Director, Media Laboratory
Nokia Research Center
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Jyri Huopaniemi is Director of the Media Laboratory in Nokia Research Center. NRC's Media Laboratory mission is to innovate breakthrough media and interaction solutions for enjoyable experiences in the connected world. The laboratory carries out strategic and long term research in the areas of personal content and media, media content representation, immersive communication, user interfaces and interaction, and human practices.
Jyri studied acoustics and audio signal processing, multimedia and information technology at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), and received his M.Sc., Lic. Tech., and Doctor of Science in Technology degrees in electrical and communications engineering in 1995, 1997, and 1999, respectively. His doctoral thesis was on the topic of of virtual acoustics and 3-D audio. Dr. Huopaniemi worked as a research scientist and group manager at the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing of the HUT from 1993 until 1997. During 1998 he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. Since 1998 he has been with Nokia Research Center in Helsinki, Finland. Prior to his current role at Nokia, he was Head of Strategic Research at Nokia Research Center, responsible for strategic research in multimedia, applications, services and software platforms. He was appointed Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Audio Technology and Software at Helsinki University of Technology as of July 1, 2003, and continues to lecture on courses related to audio and multimedia signal processing and software.
Jyri's current professional and academic interests include:
He is author or coauthor of over 55 technical articles published in international journals and conferences, and he has been awarded five patents. He was one of the contributors to MPEG-4 audio systems standardization during 1997-2000, and he has headed several mobile media standardization efforts (Mobile Media, Mobile 3D Graphics, Scalable 2D Vector Graphics) in the Java Community Process.
Jyri Huopaniemi was the chairman of the Audio Engineering Society's (AES) Finnish Section during 1999-2003. He has been actively involved in conference organization committees (AES 16th and 22nd International Conferences, IEEE WASPAA, ICAD), and serves regularly as a reviewer for scientific journals and conferences. He is also a member of the IEEE, the ACM and the Acoustical Society of Finland. In his free time he enjoys music in as many forms as possible -- listening, playing, programming, recording, restoring, and mixing.
Eronen, A., Peltonen, V., Tuomi, J., Klapuri, A., Fagerlund, S., Sorsa, T., Lorho, G., Huopaniemi, J. 2006. Audio-based context recognition. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 321-329.
Väänänen, R., Huopaniemi, J. 2004. Advanced AudioBIFS: Virtual Acoustics Modeling in MPEG-4 Scene Description. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 661-675, October 2004.
Riggs, R., Taivalsaari, A., Van Peursem, J., Huopaniemi, J., Patel, M., Uotila, A. 2003. Programming Wireless Devices with the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003.
Lokki, T., Savioja, L., Väänänen, R., Huopaniemi, J., Takala, T. 2002. Creating interactive virtual auditory environments. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, special issue "Virtual Worlds, Real Sounds", vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 49-57, July/August 2002.
Väänänen, R., Huopaniemi, J. 2002. SNHC Audio and Audio Composition. In: Pereira, F. and Ebrahimi, T. (eds.), The MPEG-4 Book, Prentice Hall IMSC Press multimedia series, pp. 545-582, 2002.
Härmä, A., Karjalainen, M., Savioja, L., Välimäki, V., Laine, U., Huopaniemi, J. 2000. Frequency-warped signal processing for audio applications. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 48, no. 11, November 2000.
Savioja, L., Huopaniemi, J., Lokki, T., and Väänänen, R. 1999. Creating virtual acoustic environments. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 675-705, September 1999.
Scheirer, E., Väänänen, R., Huopaniemi, J. 1999. AudioBIFS: Describing audio scenes with the MPEG-4 multimedia standard. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 237-250, September 1999.
Huopaniemi, J., Zacharov, N., Karjalainen, M. 1999. Objective and subjective evaluation of head-related transfer function filter design. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 218-239, April 1999.
Huopaniemi, J. 1999. Virtual acoustics and 3-D sound in multimedia signal processing. Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Science in Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical and Communications Engineering, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing.
For a more complete list, please go to http://www.huopaniemi.net/jyri/pubs.html.
