Research Themes
As its name suggests, "Sound x Human" project focuses on the crossing between sounds and humans. The most important sound for humans would be human voices; Voice facilitates human-to-human communication with the help of language. Music would be another important sound for humans. Noise is not useful for humans, but reducing its disconfort could be a good research theme. Those various sounds can be captured in computers for analysis or generated by computers. Let's study the new way of sound processing.
You might think that we are very technology-oriented, but in fact we aren't. If you are not good at programming or mathematics, research themes related to psychology or sociology may suit you. So please do not hesitate to visit us.
Research themes below are examples, but we can help you with any theme if you have specific research plan.
Speech recognition / Speaker identification / Emotion recognition
Developing application or interface to analyze human voice. You can make an application to estimate WHAT was spoken, WHO was speaking, How the speaker feels, etc.
Speech and singing voice synthesis
Developing an emotional speech synthesis system. Making applications and contents equipped with singing voice synthesis. Speaking and singing voice synthesis by the voice of specific target person.
Language learning
Developing pronunciation and listeinig training application. Audio processing methods for language learning.
Spacial audio and microphone array
Controlling the spacial audio characteristics by using various microphones and loudspeakers. Making contents and applications that make use of spacial audio techniques and direction-of-arrical esimating methods. Also includes binaural recording.
Multimedia expression using audio processing techniques
Creating multimedia art works and performance system using sonification and interactive audio analysis techniques.
Auditory psychology
Investigating human reaction to various sounds. Designing and analyzing environmental and alarm sounds.
Admission
Please check Japanese page.
Graduate student admission is always open, so please contact.
Schedule for undergraduates
Year 3
July | Member selection. Kick-off meeting. |
September | SOSEI-KADAI (preliminary research project) starts. |
Year 4
April | Research project starts. |
June | Registration of tentative thesis title. |
July | Midterm presentation. |
October | Registration of final thesis title. |
January | Thesis submission |
February | Final presentation. Submission of revised thesis. |