Dr Charalampos Saitis

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:

Publications

• 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

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/68271
• 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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  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/68650
• 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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  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/69763
• Hayes B, Saitis C (2020). There’s more to timbre than musical instruments: semantic dimensions of FM sounds. Timbre 2020

  
  

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  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/69762
• 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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  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/67583
• Marinelli L, Lykartsis A, Weinzierl S et al. (2020). Musical dynamics classification with CNN and modulation spectra. 17th Sound and Music Computing Conference

  
  

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• Caetano M, Saitis C, Siedenburg K (2019). Audio Content Descriptors of Timbre. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14832-4_11

  
  

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• Siedenburg K, Saitis C, McAdams S (2019). The Present, Past, and Future of Timbre Research. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14832-4_1

  
  

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• Saitis C, Weinzierl S (2019). The Semantics of Timbre. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14832-4_5

  
  

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• Saitis C, Kalimeri K (2018). Multimodal Classification of Stressful Environments in Visually Impaired Mobility Using EEG and Peripheral Biosignals. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2018.2866865

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59824
• Papetti S, Saitis C (2018). Musical Haptics: Introduction. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58316-7_1

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59825
• Saitis C, Jarvelainen H, Fritz C (2018). The Role of Haptic Cues in Musical Instrument Quality Perception. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58316-7_5

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59826
• 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

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59827
• Saitis C (2017). Fractal Art: Closer to Heaven? Modern Mathematics, the Art of Nature, and the Nature of Art. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57259-8_8

  
  

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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

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/60038
• Kalimeri K, Saitis C (2016). Exploring multimodal biosignal features for stress detection during indoor mobility. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2993148.2993159

  
  

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• Saitis C, Kalimeri K (2016). Identifying urban mobility challenges for the visually impaired with mobile monitoring of multimodal biosignals. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40238-3_59

  
  

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• Spagnol S, Johannesson OI, Kristjansson A et al. (2016). Model-based obstacle sonification for the navigation of visually impaired persons. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Bujacz M, Kropidlowski K, Ivanica G et al. (2016). Sound of vision - Spatial audio output and sonification approaches. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_28

  
  

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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

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2660168.2660186

  
  

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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, Giordano BL, Fritz C et al. (2011). Investigating the origin of inter-individual differences in the preference for violins. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Saitis C, Giordano BL, Fritz C et al. (2011). Aspects of experimental design for the perceptual evaluation of violin qualities. nameOfConference

  
  

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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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