The cocktail party robot: Sound source separation and localisation with an active binaural head

HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 431-438

  Deleforge, Antoine ^a   Horaud, Radu ^a  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

blind source separation; computational auditory scene analysis; em algorithm; learning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; ARTIFICIAL HEAD; BINAURAL HEARING; COCKTAIL PARTY; COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; EM ALGORITHMS; HUMAN-ROBOT COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; LOCALISATION; MIXTURE MODEL; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION; SPEED OF CONVERGENCE; TWO MICROPHONES;

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDITION; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MICROPHONES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84859997410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157689.2157834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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