Nowadays, decreasing opportunities for people to have daily conversations due to the increase in the number of withdrawn young people and households living alone. The lack of daily conversation has been pointed out as a ...

In search and rescue (SAR) operation, the potential of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) gathers great attention. Existing studies have made various experiments to find victims by a UAVs with a single sensor, e.g., one of ...

Vast numbers of free/open source software (F/OSS) development projects use hosting sites such as Java.net and Source-Forge.net. These sites provide each project with a variety of software repositories (e.g. repositories ...

This paper presents an acoustic compensation method in body-conducted speech conversion that automatically compensates for acoustic differences caused by changes in recording conditions. An enhancement process for bodyconducted ...

In this paper we present a novel approach to acoustic model training for non-audible murmur (NAM) recognition using normal speech data transformed into NAM data. NAM is extremely soft murmur, that is so quiet that people ...

Separation of light transport into direct and indirect paths has enabled new visualizations of light in everyday scenes. However, indirect light itself contains a variety of components from subsurface scattering to diffuse ...

This paper presents a new method to estimate HMM parameters of an acoustical transfer function based on HMM decomposition in model domain. The model parameters are estimated by maximizing a likelihood of adaptation data. ...

In this paper, we newly propose an adaptive relaxation algorithm for inverse filter design of the multichannel sound reproduction system. The inverse filter of the conventional method often amplifies the background noise ...

There have been higher demands recently for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems able to operate robustly in acoustically noisy environments. This paper proposes a method to effectively integrate audio and visual ...