A face robot for autonomous simplified musical notation reading and singing

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 943-953

  Lin, Chyi Yeu ^a   Cheng, Li Chieh ^a   Tseng, Chang Kuo ^a   Gu, Hung Yan ^a   Chung, Kuo Liang ^a   Fahn, Chin Shyurng ^a   Lu, Kai Jay ^a   Chang, Chih Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Face robot; Facial expression; Musical note interpretation; Voice synthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SKIN; COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES; FACE ROBOT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; FACIAL SKIN; MUSICAL NOTATION; MUSICAL NOTE INTERPRETATION; ROBOTIC HEAD; SYNTHESIZED SOUNDS; VISION CAPABILITY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 80052828568     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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