Real-time robot audition system that recognizes simultaneous speech in the real world

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5333-5338

  Yamamoto, Shun'ichi ^a   Nakadai, Kazuhiro ^b   Nakano, Mikio ^b   Tsujino, Hiroshi ^b   Valin, Jean Marc ^c   Komatani, Kazunori ^a   Ogata, Tetsuya ^a   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Missing feature theory; Parameter optimization; Real time processing; Robot audition; Voice activity detection

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

MISSING FEATURE THEORY (MFT); PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME PROCESSING; ROBOT AUDITION; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION;

AUDITION;

EID: 34250652551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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