Realtime Speaker Tracking for Robotic Auditory System

Voice and sounds are the primary media employed for the human communication. Human is able to exchange information smoothly using voice under different situations such as noisy environment in a crowd and with the existence of plural speakers. We are surrounded by various sounds, and are able to dete...

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Published inIECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics pp. 5474 - 5479
Main Authors Sawada, H., Todo, A., Takechi, T.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.11.2006
Subjects
Acoustic noise
Acoustical engineering
Auditory system
Data mining
Human robot interaction
Intelligent robots
Loudspeakers
Microphone arrays
Signal processing
Working environment noise
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Summary:Voice and sounds are the primary media employed for the human communication. Human is able to exchange information smoothly using voice under different situations such as noisy environment in a crowd and with the existence of plural speakers. We are surrounded by various sounds, and are able to detect the position of a source sound in 3D space, extract a particular sound from mixed sounds, and recognize what makes the sounds. The paper will introduce a realtime detection and identification of particular sound among plural sound sources using a microphone array based on the location of a speaker and the tonal characteristics. The algorithm is applied to an adaptive auditory system of a robotic arm for the interaction with humans
ISSN:1553-572X
DOI:10.1109/IECON.2006.347942