Special Issue on Model-Based Sound Synthesis

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EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
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  Special Issue on
  Model-Based Sound Synthesis

Model-based sound synthesis has become one of the most active
research areas in musical signal processing. The earliest
attempts in generating musical sound with a physical model were
made three decades ago. The first products were seen only some 20
years later. Recently, many refinements to previous signal
processing algorithms and several new ones have been introduced.
We have learned that new signal processing methods can still be
devised or old ones modified to advance the field. Today there
exist efficient model-based synthesis algorithms for many sound
sources, while there are still some for which we do not have a
good model. Certain issues, such as parameter estimation and
real-time control, require further work for many model-based
approaches. Finally, the capabilities of human listeners to
perceive details in synthetic sound should be accounted for in a
way similar as in perceptual audio coding in order to optimize
the algorithms. The success and future of the model-based
approach depends on researchers and the results of their work.

The aim of this special issue is to present recent research in
model-based sound synthesis. Prospective papers should be
unpublished and present novel, fundamental research offering
innovative contributions either from a methodological or an
application perspective.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

 o Efficient Signal Processing Algorithms
 o Control Issues
 o Modeling of String, Wind, and Percussion Instruments
 o Modeling of the Singing Voice
 o Multidimensional Musical Systems
 o Parameter Estimation
 o Perceptual Issues
 o Synthesis Languages
 o Real-Time Implementation

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complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's web submission
system at http://asp.hindawi.com/wss/, according to the
following timetable.

  Manuscript Due            June 30, 2003
  Acceptance Notification   December 31, 2003
  Final Manuscript Due      March 31, 2004
  Publication Date          4th Quarter, 2004

GUEST EDITORS:

Vesa Välimäki, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal
Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 3000,
FIN-02015 HUT, Espoo, Finland; vesa.valimaki@hut.fi

Augusto Sarti, Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione,
Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32,
20133 Milano, Italy; augusto.sarti@polimi.it

Matti Karjalainen, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal
Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 3000,
FIN-02015 HUT, Espoo, Finland; matti.karjalainen@hut.fi

Rudolf Rabenstein, University Erlangen-Nuremberg,
Telecommunications Institute I, Cauerstrasse 7, D-91058 
Erlangen, Germany; rabe@nt.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de

Lauri Savioja, Laboratory of Telecommunication Software and
Multimedia, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5400,
FIN-02015 HUT, Espoo, Finland; lauri.savioja@hut.fi

EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:

Piet Sommen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

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