Aim of this paper is to define a scheduling of the task graph of an application that minimizes
its total execution time on a partially dynamically reconfigurable FPGA. The scheduler has to …

This paper presents a new kind of Chinese text encoding method based on Chinese word,
and establishes a new Chinese document format which deals with the automatic …

In this paper, we propose a voice interaction system using 3D-CG virtual agents for stand-
alone smartphones. Because the proposed system can handle speech recognition and …

In recent times, mobile spoken-dialog systems have become increasingly widespread. We
have developed MMDAgent, a toolkit for building voice interaction systems. Users can …

Recently, the concern with tourism destination marketing, which is conducted marketing
research from a point of view from a tourism destination, has been growing. We developed a …

Many universities are positively performing open-campus activities as events that provide
campus information for recruitment of high school students. However, open-campus …

Recently, the concern with tourism destination marketing, which is conducted marketing
research from a tourism destination view point, has been growing. We have proposed a …

An on-screen agent displayed on a flat screen encounters the problem of the gazing target
not being correctly recognized by humans in real space. This is because the image …

We have developed MMDAgent (a fully open-source toolkit for voice interaction systems),
which runs on a variety of platforms such as personal computers and smartphones. From …

Multimodal representation of conversational agents requires accurate synchronization of
gesture and speech. For this purpose, we investigate the important issues in synchronization …