The effect of head movement on sound localization in an acoustical telepresence robot: TeleHead

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 872-877

  Toshima, Iwaki ^a   Aoki, Shigeaki ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustical telepresence; Head movement; Sound localization; Spatial hearing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; AUDITION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ACOUSTICAL TELEPRESENCE; AUDITORY LOCALIZATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TELEHEAD;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 34250667517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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