Search Results - "Shirai, Katsuhiko"

Detection of speech and music based on spectral tracking by Taniguchi, Toru, Tohyama, Mikio, Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…How to deal with sounds that include spectrally and temporally complex signals such as speech and music remains a problem in real-world audio information…”
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Extraction of human face and transformable region by facial expression based on extended labeled graph matching by Murakami, Makoto, Yoneyama, Masahide, Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…This paper considers the recognition of moving images and proposes a new framework in which the local features, the global structure, and motion information…”
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An automatic timing detection method using word spotting and dynamic programming for superimposing captions in television programs by Maruyama, Ichiro, Abe, Yoshiharu, Ehara, Terumasa, Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…This paper considers a technique for prerecorded TV programs in which captions for the hearing‐impaired are automatically superimposed on the basis of the…”
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Temporal AM–FM combination for robust speech recognition by Kubo, Yotaro, Okawa, Shigeki, Kurematsu, Akira, Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…A novel method for feature extraction from the frequency modulation (FM) in speech signals is proposed for robust speech recognition. To exploit of the…”
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Temporal AM-FM combination for robust speech recognition: Perceptual and Statistical Audition by KUBO, Yotaro, OKAWA, Shigeki, KUREMATSU, Akira, SHIRAI, Katsuhiko

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Acoustic analysis and synthesis of laughter by Haga, Toshiaki, Honda, Masaaki, Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…Laughter is an important emotional expression in speech. The production is characterized simply by quasiperiodic glottal opening/closing gesture with…”
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Sound source classification using temporal pattern for mixed sounds by Taniguchi, Toru, Shirai, Katsuhiko, Tohyama, Mikio

“…In speech information processing of real-world environments, how to deal with nonstationary acoustic noise such as background music or speech is a remaining…”
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Guest editor's preface by Shirai, Katsuhiko

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Automatic phone segment alignment using statistical deviations from manual transcriptions by Hayakawa, Toru, Shirai, Katsuhiko, Kato, Hiroaki, Sagisaka, Yoshinori

“…For precise temporal characteristic description, disagreements between manual labeling and automatic labeling were quantitatively analyzed with respect to the…”
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Modeling of spoken dialogue by Shirai, Katsuhiko, Morikawa, Emi

“…Recent progress in the fundamental technologies, including speech signal processing, statistical modeling, and language processing, gives a high performance of…”
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Noisy speech recognition using temporal AM-FM combination by Kubo, Y., Kurematsu, A., Shirai, K., Okawa, S.

“…The efficiency of multistream speech recognizers is investigated by performing several experiments. In order to take advantage of multistream features, each…”
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Feature extraction of articulatory motion based on the speech production model by Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…This paper deals with two problems that exist in the transformation from an acoustic signal to the articulatory motion. The first concerns the description of…”
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Efficient recursive estimation for speech enhancement in colored noise by Ki Yong Lee, Shirai, K.

“…A recursive estimation to enhance speech additively contaminated by colored noise is proposed. This method is based on the Kalman filter with time-varying…”
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Speech enhancement based on neural predictive hidden Markov model by Lee, Ki Yong, McLaughlin, Stephen, Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…In this paper, we describe a new approach to speech enhancement by modeling directly the statistical characteristics of the speech waveform. To represent the…”
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Japanese large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition using a newspaper corpus and broadcast news by Ohtsuki, Katsutoshi, Matsuoka, Tatsuo, Mori, Takeshi, Yoshida, Kotaro, Taguchi, Yuichi, Furui, Sadaoki, Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…This paper describes large-vocabulary continuous-speech recognition (LVCSR) of Japanese newspaper speech read aloud and Japanese broadcast-news speech. It…”
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Visual approach for automatic pitch period estimation by Zhang Sen, Shirai, K.

“…We present a visual and effective approach for pitch period estimation of recorded speech units. The approach is based on the recognition of pitch peaks and a…”
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Phonetic feature extraction based on mutual information by Aoki, Noriyuki, Hosaka, Naoki, Shirai, Katsuhiko

“…A novel method of feature extraction for phoneme recognition in continuous speech is proposed that employs mutual information between acoustic features and…”
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Construction of Decision Model for a System to Start Communicating with a Human Using Hidden Markov Model by Ogawa, Y, Katsuyama, J, Miyajima, T, Shirai, K, Murakami, M

“…The purpose of this paper is to develop a robot that actively communicates with a human, and extracts information from the human mind that is rarely expressed…”
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AI research in Japan by SHIRAI, Katsuhiko

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A design system for special purpose processors based on architectures for distributed processing by Shirai, Katsuhiko, Hiwatashi, Jin

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