Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
The Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics (SPA) combines competence in different areas of research fields varying from ICT technology to core electrical engineering and its basic phenomena.
Open positions in SPA
Research
The research conducted in the unit is of highest international quality, in many of these areas, and the cooperation tight with several ICT and other high-tech companies.
With these companies, we boost practical applications that create societal impact.
Metrology Research Institute
Metrology Research Institute focuses on optical radiation measurements and related activities. We do not forecast the weather!
Signal processing
Our goal is to do world-class signal processing research by focusing on fundamental signal processing theory and methods.
Communication acoustics: spatial sound and psychoacoustics
Capturing, transmission, reproduction, synthesis, and perception of sound - these are the fields that interest us in the communication acoustics team.
Audio signal processing
The Audio Signal Processing Research Group is working on wideband sound technology, which is extensively applicable for example in mobile phones, music technology, and noise control.
Speech technology
The Speech Technology research group works on developing new methods and approaches to discovering and processing patterned information within speech and audio signals.
Speech communication technology
Speech communication technology aims at describing, explaining and reproducing communication by speech.
Speech recognition
Our goal is to generally improve the speech recognition methodology with the help of the new algorithms developed in Aalto University. Speech recognition offers challenging benchmarking tasks for efficient algorithms that can process and learn to represent large quantities of data.
Support and administrative personnel in SPA
News
Science and technology entertained three generations on Family Day
The Family Day event introduced hundreds of families to electrical engineering.
Satellites and the Electrical Engineering Workshop aroused enthusiasm among jubilee alumni
Alumni who started their studies 50 years ago at the former Helsinki University of Technology convened to celebrate.
Fast but controlled: racing car built during Protocamp course is equipped with artificial intelligence
The Speed Demon project team was commissioned to build a small self-driving AI racing car.
Building interdisciplinary connections through a new joint position
This September will be a start of building a new connection between disciplines as Sebastian Schlecht takes on the position as the professor of practice in Sound in Virtual Reality.
Events
Defence of dissertation in the field of Speech and Language Technology, Lic.Sc. (Tech.) Tiina Murtola
Title of the thesis is “Investigating vowel production with computational physical modelling and glottal inverse filtering”
CS Research Day 2019
CS Research Day is jointly organized by the Department of Computer Science and Department of Communications and Networking and the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics. The point of the event is networking and getting to know what other computer science researchers are doing. Everyone is welcome!
Head of department
Where to find us
Maarintie 8
Maarintie 8, Espoo
OIH – Open Innovation House
Address: Maarintie 6
Mon–Fri 8.00–16.00.
Health Technology House
Address: Otakaari 3 & Rakentajanaukio 2
Mon-Thu 7.45-20.00, Fri 7.45-18.00
Computer Science building
Address: Konemiehentie 2. Mon-Fri 8.00 - 15.30
A Grid
Address: Otakaari 5
Mon-Fri 8.00-20.00, to members 24/7.
