Sound localization for humanoid robots - Building audio-motor maps based on the HRTF

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1170-1176

  Hörnstein, Jonas ^a,b   Lopes, Manuel ^a,b   Santos Victor, José ^a,b   Lacerda, Francisco ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; MICROPHONES; ROBOTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

FREQUENCY SPECTRA; HUMANOID ROBOTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 34250663912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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