Artificial robot ear design for sound direction estimation

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 405-409

  Park, Youngjin ^b   Hwang, Sungmok ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; FUNCTIONS; MACHINE DESIGN; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MICROPHONES; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

DIRECTION ESTIMATION; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS (HRTF); INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERAURAL TIME DELAY (ITD); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOCALIZATION METHODS; MICROPHONE POSITIONS; NOVEL DESIGN; SPECTRAL FEATURES;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 48749118774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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