{"title":"Usage of change-related non-invasive imaging paradigms to investigate the representation of sound in the human brain","authors":"C. F. Altmann","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667838","url":null,"abstract":"To efficiently recognize and localize sounds is of paramount importance for our everyday life. However, the computational processes that underlie these capabilities in the human brain are still not fully understood. A powerful tool to study the representation and transformation of sensory information in the human brain are change-related paradigms. This text reviews three recent examples from our lab that employed change-related paradigms with different brain imaging modalities to characterize the representation of sounds in the human brain. Specifically, a first experiment used functional magnetic resonance imaging and signal response suppression after stimulus repetition to characterize the representation of natural sounds. A second magnetoencephalo-graphic experiment, used a two-tone paradigm to describe the time-course of adaptation to natural sounds. In a third experiment, we employed a spatial mismatch negativity oddball paradigm during electroencephalography to test for head-related versus allocentric representation of sound sources in the human brain.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130811820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Sasaki, M. Kawakita, J. Arai, M. Okui, F. Okano, Y. Haino, Makoto Yoshimura, M. Sato
{"title":"Analysis and compensation of spatial distortion in integral three-dimensional imaging","authors":"H. Sasaki, M. Kawakita, J. Arai, M. Okui, F. Okano, Y. Haino, Makoto Yoshimura, M. Sato","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667793","url":null,"abstract":"We have been conducting research on three-dimensional (3D) television using the integral imaging method. To enhance integral 3D image quality, Extremely High-Resolution (EHR) imaging technology would be essential. Now, projection display systems are practical for EHR images and have some advantages for 3D imaging. We theoretically and experimentally analyzed the effects of distorted elemental images on a reconstructed image. We study an image processing method for a compensation of distorted elemental images in projection type 3D imaging systems. The experimental results show the effectiveness in eliminating distortion of reconstructed 3D images and improving the limitation of the viewing zone.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125849799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A method for helpdesk-oriented question answering","authors":"Satoru Sasaki, Atsushi Fujii","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667864","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a Question Answering (QA) method that answers actions for a how-question. We model an action as a verb phrase consisting of a main verb and its governing noun phrase. Existing QA methods resemble consulting dictionaries and encyclopedias, in which users satisfy their intellectual cravings. In contrast, our method is a step toward automation of a helpdesk or a call center, which suggests solutions to alleviate user's problems. We show the effectiveness of our method experimentally.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128859299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eye-gaze experiments for conversation monitoring","authors":"Kristiina Jokinen, M. Nishida, Seiichi Yamamoto","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667843","url":null,"abstract":"Eye-tracking technology has recently been matured so that its use in studies dealing with unobtrusive and natural user experiments has become easier to conduct. Simultaneously, human computer interactions have become more conversational in style, and more challenging in that they require various human conversational strategies, such as giving feedback and managing turn-taking. In this paper, we focus on eye-gaze in order to investigate turn taking signals and conversation monitoring in naturally occurring dialogues. We seek to build models that deal with the important aspects of which interlocutor the speaker is talking to, and what kind of turn taking signals the partners elicit, and we report the first results of our eye-tracking experiments.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122141762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chiori Hori, Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, H. Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura
{"title":"Evaluation for WFST-based dialog management","authors":"Chiori Hori, Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, H. Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667833","url":null,"abstract":"To construct an expandable and adaptable dialog system which handles multiple tasks, we proposes a dialog system using a weighted finite-state transducer (WFST) in which users concept and system action tags are input and output of the transducer, respectively. To test the potential of the WFST-based dialog management (DM) platform using statistical DM models, we construct a dialog system using a human-to-human spoken dialog corpus for hotel reservation, which is annotated with Interchange Format (IF). A scenario, a Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) and a Sentence Generation (SG) WFSTs are obtained from the corpus and then composed together and optimized to generate a Dialog Management (DM) WFST. We evaluate the detection accuracy of the system next actions using Mean Reciprocal Ranking (MRR). We evaluated how WFST optimization operations contribute to dialog systems and confirmed the optimization enhance the performance of accuracy of the next action detection.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117169721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of 3D sound technology to intelligent robots","authors":"Youngjin Park","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667822","url":null,"abstract":"Various high-fidelity VAD systems are developed for many practical application fields including games, home theatre, virtual reality, and military simulator, etc. Head-related Transfer Function is the one of key functions widely used in VAD system. We developed robot auditory systems for sound source localization to achieve the effective human-robot interaction. The developed robot auditory system, which includes artificial ear, MEMS sensor, SoC (system-on-chips) for sound localization can be used for intelligent robots to process speech/acoustic signals.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131785611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discarding monotone composed rule for hierarchical phrase-based statistical machine translation","authors":"Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Hao Yu","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667786","url":null,"abstract":"Hierarchical phrase-based statistical machine translation systems often suffer from a huge rule table. This paper proposed a basic and efficient method for rule table reduction, discarding monotone composed rules. These rules are redundant because they may be monotonically recreated by minimal rules. Experiments show that the rule table is reduced 57%~71% without worsening translation quality.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124775460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching for comparison points between two objects from the web","authors":"Shinya Aoki, T. Yumoto, M. Nii, Yutaka Takahashi","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667852","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, we have been able to often compare two objects using search engines. However, we often browse high ranked Web pages by search engines, which may give biased information. We propose a method for searching Web pages where two objects are compared using a search engine, extracting comparison points from those Web pages, and showing these points to users. Comparison points are keywords for comparing objects. The proposed method can be used to extract points for efficient comparison by using comparison expressions such as \"Liquid Crystal TVs are better ...\" and \"... than Plasma TVs.\", etc.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"29 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132537597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Shimosaka, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Taketoshi Mori, Tomomasa Sato
{"title":"Human shape reconstruction via graph cuts for voxel-based markerless motion capture in intelligent environment","authors":"M. Shimosaka, Kazuhiko Murasaki, Taketoshi Mori, Tomomasa Sato","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667828","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a robust and real-time 3D human shape reconstruction method in daily life spaces to make practical voxel-based motion capture systems. Our algorithm extracts human silhouette and reconstructs human shape via volume intersection from multi view point images. The method presented in this paper is based on energy minimization via graph cuts, and its main features are: 1) to reduce the background subtraction errors caused by background clutter, 2) to have robustness for influences of shadows, 3) to segment the foreground region even if moving objects other than human. The precise human shape reconstructed by the method improves the accuracy of human pose estimation. Especially, 3) leads to enhance the range of application of the voxel-based human pose estimation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in terms of both quantitative and qualitative performance where strong shadows appear and moving objects are present in intelligent environment.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131303789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A preliminary exploration of augmented social landscapes","authors":"S. Konomi","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667814","url":null,"abstract":"The ubiquity of sensing devices, including location-aware, sensor-enabled mobile phones, creates an opportunity to design a novel digital layer of a city, which senses and shapes the experiences of urban inhabitants. This paper explores a possibility of ubiquitous sensing devices to generate alternative social landscapes of a city, and facilitate universal communication. Sensors have critical dual roles in this process: (1) analyzing existing social relations, and (2) providing resources for establishing new relations. Several examples are discussed in relation to the latter role of sensors in shaping social landscapes, suggesting the possibility to create various representations that could support novel communication and collaboration practices.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132937813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}