NTT Communication Science Laboratories Vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI)
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Publications

2009/12

  • Yasuhiro Minami, Akira Mori, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Eisaku Maeda, "Dialogue Control Algorithm for Ambient Intelligence based on Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes", IWSDS2009 (to appear)

2009/11

2009/09

  • Minami, Y., Meguro, T., Higashinaka, R., Mori, A., Dohsaka, K., and Maeda, E. : Dialogue control by POMDP using statistical models, 2009 Autumn Meeting of ASJ, (in press) only in Japanese.
  • Kohji Dohsaka, Ryota Asai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami and Eisaku Maeda: Effects of Conversational Agents on Human Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues, In: Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2009), 217--224 (2009).

2009/06

2008/12

  • Minako Sawaki, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Eisaku Maeda : "“WHO IS THIS”QUIZ DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND USERS' EVALUATION", IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT2008), 2008.12.,pp.149-152.

2008/05

  • Yasuhiro Minami, Koji Dohsaka, Minako Sawaki, Akira Mori and Eisaku Maeda : World of Mushrooms , Steps towards“Ambient Intelligence," Human Interface Society, pp.5-10, Vol.10, No.2(2008)(in Japanese).

2007/12

  • Y. Minami, “Mixture Gaussian HMM-Trajectory Method using Likelihood Compensation”,Proc. of ASRU2007, S3.9(Poster Presentation), 2007.
  • Y. Minami, M. Sawaki, R. Higashinaka, K. Dohsaka, T. Yamada, T.Matsubayashi, H. Isozaki, and E. Maeda, “Quiz Master Mushrooms: “Who is This” Quiz Dialogue System”, Proc. of ASRU2007, demo-session, 2007.

2007/11

  • Y.Minami,M.Sawaki,K.Dohsaka,R.Higashinaka,K.Ishizuka,H.Isozaki,T.Matsubayashi,
    M.Miyoshi,A. Nakamura, T. Oba, H. Sawada, T.Yamada, and E. Maeda,
    “The World of Mushrooms: Human-Computer Interaction Prototype Systems for Ambient Intelligence”, Proc. ACM Int. Conf. Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2007,pp.366-373, 2007.
  • M. Sawaki, Y. Minami, R. Higashinaka, K. Dohsaka, T. Yamada, T.Matsubayashi, H. Isozaki, and E. Maeda, “Quizmaster Mushrooms: “Who is this” Quiz Dialogue System”, Proc. ACM Int. Conf. Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2007, demo-session, 2007.
  • Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Eisaku Maeda, and Yoichi Sato, "Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition Using Variable- Intensity Templates," Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2007, Nov. 2007.
  • Kazuhiro Otsuka, Hiroshi Sawada, and Junji Yamato, "Automatic Inference of Cross-modal Nonverbal Interactions in Multiparty Conversations", Proc. ACM Int. Conf. Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2007,pp.255-262, 2007.

2007/09

  • Y. Minami, R. Higashinaka, M. Sawaki, K. Dohsaka, T. Yamada, T. Matsubayashi, H. Isozaki, and E. Maeda: ” A quiz dialogue system evaluated in speech recognition”, 2007 Autumn Meeting, ASJ,2-3-11,pp.82-83,2007(in Japanese)
  • Y. Minami: ”A Kalman filter-based speech recognition method applied to mixture Gaussian distributions”, 2007 Autumn Meeting, ASJ,3-3-3,pp.137-138,2007(in Japanese)
  • Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Eisaku Maeda, and Yoichi Sato, "Stochastical Facial Expression Recognition Method Using Variable- Intensity Template for Handling Head Pose Variation", Proc. Forum on Information Technology(FIT2007), pp. 215-218, 2007 (In Japanese)
  • Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Eisaku Maeda, and Yoichi Sato, "Variable-Intensity Templates for Facial Expression Recognition and Theoretical Study of Its Robustness Against Pose Variation", Proc. IPSJ SIG on Computer Vision and Image Understanding(CVIM), Vol. 2007, No. 87, pp. 145-152 (2007) (In Japanese)

2007/08

  • R. Higashinaka,K. Dohsaka,S. Amano, and H. Isozaki: “Effects of Quiz-style Information Presentation on User Understanding”, In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, 2007, pp.2725-2728,
  • Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Eisaku Maeda, and Yoichi Sato, "Robust Facial Expression Recognition Method Using Variable- Intensity Template for Head Pose Variation", Proc. Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU), IS-4-20, p. 610, 2007. (In Japanese)

2007/07

  • Oscar Mateo Lozano and Kazuhiro Otsuka, "Simultaneous Real-time 3D Visual Tracking of Multiple Objects using a Stream Processor," Proc. Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU), DS-01, 2007

2007/06

  • Y. Minami,E. Maeda,K. Dohsaka,T. Kondo, and A. Mori: ”World of Mushrooms - Steps towards Intelligence Integration”,NTT GIJUTU Journal,Vo.19,No.6,pp.19-22(2007) (in Japanese)
    http://www.ntt.co.jp/journal/0706/files/jn200706019.pdf
  • R. Higashinaka,K.Dohsaka, and H. Isozaki: “Learning to Rank Definitions to Generate Quizzes for Interactive Information Presentation”, In: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics (Poster Presentation), 2007, pp.117-120.

2007/03

  • Hiroshi Sawada, Shoko Araki, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Masakiyo Fujimoto, and Kentaro Ishizuka "Voice activity detection for multiple speakers with multiple pin microhpones. In 2007 Spring Meeting", Acoustical Society of Japan, 2007. (In Japanese)

2006/12

2006/09

2006/06

2006/01

2005/11

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