Applying Scattering Theory to Robot Audition System: Robust Sound Source Localization and Extraction

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1147-1152

  Nakadai, Kazuhiro ^a   Matsuura, Daisuke ^b   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^c   Kitano, Hiroaki ^d  

^a HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS (HRTF); INTERAURAL INTENSITY DIFFERENCE (IID); ROBOT AUDITION SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MICROPHONES; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0346779077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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