Research Summary

Selected Publications

• 1. Alexander Diel, Wataru Sato, Chun-Ting Hsu, and Takashi Minato
  "Differences in configural processing for human versus android dynamic facial expressions"
  Scientific Reports, Vol.13, No. 16952(2023)
• 2. Carlos T. Ishi, Chaoran Liu, and Takashi Minato
  "An attention-based sound selective hearing support system: evaluation by subjects with age-related hearing loss"
  Proc. of IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integrations(2023)
• 3. Xinyue Li, Carlos T. Ishi, and Ryoko Hayashi
  "Prosodic and voice quality analyses of filled pauses in Japanese spontaneous conversation by Chinese learners and Japanese native speakers"
  Proc. of International Conference on Speech Prosody(2022)
• 4. Dongsheng Yang, Qianying Liu, Takashi Minato, Shushi Namba, and Shin'ya Nishida
  "Optimizing facial expressions of an android robot effectively: a Bayesian optimization approach"
  Proc. of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots(2022).
• 5. Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Takahisa Uchida, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
  "A study of interactive robot architecture through the practical implementation of conversational android"
  Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol.9, No.905030(2022)
• 6. Changzeng Fu, Chaoran Liu, Carlos T. Ishi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, C-CycleTransGAN
  "A non-parallel controllable cross-gender voice conversion model with CycleGAN and Transformer"
  Proc. of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference(2022)
• 7. Taiken Shintani, Carlos T. Ishi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
  "Expression of personality by gaze movements of an android robot in multi-party dialogues"
  Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(2022)
• 8. Changzeng Fu, Chaoran Liu, Carlos T. Ishi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
  "An adversarial training based speech emotion classifier with isolated Gaussian regularization"
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol.14, No.8(2022)
• 9. Bowen Wu, Jiaqi Shi, Chaoran Liu, Carlos T. Ishi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
  "Controlling the impression of robots via GAN-based gesture generation"
  Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(2022)
• 10. Wataru Sato, Shushi Namba, Dongsheng Yang, Shin'ya Nishida, Carlos T. Ishi, and Takashi Minato.
  "An android for emotional interaction: Spatiotemporal validation of its facial expressions"
  Frontiers in Psychology, Vol.12(2022)

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