Iwaki Toshima

NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Human Information Science Laboratory
Sensory resonance research group

toshima.iwaki (at) lab.ntt.co.jp
〒243-0198 Morinosato-Wakamiya 3-1 NTT CS Labs


Japanese

Research interests

1．Enbodiment: Interaction between agent/human/robot and environment for understanding self image and embodiments
2．Auditory: Relationship between Auditory Science Analysis and Head movement
3．Robotics: Robot Audition (member of the committee of robot audition in the artificial intelligence society japan)
4．Acoustics: Motor commands of articulatory movement (especially lip movement at consonants)
PhD(Mechanical Engineering)
Key words: Enbodiment, Robot audition, Head movement, Head-Related transfer functions(HRTF), 3D sound, Auditory scein analysis, Sence of Agency

Academic affliation

  • Robotics Society Japan (RSJ)
  • Acoustical Society Japan (ASJ)
  • Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
  • Virtual Reality Society Japan (VRSJ)
  • IEEE(Robotics and Automation Society)

    • Publication

    Journal paper (in English only; if you want to see Japanese ones, please sea Japanese page.)

  • Hirohito M. Kondo, Danniel Pressnitzer, Iwaki Toshima, Makio Kashino, “Effect of self-motion on the resetting of auditory scene analysis”, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2012.
  • Ana Tajadura-Jimenez, Aleksander Valjamae, Iwaki Toshima, Toshitaka Kimura, Manos Tsakiris, Norimichi Kitagawa, “Action sounds recalibrate perceived tactile distance”, Current Biology, 2012.
  • Tatsuya Hirahara, Hiroyuki Sagara, Iwaki Toshima，Makoto Otani，“Head movement during HRTF measurements”，Acoustical Science & Technology，Acoustical Society Japan, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 165-171, 2010.
  • Iwaki Toshima and Shigeaki Aoki, “The effect of head movement on sound localization in an acoustical telepresence robot: TeleHead”, Advanced Robotics, Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 289-304, 2009.
  • Iwaki Toshima, Shigeaki Aoki, “Possibility of head-shape simplification for an acoustical telepresence robot: TeleHead”, Journal of Robotics and Mechatoronics”, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 223-228, 2009.
  • Iwaki Toshima，Shigeaki Aoki，Tatsuya Hirahara，“Sound localization using an auditory telepresence robot: TeleHead II”，Presence，MIT Press，Vol. 17. No. 4, pp. 392-404, 2008．
  • Tetsunari Inamura｡､Yoshihiko Nakamura and Iwaki Toshima. "Embodied Symbol Emergence based on Mimesis Theory", International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol.23, No.4, pp.363--377, 2004.
  • I. Toshima, H. Uematsu, T. Hirahara, “A steerable dummy head that tracks three-dimensional head movement: TeleHead”, Acoustical Science and Technology，Vol.24, No.5, pp. 327-329, 2003．
  • Tetsunari Inamura, Iwaki Toshima and Yoshihiko Nakamura, "Acquiring Motion Elements for Bidirectional Computation of Motion Recognition and Generation", Exerimental Robotics VIII (B. Siciliano and P. Dario Edu.) Springer, pp. 357-366, 2002.

    International Conference

  • Iwaki Toshima, Hirohito Kondo, Daniel Pressnitzer, and Makio Kashino, “Evaluating the effect of head motion on auditory streaming using an acoustical telepresence robot: TeleHead”, Binaural Active Audition for Humanoid Robots 2012. (Invited).
  • Ana Tajadura-Jimenez, Aleksander Valjamae, Iwaki Toshima, Toshitaka Kimura, Manos Tsakiris, Toshimichi Kitagawa, "Action sounds recalibrate perceived tactile distance". IMRF, 2012
  • Ana Tajadura-Jimenez, Aleksander Valjamae, Iwaki Toshima, Toshitaka Kimura, Manos Tsakiris, Toshimichi Kitagawa, "Action sounds recalibrate perceived tactile distance". Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness , 2012.
  • Hirohito Kondo, Daniel Pressnitzer, Iwaki Toshima and Makio Kashino, “Effect of source-motion and self-motion on the resetting of auditory scene analysis”, Acoustics 2012
  • Iwaki Toshima, Sadao Hiroya, Takemi Mochida, Hiroaki Gomi, “Motor command invariance during speech production investigated by physiological perioral dynamics model, International Seminar on Speech Production 2011.
  • Iwaki Toshima, Norifumi Watanabe, Takashi Omori, “Possibility of guidance of arm movement in circle-drawing experiment”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybarnetics (IEEE-SMC2009), No. 197, 2009.
  • Iwaki Toshima, Shigeaki Aoki, “Possibility of Simplifying Head Shape with the Effect of Head Movement for an Acoustical Telepresence Robot: TeleHead”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2009), pp. 193-198, 2009
  • Makoto Otani, Tatsuya Hirahara, Shiro Ise, Satoshi Yairi, Yukio Iwaya, Iwaki Toshima, and Yoiti Suzuki, “Boundary Element Simulation of Dummy Head HRTFS: Experimental Validation and Torso Effects.” International Conference on Auditory Display, 2009.
  • Iwaki Toshima，Shigeaki Aoki，“Quantitative evaluation of delay time of head movement for an acoustical telepresence robot: TeleHead”，International Conference on Robotics and Automations (ICRA2007)，FrD2.1，2007.
  • Iwaki Toshima，Shigeaki Aoki，“The effect of head movement on sound localization in an acoustical telepresence robot: TeleHead”，International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2006)，pp. 872-877, 2006
  • Iwaki Toshima, Shigeaki Aoki, “Driving delay for an acoustical telepresence robot: TeleHead”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automations (ICRA2005), TuA1-3, pp. 56 - 61, 2005.
  • Iwaki Toshima, Shigeaki Aoki, Tatsuya Hirahara, “An auditory tele-presence robot: TeleHead II”, IEEE International conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2004)，FP1-B1, 2004.
  • Iwaki Toshima, Shigeaki Aoki, Tatsuya. Hirahara, “An advanced steerable dummy head that tracks three-dimensional human head movement: TeleHead II”, 18th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2004)， Vol. I, 803-806, 2004．
  • Shigeaki Aoki, Iwaki Toshima, Tatsuya. Hirahara, “Head-related functions of dummy heads replicated using user's lifecast”, 18th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2004), Vol. I, 799-802, 2004．
  • Tetsunari Inamura, Hiroaki Tanie, Iwaki Toshima and Yoshihiko, Nakamura. "An Approach from Motion Generation/Recognition to Intelligence based on Mimesis Principle". In the Proc. of the 2nd Int'l Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM2003), pp. SaA-II-1, 2003.
  • Tetsunari Inamura, Iwaki Toshima and Yoshihiko, Nakamura. "Acquiring Motion Elements for Bidirectional Computation of Motion Recognition and Generation". In the Proc. of Int'l Symposium. on Experimental Robotics (ISER2002), pp. 357--366. 2002
  • Tetsunari Inamura, Iwaki Toshima and Yoshihiko, Nakamura. "Acquisition and Embodiment of Motion Elements in Closed Mimesis Loop". In the Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2002), pp.1539-1544, 2002.
  • Tetsunari Inamura, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Iwaki Toshima, and Hideaki Ezaki. "Mimesis Embodiment and Proto-symbol Acquisition for Humanoids". In the Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2001), pp.159--164, 2001.
  • Tetsunari Inamura, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Hideaki Ezaki, and Iwaki Toshima. "Imitation and Primitive Symbol Acquisition of Humanoids by the Integrated Mimesis Loop". In the Proc. of Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2001), pp.4208--4213, 2001.

    Others

  • Member：16th Robotics-Symposia program committee(2011)
  • Member：15th Robotics-Symposia program committee(2010)
  • Member：24th RSJ Young Investigation Excellence Awards committee(2009)
  • Member：23th RSJ Young Investigation Excellence Awards committee(2008)
  • Invited talk：Tamagawa Univ. OMO seminor，“Research of acoustical telepresence”（2008）
  • Member：JSAI Robot audition society committee (2008～）
  • Aword：RSJ Young Investigation Excellence Award（2007）（Thema: Acoustical telepresence robot）
  • Member：RSJ committee(2007～2009）
  • Aword：JSAI 16th Annual Conference Award（2002）（Thema：Motion learning for robots）

    Movie

    TeleHead(IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot&Automation2007)

    NTT Human Information Lab.