Publications Related to Sound Synthesis and Audio Signal Processing

Journal Papers

• Kristóf Horváth and Balázs Bank, "Optimizing the Numerical Noise of Parallel Second-Order Filters in Fixed-Point Arithmetic", (Available at AES E-library) The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 67, Iss. 10, pp. 763-771, Oct 2019.

• Juho Liski, Balázs Bank, Julius O. Smith, and Vesa Välimäki, "Converting Series Biquad Filters Into Delayed Parallel Form: Application to Graphic Equalizers", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 67, Iss. 14, pp. 3785-3795, May 2019.

• Balázs Bank and Juliette Chabassier, "Model-Based Digital Pianos: From Physics to Sound Synthesis", (Also available at IEEEXplore) IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 36, Iss. 1, pp. 103-114, Jan. 2019.

• Balázs Bank, "Multichannel Equalization and Crosstalk Cancellation Using Fixed-Pole IIR Filters", (Available at AES E-library) The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 66, Iss. 11, pp. 901-909, Nov. 2018.

• Balázs Bank, "Converting Infinite Impulse Response Filters to Parallel Form", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 35, Iss. 3, pp. 124-130, May 2018.

• Balázs Bank, Jose A. Belloch, and Vesa Välimäki, "Efficient Design of a Parallel Graphic Equalizer," (Available at AES E-library) The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 65, Iss. 10, pp. 817-825, Oct. 2017.

• German Ramos, Maximo Cobos, Balázs Bank, and Jose A. Belloch, "A Parallel Approach to HRTF Approximation and Interpolation Based on a Parametric Filter Model," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 24, Iss. 10, pp. 1507 - 1511, 2017.

• Jose A. Belloch, Balázs Bank, Francisco D. Igual, Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, and Antonio M. Vidal, "Solving Weighted Least Squares (WLS) problems on ARM-based architectures," The Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 73, Iss. 1, pp: 530-542. Jan. 2017.

• Jussi Rämö, Vesa Välimäki, and Balázs Bank. "High-Precision Parallel Graphic Equalizer," IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 1894-1904, December 2014.

• Balázs Bank, "Magnitude Priority Filter Design," (Available at AES E-library) The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 62, Iss. 7/8, pp. 485-492, July 2014.

• Balázs Bank, "Audio Equalization with Fixed-Pole Parallel Filters: An Efficient Alternative to Complex Smoothing," (Available at AES E-library) The Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 61, Iss. 1/2, pp. 39-49, January 2013.

• Federico Avanzini, Ricardo Marogna, and Balázs Bank, "Efficient synthesis of tension modulation in strings and membranes based on energy estimation," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 131, no. 1, pp. 897-906, Jan. 2012.

• Balázs Bank and Germán Ramos, "Improved Pole Positioning for Parallel Filters Based on Spectral Smoothing and Multiband Warping," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 299-302, Mar. 2011.

• Balázs Bank, "Logarithmic Frequency Scale Parallel Filter Design with Complex and Magnitude-Only Specifications," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 138-141, Feb. 2011.

• B. Bank and H.-M. Lehtonen, ''Perception of Longitudinal Components in Piano String Vibrations,'' The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, vol. 128, Iss. 3, pp. EL117-EL123, Sept. 2010.

• B. Bank, S. Zambon, and F. Fontana "A Modal-Based Real-Time Piano Synthesizer,'' IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 18, iss. 4, pp. 809-821, May 2010.

• R. Galambos, "Time stretch és pitch shift algoritmusok a kezdetektől a wavelet-transzformációig,"  (In Hungarian) Acoustical Review, vol. 2010, no. 3-4, pp. 31-38, 2010.
• L. Szilágyi, G. Czene, L. Sujbert, "Gerjedésgátlás hangosító rendszerekben," (In Hungarian) Acoustical Review, vol. 2010, no. 2, pp. 27-34, 2010.

• B. Bank and H.-M. Lehtonen, ''Perception of Longitudinal Components in Piano String Vibrations,'' to be published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 2010.

• B. Bank, S. Zambon, and F. Fontana "A Modal-Based Real-Time Piano Synthesizer,'' IEEE Trans. on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 18, iss. 4, pp. 809-821, May 2010.

• Czene G., L. Szilágyi, L. Sujbert, "Gerjedésgátlás hangosító rendszerekben," Akusztikai Szemle 2010/2, megjelenés alatt.
• B. Bank, "Perceptually Motivated Audio Equalization Using Fixed-Pole Parallel Second-Order Filters,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, pp. 477-480, 2008.
• B. Bank and L. Sujbert, "Generation of longitudinal vibrations in piano strings: From physics to sound synthesis,'' The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 117, no. 4, pp. 2268-2278, Apr. 2005. Abstract and sound examples
• B. Bank, J. Márkus, A. Nagy, and L. Sujbert, "Signal- and physics-based sound synthesis of musical instruments," Periodica Polytechnica, Ser. Electrical Engineering, vol. 47, no. 3-4, pp. 269-295, 2004.

• B. Bank, F. Avanzini, G. Borin, G. De Poli, F. Fontana, and D. Rocchesso, "Physically Informed Signal-Processing Methods for Piano Sound Synthesis: a Research Overview," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Digital Audio for Multimeda Communications, vol. 2003, No. 10, pp. 941-952, Sep. 2003.

• B. Bank and V. Välimäki, "Robust Loss Filter Design for Digital Waveguide Synthesis of String Tones," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 18-20, Jan. 2003.

Conference Papers

• Kristof Horváth and Balázs Bank, "Comparison of LMS-based adaptive audio filters for identification", Audio Engineering Society Convention 148. Audio Engineering Society, 2020.

• Kristof Horváth and Balázs Bank, "Comparison of LMS-based Adaptive Audio Filters", 27th PhD Minisymposium of the Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2020. p. 4-7.

• Balázs Bank and Kristof Horváth, "Quantization Noise of Warped and Parallel Filters Using Single-Precision Floating Point Arithmetic", 142nd AES Convention, eBrief No. 337, Berlin, May 2017.

• Balázs Bank and Kristof Horváth, "Warped Implementations of Parallel Second-Order Filters with Optimized Quantization Noise Performance", 142nd AES Convention, eBrief No. 338, Berlin, May 2017.

• Jose A. Belloch, Balázs Bank, Lauri Savioja, Alberto Gonzalez, and Vesa Välimäki, "Multi-Channel IIR Filtering of Audio Signals Using a GPU", IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 6692-6696, Florence, Italy, May 2014.

• Balázs Bank and Julius O. Smith, III, "A delayed parallel filter structure with an FIR part having improved numerical properties", 136th AES Convention, Preprint No. 9084, Berlin, April 2014.

• Stefania Cecchi, Laura Romoli, Francesco Piazza, Balázs Bank, and Alberto Carini, "A novel approach for prototype extraction in a multipoint equalization procedure", 136th AES Convention, Preprint No. 9048, Berlin, April 2014.

• Laura Romoli, Stefania Cecchi, Balázs Bank, Michele Gasparini, and Francesco Piazza, "Application of common-pole parallel filters to nonlinear models based on orthogonal functions", 136th AES Convention, Preprint No. 9068, Berlin, April 2014.

• Germán Ramos and Balázs Bank, "Low computational cost equalization and modeling of audio systems," Proceedings of the TecniAcustica 2013, pp. 1151-1158, Valladolid, Spain, October 2013.

• Balázs Bank, "Loudspeaker and room response equalization using parallel filters: comparison of pole positioning strategies," Proceedings of the 51st AES Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 2013.

• Dániel Ambrits and Balázs Bank, "Improved polynomial transition regions algorithm for alias-suppressed signal synthesis," Proceedings of the 10th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2013), pp. 561-568, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2013.

• Balázs Bank, "Combined quasi-anechoic and in-room equalization of loudspeaker responses," 134th AES Convention, Preprint No. 8826, Rome, Italy, May 2013.

• Balázs Bank, "Magnitude-priority filter design for audio applications," 132nd AES Convention, Preprint No. 8591, Budapest, Hungary, April 2012.

• Balázs Bank, "Full room equalization at low frequencies with asymmetric loudspeaker arrangements," 132nd AES Convention, Preprint No. 8593, Budapest, Hungary, April 2012.

• Balázs Bank, "Warped IIR filter design with custom warping profiles and its application to room equalization,"130th AES Convention, Preprint No. 8415, London, UK, May 2011.

• Balázs Bank, "Computationally efficient nonlinear Chebyshev models using fixed-pole parallel filters with the application to loudspeaker modeling,"130th AES Convention, Preprint No. 8426, London, UK, May 2011.

• Federico Fontana, Marco Civolani, Stefano Papetti, Valentina del Bello, and Balázs Bank, "An exploration on the influence of vibrotactile cues during digital piano playing," Proceedings of 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC2011), pp. 273-278, Padua, Italy, July 2011.

• Balázs Bank and Matti Karjalainen, "Passive Admittance Matrix Modeling for Guitar Synthesis," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-10), pp. 3-7, Graz, Austria, Sept. 2010.

• Riccardo Marrogna, Federico Avanzini, and Balázs Bank, "Energy Based Synthesis of Tension Modulation in Membranes," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-10), pp. 102-108, Graz, Austria, Sept. 2010.

• B. Bank, "Audio Equalization with Fixed-Pole Parallel Filters: An Efficient Alternative to Complex Smoothing," 128th AES Convention, Preprint No. 7965, London, UK, May 2010.

• B. Bank, "Energy-based Synthesis of Tension Modulation in Strings," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-09), Paper ID: 76, Como, Italy, Sept. 2009.

• Balázs Bank and Matti Karjalainen, "Passive Admittance Synthesis for Sound Synthesis Applications," Proceedings of the Acoustics'08 Paris International Conference, paper id: ACOUSTICS2008/254, Paris, France, June 2008.
• Balázs Bank, "Direct Design of Parallel Second-Order Filters for Instrument Body Modeling", Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC07), vol. I., pp. 458-465, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 2007.
• B. Bank and L. Sujbert, "Efficient Modeling Strategies for the Geometric Nonlinearities of Musical Instrument Strings," Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum, Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 2005. Abstract and sound examples
• B. Bank and L. Sujbert, "A Piano Model Including Longitudinal String Vibrations," Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-04), pp. 89-94, Naples, Italy, Oct. 2004. Abstract and sound examples
• B. Bank and L. Sujbert, "Modeling the Longitudinal Vibration of Piano Strings," Proceedings of the Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference (SMAC03), pp. 143-146, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 2003.
• B. Bank and L. Sujbert, "On the Nonlinear Commuted Synthesis of the Piano," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-02), pp. 175-180, Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 2002.
• L. Trautmann, B. Bank, V. Välimäki, and R. Rabenstein, "Combining Digital Waveguide and Functional Transformation Methods for Physical Modeling of Musical Instruments," Proceedings of the AES 22nd International Conference on Virtual, Synthetic and Entertainment Audio, pp. 307-316, Espoo, Finland, June 2002.
• B. Bank, G. De Poli, and L. Sujbert, "A Multi-Rate Approach to Instrument Body Modeling for Real-Time Sound Synthesis Applications," 112th AES Convention, Preprint No. 5526, Munich, Germany, May 2002.
• B. Bank, "Accurate and Efficient Method for Modeling Beating and Two-Stage Decay in String Instrument Synthesis," Proceedings of the MOSART Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music, pp. 134-137, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2001.
• F. Avanzini, B. Bank, G. Borin, G. De Poli, F. Fontana, and D. Rocchesso, "Musical Instrument Modeling: The Case of the Piano," Proceedings of the MOSART Workshop on Current Research Directions in Computer Music, pp. 124-133, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2001.
• T. Bakó, B. Bank, and T. Dabóczi, "Restoration of Nonlinearly Distorted Audio with the Application to Old Motion Pictures," Proceedings of the AES 20th International Conference on Archiving, Restoration and New Methods of Recording, pp. 191-198, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2001.
• B. Bank, "Nonlinear Interaction in the Digital Waveguide with the Application to Piano Sound Synthesis," Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC00), pp. 54-58, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2000.
• B. Bank, V. Välimäki, L. Sujbert, and M. Karjalainen, "Efficient Physics Based Sound Synthesis of the Piano Using DSP Methods," Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSPCO00), vol. 4, pp. 2225-2228, Tampere, Finland, Sept. 2000.
• J. Márkus, "Signal model based synthesis of the sound of organ pipes," in Proceedings of the 9th Conference and Exhibition on Television and Audio Technologies (TV 2000 Conference), Thermal Hotel Helia, Budapest, Hungary, 23-25 May 2000, pp. 151-57, abstract in English and Hungarian.

Other

• B. Bank, Physics-based Sound Synthesis of String Instruments Including Geometric Nonlinearities, Ph.D. thesis, Budapest Univeristy of Technology and Economics, Hungary, p. 142, Feb. 2006. URL: http://www.mit.bme.hu/~bank/phd

• B. Bank, Physics-Based Sound Synthesis of the Piano, Master's thesis, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest, Hungary, published as Report 54 of Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, May 2000. URL: http://www.mit.bme.hu/~bank/thesis 

• J. Márkus, Signal-model based synthesis of the sound of organ pipes, Master's thesis, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Magyar tudósok körútja 2. H-1117 Budapest, Hungary, May 1999, 120 p, in Hungarian.