Dr Charalampos Saitis

Lecturer in Digital Music Processing
Email: c.saitis@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Engineering, Eng 111Office Hours: Thursday 16:00-17:00
Teaching
Interactive Digital Multimedia Techniques (Postgraduate)
This is a Master's level course in developing real-time interactive digital media systems. The course will focus on graphics and sound programming, with a secondary emphasis on basic electronic hardware design for sensors and human-computer interfaces. The course will employ widely-used development environments including Arduino, Processing Max/MSP and Jitter, Processing. Course material will be delivered through a combination of lectures, interactive lab sessions, and individual/group exercises (both in and out of class). Generally speaking, each class period will consist of a combination of lecture and interactive lab session.
Professional and Research Practice (Undergraduate)
This module provides you with the opportunity to examine the role of engineering in society and the expectations of society for a professional engineer. During the module, you should develop and achieve a level of written and spoken communication expected of a professional engineer. You will also construct a personal development plan (PDP) and an on-going employability skills folder. The assessment of the module is 100 per cent coursework, broken down as follows: oral presentation: 25 per cent; in-class essay: 25 per cent; PDP folder: 25 per cent; employability folder: 25 per cent. Not open to Associate Students or students from other departments.
Signals and Information (Undergraduate)
This first year module introduces the fundamentals of signals, Fourier Series, information theory and signal statistics. Topics covered include: signal fundamentals such as discrete versus continuous time signals; signal average, energy and power; orthogonality; Fourier Series. The module also provides an introduction to information theory, including the information measure, entropy and the binary symmetric channel. Basic ideas in statistics will also be introduced. It will be taught by a combination of lectures, tutorials and labs.
Research
Research Interests:
- Auditory perception and cognition
- Crossmodal correspondences
- Musical acoustics
- Musical haptics
- Musician-instrument interaction
- Affective computing
Publications
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Saitis C, Siedenburg K (2020). Brightness perception for musical instrument sounds: Relation to timbre dissimilarity and source-cause categories. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/10.0002275
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Delgado Luezas A, Saitis C, Sandler M (2020). Spectral and Temporal Timbral Cues of Vocal Imitations of Drum Sounds. 2nd International Conference on Timbre
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ZACHARAKIS A, Hayes B, Saitis C et al. (2020). Evidence for timbre space robustness to an uncontrolled online stimulus presentation. Timbre 2020
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Hayes B, Saitis C (2020). There’s more to timbre than musical instruments: semantic dimensions of FM sounds. Timbre 2020
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Vahidi C, Fazekas G, Saitis C et al. (2020). Timbre Space Representation of a Subtractive Synthesizer. International Conference on Timbre (Timbre 2020)
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Caetano M, Saitis C, Siedenburg K (2019). Audio Content Descriptors of Timbre. nameOfConference
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Siedenburg K, Saitis C, McAdams S (2019). The Present, Past, and Future of Timbre Research. nameOfConference
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Saitis C, Kalimeri K (2018). Multimodal Classification of Stressful Environments in Visually Impaired Mobility Using EEG and Peripheral Biosignals. nameOfConference
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Papetti S, Saitis C (2018). Musical Haptics: Introduction. nameOfConference
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Saitis C, Jarvelainen H, Fritz C (2018). The Role of Haptic Cues in Musical Instrument Quality Perception. nameOfConference
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Saitis C, Parvez MZ, Kalimeri K (2018). Cognitive Load Assessment from EEG and Peripheral Biosignals for the Design of Visually Impaired Mobility Aids. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1155/2018/8971206
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Saitis C (2017). Fractal Art: Closer to Heaven? Modern Mathematics, the Art of Nature, and the Nature of Art. nameOfConference
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Saitis C, Weinzierl S (2017). Concepts of timbre emerging from musician linguistic expressions. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/1.4988381
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Saitis C, Fritz C, Scavone GP et al. (2017). Perceptual evaluation of violins: A psycholinguistic analysis of preference verbal descriptions by experienced musicians.. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/1.4980143
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Kalimeri K, Saitis C (2016). Exploring multimodal biosignal features for stress detection during indoor mobility. nameOfConference
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Saitis C, Kalimeri K (2016). Identifying urban mobility challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of multimodal biosignals. nameOfConference
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Bujacz M, Kropidlowski K, Ivanica G et al. (2016). Sound of vision - Spatial audio output and sonification approaches. nameOfConference
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Saitis C, Scavone GP, Fritz C et al. (2015). Effect of task constraints on the perceptual evaluation of violins. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918834
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Mansour H, Fréour V, Saitis C et al. (2015). Post-classification of nominally identical steel-string guitars using bridge admittances. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918835
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Saitis C, Hankinson A, Fujinaga I (2014). Correcting large-scale OMR data with crowdsourcing. nameOfConference
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Saitis C, Fritz C, Scavone GP (2014). Categorization and lexicon in verbal descriptions of violin quality by performers. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/1.4877231
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Saitis C, Scavone GP, Fritz C et al. (2013). Perceptual evaluation of violins: A comparison of intra-individual agreement in playing vs. listening tasks for the case of richness. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/1.4800060
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Saitis C, Scavone GP, Fritz C et al. (2013). Perceptual evaluation of violins: A comparison of intra-individual agreement in playing vs. listening tasks for the case of richness. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/1.4805755
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Saitis C, Giordano BL, Fritz C et al. (2012). Perceptual evaluation of violins: A quantitative analysis of preference judgments by experienced players. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/1.4765081
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Saitis C, Scavone GP, Fritz C et al. (2010). Evaluating violin quality: How consistent are skilled players?. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/1.3508002
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Saitis C, Orr S, van Walstijn M (2009). Physical modeling of the piano: An investigation into the effect of string stiffness on the hammer string interaction.. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1121/1.4784255
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