Sign languages can be learned effectively only with frequent feedback from an expert in the field. The expert needs to watch a performed sign, and decide whether the sign has bee...
— This paper proposes a computational model for phoneme acquisition by infants. Human infants perceive speech sounds not as discrete phoneme sequences but as continuous acoustic ...
This paper describes a new approach on how to teach a robot everyday manipulation tasks under the “Learning from Observation” framework. Most of the approaches so far assume t...
Koichi Ogawara, Jun Takamatsu, Hiroshi Kimura, Kat...
Articulatory synthesis of speech and singing aims for modeling the production process of speech and singing as human-like or natural as possible. The state of the art is described ...
This paper introduces our one-armed stationary humanoid robot GripSee together with research projects carried out on this platform. The major goal is to have it analyze a table sce...