Robot audition: Its rise and perspectives

Hiroshi G. Okuno; Kazuhiro Nakadai

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179045

Robot audition: Its rise and perspectives

Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai

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Abstract

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 robots. The critical issue in robot audition is real-time processing and robustness against noisy environments with high flexibility to support various kinds of robots and hardware configurations. This paper first overviews activities and issues related to robot audition. Then, it presents the 'HARK' robot audition software, which provides three primary functions for robot audition, sound source localization, sound source separation, and separated sound recognition, and then reports their performance. Finally, it discusses future directions in new promising areas as well as robotics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	5610-5614
Number of pages	5
Volume	2015-August
ISBN (Print)	9781467369978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179045
Publication status	Published - 2015 Aug 4
Event	40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 2014 Apr 19 → 2014 Apr 24

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Other	40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	14/4/19 → 14/4/24

Keywords

Active audition
Ego-noise cancellation
Microphone array
Robot Audition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Software
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Okuno, HG & Nakadai, K 2015, Robot audition: Its rise and perspectives. in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. vol. 2015-August, 7179045, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 5610-5614, 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2015, Brisbane, Australia, 14/4/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7179045

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