones,” Journal of New Music Research, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 311–319, 2002.
• M. Karjalainen, P. A. A. Esquef, P. Antsalo, A. Mäkivirta, and V. Välimäki, “Frequency-zooming ARMA modeling of resonant and reverberant systems,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 1012–1029, Dec. 2002.
• M. Karjalainen, P. Antsalo, A. Mäkivirta, T. Peltonen, and V. Välimäki, “Estimation of modal decay parameters from noisy response measurements,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 867–878, Nov. 2002.
• C. Erkut, M. Karjalainen, P. Huang, and V. Välimäki, “Acoustical analysis and model-based sound synthesis of the kantele,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 112, no. 4, pp. 1681–1691, Oct. 2002.
• P. Esquef, V. Välimäki, and M. Karjalainen, “Restoration and enhancement of solo guitar record­ings based on sound source modeling,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 227–236, April 2002.
• M. Karjalainen, T. Tolonen, V. Välimäki, C. Erkut, M. Laurson, and J. Hiipakka, “New techniques and effects in model-based sound synthesis,” Journal of New Music Research, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 203–212, 2001.
• M. Laurson, C. Erkut, V. Välimäki, and M. Kuuskankare, “Methods for modeling realistic playing in acoustic guitar synthesis,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 38–49, Fall 2001.
• H. Järveläinen, V. Välimäki, and M. Karjalainen, “Audibility of the timbral effects of inharmonicity in stringed instrument tones,” Acoustics Research Letters Online (ARLO), vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 79–84, July 2001.
• M. Karjalainen, V. Välimäki, H. Penttinen, and H. Saastamoinen, “DSP equalization of electret film pickup for the acoustic guitar,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 48, no. 12, pp. 1183-1193, Dec. 2000.
• A. Härmä, M. Karjalainen, L. Savioja, V. Välimäki, U. K. Laine, and J. Huopaniemi, “Frequency-warped signal processing for audio applications,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 1011–1031, Nov. 2000.
• T. Tolonen, V. Välimäki, and M. Karjalainen, “Modeling of tension modulation nonlinearity in plucked strings,” IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 300–310, May 2000.
• L. Savioja and V. Välimäki, “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, Mar. 2000.
• T. I. Laakso and V. Välimäki, “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, Feb. 1999.
• S. Uosukainen and V. Välimäki, “Unidirectional JMC actuators in the active attenuation of noise in ducts,” Acustica united with Acta Acustica, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 63–77, Jan./Feb. 1999.
• M. Karjalainen, V. Välimäki, and T. Tolonen, “Plucked-string models: from the Karplus-Strong algorithm to digital waveguides and beyond,” Computer Music Journal, vol. 22, no. 3, 17–32, Fall 1998.
• V. Välimäki and T. Tolonen, “Development and calibration of a guitar synthesizer,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 766–778, Sept. 1998.
• V. Välimäki and T. I. Laakso, “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, Dec. 1998.
• J. Mackenzie, J. Huopaniemi, V. Välimäki, and I. Kale, “Low-order modeling of head-related transfer functions using balanced model truncation,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 39–41, Feb. 1997.
• V. Välimäki and T. Takala, “Virtual musical instruments—natural sound using physical models,” Organised Sound, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 75–86, Oct. 1996.
• V. Välimäki, J. Huopaniemi, M. Karjalainen, and Z. Jánosy, “Physical modeling of plucked string instruments with application to real-time sound synthesis,” Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 331–353, May 1996.
• T. I. Laakso, V. Välimäki, M. Karjalainen, and U. K. Laine, “Splitting the unit delay—Tools for fractional delay filter design,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 30–60, Jan. 1996.

See also publications of the TKK Acoustics Lab. A list of papers from the first ten years of my research career is also available, but I have not updated it since 2001.