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Publications

Books

• S. Bilbao. Wave and Scattering Methods for Numerical Simulation. John Wiley and Sons, 368 pp., Chichester , UK, May, 2004.
• S. Bilbao. Numerical Sound Synthesis: Finite Difference Schemes and Simulation in Musical Acoustics. 456 pp., John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK, Oct., 2009.

Book Chapter

• V. Valimaki, S.Bilbao,J. Pakarinen, J. Smith, J. Abel and D. Berners.
  Virtual Analog Effects. Digital Audio Effects, Second Edition, U. Zolzer, John Wiley and Sons, 2011. 

Single Author Journal Articles

• S. Bilbao. Modeling of Complex Geometries and Boundary Conditions in Finite Difference/Finite Volume Time Domain Room Acoustics Simulation.  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. In press, 2013.
• S. Bilbao. Optimized FDTD Schemes for 3D Acoustic Wave Propagation.  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 20(5):1658--1663,  2012.
• S. Bilbao. Time Domain Simulation and Synthesis for the Snare Drum. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 131 (1):914--925, 2012.
• S. Bilbao. Percussion sound synthesis using models of nonlinear shell vibration.  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 18(4):872--880, 2010.
• S. Bilbao. Direct simulation of reed wind instruments. Computer Music Journal, 33(4):43-55, 2009.
• S. Bilbao. A family of conservative numerical schemes for the dynamical von Karman plate equations. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 24(1):193-216, 2008.
• S. Bilbao. Robust physical modelling sound synthesis for nonlinear systems. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 24(2):32-41, 2007.
• S Bilbao. A digital plate reverberation algorithm. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 55(3):135-144, 2007.
• S. Bilbao. Fast modal synthesis by digital waveguide extraction. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 13 (1):1-4, 2006.
• S. Bilbao. Conservative numerical methods for nonlinear strings. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(5):3316-3327, 2005.
• S. Bilbao. Time-varying generalizations of allpass filters. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 12(5):376-379, 2005.
• S. Bilbao. Parameterized families of finite difference schemes for the wave equation. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 20(3):463-480, 2004.

Joint Author Journal Articles

• M. Duccheschi, C. Touze, S. Bilbao and C. Webb, Nonlinear dynamics of rectangular plates: investigation of modal interaction in free and forced vibrations. Accepted for publication, Acta Mechanica, 2013.
• S. Bilbao and C. Webb. Timpani Drum Synthesis in 3D on GPGPUs. In Press, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 2013.
• L. Gabrieli, V. Valimaki, H. Penttinen, S. Squartini, and S. Bilbao. A digital waveguide based approach for Clavinet modeling and synthesis. In Press, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2013.
• C. Touze and S. Bilbao and O. Cadot. Transition to turbulence in thin vibrating plates, part I: the scenario. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 331 (2): 412--433, 2012.
• S. Bilbao and J. Parker. A virtual model of spring reverberation. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, May, 2010.
• O. Thomas and S. Bilbao. Geometrically nonlinear mechanics of plates: An intrinsic formulation and a symmetry property of the nonlinear operator. Archive for Rational Mechanics, 315(3):569-590, 2008.
• E. Motuk, R. Woods, S. Bilbao and J. McAllister. Design methodology for real-time FPGA-based sound synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Signal processing, 15(12):5833-5845, 2007.
• S. Bilbao, L. Savioja, and J.O. Smith III. Stability bounds and the reduction of directional dispersion in explicit finite difference schemes for plates. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 15(4):1488-1495, 2007.
• J. Bensa, S. Bilbao, R. Kronland-Martinet, J.O. Smith III, and T. Voinier. Computational modeling of stiff piano strings using digital waveguides and finite differences. Acustica, 91:289-298, 2005.
• S. Bilbao and J.O. Smith III. Energy-conserving finite difference schemes for nonlinear strings. Acustica, 91:299-311, 2005.
• J. Bensa, S. Bilbao , R. Kronland-Martinet, and J.O. Smith III. The simulation of piano string vibration: From physical models to finite difference schemes and digital waveguides. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114(2):1095-1107, 2003.
• S. Bilbao and J.O. Smith III. Finite difference schemes for the wave equation: Stability, passivity and numerical dispersion. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 11(3):255-266, 2003.

Conference Proceedings

• S. Bilbao and B. Hamilton. Optimization of Modified Equation Methods for Acoustics Applications . Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Montreal, Canada, June, 2013.
• B. Hamilton and S. Bilbao. Accuracy of Hexagonal FDTD Schemes. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Montreal, Canada, June, 2013.
• C. Webb and S. Bilbao. Simulation of Binaural Head Responses. Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, York, UK, September, 2012.
• S. Bilbao and C. Webb. Timpani Drum Synthesis on GPGPUs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, York, UK, September, 2012.
• M. Duccheschi, C. Touze and S. Bilbao. Nonlinear plate vibrations: A modal approach with application  to cymbals and gongs. Proceedings of the Congres Francais d'Acoustique, Nantes, April, 2012.
• S. Bilbao Modelling of Brass Instrument Valves. Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Paris, September 2011.
• L. Gabrieli, V. Valimaki and S. Bilbao. Real-time emulation of the Clavinet, an electromechanical keyboard instrument. International Computer Music Conference, Huddersfield, UK, September, 2011.
• J.P. Chick, S. Logie, L. Norman, S. Bilbao and D.M. Campbell.  The effect of mouthpiece design on slurred transients in brass instruments.  Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Aalborg, Denmark, July 2011. 
• S. Bilbao Time Domain Simulation of Brass Instruments. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, Aalborg, Denmark, July 2011. 
• C. Touze,  S. Bilbao and O. Cadot. Transition to turbulence in forced vibrations of perfect plates. Proceedings of the 7th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, Rome, Italy, July, 2011.
• C. Webb and S. Bilbao. Computing Room Acoustics Using 3D FDTD: A Cuda Approach. Preprint, Audio Engineering Society Conference, London, May 2011. 
• C. Webb and S. Bilbao.  Computing Room Acoustics Using 3D FDTD: A Cuda Approach.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Prague, May, 2011. 
• M.Rath, and S.Bilbao. More Modal Fun, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Graz, Austria, September 2010.
• J. Parker, H. Penttinen, J. Abel and S.Bilbao. A Physical Model of the Slinky. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects,
  Graz, Austria, September 2010.
• S.Bilbao., Perceptual and Numerical Aspects of Spring Models. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Sydney Australia, August 2010.
• S. Logie, J. Chick, M. Campbell and S.Bilbao. Transients in Brass Instruments. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Sydney Australia, August 2010.
• S.Bilbao and M. Rath. Time Domain Emulation of the Clavinet. AES preprint, 128th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Llondon, May, 2010.
• S. Bilbao. Numerical Experiments with Coupled Membranes and the Snare Mechanism, Proceedings of the 8e Congres Francais d'Acoustique, Lyon, April, 2010.
• C. Touze, S.Bilbao and L. Longo-Mucciante. Vibrations Chaotiques de Plaques Minces, Proceedings of the 8e Congres Francais d'Acoustique, Lyon, 2010.
• S. Bilbao. A Modular Percussion Synthesis Environment. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Como, Italy, September, 2009.
• J. Parker and S. Bilbao. Spring Reverberation: A Physical Perspective. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Como, Italy, September, 2009.
• M. Kahrs, D. Skulina, S. Bilbao, and D. Campbell. An Electroacoustically Controlled Vibrating Plate. New Instruments for Musical Expression, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2009.
• S. Bilbao . Direct Simulation for Wind Instrument Synthesis. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Espoo, Finland, September, 2008. Winner, best paper award.
• S. Bilbao . Modal Representations and Computational Complexity in Physical Modeling Sound Synthesis. Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics , Madrid , Spain , September, 2007. Invited paper.
• S. Bilbao . Modularized Physical Modelling Sound Synthesis. Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics , Madrid , Spain , September, 2007. Invited paper.
• S. Bilbao and J. Fitch. Prepared Piano Sound Synthesis. Proceedings of the 9 th International Digital Audio Effects Conference, pp. 77-82, Montreal , Canada , September, 2006.
• D. Fee, C. Cowan, S. Bilbao and I. Ozcelik. Predictive Deconvolution and Kurtosis Maximization for Speech Dereverberation. In Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference, Florence , Italy , 2006.
• S. Bilbao , K. Arcas and A. Chaigne. A Physical Model of Plate Reverberation. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, volume 5, pp. 165-168, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
• S. Bilbao , Methodes numeriques conservatives pour les plaques nonlineaires. In Proceedings of the 8e Congres Francais d'Acoustique, Tours , France , April, 2006. In French. Available on CD-ROM.
• E. Motuk, R. Woods and S. Bilbao . FPGA-based Hardware for Physical Modelling Sound Synthesis by Finite Difference Schemes. In Proceedings of the IEEE Field Programmable Technology Conference, pp. 103-110, 2005.
• S. Bilbao. Sound Synthesis for Nonlinear Plates, 2005. In Proceedings of the 8 th International Digital Audio Effects Conference, pp. 243-248, Madrid , Spain , September 20-22, 2005.
• M. Van Walstijn, M. Alcorn and S. Bilbao . Spatialization Using Sounding Objects. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, pp. 291-294, Barcelona , Spain , September 5-9,2005.
• S. Bilbao . A Finite Difference Scheme for Plate Synthesis. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, pp. 119-122, Barcelona , Spain , September 5-9, 2005.
• E. Motuk, S. Bilbao and R. Woods. Hardware Implementations of Finite Difference Schemes for Plate Synthesis. In Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference, Antalya , Turkey , September 2005.
• S. Bilbao . An Energy-conserving Difference Scheme for Coupled Transverse/longitudinal Nonlinear String Vibration. In Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference, Antalya , Turkey , September 2005.
• J. Pakarinen, S. Bilbao , M. Karjalainen and V. Valimaki. Energy Behaviour in Time-varying Fractional Delay Filters for Physical Modelling Synthesis of Musical Instruments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 1-4, Philadelphia, USA, May 2005.
• E. Motuk, S. Bilbao , and R. Woods. Implementation of Finite Difference Schemes for the Wave Equation on FPGA. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume 3, pp. 237-240, Philadelphia, USA, May 2005.
• S. Bilbao . Modal-type Finite Difference Schemes for Nonlinear Strings with an Energy Conservation Property. In Proceedings of the 7 th International Digital Audio Effects Conference, pp. 119-124, Naples , Italy , October 2004.
• S. Bilbao . Scattering Networks for Beam Dynamics. In Meeting of the First International Workshop on Generalized Applications of TLM an Related Techniques, Czestochowa , Poland , June 2004.
• S. Bilbao . Energy-conserving Finite Difference Schemes for Tension-modulated Strings. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume 4, pp. 285-288, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.
• S. Bilbao , J. Bensa, and R. Kronland-Martinet. The Wave Digital Reed: A passive formulation. In Proceedings of the 6 th International Digital Audio Effects Conference, pp. 225-230, London , England , September 2003.
• J. Bensa, S. Bilbao , R. Kronland-Martinet, and J.O. Smith III. A Power-normalized Non-linear Lossy Piano Hammer. In Proceedings of the Stockholm Musical Acoustics Conference, pp. 365-368, Stockholm , Sweden , August 2003.
• J. Bensa, S. Bilbao , R. Kronland-Martinet, and J.O. Smith III. From the Physics of Piano Strings to Digital Waveguides. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, pp. 45-48, Goteborg , Sweden , 2002.
• S. Bilbao . Digital Waveguide Networks as Multidimensional Wave Digital Filters. In Proceedings of the 3 rd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, pp. 49-54, Verona , Italy , 7-9 Dec. 2000.
• S. Bilbao . Digital Waveguide Networks in Inhomogeneous Media. In Proceedings of the 3 rd International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, pp. 249-253, Verona , Italy , 7-9 Dec. 2000.
• T. Verma, S. Bilbao , and T. Meng. The Digital Prolate Spheroidal Window. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, volume 3, pp. 1351-1345, Atlanta, Georgia, 7-10 May 1996.

Published Conference Abstracts

• J.P. Chick, S. Logie, L. Norman, S. Bilbao and D.M. Campbell. The effect of mouthpiece design on slurred transients in brass instruments.
  Vienna Talk, Vienna Austria, September, 2010. http:viennatalk.mdw.ac.at
• J.Kemp and S. Bilbao. Radiation and Reflection in a Rectangular Cross-section Waveguide: Finite Difference Simulation and Theoretical Frequency Domain Impedance. Vienna Talk, Vienna Austria, September, 2010. http:viennatalk.mdw.ac.at
• S. Bilbao, K. Kavoussanakis, N.Mc Donnell, C.M. Maynard, S. Petrou and C. Webb. Synthesis: Simulating sound on GPUs. GPUs and Accelerators in HPC, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, September, 2010.
• C. Camier, K. Arcas, and S. Bilbao. Nonlinear vibrations of impacted rectangular plates. Comparison between numerical simulation and experiments. Acoustics 08: Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française d’Acoustique, Paris, July, 2008. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5):3665.
• C. Camier, C. Touze, O. Thomas and S. Bilbao. Numerical study of the transition to chaos in nonlinear forced vibrations of plates. Acoustics 08: Joint Meeting of the the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française d’Acoustique, Paris, July, 2008. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5):3171.
• K. Arcas, S. Bilbao, and Antoine Chaigne. Sound synthesis of circular plates by finite differences. Acoustics 08: Joint Meeting of the the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française d’Acoustique, Paris, July, 2008. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5):3522.
• S. Stevenson, D. Campbell, J. Chick, J. Gilbert, and S. Bilbao. Transient behaviour of human and artificial brass players' lips. Acoustics 08: Joint Meeting of the the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française d’Acoustique, Paris, July, 2008. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5):3238.
• S. Bilbao. Cymbal synthesis. Acoustics 08: Joint Meeting of the the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française d’Acoustique, Paris, July, 2008. Invited paper. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(5):3521.
• S. Bilbao. Percussion sound synthesis. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, December, 2006. Invited paper. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(5):3363. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(5):3363.
• S. Bilbao. Conservation methods for musical sound synthesis. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island, June, 2006. Invited Paper. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(5):3325. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(5):3325.
• S. Bilbao. Nonlinear transverse string vibration: Model comparisons and numerical methods. Acoustical Society of America Meeting, San Diego, California, December 2004. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(5):2562. Invited Paper.
• J. Bensa, S. Bilbao, R. Kronland-Martinet, J.O. Smith III, and Thierry Voinier. Stiff piano string modelling: Computational comparison between finite differences and digital waveguide. Acoustical Society of America Meeting, San Diego, California, December 2004. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(5):2561. Invited Paper.
• J. Bensa, S. Bilbao, R. Kronland-Martinet, and J.O. Smith III. The wave digital piano hammer. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico, December 2002. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(5):2239. CD-ROM.
• J. Bensa, S. Bilbao, R. Kronland-Martinet, and J.O. Smith III. Piano string modeling: From partial differential equations to a digital wave-guide model. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico, December 2002. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(5):2239. CD-ROM.
• S. Bilbao. Reducing computational complexity in struck string physical models. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii, 6-10 Dec. 1996. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100(4):2812.

PhD Thesis

• S. Bilbao. Wave and Scattering Methods for the Numerical Integration of Partial Differential Equations. PhD thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2001. Available at http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~bilbao/.

Technical Reports

• C. Maynard, S. Petrou, K. Kavoussanakis and S.Bilbao. \newblock Real time Sound Synthesis on GPGPUs. Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Technical Report, 2011. C. Maynard, S. Petrou, K. Kavoussanakis and S.Bilbao. Real time Sound Synthesis on GPGPUs. Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Technical Report, 2011.
• S. Bilbao. Analyse-synthese et suivi de formants en temps-reel. Technical report, 1994. IRCAM Technical Report R4 180.1 BIL. In French.

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