[robotics-worldwide] [Call for Participation] IROS 2010 Workshop on Robots and Musical Expressions
Kazuhiro Nakadai
nakadai at jp.honda-ri.com
Sun Aug 22 09:50:52 PDT 2010
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Call For Participation
The First IROS 2010 Workshop on Robots and Musical Expressions
(18 Oct, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan)
http://winnie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/RMEWS/
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[ apologies for multiple postings ]
Overview
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Music is arguably the most popular form of sounds for humans, and a
core occupation of our technological society. It is only natural to
expect that robots should be our partners and interact with us in
daily environments where musical sounds are present.
Despite great improvements made in recent years in the
field of Robot Audition, especially in speech and dialogue, much less
attention has been devoted to robots dealing with non-speech sounds,
especially music. Much work is still needed for robots to be able to
analyze and synthesize musical sounds as we do, to understand and
reason about music, and to adapt behaviors accordingly. For instance,
most robots can't recognize/categorize musical sounds nor associate
expression/emotion, and fall short in delivering real-time
interactions according to this high-level of understanding
(synchronizing movements, displaying emotions, adapting behavior,
etc.). The processing of high-level descriptions of music from audio
signals is a focus of the MIR community. This field is seeing recent
progresses, however, they mostly focus on desktop software-based
applications. So far in that field, the potential to use robots as a
development platform has not been fully recognized. On the other
hand, developments in entertainment robotics have been increasing for
the past few years, and fundamental issues for musical human-robot
interactions are starting to be addressed.
Producing computational models of such high-level behaviors, embedded
in robotic platforms, calls for novel research at the frontier between
Robotics and Music Information Retrieval (MIR). This full-day workshop
precisely aims at bringing "the best of two worlds" in fostering
scientific exchanges of the highest scientific standard between
researchers in Robotics, MIR and Cognitive Science.
The objectives of this workshop are to:
* Provide a communication platform between researchers in Robotics and in MIR.
* Set a roadmap of issues for musical robots, from general to specific.
* Drawing IROS participants' attention to the relevance of this topic.
* Discuss state-of-the art techniques for musical robots.
* Pioneer new robotics applications.
* Stimulate international collaboration to boost Robot Audition research.
* Foster the development/exchange of free robot/software platforms and tools.
Topics:
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This workshop includes the following topics related to musical robots:
* Embedded music listening functions
* Noise reduction (singing voice cancellation/motion-noise suppression)
* Tempo estimation, beat tracking
* Emotion/expression recognition/generation
* Pitch extraction, score following
* Sound/music/genre/instrument classification \& identification
* Multimodal recognition
* Music recognition, computational auditory/musical scene analysis
* Audio-motion synchronization
* Behavior generation \& planning (dancing, playing \& singing)
* Instrument playing, learning and high level control
* Musician-robot interaction, music session (human-robot, robot-robot)
* Machine muscianship (mechanics, software, etc)
* Bio-inspired mechanism, embedded hardware system
* Software environment for musical robots (visualization, development)
* Any other musical robot related topics
Program:
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8:20-8:30 Opening Remark
8:30-10:00 Session 1: Dancing Robots
* A Platform for Dance Performances with Multiple Quadrocopters
Angela Schollig, Federico Augugliaro, Raffaello D'Andrea (ETH, Switzerland)
* Towards a Dancing-to-music Humanoid Robot: Temporal Scaling Model of Whole Body Motion for a Dancing Humanoid Robot
Shunsuke Kudoh (UEC, Japan), Takahiro Okamoto(U-Tokyo, Japan), Takaaki Shiratori(CMU, USA), Shin'ichiro Nakaoka(AIST, Japan), Katsushi Ikeuchi (U-Tokyo, Japan)
* Synthesis of Dancing Motions Based on a Compact Topological Representation of Dance Styles
Joao Lobato Oliveira(INESC Porto/FEUP, Portugal), Luiz Naveda(Ghent Univ., Belgium), Fabien Gouyon(INESC Porto, Portugal), Marc Leman(Ghent Univ., Belgium), Luis Paulo Reis (FEUP, Portugal)
10:00-10:20 break (Posters should be hung.)
10:20-11:50 Session 2: Education and Interaction 1
* Building Musical Robots for the Machine Orchestra
Ajay Kapur, Michael Darling (California Institute of the Arts, USA)
* Orchestral Conducting for Non-Humans: its Impact in Interdisciplinary Education
Teresa M. Nakra, Yunfeng(Jennifer) Wang, Andrea Salgian, Christopher Ault (The College of New Jersey, USA)
* Developing Humanoids For Musical Interaction
Youngmoo Kim, Alyssa Batula, David Grunberg, Daniel M. Lofaro(Drexel Univ., USA), JunHo Oh, Paul Y. Oh (KAIST, Korea)
11:50-13:40 Lunch
13:40-15:10 Session 3: Interaction 2
* Two-level Synchronization using Particle Filter for Co-player Music Robots
Takuma Otsuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Kazuhiro Nakadai(HRI-JP/Tokyo Tech., Japan), Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
* Integration of flutist gesture recognition and beat tracking for human-robot ensemble
Takeshi Mizumoto, Angelica Lim, Takuma Otsuka (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Kazuhiro Nakadai(HRI-JP/Tokyo Tech., Japan), Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno(Kyoto Univ., Japan)
* A Survey of Recent Interactive Compositions for Shimon -- The Perceptual and Improvisational Robotic Marimba Player
Gil Weinberg, Guy Hoffman, Ryan Nikolaidis, Trishul Mallikarjuna (the Georgia Tech Center for Music Tech., USA)
15:10-15:30 break
15:30-17:00 Session 4: Poster Session
* "playing robot": An Investigation of Situated Cognition in the Context of (Artistic) Human Robot Interaction Design
Jin Hyun Kim (Freie Univ., Germany), Son-Hwa Chang, Luder Schmidt (Univ. of Cologne, Germany)
* Integration of percussion robots "RobotMusic" with the Data-Suit "BodySuit": Technological Aspects and Concepts
Suguru Goto (IRCAM, France) and Fuminori Yamasaki (iXs Research Corp., Japan)
* Programming by Playing and Approaches for Expressive Robot Performances
Angelica Lim, Takeshi Mizumoto, Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
* Humans and Machines Interacting in a Robotic Sonification Environment
Artemis Moroni, Josue Ramos, Eliane Guimaraes(DRVC/CTI, Brazil), Jonatas Manzolli(NICS/Unicamp, Brazil)
* Robotic applications in music research? a cognitive science perspective
Luder Schmidt(Univ. of Cologne, Germany)
* Can a Robot Get Smarter by Listening to Itself? Musical Memory as an Extended Auditory-Neural-Motor Loop
Assaf Talmudi(Bar Ilan Univ., Israel), Aaron Albin, Parag Chordia(the Georgia Tech Center for Music Tech., USA)
17:00-18:00 Session 5: Interaction 3
* Physical Human-Robot Cooperation using Musical Rhythm
Kenta Yonekura (Waseda Univ., Japan), Chyon Hae Kim, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Hiroshi Tsujino(HRI-JP, Japan), Shigeki Sugano(Waseda Univ., Japan)
* Research on Anthropomorphic Musical Robots and Their Application to Musical Interaction
Jorge Solis, Atsuo Takanisi(Waseda Univ., Japan)
Registration:
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Early Registration due: Aug. 31, 2010
(http://www.iros2010.org.tw/constructing.php?ns=1)
Organizers:
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Kazuhiro Nakadai
(Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd.)
Fabien Gouyon
(Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit, INESC Porto)
Hiroshi G. Okuno
(Department of Intelligence Science and Technology,
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
Jorge Solis
(Faculty of Sci. and Eng., Waseda University/
Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University)
Atsuo Takanishi
(Faculty of Sci. and Eng., Waseda University/
Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University)
Contact Information:
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For any question on this workshop, please send an email to
rmews-info_at_zeus.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp ("_at_" should be replaced with @)
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Kazuhiro Nakadai, Ph.D.
HONDA Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd.
8-1 Honcho, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0114, JAPAN
TEL: +81-48-462-2121 ext.7438 FAX: +81-48-462-5221
Visiting Associate Professor,
Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology
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