Research Fellow, Professor, PhD Interaction CTC / Nokia Research Center
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Jukka Saarinen is a Research Fellow at the Interaction core technology center of Nokia Research Center (NRC; Nokia's corporate research unit responsible for strategic and long-term research). Jukka joined Nokia in 2001 as Head of Laboratory. Before joining Nokia he worked as a professor at Tampere University of Technology, Senior Research Scientist at Academy of Finland and Research Scientist of IBM. Although Jukka has a strong background as a researcher, he has actively participated in renewing the organizational structures, developing the multimedia competencies, and futhering the academic cooperation of NRC. Jukka and his family live in Ylöjärvi, a neighboring town of the city of Tampere, Finland.
Signal processing and pattern recognition
Adaptive and learning methods with applications
Speech-audio-video-graphics processing algorithms and implementations
Computer architectures for signal processing
Parallel processing algorithms and computing structures
Human-computer interaction
Statistical methods and modelling
| 1986–1987 | Research Scientist | Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland | ||
| 1987–1988 | Research Scientist | IBM Scientific Engineering & Computing Dep., Kingston, NY, USA | ||
| 1989–1991 | Assistant Research Scientist | Academy of Finland, Tampere, Finland | ||
| 1991–1994 | Junior Research Scientist | Academy of Finland, Tampere, Finland | ||
| 1995 | Senior Research Scientist | Academy of Finland, Tampere, Finland | ||
| 1996–2001 | Professor | Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland | ||
| 2001–2002 | Head of Laboratory | Speech and Audio Systems, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland | ||
| 2002–2003 | Head of Laboratory | Audio-Visual Systems, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland | ||
| 2004–2006 | Head of Laboratory | Multimedia Technologies, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland | ||
| 2007– | Research Fellow | Interaction CTC, Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland |
1986: Master of Science (with honors), Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
• Main subjects: Digital and computer architectures, telecommunications, software engineering
1989: Licentiate of Technology, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
• Main subject: Digital and computer architectures
1991: Doctor of Technology, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
• Main subject: Digital and computer architectures
2002, 2004, 2006: Nokia internal leadership courses
Below you can find some achievements of the laboratories headed by Jukka Saarinen.
• Speech recognition system for embedded phone environment
• Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and AMR Wideband (AMR-WB) speech and channel codecs for the GSM and 3GPP WCDMA standards (leading mobile speech coding technology; Nokia has a key role in the standardization)
• Contributing to the MPEG standardization in the development of the successor of MP3 (the AAC codec that became the choice of Apple for iTunes, and numerous operators for their music services)
• Leading the first Nokia-driven mobile Java standard, Java Mobile Media API (JSR-135)
• Driving the AMR-WB+ speech/audio codec into the 3GPP standards (streaming video and audio files on mobiles)
• Leading Scalable Polyphony MIDI (SP-MIDI), the synthetic audio standard for mobile devices (bringing polyphonic ringtones to mobiles)
• Contributing to the Visual Radio concept (Nokia multimedia device displays information about songs and performers that are aired in the radio)
• AVC video codec with H.264/AVC standardization (the most modern and famous video technology)
• Solutions for stereo widening and 3D audio (increasingly used in the handset products)
• Entertainment Audio Platform (a key module in Nokia's multimedia software platform)
• Nokia's own AAC encoder for use in the camcorder products and PC Suite, and later in the S60 software platform product
• Leading the M3G standardization (mobile 3D Graphics API for Java) and implementing it for all Nokia platforms
• Developing the advanced car hands-free accessory HF-6W, the first one utilizing the adaptive multimicrophone beamforming technology
• SMS dictation: The first Symbian SMS dictation demonstrator running on Nokia 6630 (engine + UI; user can dictate short SMS message with a user-friendly interface)
• Business card reader using the camera of mobile devices to read contact information into the phones
• Mobile video editor (developing, prototyping and evaluating the new editing features for video editor products)
• Voice Aid software, the first implementation of voice feedback for Nokia (eyes-free use of mobile core functions, voice feedback from the contact list and phone logs, number dialing using joystick or keypad; additionally voice feedback for voice mailbox)
