Publications
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Peer-reviewed Journal Papers

  1. Takuma Otsuka, Takeshi Mizumoto, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Music-ensemble robot that is capable of playing the theremin while listening to the accompanied music, Nicolas Garcia-Pedrajas, Francisco Herrera, Colin Fyfe, Jose Manuel Benitez, and Moonis Ali (Eds.): Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems , LNAI 6096, 102-112, Cordoba, Spain, June 1-4 (2), 2010.
  2. Akira Maezawa, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Violin Fingering Estimation Based on Violin Pedagogical Fingering Model Constrained by Bowed Sequence Estimation from Audio Input, Nicolas Garcia-Pedrajas, Francisco Herrera, Colin Fyfe, Jose Manuel Benitez, and Moonis Ali (Eds.): Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems , LNAI 6098, 249-259, Cordoba, Spain, June 1-4 (3), 2010.
  3. Shinichi Furuya, Eckart Altenmuller, Haruhiro Katayose and Hiroshi Kinoshita: "Control of multi-joint arm movements for the manipulation of touch in keystroke by expert pianists",BMC Neuroscience 2010, Volume 11:82, Accepted: 14 July 2010, doi:10.1186/1471-2202-11-82
  4. Hirokazu Kameoka, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Speech Spectrum Modeling for Joint Estimation of Spectral Envelope and Fundamental Frequency,” IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, 18, 6, pp.1507-1516, Aug., 2010. DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2009.2036287
  5. Katsutoshi Itoyama, Masataka Goto, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Query-by-Example Music Information Retrieval by Score-Informed Source Separation and Remixing Technologies, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Vol.2010, Article ID 172961, 14 pages, Hindawi Pub., Jan. 2011. doi:10.1155/2010/172961
  6. Takuma Otsuka, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Real-Time Audio-to-Score Alignment using Particle Filter for Co-player Music Robots, EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, Vol.2011, Article ID 384651, 13 pages, 2011, Hindawi Pub. doi:10.1155/2011/384651

Peer-reviewed Conference Papers

  1. Satoshi Akatsuka, Noriko Nagata, Eriko Aiba, Takashi Fujisawa X., "Measurement of brain function when listening to chords: fMRI study," Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM2010), Jun. 2010.
  2. Takashi Baba, Mitsuyo Hashida and Haruhiro Katayose. “A Conducting System with heuristics of the conductor "VirtualPhilharmony"”,The 2010 Conference of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2010), Full Paper (p.p.263-270) ,Sydney, Australia (June 15th-18th, 2010)
  3. Mitsuyo Hashida, Shunji Tanaka, Takashi Baba and Haruhiro Katayose: Mixtract: An Environment for Designing Musical Phrase Expression, Proc. SMC2010, pp.249-356 (2010.7)
  4. Tsubasa Tanaka, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Automatic Music Composition based on Counterpoint and Imitation using Stochastic Models,” Proceedings of SMC 2010, in CD-ROM, PS2-3, pp.1-8, Jul., 2010.
  5. Tae Hun Kim, Satoru Fukayama, Takuya Nishimoto, Shigeki Sagayama, “Performance rendering for polyphonic piano music with a combination of probabilistic models for melody and harmony,” Proceedings of SMC, pp.23-30, Jul., 2010.
  6. Satoru Fukayama, Kei Nakatsuma, Shinji Sako, Takuya Nishimoto, Shigeki Sagayama, “Automatic Song Composition from the Lyrics exploiting Prosody of the Japanese Language,” Proceedings of SMC, pp.299-302, Jul., 2010.
  7. Takuma Otsuka, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Design and Implementation of Two-level Synchronization for Interactive Music Robot, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10), 1138-1244 (26.9%, 264/982) , July 15, City of Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2010
  8. Matthias Mauch, Hiromasa Fujihara, and Masataka Goto: Lyrics-to-Audio Alignment and Phrase-Level Segmentation Using Incomplete Internet-Style Chord Annotations, Proceedings of the 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2010), pp.9-16, July 2010.
  9. Akira Maezawa, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Query-by-Conducting: An interface to retrieve classical-music interpretations by real-time tempo input, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Musical Information Retrieval (ISMIR-2010),477-482, Netherlands, city of Dresden, August 12, 2010.
  10. Halfdan Rump, Shigeki Miyabe, Emiru Tsunoo, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “On the Feature Extraction of Timbral Dynamics,” Proc. of ISMIR, Aug., 2010.
  11. Kazuma Murao, Masahiro Nakano, Yu Kitano, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Monophonic instrument sound segregation by clustering NMF components based on basis similarity and gain disjointness,” Proc. of ISMIR, pp.375-380, Aug., 2010.
  12. Masahiro Nakano, Jonathan Le Roux, Hirokazu Kameoka, Yu Kitano, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Convergence-guaranteed multiplicative algorithms for nonnegative matrix factorization with beta-divergence,” Proc. MLSP, Aug., 2010.
  13. Shimpei Aso, Takuya Saitou, Masataka Goto, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: SpeakBySinging: Converting Singing Voices to Speaking Voices While Retaining Voice Timbre, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-10), 114-121, Austria, Graz City, September 9, 2010.
  14. Nobuhide Yamakawa, Tetsuro Kitahara, Toru Takahashi, Kozunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: "Effects of Within- and Between-frame Temporal Variations in Power Spectra on Non-verbal Sound Recognition", Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2010), September 2010.
  15. Shimotomai Takayuki, Eriko Aiba., "Adaptive modeling for paired comparison," Neuro2010, P1-q20, Sept. 2010.
  16. Siwei Qin, Satoru Fukayama, Takuya Nishimoto, Shigeki Sagayama, “Lexical Tones Learning with Automatic Music Composition System Considering Prosody of Mandarin Chinese,” , p.4, Sep., 2010.
  17. Jun Wu, Yu Kitano, Stanislaw Andrzej Raczynski, Shigeki Miyabe, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Musical Instrumental Identification Based on Harmonic Temporal Timbre Features,” Proc. Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audition (SAPA), pp.7-12, Sep., 2010.
  18. Masahiro Nakano, Jonathan Le Roux, Hirokazu Kameoka, Yu Kitano, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Markov-chained Bases for Modeling Time-varying patterns in Music Spectrograms,” Proc. of LVA/ICA, Sep., 2010.
  19. Keisuke Hasegawa, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Miyabe, Shigeki Sagayama, “Blind Estimation of Locations and Time Offsets for Distributed Recording Devices,” Proc. of LVA/ICA, pp.57-64, Sep., 2010.
  20. Jun Wu, Yu Kitano, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Flexible Harmonic Temporal Structure for modeling musical instrument,” Proc. ICEC, Sep., 2010.
  21. Takuma Otsuka, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Two-level Synchronization using Particle Filter for Co-player Music Robots, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ-2010 Workshop on Robots and Musical Expression, CD-ROM, Oct. 18, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
  22. Takeshi Mizumoto, Angelica Lim, Takuma Otsuka, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno : Integration of flutist gesture recognition and beat tracking for human-robot ensemble, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ-2010 Workshop on Robots and Musical Expression, CD-ROM, Oct. 18, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
  23. Takeshi Mizumoto, Takuma Otsuka, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Human-Robot Ensemble between Robot Thereminst and Human Percussionist using Coupled Oscillator Model, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2010), pp.1957-1962, TuET12.2, IEEE, RSJ, Taipei, 18-22 Oct. 2010. doi:10.1109/IROS.2010.5650364
  24. Angelica Lim, Takeshi Mizumoto, Lois-Kenzo Cahier, Takuma Otsuka, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Robot Musical Accompaniment: Integrating Audio and Visual Cues for Real-time Synchronization with a Human Flutist (Invited paper), Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2010), pp.1964-1969, TuET12.3, IEEE, RSJ, Taipei, 18-22 Oct. 2010. doi:10.1109/IROS.2010.5650427 IROS-2011NTF Award for Entertainment Robots and Systems.
  25. Hideyuki Tachibana, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Singing Voice Enhancement for Monaural Music Signals Based on Multiple Time-Frequency Analysis,” Proc. Intersinging, 7, pp.1-4, Oct., 2010.
  26. Satoru Fukayama, Kei Nakatsuma, Shinji Sako, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Automatic Song Composition form Lyrics with Singing Voice Synthesizer,” Proc. of Intersinging, 2, pp.1-4, Oct., 2010.
  27. Eriko Aiba, Takayuki Shimotomai, Koji Kazai, Noriko Nagata, Minoru Tsuzaki., "Judgment of perceptual synchrony between two pulses and its relation to the auditory brainstem response," Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience2010), 170.5, San Diego, Nov. 2010.
  28. Saburo Hirano, Takashi Ikebuchi and Haruhiro Katayose: MoPH: a media performance system with a multi-touch interface, Proc. Intl. Conf. on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE) 2010, Nov. 2010.
  29. T. Baba, M. Hashida and H. Katayose: VirtualPhilharmony: A Conducting System Focused on A Sensation of Conducting A Real Orchesta, Creative Showcase, Intl. Conf. on Advance in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE) 2010, CD-ROM (2010).
  30. R. Takahashi, M. Hashida and H. Katayose: Digital Board Game "GA-BIN-IN-SUI", Creative Showcase, Intl. Conf. on Advance in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE) 2010, CD-ROM (2010).
  31. Hideki Kawahara and Masanori Morise, Tolerance of F0 adaptive time-frequency analysis for spectrographic representations, ICSP 2010, pp.601-604, Beijing, 24-28, Oct. 2010.
  32. Masataka Goto: Crowd Music Listening: Internet-Based Music Listening with Shared Semantic Information,Dagstuhl Seminar "Multimodal Music Processing", January 2011.
  33. Kazuyoshi Yoshii and Masataka Goto: Music Commentator: A System for Generating Comments Synchronized with Music A udio Signals,Dagstuhl Seminar "Multimodal Music Processing", January 2011.
  34. Matthias Mauch, Hiromasa Fujihara, and Masataka Goto: Lyrics-to-Audio Alignment: Methods of Integrating Textual Chord Labels and an Application,Dagstuhl Seminar "Multimodal Music Processing", January 2011.
  35. Tomoyasu Nakano and Masataka Goto: VocaListener: Synthesis of Human-Like Singing by Using User's Singing and Its Lyrics,Dagstuhl Seminar "Multimodal Music Processing", January 2011.
  36. Erika Okamoto, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara, Evaluation of voice morphing using vocal tract length normalization based on auditory filterbank, NCSP2011, Tianjin, China, pp.187-190, 1-3 March, 2011. (Student Paper Award)
  37. Yoshika Wada, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino, Hideki Kawahara, A new formulation of a multiple periodicity extractor for expressive and pathological voices, NCSP2011, Tianjin, China, pp.336-339, 1-3 March, 2011.
  38. Masanori Morise and Hideki Kawahara, WORLD: High-quality speech synthesis system for real-time applications, p3s-2011, Vancouver, Canada, 14-15 March, 2011.
  39. Jun Wu, Emmanuel Vincent, Stanislaw Andrzej Raczynski, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, “Musical Instrument Identification Based on New Boosting Algorithm with Probabilistic Decisions,” CMMR, Mar., 2011.
  40. Ryuzo Yayama, Takayuki Shimotomai, Riuma Takahashi1, Satoshi Akatsuka, Eriko Aiba, Takashi Fujisawa, Noriko Nagata, “Brain Activity in the Color Area When Listening to Music: An fMRI Study of Synesthesia,” the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM2011), Quebec City, June 2011. (Accepted)

Inveted Talks

  1. Masataka Goto: Keynote address "Music Listening in the Future" in the 128th AES Convention in London (AES London 2010) of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), London, UK, May 22, 2010.
  2. Masataka Goto: Invited panel presentation "Interacting with Semantic Audio" in the workshop "Interacting with Semantic Audio?Bridging the Gap between Humans and Algorithms" of the 128th AES Convention in London (AES London 2010), London, UK, May 24, 2010
  3. Masataka Goto: Invited talk "Singing Information Processing Systems"in the InterSinging 2010, Tokyo, Japan, October 1, 2010.
  4. Masataka Goto, Takeshi Saitou, Tomoyasu Nakano, and Hiromasa Fujihara: Invited talk "Singing Information Processing: Concept and Applications" in the special session "Musical Acoustics: Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds I" of the 160th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) (2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics), Cancun, Mexico, November 16, 2010.
  5. Hideki Kawahara, Ryuichi Nisimura, Toshio Irino and Masanori Morise, Toward expressive interaction with singing voice based on TANDEM-STRAIGHT: a collection of F0-adaptive procedures, which does not require pitch marking, International Workshop on Performative Speech and Singing Synthesis, p3s-2011, Vancouver, Canada, 14-15 March, 2011.
  6. Hideki Kawahara, In search of perceptually relevant speech representations, - STRAIGHT, TANDEM-STRAIGHT and beyond -, NCSP2011, Tianjin, China, pp.252-255, 1-3 March, 2011.