Human robot interaction, mobile robot, acoustic signal processing, sensor fusion
Overview of the research
The goal of the research is to give robots the ability to understand the complex soundscape of everyday life. In particular, I am interested in combining mobility and multi-modal perception for improving social interactions between Humans and robots in real environments.
Research Areas
Informatics, Robotics and intelligent systems
Papers
Blind signal extraction based joint suppression of diffuse background noise and late reverberation
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano; Tomoya Takatani
European Signal Processing Conference, 2010
Estimation of interactor polynomial matrix in blind signal deconvolution
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 01 May 2018, Peer-reviewed
A sound-selective hearing support system using environment sensor network
Carlos Toshinori Ishi; Chaoran Liu; Jani Even; Norihiro Hagita
Acoustical Science and Technology, 2018, Peer-reviewed
Exploiting alternative acoustic sensors for improved noise robustness in speech communication.
Panikos Heracleous; Jani Even; Fumiaki Sugaya; Masayuki Hashimoto; Akio Yoneyama
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2018, Peer-reviewed
Analysis of navigational habituation
Yoichi Morales; Jamilah Abdur-Rahim; Atsushi Watanabe; Jani Even
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 13 Dec. 2017, Peer-reviewed
DNN Based Pitch Estimation Using Microphone Array
Jani Even; Carlos T. Ishii; Hiroshi Ishiguro
AI challenge, Nov. 2017, Lead author, Corresponding author
Effect of Utterance Synchronized Gaze Pattern on Response Time during Human-Robot Interaction
Jani Even; Carlos T. Ishi; Hiroshi Ishiguro
AI challenge, Sep. 2017, Lead author, Corresponding author
Probabilistic 3-D Mapping of Sound-Emitting Structures Based on Acoustic Ray Casting
Jani Even; Jonas Furrer; Yoichi Morales; Carlos Toshinori Ishi; Norihiro Hagita
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS, Apr. 2017, Peer-reviewed
Social Group Motion in Robots
Francesco Zanlungo; Zeynep Yücel; Florent Ferreri; Jani Even; Luis Yoichi Morales Saiki; Takayuki Kanda
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2017, Peer-reviewed
Multi-sensor based state prediction for personal mobility vehicles
2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), 2014, Peer-reviewed
Mapping sound emitting structures in 3D
Jani Even; Yoichi Morales; Nagasrikanth Kallakuri; Jonas Furrer; Carlos Toshinori Ishi; Norihiro Hagita
2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), 2014, Peer-reviewed
Analysis and experiments of the lombard effect in people with Parkinson's disease
Panikos Heracleous; Jani Even; Carlos Ishi; Masaki Kondo; Kyoko Takanohara; Kazuya Takeda
Proceedings and Report - 8th International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, MAVEBA 2013, 2013
Using sound reflections to detect moving entities out of the field of view
Nagasrikanth Kallakuri; Jani Even; Yoichi Morales; Carlos Ishi; Norihiro Hagita
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013, Peer-reviewed
Using multiple microphone arrays and reflections for 3D localization of sound sources
Carlos T. Ishi; Jani Even; Norihiro Hagita
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013, Peer-reviewed
Creation of radiated sound intensity maps using multi-modal measurements onboard an autonomous mobile platform
Jani Even; Nagasrikanth Kallakuri; Yoichi Morales; Carlos Ishi; Norihiro Hagita
2013 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS), 2013, Peer-reviewed
Probabilistic Approach for Building Auditory Maps with a Mobile Microphone Array
Nagasrikanth Kallakuri; Jani Even; Yoichi Morales; Carlos Ishi; Norihiro Hagita
2013 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), 2013, Peer-reviewed
FUSION OF STANDARD AND ALTERNATIVE ACOUSTIC SENSORS FOR ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
Panikos Heracleous; Jani Even; Carlos T. Ishi; Takahiro Miyashita; Norihiro Hagita
2012 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP), 2012, Peer-reviewed
COMBINING LASER RANGE FINDERS AND LOCAL STEERED RESPONSE POWER FOR AUDIO MONITORING
Jani Even; Carlos Ishi; Panikos Heracleous; Takahiro Miyashita; Norihiro Hagita
2012 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS), 2012, Peer-reviewed
FUSION OF STANDARD AND ALTERNATIVE ACOUSTIC SENSORS FOR ROBUST AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
Panikos Heracleous; Jani Even; Carlos T. Ishi; Takahiro Miyashita; Norihiro Hagita
2012 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP), 2012, Peer-reviewed
The Role of the Lombard Reflex in Parkinson's Disease
Panikos Heracleous; Jani Even; Carlos Ishi; Takahiro Miyashita; Norihiro Hagita; Masaki Kondo; Kyoko Takanohara
IEEE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS & BIOENGINEERING, 2012, Peer-reviewed
MULTI-MODAL FRONT-END FOR SPEAKER ACTIVITY DETECTION IN SMALL MEETINGS
Jani Even; Panikos Heracleous; Carlos Ishi; Norihiro Hagita
2011 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS, 2011, Peer-reviewed
Range based multi microphone array fusion for speaker activity detection in small meetings
Jani Even; Panikos Heracleous; Carlos Ishi; Norihiro Hagita
12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5, 2011, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author
RESOLVING FD-BSS PERMUTATION FOR ARBITRARY ARRAY IN PRESENCE OF SPATIAL ALIASING
Jani Even; Norihiro Hagita
2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 2011, Peer-reviewed
Improvement of Speech Recognition Performance for Spoken-Oriented Robot Dialog System Using End-fire Array
Hiroshi Sawada; Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano; Tomoya Takatani
IEEE/RSJ 2010 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS 2010), 2010, Peer-reviewed
Close speaker cancellation for suppression of non-stationary background noise for hands-free speech interface
Jani Even; Carlos Ishi; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Norihiro Hagita
11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2010 (INTERSPEECH 2010), VOLS 1-2, 2010, Peer-reviewed
SPEECH ENHANCEMENT IN PRESENCE OF DIFFUSE BACKGROUND NOISE: WHY USING BLIND SIGNAL EXTRACTION?
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyorhiro Shikano; Tomoya Takatani
2010 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 2010, Peer-reviewed
COMPLEX NEWTON ALGORITHM FOR BLIND SIGNAL EXTRACTION OF SPEECH IN DIFFUSE NOISE
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyorhiro Shikano; Tomoya Takatani
2010 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, 2010, Peer-reviewed
BLIND SIGNAL EXTRACTION BASED JOINT SUPPRESSION OF DIFFUSE BACKGROUND NOISE AND LATE REVERBERATION
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano; Tomoya Takatani
18TH EUROPEAN SIGNAL PROCESSING CONFERENCE (EUSIPCO-2010), 2010, Peer-reviewed
BLIND SIGNAL EXTRACTION BASED SPEECH ENHANCEMENT IN PRESENCE OF DIFFUSE BACKGROUND NOISE
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
2009 IEEE/SP 15TH WORKSHOP ON STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1 AND 2, 2009, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author
Semi-blind suppression of internal noise for hands-free robot spoken dialog system
Jani Even; Hiroshi Sawada; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano; Tomoya Takatani
2009 IEEE-RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS, 2009, Peer-reviewed
Target Speech Enhancement in Presence of Jammer and Diffuse Background Noise
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL SEPARATION, PROCEEDINGS, 2009, Peer-reviewed
Enhanced wiener post-processing based on partial projection back of the blind signal separation noise estimate.
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
17th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2009, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 24-28, 2009, 2009, Peer-reviewed
BLIND SIGNAL EXTRACTION VIA DIRECT MUTUAL INFORMATION MINIMIZATION
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
2008 IEEE WORKSHOP ON MACHINE LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, 2008, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author
Fast dereverberation for hands-free speech recognition
Randy Gomez; Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
2008 HANDS-FREE SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND MICROPHONE ARRAYS, 2008, Peer-reviewed
Frequency domain blind signal extraction: Application to fast estimation of diffuse background noise
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
2008 HANDS-FREE SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND MICROPHONE ARRAYS, 2008, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author
An Improved permutation solver for blind signal separation based front-ends in robot audition
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
2008 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-3, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, 2008, Peer-reviewed
Rapid Unsupervised Speaker Adaptation Robust in Reverberant Environment Conditions
Randy Gomez; Jani Even; Kiyohiro Shikano
INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5, 2008, Peer-reviewed
Distant-talking robust speech recognition using late reflection components of room impulse response
Randy Gomez; Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-12, 2008, Peer-reviewed
Frequency domain semi-blind signal separation: Application to the rejection of internal noises
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOLS 1-12, 2008, Peer-reviewed
Extension of score function difference for frequency domain blind source separation.
Jani Even; Hiroshi Saruwatari; Kiyohiro Shikano
2008 16th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 25-29, 2008, 2008, Peer-reviewed
Blind identification for systems non-invertible at infinity
Jani Even; Kenji Sugimoto
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES, Jun. 2007, Peer-reviewed
An ICA approach to semi-blind identification of strictly proper systems based on interactor polynomial matrix
Even, Jani; Sugimoto, Kenji
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Special issue on polynomial methods, 2007, Peer-reviewed, Invited, Lead author, Corresponding author
Modeling and compensating input distortion in MIMO systems via blind deconvolution.
Jani Even; Kenji Sugimoto
9th IFAC Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing, ALCOSP 2007, Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 29-31, 2007., 2007, Peer-reviewed
ICA based adaptive disturbance cancellation for MIMO system with
Jani Even; Kenji Sugimoto
2006 SICE-ICASE INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-13, 2006, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author
Estimation of MIMO system with nonlinear distortion at the input: An adaptive approach
Jani Even; Kenji Sugimoto
2006 SICE-ICASE INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE, VOLS 1-13, 2006, Peer-reviewed, Lead author, Corresponding author
Blind estimation of row relative degree via constrained mutual information minimization
J Even; K Sugimoto
INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND BLIND SIGNAL SEPARATION, PROCEEDINGS, 2006, Peer-reviewed
Blind source separation using order statistics
J Even; E Moisan
SIGNAL PROCESSING, Sep. 2005, Peer-reviewed
Misc.
Exploiting range information for distance aware speaker recognition
Even, Jani; Ishi, Carlos Toshinori; Hagita, Norihiro
日本音響学会研究発表会講演論文集 日本音響学会 編, 2014
Awards
2017
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Incentive Award
External funds: Kakenhi
Using mobility to localize sound sources in complex environments
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Jani Even
From 01 Apr. 2016, To 31 Mar. 2018, Project Closed
sound localization;sound mapping;Field of view;知能ロボティックス