Publications

Jan.2003-Jan.2009

Honda Research Institute Japan

8-1 Honcho, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0188, Japan Tel: +81-48-462-5219 Fax: +81-48-462-5221

Journal 2003 1. Tino Lourens and R. P. Würtz, Extraction and Matching of Symbolic Contour

Graphs, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI),1279-1302, 2003.

2. Gen Matsumoto and Hiroshi Tsujino, Design of a brain computer using the novel principles of output-driven operation and memory-based architecture: in Cognition and Emotion in the Brain (T. Ono, G. Matsumoto, R. Llinas, A. Berthoz, R. Norgen, H. Nishijo, R. Tamura Eds.), Elsevier, ICS1250, 529-546, Dec. 2003.

3. Takamasa Koshizen, Importance of voluntary behavior, attention control to attain cognitive behavior - towards future cognitive humanoid robots. Tales of the disappearing computer, CTI press, ed. Achilles Kameas and Norbert streitz, 235-245, 2003.

4. Frank Kirchner and Takamasa Koshizen, The complex feature kinematics of Future cognitive humanoid robots, 7th of International conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering System, Lecture Notes in AI, LNAI 2773 & 2774, 584-591, 2003.

2004 5. Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Tino Lourens, Hiroaki Kitano, Sound and

Visual Tracking for Humanoid Robot, Applied Intelligence, 20(3), 253-266, Jun. 2004.

6. Takamasa Koshizen, Bernd Heisele, Hiroshi Tsujino, Expectation maximization of prefrontal-superior temporal network by indicator component-based approach, Neurocomputing, 58–60, 619 – 624, Jun. 2004.

7. Shin-ichi Nagai, Non-self-rejection by emergent structures on evolving networks of the spiking neurons, Neurocomputing, 58–60, 209 – 214, Jun. 2004.

8. Hiroshi Tsujino, Output-driven operation and memory-based architecture principles embedded in a real-world device, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 3(2), 133–142, Jun. 2004.

9. Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroaki Kitano, Effect of increasing modalities in recognizing three simultaneous speeches, Speech Communication, 43(4), 347-359, Sep. 2004.

10. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Daisuke Matsuura, Hiroshi G. Okuno and Hiroshi Tsujino, Improvement of Recognition of Simultaneous Speech Signals Using AV Integration

and Scattering Theory for Humanoid Robots, Speech Communication, 44(1-4), 97-112, Oct. 2004.

2005 11. Tino Lourens, Emilia Barakova, Hiroshi G. Okuno, and Hiroshi Tsujino, A

computational model of monkey cortical grating cells, Biological Cybernetics, 92(1), 61 – 70, Jan. 2005.

12. Tino Lourens, Emilia Barakova, Event based self-supervised temporal integration for multimodal sensor data, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 4(2):265–282, Jun. 2005.

13. Motoyuki Ashikari, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Shaoyang Lin, Toshio Yamamoto, Tomonori Takashi, Asuka Nishimura, Enrique R. Angeles, Qian Qian, Hidemi Kitano, and Makoto Matsuoka, Cytokinin Oxidase Regulates Rice Grain Production, Science, 29(309): 741-745, July 2005

14. Asuka Nishimura, Motoyuki Ashikari, Shaoyang Lin, Tomonori Takashi, Enrique R. Angeles, Toshio Yamamoto, and Makoto Matsuoka, Isolation of a rice regeneration quantitative trait loci gene and its application to transformation systems, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 102(33):11940-4, Aug. 2005

15. H. Asai, T. Koshizen, M. Watanabe, H. Tsujino, K. Aihara, Cognitive User Modeling Computed by a Proposed Dialogue Strategy Based on an Inductive Game Theory, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), 7, 325-351, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005

2006 16. Shun’ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino,

Jean-Marc Valin, Ryu Takeda, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Genetic Algorithm-Based Improvement of Robot Hearing Capabilities in Separating and Recognizing Simultaneous Speech Signals: in Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2006, Annecy, France, June 27-30, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 4031, 207-217, Springer-Verlag, Annecy, France, Jun. 2006.

17. T. Sugawara, Y. Matsumoto, M. Kimura, K. Kushida, Y. Murata, Enhancement of Motor Cycle Conspicuity Using Facial Image : A Proposal and the Evaluation by Brain Activities, Review of Automotive Engineering, 27, 471-476, 2006.

18. Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi

Tsujino, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Recognition of Simultaneous Speech by Estimating Reliability of Separated Signals for Robot Audition, PRICAI 2006: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Guilin, China, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 4099, 484-494, Springer-Verlag, Aug. 2006.

2007 19. Yoshitaka Nishimura, Kazutaka Kushida, Hiroshi Dohi and Mitsuru Ishizuka,

Johane Takeuchi, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Development of Multimodal Presentation Markup Language MPML-HR for Humanoid Robots and Psychological Evaluation, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR), 4 (1), 1-20, Mar. 2007.

20. Kenji Asano, Tomonori Takashi, Kotaro Miura, Qian Qian, Hidemi Kitano, Makoto Matsuoka, Motoyuki Ashikari, Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Utility of sd1 Alleles in Rice Breeding, Breeding Science, 57 (1), 53-58 Mar. 2007.

21. Takamasa Koshizen, Motohri Kon, Helmut Prendinger, Yuji Hasegawa, Kazuyuki Aihara, Hiroshi Tsujino, User Interest Estimation Using Cross-modal Computation, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), 3 (3), 177-190, Jun. 2007.

22. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Ryota Sumiya, Mikio Nakano, Koichi Ichige, Yasuo Hirose, Hiroshi Tsujino, The Design of Phoneme Grouping for Coarse Phoneme Recognition, New Trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4570/2007, 905-914, Springer Verlag, Jun. 2007.

23. Eiji Yamamoto, Tomonori Takashi, Yoichi Morinaka, Shaoyang Lin, Hidemi Kitano, Makoto Matsuoka, Motoyuki Ashikari, Interaction of two recessive genes, hbd2 and hbd3 , induces hybrid breakdown in rice, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 115 (2), 187-194, Jul. 2007.

24. Kentaro Ishii, Yukiko Yamamoto, Michita Imai and Kazuhiro Nakadai, A Navigation System Using Ultrasonic Directional Speaker with Rotating Base, Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting in Information Environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4558/2007, 526-535, Springer Verlag, Aug. 2007.

25. Jean-Marc Valin, Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Jean Rouat, Francois Michaud, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Robust Recognition of Simultaneous Speech By a Mobile Robot, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 23 (4), 742-752, Aug.2007.

26. Tory Chhun, Koichiro Aya, Kenji Asano, Eiji Yamamoto, Yoichi Morinaka, Masao Watanabe, Hidemi Kitano, Motoyuki Ashikari, Makoto Matsuoka, and Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka, Gibberellin Regulates Pollen Viability and Pollen Tube Growth in Rice, Plant Cell, 19(12), 3876-88, Dec. 2007.

2008 27. Hirofumi Nakajima, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Yuji Hasegawa, and Hiroshi Tsujino,

Moving Sound Source Extraction by Time-Variant Beamforming, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI2007 Conf. and Workshops, Miyazaki, Japan, June 2007, Revised Selected Papers, 47-53, Springer Verlag, 2008.

28. Hiroshi G. Okuno, Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, A Portable Robot Audition Software System for Multiple Simultaneous Speech Signals, Journal of Acoustic Society of America, 123(5), Pt.2, 3066-3067, May 2008.

29. Hae Kim, Tetsuya Ogata, and Shigeki Sugano, Reinforcement Signal Propagation Algorithm for Logic Circuit, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 20(5), 757-774, 2008.

30. E-G. Talbi, S. Mostaghim, T. Okabe, H. Ishibuchi, G. Rudolph, C. Coello Coello, Parallel Approaches for MultiObjective Optimization, In Multiobjective Optimization -Interactive and Evolutionary Approaches-, Lecture Note in Computer Science, 5252, 349-372, Springer Verlag, Oct. 2008.

31. Y. Nonoue, K. Fujino, Y. Hirayama, U. Yamanouchi, S. Y. Lin, M. Yano, Detection of quantitative trait loci controlling extremely early heading in rice, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 116, 715-722, 2008.

32. Tsuyu Ando, Toshio Yamamoto, Takehiko Shimizu, Xiu Fang Ma, Ayahiko Shomura, Yoshinobu Takeuchi, Shao Yang Lin, Masahiro Yano, Genetic dissection and pyramiding of quantitative traits for panicle architecture by using chromosomal segment substitution lines in rice, Theoretical and Applied Genetics,116, 881-890, 2008.

33. Kotaro Miura, Eiji Yamamoto, Yoichi Morinaka, Tomonori Takashi, Hidemi Kitano, Makoto Matsuoka and Moyoyuki Ashikari, The hybrid breakdown 1(t) locus induces interspecific hybrid breakdown between rice Oryza sativa cv. Koshihikari and its wild relative O. nivara, Breeding Science 58, 99-105, 2008.

34. Nobuaki Miyakawa, Eiri Hashimoto, Takanori Maebashi, Natsuo Nakamura, Yutaka Sacho, Shigeto Nakayama, Shinjiro Toyoda, Multilayer stacking technology

using wafer-to-wafer stacked method, ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC),4 (4), 20, 2008.

Conference/Workshop (peer-reviewed)

2003 1. Takamasa Koshizen and Frank Kirchner, Cognitive humanoid robots based on

complex kinematic features, 6th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, May. 2003.

2. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Daisuke Matsuura, Hiroshi G. Okuno and Hiroshi Tsujino, Three simultaneous speech recognition by integration of active audition and face recognition for humanoid. Proceedings of European Conference on Speech Processing, Sep. 2003.

3. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi G. Okuno and Hiroshi Tsujino, Active audition based humanoid audition system and its evaluation: Localization, separation and recognition of simultaneous speech. Proceedings of 3rd IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Oct. 2003.

4. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Daisuke Matsuura, Hiroshi G. Okuno and Hiroshi Tsujino, A humanoid listens to three simultaneous talkers by integrating active audition and face recognition. Proceedings of IJCAI-03 Workshop on Issues in Designing Physical Agents for Dynamic Real-time Environments: World Modeling, Planning, Learning and Communicating, 117-124, 2003.

5. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Daisuke Matsuura, Hiroshi G. Okuno and Hiroshi Tsujino, Improvement of three simultaneous speech recognition by using AV integration and scattering theory for humanoid. Proceedings of Audio Visual Spoken Processing, 157-162, 2003.

6. Shin-ichi Nagai, Koji Akatsuka, Tetsuya Ido, Hiroshi Kondo, Atsushi Miura, Hiroshi Tsujino, Active Detection of Anomalous Region as Primitive Processing for Visual Object Segregation, 7th of International conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering System, LNAI, 2773 & 2774, 2003.

7. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Daisuke Matsuura, Hiroshi G. Okuno, and Hiroaki Kitano. Applying scattering theory to robot audition system: Robust sound source localization and extraction. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2003), 2, 1157--1162. IEEE, Nov. 2003.

8. Tino Lourens and Emilia Barakova and Hiroshi Tsujino, Interacting Modalities through Functional Brain Modeling, Proceedings of the International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN 2003,102-109, 2003.

9. Emilia. Barakova and Tino Lourens and Yoko Yamaguchi, Life-long learning: consolidation of novel events into dynamic memory representations, Proceedings of the International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN 2003, 110-117, 2003.

2004 10. Shun’ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino, Toshio Yokoyama, H. G.

Okuno: Improvement of Robot Audition by Interfacing Sound Source Separation and Automatic Speech Recognition with Missing Feature Theory, ICRA 2004, 1517-1523, IEEE, Apr. 2004.

11. Bernd Heisele and Takamasa Koshizen, Components for facial recognition, IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Seoul, Korea, 153-158, May 2004

12. Emilia Barakova and Tino Lourens, Novelty Gated Episodic Memory Formation for Robot Exploration, Second International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS 2004), 116-121, Jun. 2004.

13. Hiroshi Tsujino, A system theory for the brain-like computer, Proc. Joint 2nd Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 5th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, Sep. 2004.

14. Tino Lourens, TiViPE --Tino's Visual Programming Environment, The 28th Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference, IEEE COMPSAC 2004, 10-15, Sep. 2004.

15. Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Kazuhiro Nakadai, and Hiroshi Tsujino, Effect of Facial Colors on Humanoids in Emotion Recognition Using Speech, RO-MAN 2004: 13th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 59-64, Sep. 2004.

16. Shun’ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Assessment of General Applicability of Robot Audition System by Recognizing Three Simultaneous Speeches. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2004), 2111-2116, IEEE, RSJ, Sendai, Sep. 2004.

17. Maya Dimitrova and Emilia Barakova and Tino Lourens and Petia Radeva, The Web as an Autobiographical Agent, Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, 11th International Conference, AIMSA 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3192, 510-519, Sep. 2004.

18. Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Kazuhiro Nakadai, and Hiroshi Tsujino, Multimodal Expression

for Humanoid Robots by Integration of Human Speech Mimicking and Facial Color, INTERSPEECH 2004 ICSLP [8th International Conference on Spoken Language, vol. III, 2305-2308, Oct. 2004.

2005 19. Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Jean-Marc Valin Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jean

Rouat, Francois Michaud, Tetsuya Ogata, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Enhanced Robot Speech Recognition Based on Microphone Array Source Separation and Missing Feature Theory. Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robots and Automation (ICRA-2005), 1489-1494, IEEE, Barcelona, Apr. 2005.

20. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino: Towards new human-humanoid communication: hearing during speaking by using ultrasonic directional speaker, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robots and Automation (ICRA-2005), 1495-1500, IEEE, Barcelona, Apr. 2005.

21. Emilia Barakova and Tino Lourens. Spatial navigation based on novelty mediated autobiographical memory. In J. Mira and J. R. A´ lvarez, editors, IWINAC 2005, number 3561 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1–10, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Jun. 2005.

22. Tino Lourens and Emilia Barakova. Simulation of orientation contrast sensitive cell behavior in tivipe. In J. Mira and J. R. A´ lvarez, editors, IWINAC 2005, number 3561 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 57–66, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, Jun. 2005.

23. Tino Lourens and Emilia Barakova. Tivipe simulation of a cortical crossing cell model. In J. Cabastany, A. Prieto, and D. F. Sandoval, editors, IWANN 2005, number 3512 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 122–129, Barcelona, Spain, Jun. 2005.

24. Kazutaka Kushida, Yoshitaka Nishimura, Hiroshi Dohi, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Johane Takeuchi, Hiroshi Tsujino, Humanoid Robot Presentation through Multimodal Presentation Markup Language MPML-HR, Creating bonds with humanoids workshop in 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 05), Utrecht, Jul, 2005.

25. Mikio Nakano, Yuji Hasegawa, Toyotaka Torii, Yohane Takeuchi, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino, Naoyuki Kanda, Hiroshi G. Okuno: A Two-Layer Model for Behavior and Dialogue Planning in Conversational Service Robots, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2005), 1542-154, IEEE, RSJ, Edmonton, Aug. 2005.

26. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hirofumi Nakajima, Kentaro Yamada, Yuji Hasegawa, Takahiro Nakamura and Hiroshi Tsujino: Sound Source Tracking with Directivity Pattern Estimation Using a 64ch Microphone Array, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2005), 196-202, IEEE, RSJ, Edmonton, Aug. 2005.

27. Shunsuke Kurotaki, Noriaki Suzuki, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi G. Okuno and Hideharu Amano :Implementation of Active Direction-Pass Filter on Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2005), 515-520, IEEE, RSJ, Edmonton, Aug. 2005.

28. Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Jean-Marc Valin, Jean Rouat, Francois Michaud, Tetsuya Ogata, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Making A Robot Recognize Three Simultaneous Sentences in Real-Time, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2005), 897-892, IEEE, RSJ, Edmonton, Aug. 2005.

29. Atsushi Hoshino, Kazuhiko Kato, Johane Takeuchi, Hiroshi Tsujino, Chat information service system using a humanoid robot, The 14th IEEE Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2005), Nashville, Aug. 2005.

30. Masamitsu Murase, Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kentaro Yamada, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Multiple Moving Speaker Tracking by Microphone Array on Mobile Robot, Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech-2005), 249-252, Lisbon, Sep. 2005.

31. Taiji Suzuki, Takamasa Koshizen, Kazuyuki Aihara, Hiroshi Tsujino, Learning to estimate user interest utilizing the variational bayes' estimator, Proc. 5th International Conference on intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA 2005), 94-99, Wroclaw, Poland, Sep. 2005.

32. Yoshitaka Nishimura, Kazutaka Kushida, Hiroshi Dohi, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Johane Takeuchi, Hiroshi Tsujino, Development and psychological evaluation of Multimodal Presentation Markup Language for Humanoid Robots, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2005), Tsukuba, Dec. 2005.

2006 33. Motohri Kon, Takamasa Koshizen, Helmut Prendinger, A New User–Machine

Interactive Scheme using CrossModal Computation for Deep Interest Estimation.

Proceedings of the IUI 2006 Workshop on Effective Multimodal Dialogue Interfaces, 25–34, Sydney, Australia, Jan. 2006.

34. Takamasa Koshizen, Hiroshi Tsujino, Mohri Kon, Kazuyuki Aihara, Helmut Prendinger, A learning system for user modeling by combined cognitive and affective modeling for user interest estimation. Proceedings 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM-06), 184-189, Edizioni Goliardiche, Trieste, Italy, Apr. 2006.

35. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hirofumi Nakajima, Masamitsu Murase, Satoshi Kaijiri. Kentaro Yamada, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Hiroshi Tsujino, Robust Tracking of Multiple Sound Sources by Spatial Integration of Room and Robot Microphone Arrays, Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'2006), Vol.IV, pp.929-932, Toulouse, May 2006.

36. Osamu Shouno, Johane Takeuchi and Hiroshi Tsujino, Self-Organizing Motor-Control Neural Network Model Inspired by the Basal Ganglia, Proceedings of Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*2006, Edinburgh, UK, Jul.2006.

37. Johane Takeuchi, Osamu Shouno and Hiroshi Tsujino, Connectionist Reinforcement Learning with Cursory Intrinsic Motivations and Linear Dependencies to Multiple Representations, Proceedings of 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'06), 54-61, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jul. 2006.

38. Kazunori Komatani, Naoyuki Kanda, Mikio Nakano, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Multi-Domain Spoken Dialogue System with Extensibility and Robustness against Speech Recognition Errors, Proceedings of 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 9-17, Sydney, Jul. 2006.

39. Yoshitaka Nishimura, Mikio Nakano, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino and Mitsuru Ishizuka, Speech Recognition for a Robot under its Motor Noise by Selective Application of Missing Feature Theory and MLLR, Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing (SAPA-2006), 53-58, 2006.

40. Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Leak Energy based Missing Feature Mask Generation for ICA and GSS and Its Evaluation with Simultaneous Speech Recognition, Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (SAPA2006), 42-46, Pittsburgh PA , Sep. 2006.

41. Johane Takeuchi, Kazutaka Kushida, Yoshitaka Nishimura and Hiroshi Dohi, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Comparison of a Humanoid Robot and an On-Screen Agent as Presenters to Audiences, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2006), 3964-3969, IEEE, RSJ, Beijing, China, Oct.2006.

42. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hirofumi Nakajima, Masamitsu Murase, Satoshi Kaijiri, Kentaro Yamada, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Hiroshi Tsujino, Real-Time Tracking of Multiple Sound Sources by Integration of In-Room and Robot-Embedded Microphone Arrays, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2006), 852-859, IEEE, RSJ, Beijing, China, Oct. 2006.

43. Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Real-Time Robot Audition System That Recognizes Simultaneous Speech in the Real World, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2006), 5333-5338, IEEE, RSJ, Beijing, China, Oct. 2006.

44. Mikio Nakano, Atsushi Hoshino, Johane Takeuchi, Yuji Hasegawa, Toyotaka Torii, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazuhiko Kato and Hiroshi Tsujino, A Robot That Can Engage in Both Task-Oriented and Non-Task-Oriented Dialogues, Proc. Int’l Conf. on IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids-06), 404-411, Genova, Italy, Dec. 2006.

45. Yoshitaka Nishimura, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino and Mitsuru Ishizuka, Speech Recognition for a Humanoid with Motor Noise Utilizing Missing Feature Theory, Proc. Int’l Conf. on IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids-06), Genova, Italy, Dec. 2006.

46. Karthik Sindhya, Kalyanmoy Deb, Tatsuya Okabe, A Self-Adaptive Recombination-Cum-Mutation Strategy for Single and Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization, International Conference in Product Life cycle, Modeling, Simulation and Synthesis (PLMSS), 18-20, Dec. 2006.

2007 47. Yoshitaka Nishimura, Shinichiro Minotsu, Hiroshi Dohi, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Mikio

Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Johane Takeuchi, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, A Markup Language for Describing Interactive Humanoid Robot Presentations, Proc. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2007), Hawaii, Jan. 2007.

48. Kazuhiro Nakadai, R. Sumiya, K. Ichige, Y. Hirose, M. Nakano, H. Tsujino, Coarse Phoneme Recognition Using Phoneme Grouping and Its Application to Isolated Word Recognition, The 20th Int'l Conf. on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE-2007), 905-914 , Kyoto, Jun. 2007.

49. K. Ishii, Y. Yamamoto, M. Imai, Kazuhiro Nakadai: A Navigation System using Ultrasonic Directional Speaker with Rotating Base, 12th Int'l Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction, 526-535 , Jul. 2007.

50. Kalyanmoy Deb, Karthik Sindhya, Tatsuya Okabe, Self-adaptive simulated binary crossover for real-parameter optimization. GECCO 2007, 1187-1194, Jul. 2007.

51. Johane Takeuchi, Osamu Shouno, Hiroshi Tsujino, Modular Neural Network for Reinforcement Learning with Temporal Intrinsic Rewards, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2007 (IJCNN 2007), 1151-1156, Orlando, FL, USA, 12-17 Aug. 2007.

52. Mikio Nakano, Yuka Nagano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Toshihiko Ito, Kenji Araki, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, Analysis of User Reactions to Turn-Taking Failures in Spoken Dialogue Systems, Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 120-123, Antwerp, Belgium, Sep., 2007.

53. Tetsuya Okabe, Theoretical analysis of selection operator in genetic algorithms, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2007), Sep. 2007.

54. Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, Semantic Interpretation Supplementarily Using Syntactic Analysis, 2007 International Conference /Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing/ (RANLP-2007), Borovets, Bulgaria, Sep. 2007.

55. Takanori Maebashi, Natsuo Nakamura, Shigeto Nakayama, Nobuaki Miyakawa, A New Fabrication Method for Multi-Layer Stacked Devices using Wafer-to -Wafer Stacked Technology based on 8-inch Wafers, Proceedings of the 37th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC2007), 251-254, Munich, Germany. Sept.12. 2007.

56. Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Exploiting Known Sound Sources to Improve ICA-based Robot Audition in Speech Separation and Recognition, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2007), 1757-1762, IEEE, RSJ, San Diego, Oct. 2007.

57. Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toyotaka Torii, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, A Biped Robot that

Keeps Steps in Time with Musical Beats while Listening to Music with Its Own Ears, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2007), 1743-1750, IEEE, RSJ, San Diego, Oct. 2007.

58. Tomoaki Koiwa, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Jun-ichi Imura, Coarse Speech Recognition by Audio-Visual Integration based on Missing Feature Theory, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2007), 1751-1756, IEEE, RSJ, San Diego, Oct. 2007.

59. Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Toyotaka Torii, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, Noriyuki Kimura, Naoto Iwahashi, Robust Acquisition and Recognition of Spoken Location Names by Domestic Robots, Proc. of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2007), San Diego, USA, Oct. 2007.

60. Tatsuya Okabe, Keiichiro Takato, Stabilizing Parallel Computation for Evolutionary Algorithms on Real-World Applications, The 7th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA7), 131-132, Dec. 2007.

61. Tetsuya Okabe , Reduction of Fitness Evaluations by Combining Proportional Selection and Truncation Selection, The 7th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA7), 341-342, Dec. 2007.

62. Sesha Kiran, Kalyanmoy Deb, Tatsuya Okabe, A Self-Adaptive Evolutionary-Classical Optimization for Single and Multi-modal Function Optimization, The 7th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA7), 347-348, Dec. 2007.

63. Tetsuya Okabe, Hybrid Representation: Combination of Standard and Real-coded Genetic Algorithms, The 7th International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA7), 399-400, Dec. 2007.

64. Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Mikio Nakano, Hiroshi Tsujino, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Design and Implementation of A Robot Audition System for Automatic Speech Recognition of Simultaneous Speech, Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU-2007), 115/267, IEEE, Kyoto, Dec. 2007.

2008 65. Yuichiro Fukubayashi, Kazunori Komatani, Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi,

Hiroshi Tsujino, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Rapid Prototyping of Robust Language Understanding Modules for Spoken Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP

2008), Hyderabad, India, Jan. 2008. 66. Yuichiro Fukubayashi, Kazunori Komatani, Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi,

Hiroshi Tsujino, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Rapid Prototyping of Robust Language Understanding Modules for Spoken Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP2008), 210-216, Jan. 2008.

67. Futoshi Asano, Masahiro Kimura, Daisuke Shibuya, Yukiyasu Kamitani, Localization and extraction of brain activity using generalized eigenvalue decomposition, Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 565-568 , Apr. 2008.

68. Hirofumi Nakajima, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Yuji Hasegawa, and Hiroshi Tsujino: Adaptive step-wise parameter control for real-world blind source separation, Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008), 149-152, Apr. 2008.

69. Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Computational auditory scene analysis and its application to robot audition, Proceedings of Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA-2008), 123-127, May. 2008.

70. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Hirofumi Nakajima, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, A Robot Referee for Rock-Paper-Scissors Sound Games, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS Int'l Conf. on Robots and Automation (ICRA-2008), 3469-3474, May. 2008.

71. Hiroshi G. Okuno, Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Jean-Marc Valin, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, A Portable Robot Audition Software System for Multiple Simultaneous Speech Signals, Proceedings of Acoustics'08, 1pSCa8, Jun. 2008.

72. Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuji Hasegawa and Hiroshi Tsujino, A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based on a Multi-Expert Model, Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial-2008), 88-91, Jun. 2008.

73. Kazuki Kobayashi, Kotaro Funakoshi, Seiji Yamada, Mikio Nakano, Yasuhiko Kitamura, Hiroshi Tsujino, Smoothing Human-Robot Speech Interaction with Blinking-Light Expressions, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 47-52, Germany, Aug. 2008.

74. Kazumasa Murata, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Ryu Takeda, Toyotaka Torii, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, A Robot Singer with Music Recognition Based on Real-Time Beat Tracking, Proceeings of 9th Int'l Conf.

on Musical Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2008), 199-204, 2008. 75. Johane Takeuchi, Osamu Shouno, Hiroshi Tsujino, Modular Neural Networks for

Model-Free Behavioral Learning, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2008), I, 730-739, Sep. 2008.

76. Hirofumi Nakajima, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Yuji Hasegawa, and Hiroshi Tsujino, High performance sound source separation adaptable to environmental changes for robot audition, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), 2165-2171, Sep. 2008.

77. Tobias Rodemann, Gokhan Ince, Frank Joublin, Christian Goerick, Using binaural and spectral cues for azimuth and elevation localization, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), 2185-2190, Sep. 2008.

78. Kazumasa Murata, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Ryu Takeda, Toyotaka Torii, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, A Robot Uses Its Own Microphone to Synchronize Its Steps to Musical Beats While Scatting and Singing, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), 2459-2464, Sep. 2008.

79. Ryu Takeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Barge-in-able Robot Audition Based on ICA and Missing Feature Theory under Semi-Blind Situation, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), 1718-1723, Sep. 2008.

80. Toru Takahashi, Shun'ichi Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Soft Missing-Feature Mask Generation for Simultaneous Speech Recognition System in Robots, Proceedings of Int'l Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2008), 992-997, Sep. 2008.

81. Kotaro Funakoshi, Kazuki Kobayashi, Mikio Nakano, Seiji Yamada, Yasuhiko Kitamura, Hiroshi Tsujino, Smoothing Human-Robot Speech Interactions by Using a Blinking-Light as Subtle Expression, Proceedings of International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 293-296 ,Greece, Oct. 2008.

82. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Hirofumi Nakajima, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, An Open Source Software System For Robot Audition HARK and Its Evaluation, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS Int'l Conf. on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2008), Dec. 2008.

83. Kazumasa Murata, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Ryu Takeda, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Toyotaka Torii, Yuji Hasegawa, Hiroshi Tsujino, A beat-tracking robot for human-robot interaction and its evaluation, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS Int'l Conf. on Humanoid

Robots (Humanoids 2008), Dec. 2008. 84. Motohri Kon, Takamasa Koshizen, Kazuyuki Aihara, Hiroshi Tsujino, Adaptive

Habituation Detection to Build HCI-Systems Using a Real-Time Cross-Modal Computation, The 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008), Florida, USA, Dec.2008.

85. Johane Takeuchi, Osamu Shouno, Hiroshi Tsujino, Self-Referential Event Lists for Self-Organizing Modular Reinforcement Learning, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference of Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2008), to be published.

Conference/Workshop (w/o review)

2004 1. H. Furudate, G. Matsumoto, M. Hoshino, T. Machida, A. G. Phillips3, T. Kimura,

Neural activity in nucleus accumbens core represents a global pattern of reward-directed behavior in the rat, 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Oct. 2004.

2. T. Kondoh, J. Okuma, K. Torii, G. matsumoto and Y. Kondoh, Mapping filial imprinting-related activation in bird brain by functional MRI, 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Oct. 2004.

3. J. Okuma, M. Hoshino, H. Furudate, T. Kondoh, Y. Kondoh, H. Tsujino, K.Torii, T.Kimura and G.matsumoto, Neural activities related to filial imprinting in the forebrain area of duckling, 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Oct. 2004.

2005 4. Asuka Nishimura, Motoyuki Ashikari, Shaoyang Lin, Tomonori Takashi1 , Enrique

R. Angeles, Toshio Yamamoto, Makoto Matsuoka, Isolation Of A Rice QTL Gene Conferring The Regeneration Ability And Its Application To New Transformation System, Plant & Animal Genomes XIII Conference, Jan. 2005.

5. M. Hoshino, H. Furudate, T. Sekiguchi, O. Shouno, A.G. Phillips, G. Mastumoto, T. Kimura, Neural activities in the rat nucleus accumbens related to foraging behavior in an eight-arm maze task, 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov. 2005.

2006 6. J. Okuma, H. Furudate, O. Shono, Restricted brain lesions affect the filial

preferences in visually imprinted ducklings, 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Oct. 2006.

7. Kalyanmoy Deb, Karthik Sindhya, Tatsuya Okabe, A Self-Adaptive Recombination-Cum-Mutation Strategy for Single and Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization, International Conference on Trends in Product Life Cycle, Modeling, Simulation and Synthesis, Dec. 2006.

2007 8. Shaoyang Lin, Tomonori Takashi, Enrique Angles, Development of the wild

rice-derived introgression lines for detecting quantitative trait loci (QTL) and molecular breeding, International Symposium of Rice Mutant, Functional Genomics and Bio- technology Breeding 2007, China, Mar. 2007.

9. H. Tsuru, H. Nakajima and Y. Fujita, High Quality Recording Through Microphone array in noisy and reverbarant environment, International Congress of Sound and Vibration (ICSV14), 595, Jul. 2007

10. Osamu Shouno, Johane Takeuchi, Hiroshi Tsujino, A conductance-based network model of the basal ganglia for probabilistic action selection, Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2007), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 7-12, 2007, BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8 (Suppl 2) , 172, 2007.

11. Yuji Hasegawa, Yukako Ogawa, Hidetoshi Ikeno, Flight behavior towards waggle dance sounds of honey bee, Eighth International Congress of Neuroethology, PO295 Vancouver, Canada, Jul. 2007.

12. Osamu Shouno, Johane Takeuchi, Hiroshi Tsujino, Spiking neuron model of the basal ganglia circuitry for probabilistic action selection, IBAGS IX, 9th Triennial Meeting of the International Basal Ganglia Society, Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands, September 2-6, 2007.

13. Tatsuhiko Sekiguchi, Koji Iida, Hideaki Kawabata, Shiro Itai, Takabumi Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Miwa Difference in neural distributions between face-to-face and remote situations in a communicative game 37th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA, Nov. 2007.

2008 14. Tatsuhiko Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Furudate, Tetsuya Kimura, Internal representation

of odor preference in a terrestrial slug, 38th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Nov. 2008.

15. Hiroki Ora, Tatsuhiko Sekiguchi, Yoshihiro Miyake, Error detection: an electroencephalogram-based brain-computer interface, 38th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Nov.2008.

16. Osamu Shouno, Johane Takeuchi, Hiroshi Tsujino, Importance of the pallido-striatal modulation on striatal neurons for “neural exploration”: a spiking neuron model of the basal ganglia circuitry for the generation of behavioral variety, 38th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience, Nov.2008.

Invited talk, presentation 1. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Research for Human-Robot Communication – Overview of Robot

Audition, 5th Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering (JAFoE), Nov. 2005, San Jose.

2. Mikio Nakano, Multi-modal Human-Robot Interaction, 15th German-Japanese Forum on IT, Nov. 2005.

3. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Binaural Robot Audition System and Sound Tracking Empowered by Spatial Integration of Robot-Embedded and In-Room Microphone Arrays, LAAS/RIA Seminars, CNRS-LAAS, May 2006.

4. Mikio Nakano, A Model for Conversational Robot Intelligence based on Multiple Experts and Its Applications, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Apr. 2007.

5. Kazuhiro Nakadai, Robot Audition System HARK and Its applications, ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conf., Mar.2008.

6. Hiroshi Tsujino, Anatomy of a Brain-like Computer, IEEE Symposium on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips (COOLChips XI), Apr. 2008.

7. Hiroshi G. Okuno, Kazuhiro Nakadai, COMPUTATIONAL AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION TO ROBOT AUDITION, Proc. of Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA-2008), pp.123-127, May. 2008

8. Nobuaki Miyakawa, Multi-layer Stacked Device Fabrication, IEEE VAIL Computer Elements Workshop, Jun.2008.

9. Kazuhiro Nakadai, HARK & A Music Robot, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Sep.2008.

10. Nobuaki Miyakawa, Stacking Technology based on 8-inch Wafer using Direct Connection between TSV and Micro-bump, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, Sep.2008.

11. Nobuaki Miyakawa, New Connection Method using Wet Etching Technology, Advanced Metallization Conference, Sep.2008.

12. Nobuaki Miyakawa, 3D Stacking Technology for Improvement of System Performance, International Trade Partners Commence (ITPC), Nov.2008.

13. Nobuaki Miyakawa, High Density Assembly Technology using Stacking Method, VLSI Packaging Workshop in Japan (VPWJ), Dec.2008.

14. Nobuaki Miyakawa, Fabrication Method using Wet Etching Technology for Multi-layer Stacked Devices, MRS fall meeting 2008, Dec.2008.

15. Nobuaki Miyakawa, A 3D prototyping chip based on a wafer-level stacking

technology, ASP-DAC 2009, Jan.2009. 16. Nobuaki Miyakawa, New 3D Interconnection Method by using Wet etching

Technology, IMAPS Device Packaging 2009, Mar.2009.