Speech-based communication for robots and systems
32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023)
Objective
For human-robot and human-system speech-based communication, various researches have been actively studied, including automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing, dialog management, and speech synthesis, by focussing on communication and/or interaction.
For example, ASR is a key component for natural and smooth human-robot interaction, but there are many obstacles to overcome in the real world, such as noise, interruption, barge-in, latency, and so on. Many techniques based on emerging deep learning technology have been proposed in the speech processing community to address these well-known problems, they have not been technically discussed in the context of human-robot communication, and thus these techniques have limitations to apply them to real human-robot communication scenarios due to lack of robustness and technological unmatch with a target application. This situation tells us the necessity of technical discussion considering application-specific requirements.
The goal of this workshop is to identify real-world challenges and explore their solutions for more practical human-robot and human-system speech-based communication by sharing real-world application-specific problems, which are actually faced by speakers and audience in this workshop.
List of Topics
The possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Robot audition
- Noise reduction and speech enhancement techniques
- Automatic speech recognition techniques
- Spoken language understanding techniques
- Dialog management system
- Speech, synthesis, text generation techniques
- Multi-modal processing techniques
- Non-verbal communication techniques
- Analysis, extraction and prediction of errors in human-robot communication
- System optimization for human-robot communication
- Software design for speech related human-robot communication
- EDI research topics related to speech such as sign language recognition and generation
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline : July. 21, 2023 July. 31, 2023
- Acceptance Notification : Aug. 11, 2023
- Camera Ready : Aug. 18, 2023
- Workshop date : Aug. 28, 2023
Honda Research Institute Japan
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo Institute of Technology / Honda Research Institute Japan
Honda Research Institute Japan