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2008 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Theoretical and experimental studies on size-shape perception in the early auditory system

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 18300060
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
Research InstitutionWakayama University

Principal Investigator

IRINO Toshio  Wakayama University, システム工学部, 教授 (20346331)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KAWAHARA Hideki  和歌山大学, システム工学部, 教授 (40294300)
NISHIMURA Ryuichi  和歌山大学, システム工学部, 助教 (00379611)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) TSUZAKI Minoru  京都市芸術大学, 音楽学部, 准教授 (60155356)
TAKAHASHI Tohru  京都大学, 情報学研究科, 助教 (30419494)
Research Collaborator ROY D. Patterson  ケンブリッジ大学, 生理・発達・神経科学科聴覚神経基盤研究センタ聴覚神経基盤研究センタ(CNBH), 所長
Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2008
Keywords知能ロボティクス / 実験系心理学 / 神経科学 / 情報通信工学 / 聴覚計算理論
Research Abstract

初期聴覚系における「寸法・形状知覚理論」の検証とその応用を行った。そのための心理実験を実施し、理論を支持する実験結果を数多く得た。fMRI実験によって、音節情報処理の脳内部位を推定し、寸法・形状情報処理の部位特定のための制約条件を与えた。「ガンマチャープ聴覚フィルタ」等のモデルをさらに洗練化した。 高品質音声分析合成法STRAIGHTの性能改善や、劣化音声の知覚実験と自動音声認識実験の対比も行い、音声知覚の計算理論構築の足がかりを得た。

  • Research Products

    (24 results)

All 2009 2008 2007 2006 Other

All Journal Article (8 results) Presentation (12 results) Book (2 results) Remarks (1 results) Patent(Industrial Property Rights) (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 分析時刻に依存しない周期信号のパワースペクトル推定法を用いた音声分析2009

    • Author(s)
      森勢将雅, 高橋徹, 河原英紀, 入野俊夫
    • Journal Title

      電子情報通信学会論文誌 Vol.J92-A, No.3

      Pages: 163-171

  • [Journal Article] Perception of size modulated vowel sequence : Can we normalize the size of continuously changing vocal tract2009

    • Author(s)
      Minoru Tsuzaki, Chihiro Takeshima, and Toshio Irino
    • Journal Title

      Acoust. Sci. & Tech. 30(2)

      Pages: 83-88

  • [Journal Article] 窓関数による分析時刻の影響を受けにくい周期信号のパワースペクトル推定法2007

    • Author(s)
      森勢将雅, 高橋徹, 河原英紀, 入野俊夫
    • Journal Title

      電子情報通信学会論文誌D Vol.J 90-D, No.12(Letter)

      Pages: 3265-3267

  • [Journal Article] Detection of temporal modulation of size in vowel sequences2007

    • Author(s)
      Chihiro Takeshima, Minoru Tsuzaki, and Toshio Irino
    • Journal Title

      Acoust. Sci. & Tech. (ed. by the Acoustical Society of Japan) 28(5)(Letter)

      Pages: 349-351

  • [Journal Article] Implementation of realtime STRAIGHT speech manipulation system : Report on its first implementation2007

    • Author(s)
      Hideki Banno, Hiroaki Hata, Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Toshio Irino, and Hideki Kawahara
    • Journal Title

      Acoust. Sci. & Tech. 28(3)

      Pages: 140-146

  • [Journal Article] A dynamic compressive gammachirp auditory filterbank2006

    • Author(s)
      Toshio Irino and Roy D. Patterson
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Process. 14(6)

      Pages: 2222-2232

  • [Journal Article] Speech segregation using an auditory vocoder with eventsynchronous enhancements2006

    • Author(s)
      Toshio Irino, Roy D. Patterson, and Hideki Kawahara
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Process. 14(6)

      Pages: 2212-2221

  • [Journal Article] Comparison of the roex and gammachirp filters as representations of the auditory filter2006

    • Author(s)
      Masashi Unoki, Toshio Irino, Brian Glasberg, Brian C. J. Moore, and Roy D. Patterson
    • Journal Title

      J. Acout. Soc. Am. 120(3)

      Pages: 1474-1492

  • [Presentation] 劣化音声の知覚特性と音声認識器の認識傾向の比較2008

    • Author(s)
      森本隆司, 入野俊夫, 西村竜一, 河原英紀
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会聴覚研究会資料
    • Place of Presentation
      虹の松原ホテル, 佐賀県唐津市(H-2008-142, Vol.38, No.8)
    • Year and Date
      20081212-13
  • [Presentation] Comparison of the brain regions for consonant processing in Japanese and English subjects2008

    • Author(s)
      Yoshikazu Oya, Toshio Irino, Alexis G, Hervais-Adelman, D. Tim Ives, Hideki Kawahara, and Roy D. Patterson
    • Organizer
      J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
    • Place of Presentation
      Acoustic'08 Paris, France, 29 June - 4 July 2008(123(5), Pt.2)
    • Year and Date
      20080500
  • [Presentation] Speaker size discrimination for acoustically scaled versions of whispered words2008

    • Author(s)
      Yoshie Aoki, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara, and Roy D. Patterson
    • Organizer
      J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
    • Place of Presentation
      Acoustic'08 Paris, France(123(5), Pt.2, p.3718)
    • Year and Date
      20080500
  • [Presentation] TANDEM-STRAIGHT : A temporally stable power spectral representation for periodic signals and applications to interference-free spectrum, F0 and aperiodicity esitmation2008

    • Author(s)
      Hideki Kawahara, Masanori Morise, Toru Takahashi, Ryuichi Nishimura, Toshio Irino, and Hideki Banno
    • Organizer
      Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2008
    • Place of Presentation
      Las Vegas, USA
    • Year and Date
      20080330-0404
  • [Presentation] 聴覚フィルタの形状と圧縮特性の測定とパラメータ推定2008

    • Author(s)
      中家諒, 入野俊夫, 河原英紀
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会 : 春季研究発表会講演論文集
    • Place of Presentation
      千葉工業大学, 習志野市
    • Year and Date
      20080317-19
  • [Presentation] 音声処理の初期段階を担う脳内部位の検討2008

    • Author(s)
      大屋義和, 入野俊夫, エルベ-アデルマンアレクシー, イブス ティム, 河原英紀, パターソン ロイ
    • Organizer
      日本音響学会 : 春季研究発表会講演論文集
    • Place of Presentation
      千葉工業大学, 習志野市
    • Year and Date
      20080317-19
  • [Presentation] The robustness of bio-acoustic communication and the role of normalization2007

    • Author(s)
      Roy D. Patterson, Ralph van Dinther, and Toshio Irino
    • Organizer
      Proc. 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2007)
    • Place of Presentation
      Madrid(招待講演)
    • Year and Date
      20070902-07
  • [Presentation] A computational auditory model with a nonlinear cochlea and acoustic scale normalization2007

    • Author(s)
      Toshio Irino, Tom C. Walter, and Roy D. Patterson
    • Organizer
      Proc. 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2007)
    • Place of Presentation
      Madrid(招待講演)
    • Year and Date
      20070902-07
  • [Presentation] Discrimination and recognition of scaled word sounds2007

    • Author(s)
      Toshio Irino, Yoshie Aoki, Yoshie Hayashi, Hideki Kawahara, and Roy D. Patteson
    • Organizer
      Proc. Interspeech2007
    • Place of Presentation
      Antwerp, Belgium
    • Year and Date
      20070827-31
  • [Presentation] Temporal characteristics of extraction of size information in speech sounds2006

    • Author(s)
      Chihiro Takeshima, Minoru Tsuzaki, and Toshio Irino
    • Organizer
      J. Acoust. Soc. Am.(4th Joint Meeting of the ASA and ASJ)
    • Place of Presentation
      Honolulu, Hawaii(120(5), Pt.2)
    • Year and Date
      20061128-1202
  • [Presentation] "Can humans perceive size differeces in the calls of cats, dogs, and cows?"presented at the British Society of Audiology(BSA)2006

    • Author(s)
      Toshio Irino, Atsuhi Ban, Hideki Kawahara, and Roy D. Patterson
    • Organizer
      Short Papers Meeting on Experimental Studies of Hearing and Deafness
    • Place of Presentation
      Cambridge Univ., UK
    • Year and Date
      20060914-15
  • [Presentation] Auditory stream segregation by size and idenfication of size-modulated vowel sequences2006

    • Author(s)
      Minoru Tsuzaki, Chihiro Takeshima, Toshio Irino and Roy D. Patterson
    • Organizer
      Proc. 14 th International Symposium on Hearing (ISH2006)
    • Year and Date
      20060818-23
  • [Book] Vowel normalisation : Time-domain processing of the internal dynamics of speech," in "The Dynamics of Speech Production and Perception," Pierre DivenyiSteven Greenberg, and George Meyer (Eds.)(IOS press Amsterdam ISBN 1-58603-666-1)2009

    • Author(s)
      Richard E. Turner, Marc A. Al-Hames, David R. R. Smith, Hideki Kawahara, Toshio Irino, and Roy D. Patterson
    • Total Pages
      369
    • Publisher
      NATO Science Series, Series A : Life Sciences
  • [Book] "聴覚初期過程の機能モデル"in新編感覚知覚心理学ハンドブック Part 2(大山正・今井省吾・和氣典二・菊池正 編), 第III部聴覚(ISBN 978-4-414-30504-3)2007

    • Author(s)
      入野俊夫, 津崎実
    • Total Pages
      615(349-358)
    • Publisher
      誠信書房
  • [Remarks]

    • URL

      http://www.wakayama-u.ac.jp/~irino/

  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 周期信号処理方法、周期信号変換方法および周期信号処理装置2007

    • Inventor(s)
      河原英紀, 森勢将雅, 高橋徹, 入野俊夫
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      和歌山大学
    • Industrial Property Number
      2007-187697
    • Filing Date
      2007-07-18

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Published: 2010-06-10   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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