EARS

Embodied Audition for RobotS

Coordinatore	FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN NURNBERG    more  Organization address address: SCHLOSSPLATZ 4 city: ERLANGEN postcode: 91054 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Franziska Cognome: Müller Email: send email Telefono: +49 9131 8526474 Fax: +49 9131 8526239
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	4˙631˙728 €
EC contributo	3˙519˙981 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Code Call	FP7-ICT-2013-10
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-01-01   -   2016-12-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAT ERLANGEN NURNBERG  Organization address address: SCHLOSSPLATZ 4 city: ERLANGEN postcode: 91054 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Franziska Cognome: Müller Email: send email Telefono: +49 9131 8526474 Fax: +49 9131 8526239	DE (ERLANGEN)	coordinator	0.00
2	ALDEBARAN ROBOTICS SAS  Organization address address: RUE RAYMOND LOSSERAND 168 BIS 170 city: PARIS postcode: 75014 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Petra Cognome: Koudelkova Email: send email Telefono: 33177371775 Fax: 33177371751	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00
3	BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV  Organization address address: Office of the President - Main Campus city: BEER SHEVA postcode: 84105 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Tripto Cognome: Daphna Email: send email Telefono: +972 8 6472443 Fax: +972 8 6472930	IL (BEER SHEVA)	participant	0.00
4	HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAT ZU BERLIN  Organization address address: UNTER DEN LINDEN city: BERLIN postcode: 10099 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Renate Cognome: Ubachs Email: send email Telefono: 493021000000 Fax: +49 30 2093 1660	DE (BERLIN)	participant	0.00
5	IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE  Organization address address: Exhibition Road, South Kensington Campus city: LONDON postcode: SW7 2AZ contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Shaun Cognome: Power Email: send email Telefono: +44 207 594 8773 Fax: +44 207 594 8609	UK (LONDON)	participant	0.00
6	INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE  Organization address address: Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt city: LE CHESNAY Cedex postcode: 78153 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Christine Cognome: ZAMPAOLO Email: send email Telefono: +334 7661 5306	FR (LE CHESNAY Cedex)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

The success of future natural intuitive human-robot interaction (HRI) will critically depend on how responsive the robot will be to all forms of human expressions and how well it will be aware of its environment. With acoustic signals distinctively characterizing physical environments and speech being the most effective means of communication among humans, truly humanoid robots must be able to fully extract the rich auditory information from their environment and to use voice communication as much as humans do. While vision-based HRI is well developed, current limitations in robot audition do not allow for such an effective, natural acoustic human-robot communication in real-world environments, mainly because of the severe degradation of the desired acoustic signals due to noise, interference and reverberation when captured by the robot's microphones. To overcome these limitations, EARS will provide intelligent 'ears' with close-to-human auditory capabilities and use it for HRI in complex real-world environments. Novel microphone arrays and powerful signal processing algorithms shall be able to localise and track multiple sound sources of interest and to extract and recognize the desired signals. After fusion with robot vision, embodied robot cognition will then derive HRI actions and knowledge on the entire scenario, and feed this back to the acoustic interface for further auditory scene analysis. As a prototypical application, EARS will consider a welcoming robot in a hotel lobby offering all the above challenges. Representing a large class of generic applications, this scenario is of key interest to industry and, thus, a leading European robot manufacturer will integrate EARS's results into a robot platform for the consumer market and validate it. In addition, the provision of open-source software and an advisory board with key players from the relevant robot industry should help to make EARS a turnkey project for promoting audition in the robotics world.