| Area | Topics
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| Speech
| Speech recognition/synthesis/coding,
spoken language processing, spoken dialog understanding
- Robust speech recognition in adverse conditions (noise, channel,
reverberation, etc.)
- Noise model composition with Lagrange polynomial approximation
- Jacobian adaptation to noisy environment
- Reverbarant acoustic modeling
- Acoustic model structure for speech recognition
- Likelihood compensation for unexpected noise
- Asyncronous-transition HMM
- Linear regression HMM
- Tree-based clustering for phoneme environments
- Adaptation to speaker and environment
- Vector Field Smoothing (VFS) for speaker adaptation
- Tree-structured speaker modeling
- Automatic speech signal detection
- Prosodic features for speech understanding
- Speech synthesis, singing speech synthesis, speech analysis
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| Music
| Music signal/information processing
- Multipitch detection, signal separation, transform to MIDI format
- Harmonic clustering for polyphonic audio signals, octave
estimation, estimation of number of sources
[ Details and Demos ]
- "Specmurt Anasylis" for polyphonic audio signals, iterative estimation
[ Details and Demos ]
- CASA (computational auditory scene analysis)
- Automatic rhythm pattern recognition
- HMM-based rhythm recognition
- Tempo analysis based on segmental polynomial modeling
- Automatic harmonization (chord generation) for given melodies
- HMM-based harmony generation
- Automatic harmony analysis
- Grammar-based approach to harmony analysis
- Automatic counterpoint
- Dynamic programming for three(or more)-voice counter point
- Planed: automatic music composition, sheet music recognition,
automatic music rendering
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| Human Interface
| Human interface, digital-human systems
- Anthropomorphic spoken dialog agent (Life-like animated agent,
digital human), animated images for spoken dialogue
- "Galatea" project, Galatea toolkit
- Dialog description language (VoiceXML) and its interpreter
- human interface for the handicapped
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| Signal Processing
| Acoustic signal processing
- Microphone array signal processing
- Complex Spectrum Circle Centroid (CSCC) method for sound source
separation
- Optimal microphone allocation
- Multichannel Signal coding
- Tree-structured lossless coding of multichannel signals for MPEG4
- Room acoustics measurement using M-sequence modulation
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| Hand-writing
| Hand-written character recognition
- Structural approach to hand-written character recognition
- Online hand-written character recognition using continuous speech
recognition algorithms
- HMM-based stroke modeling and Kanji-structure grammar
- Rapid adaptation to the writer
- Maximum A Priori method for adaptation to the writer
- Mathematical formula recognition (generating TeX codes)
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