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Yoko SASAKI

Affiliation

Researcher
Digital Human Research Center
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

TEL:+81-3-3599-8512
FAX:+81-3-5530-2066
E-Mail: y-sasaki@aist.go.jp

Biography

April 2007    admitted to Ph.D Cource, Tokyo University of Science, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
April 2007 - March 2009 Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
March 2009    received Ph.D from Tokyo University of Science
April 2009    Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Digital Human Research Center, AIST
November 2009    Research Scientist in Digital Human Research Center, AIST

Awards

March 2007    Miura Prize, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).
May 2007    Robomec Prize, (Robotics-Mechatronics Division Annual Prize), The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).
September 2007    Young Investigator Excellence Award, Robotics Society of Japan.

Research Topics (Publicatios)

  • Microphone Array Design for a Mobile Robot
    • Beam Forming Simulator for Directivity Evaluation
    • Omni-directional Lower Sidelobes Microphone Array

  • Mobile Audition -Audirory System for a Mobile Robot-
    • Microphone Array based Multiple Sound Source Localization and Separation
    • Daily Sound Recognition using Pitch-Cluster-Maps
    • Sound Source Mapping by Self-Motion Triangulation

  • Ubiquitous Home Robot Service Using Ceiling Microphone Array
    • Ubiquitous Audio Sensing System
    • A Predefined Command Recognition in Noisy Housing Environments