Bioinspired auditory sound localisation for improving the signal to noise ratio of socially interactive robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1206-1211

  Murray, John C ^a   Wermter, Stefan ^a   Erwin, Harry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Signal to noise ratio; Sociable interactive robots; Sound source localisation; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; SOCIABLE INTERACTIVE ROBOTS; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34250623238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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