no code implementations • SIGDIAL (ACL) 2020 • Tsunehiro Arimoto, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kou Tanaka, Takahito Kawanishi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Sawada, Hiroshi Ishiguro
We are studying a cooperation style where multiple speakers can provide both advanced dialogue services and operator education.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2023 • Houjian Guo, Chaoran Liu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro
Voice conversion systems have made significant advancements in terms of naturalness and similarity in common voice conversion tasks.
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2022 • Kazuya Horibe, Yuanxiang Fan, Yutaka Nakamura, Hiroshi Ishiguro
Humans communicate non-verbally by sharing physical rhythms, such as nodding and gestures, to involve each other.
1 code implementation • 30 Nov 2021 • Changzeng Fu, Chaoran Liu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro
In this study, we explore the transformer's ability to capture intra-relations among frames by augmenting the receptive field of models.
1 code implementation • ACM ICMI Workshop GENEA 2021 • Bowen Wu, Chaoran Liu, Carlos Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro
The motions synthesized by the proposed system are evaluated via an objective measure and a subjective experiment, showing that the proposed model outperforms a baseline model which is trained by a state-of-the-art GAN-based algorithm, using the same dataset.
1 code implementation • 4 Mar 2020 • Changzeng Fu, Chaoran Liu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro
Text categorization is the task of assigning labels to documents written in a natural language, and it has numerous real-world applications including sentiment analysis as well as traditional topic assignment tasks.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Kazuki Sakai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Junji Tomita
The results suggest that inserting the question-answer dialogue enhances familiarity and naturalness.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2017 • Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Yutaka Nakamura, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro
For a safe, natural and effective human-robot social interaction, it is essential to develop a system that allows a robot to demonstrate the perceivable responsive behaviors to complex human behaviors.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2017 • Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Yutaka Nakamura, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro
For robots to coexist with humans in a social world like ours, it is crucial that they possess human-like social interaction skills.