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Tapio Lokki
  Tapio Lokki, D.Sc.(Tech.)

Academy Research Fellow
Department of Media Technology
Aalto University School of Science

Room: Tietotekniikka, A 141
Street address: Konemiehentie 2  (building #30 on the map)
Postal address: box 15400, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
Phone: +358 9 4702 4737,    Fax: +358 9 4702 5014,     Email: Tapio.Lokki(at)aalto.fi  View Tapio Lokki's profile on LinkedIn


NEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

[24.11.2011] I gave a keynote speech in ISVA2011 on Recording and Reproducing Concert Hall Acoustics for Subjective Evaluation.

[8.11.2011] I was interviewed for Radiaattori (Finnish science program). Listen to it.

[27.10.2011] I received Academy of Finland Award in the Science Gala.

[21.10.2011] Paper by Pätynen et al. won the Best Student Paper Award in WASPAA2011

[10.10.2011] Article on lateral reflections in concert halls published in Jasa EL

[21.09.2011] I had a presentation on the acoustics of Epidaurus in the Conference of Ancient Theaters

[01.09.2011] In opening seromony of the academic year I received the Aalto Initiative of the Year Award

[20.08.2011] Sensory evaluation of concert halls is discussed in our JASA article

[28.06.2011] I presented a paper on the seat-dip effect in Forum Acusticum

[10.06.2011] Article on the quality of early reflection in concert halls published in Jasa EL, see also binaural demovideo

[21.05.2011] Our paper on frequency responses in concert halls presented in IOA Auditorium Acoustics conference. The paper received the first ARUP Acoustics Bursary Award

Research and Publications

Virtual Acoustics, i.e. concert hall acoustics, auralization, sound rendering, spatial hearing, HRTFs, room acoustics modeling, perception, psychoacoustics, virtual auditory environments, sounds in virtual reality, auditory displays, eyes-free user interfaces, reverberation algorithms, multichannel reproduction, reverberation enhancement ...
See more on Virtual Acoustics research team's web pages [auralization.tkk.fi]

Current projects

  • PhdVirtA (Physically-based Virtual Acoustics), funded by
  • Audio Augmented Reality in the Human Emotional Interaction project, funded by the Nokia Research Center

List of my publications
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Teaching

Currently, I don't have any teaching duties. In the past I was responsible lecturer at the following courses:
  • T-111.5400 - Keinotodellisuus (Virtual Reality) (4 op) L (2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003)
  • T-111.5600 - Special assingment in digital media (Digitaalisen median erikoistyö) (2-4 op) L (2007 ,2006)
  • T-111.5080 - Seminar, interactive digital theatre (4-8 op) L (2006)
  • T-111.590 - Seminar, 3D sound rendering. (2002)

All courses by Media Technology  –  WebOodi  –  Noppa

 

Other Activities

Some past projects and results

http://www.hipui.com Development of eyes-free user interfaces for mobile devices (2008-2011)
Intuition - Network of excellence in vIrtual reality aNd virTUal environments applIcaTIONs for future workspaces (2004-2008)
Uni-verse - A distributed interactive audio-visual virtual reality system (2004-2007)
Auralization in slow motion. DEMO
EVE - The Experimental Virtual Environment at HUT (1999-2006)
SARA - Spatial audio and room acoustics (2004-2007)
TAKU - Modeling, desing, and control of acoustics of closed spaces. Tekes funded project 1999-2002. Final report in Finnish and in English of the whole VÄRE program (VÄRE = Control of vibration and sound 1999-2002)
DIVA - Digital Interactive Virtual Acoustics (1997-2002)
HeCSE - Helsinki Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering (1998-2002). The description of my Doctoral Thesis.
Marienkirche - A visual and aural demonstration film (Presented in SIGGRAPH'98, Electronic Theater).
Demo Sounds in VRML (1998)
NETVE - NETworked Virtual Environments (1997)

Hobbies: playing floorball (OJy), used to play clarinet in (Retuperän WBK), family, gardening...


http://www.tml.hut.fi/~ktlokki/      updated 10 Nov 2011