Acoustic head orientation estimation applied to powered wheelchair control

2009 2nd International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination, RoboComm 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sasou, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Head orientation; Microphone array; Noise robust; Sound source localization; Wheelchair

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MICROPHONES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISABLED PEOPLE; HEAD ORIENTATION ESTIMATIONS; MICROPHONE ARRAY SYSTEM; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; NOISE ROBUST; POWERED WHEEL CHAIRS; SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION; SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION;

WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 69849111341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4108/icst.robocomm2009.5815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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