Design and Implementation of Robot Audition System'HARK'—Open Source Software for Listening to Three Simultaneous Speakers

K Nakadai, T Takahashi, HG Okuno… - Advanced …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents the design and implementation of the HARK robot audition software
system consisting of sound source localization modules, sound source separation modules …

Robot audition: Its rise and perspectives

HG Okuno, K Nakadai - 2015 IEEE international conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability of robots to listen to several things at once with their own “ears”, that is, robot
audition, is an important factor in improving interaction and symbiosis between humans and …

The ManyEars open framework: Microphone array open software and open hardware system for robotic applications

F Grondin, D Létourneau, F Ferland, V Rousseau… - Autonomous …, 2013 - Springer
ManyEars is an open framework for microphone array-based audio processing. It consists of
a sound source localization, tracking and separation system that can provide an enhanced …

Motion rendering system for emotion expression of human form robots based on laban movement analysis

M Masuda, S Kato - 19Th international symposium in robot and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method for adding a target emotion to arbitrary body movements of a human form robot
(HFR) is developed. The additional emotion is pleasure, anger, sadness or relaxation. This …

Multiple sound source position estimation by drone audition based on data association between sound source localization and identification

M Wakabayashi, HG Okuno… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drone audition, or auditory processing for drones equipped with a microphone array, is
expected to compensate for problems affecting drones' visual processing, in particular …

Sound representation and classification benchmark for domestic robots

J Maxime, X Alameda-Pineda, L Girin… - … on Robotics and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of sound representation and classification and present results of a
comparative study in the context of a domestic robotic scenario. A dataset of sounds was …

Ego noise suppression of a robot using template subtraction

G Ince, K Nakadai, T Rodemann… - 2009 IEEE/RSJ …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While a robot is moving, the joints inevitably generate noise due to its motors, ie ego-motion
noise. This problem is very crucial, especially in humanoid robots, because it tends to have …

Active binaural localization of multiple sound sources

X Zhong, L Sun, W Yost - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Sound source localization serves as a significant capability of autonomous robots that
conduct missions such as search and rescue, and target tracking in challenging …

A biped robot that keeps steps in time with musical beats while listening to music with its own ears

K Yoshii, K Nakadai, T Torii… - 2007 IEEE/RSJ …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We aim at enabling a biped robot to interact with humans through real-world music in daily-
life environments, eg, to autonomously keep its steps (stamps) in time with musical beats. To …

Emotion detection from body motion of human form robot based on laban movement analysis

M Masuda, S Kato, H Itoh - Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems …, 2009 - Springer
A set of physical feature values, called a Laban's feature set, is proposed to explain an
observer's impression of bodily expression. The design concept of our Laban's feature value …