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Vesa Välimäki

Vesa Välimäki

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
47
Citations
11194
World Ranking
3164
National Ranking
26

Overview

Vesa Välimäki is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work focuses extensively on Signal Processing, with a significant emphasis on applications in Speech and Audio Processing.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of interconnected topics including:

  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Music Technology and Sound Studies
  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques
  • Image and Signal Denoising Methods

Välimäki's publication record features contributions to both journals and conferences in relevant audio and signal processing areas. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing
  • Applied Sciences

Among recent papers authored with various collaborators, several representative works are:

  • "Diffusion Models for Audio Restoration: A review," 2024, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • "Augmented/Mixed Reality Audio for Hearables: Sensing, control, and rendering," 2022, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • "A Two-Stage U-Net for High-Fidelity Denoising of Historical Recordings," 2022, ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
  • "Perceptual analysis of directional late reverberation," 2021, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Real-Time Guitar Amplifier Emulation with Deep Learning," 2020, Applied Sciences

Välimäki collaborates frequently with fellow researchers, with notable coauthors including:

  • Sebastian J. Schlecht
  • Eloi Moliner
  • Karolina Prawda
  • Alec Wright

Their work integrates developments in computational techniques relevant to audio restoration, denoising, and real-time audio emulation, supporting applications in hearable devices, music technology, and acoustic modeling.

This research profile outlines Välimäki's contributions to the advancement of audio signal processing, emphasizing both theoretical and applied dimensions in computer science and engineering contexts.

Best Publications

  • Splitting the unit delay [FIR/all pass filters design]

    T.I. Laakso;V. Valimaki;M. Karjalainen;U.K. Laine

  • Splitting the Unit Delay - Tools for fractional delay filter design

    T.I. Laakso;Vesa Välimäki;M. Karjalainen;U.K. Laine

  • Fifty Years of Artificial Reverberation

    V. Valimaki;J. D. Parker;L. Savioja;J. O. Smith

  • Frequency-warped signal processing for audio applications

    Aki Härmä;Matti Karjalainen;Lauri Savioja;Vesa Välimäki

  • Physical Modeling of Plucked String Instruments with Application to Real-Time Sound Synthesis

    Vesa Välimäki;Jyri Huopaniemi;Matti Karjalainen;Zoltán Jánosy

  • Discrete-time modelling of musical instruments

    Vesa Välimäki;Jyri Pakarinen;Cumhur Erkut;Matti Karjalainen

  • Principles of fractional delay filters

    V. Valimaki;T.I. Laakso

  • Estimation of Modal Decay Parameters from Noisy Response Measurements

    Matti Karjalainen;Poju Antsalo;Aki Mäkivirta;Timo Peltonen

  • All About Audio Equalization: Solutions and Frontiers

    Vesa Välimäki;Joshua D. Reiss

  • Reducing the dispersion error in the digital waveguide mesh using interpolation and frequency-warping techniques

    L. Savioja;V. Valimaki

  • Modeling of tension modulation nonlinearity in plucked strings

    T. Tolonen;V. Valimaki;M. Karjalainen

  • Low-order modeling of head-related transfer functions using balanced model truncation

    J. Mackenzie;J. Huopaniemi;V. Valimaki;I. Kale

  • Evaluation of Modern Sound Synthesis Methods

    T. Tolonen;V. Välimäki;M. Karjalainen

  • Interpolated rectangular 3-D digital waveguide mesh algorithms with frequency warping

    L. Savioja;V. Valimaki

  • Methods for Modeling Realistic Playing in Acoustic Guitar Synthesis

    Mikael Laurson;Cumhur Erkut;Vesa Välimäki;Mika Kuuskankare

  • Synthesis of Hand Clapping Sounds

    L. Peltola;C. Erkut;P.R. Cook;V. Valimaki

  • Development and Calibration of a Guitar Synthesizer

    Vesa Välimäki;Tero Tolonen

  • Oscillator and Filter Algorithms for Virtual Analog Synthesis

    Vesa Välimäki;Antti Huovilainen

  • Frequency-Zooming ARMA Modeling of Resonant and Reverberant Systems

    Matti Karjalainen;Paulo A. A. Esquef;Poju Antsalo;Aki Mäkivirta

  • Fractional Delay Filter Design Based on Truncated Lagrange Interpolation

    V. Valimaki;A. Haghparast

  • A new filter implementation strategy for Lagrange interpolation

    V. Valimaki

  • 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'15)

    Fabian Esqueda Flores;Stefan Bilbao;Vesa Välimäki

Frequent Co-Authors

Sven Nordholm
Sven Nordholm Curtin University
Athina P. Petropulu
Athina P. Petropulu Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Walter Kellermann
Walter Kellermann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Shoji Makino
Shoji Makino Waseda University
Simon Doclo
Simon Doclo Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Sergios Theodoridis
Sergios Theodoridis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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