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Hiroshi G. Okuno

Hiroshi G. Okuno

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Computer Science
Japan
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
53
Citations
10746
World Ranking
4845
National Ranking
57

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to robot audition technology

Overview

Hiroshi G. Okuno is affiliated with Waseda University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of computer science with applications in robotics, signal processing, and ecology. The scientist has contributed extensively to areas including speech and audio processing, animal vocal communication and behavior, marine animal studies, and artificial intelligence.

Their recent publications demonstrate an emphasis on robot audition technologies and the use of computational methods to analyze auditory scenes in natural and robotic contexts. Notable papers include:

  • Development of a continuum robot enhanced with distributed sensors for search and rescue (2022, ROBOMECH Journal)
  • Multiple Sound Source Position Estimation by Drone Audition Based on Data Association Between Sound Source Localization and Identification (2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters)
  • Robot Audition and Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (2020, Advanced Intelligent Systems)
  • Drone audition listening from the sky estimates multiple sound source positions by integrating sound source localization and data association (2020, Advanced Robotics)
  • Fine-scale observations of spatio-spectro-temporal dynamics of bird vocalizations using robot audition techniques (2020, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation)

Their collaborations frequently involve co-authors such as Kazuhiro Nakadai, Reiji Suzuki, Shiho Matsubayashi, Takaya Arita, and Mayumi J. Okuno, reflecting a collaborative approach to interdisciplinary research.

Publication venues where the scientist's work appears repeatedly include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Advanced Robotics
  • ROBOMECH Journal
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Advanced Intelligent Systems

The scientist's main field of study is computer science, with subfields notably encompassing signal processing, developmental biology, ecology, artificial intelligence, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. The main topics covered in their research span speech and audio processing, animal vocal communication and behavior, marine animal studies, animal behavior and reproduction, law, AI and intellectual property, avian ecology and behavior, and ethics and social impacts of AI.

Hiroshi G. Okuno was recognized with the IEEE Fellow award in 2012 for contributions to robot audition technology.

Best Publications

  • Audio-visual speech recognition using deep learning

    Kuniaki Noda;Yuki Yamaguchi;Kazuhiro Nakadai;Hiroshi G. Okuno

  • Active Audition for Humanoid

    Kazuhiro Nakadai;Tino Lourens;Hiroshi G. Okuno;Hiroaki Kitano

  • Computational auditory scene analysis

    David F. Rosenthal;Hiroshi G. Okuno

  • Design and Implementation of Robot Audition System 'HARK' — Open Source Software for Listening to Three Simultaneous Speakers

    Kazuhiro Nakadai;Toru Takahashi;Hiroshi G. Okuno;Hirofumi Nakajima

  • An Efficient Hybrid Music Recommender System Using an Incrementally Trainable Probabilistic Generative Model

    K. Yoshii;M. Goto;K. Komatani;T. Ogata

  • Hybrid collaborative and content-based music recommendation using probabilistic model with latent user preferences

    Kazuyoshi Yoshii;Masataka Goto;Kazunori Komatani;Tetsuya Ogata

  • Blind Separation and Dereverberation of Speech Mixtures by Joint Optimization

    Takuya Yoshioka;Tomohiro Nakatani;Masato Miyoshi;Hiroshi G Okuno

  • Real-time auditory and visual multiple-object tracking for humanoids

    Kazuhiro Nakadai;Ken-ichi Hidai;Hiroshi Mizoguchi;Hiroshi G. Okuno

  • Lipreading using convolutional neural network

    Kuniaki Noda;Yuki Yamaguchi;Kazuhiro Nakadai;Hiroshi G. Okuno

  • Real-time sound source localization and separation for robot audition

    Kazuhiro Nakadai;Hiroshi G. Okuno;Hiroaki Kitano

  • Applying scattering theory to robot audition system: robust sound source localization and extraction

    K. Nakadai;D. Matsuura;H.G. Okuno;H. Kitano

  • Robot audiovisual system

    Kazuhiro Nakadai;Ken-ichi Hidai;Hiroshi Okuno;Hiroaki Kitano

  • Design of UAV-Embedded Microphone Array System for Sound Source Localization in Outdoor Environments

    Kotaro Hoshiba;Kai Washizaki;Mizuho Wakabayashi;Takahiro Ishiki

  • Robotics visual and auditory system

    Kazuhiro Nakadai;Hiroshi Okuno;Hiroaki Kitano

  • Instrument identification in polyphonic music: feature weighting to minimize influence of sound overlaps

    Tetsuro Kitahara;Masataka Goto;Kazunori Komatani;Tetsuya Ogata

  • A Modeling of Singing Voice Robust to Accompaniment Sounds and Its Application to Singer Identification and Vocal-Timbre-Similarity-Based Music Information Retrieval

    H. Fujihara;M. Goto;T. Kitahara;H.G. Okuno

  • Human-robot interaction through real-time auditory and visual multiple-talker tracking

    H.G. Okuno;K. Nakadai;K.I. Hidai;H. Mizoguchi

  • Robust Recognition of Simultaneous Speech by a Mobile Robot

    J.-M. Valin;S. Yamamoto;J. Rouat;F. Michaud

  • Automatic Synchronization between Lyrics and Music CD Recordings Based on Viterbi Alignment of Segregated Vocal Signals

    H. Fujihara;M. Goto;J. Ogata;K. Komatani

  • LyricSynchronizer: Automatic Synchronization System Between Musical Audio Signals and Lyrics

    H. Fujihara;M. Goto;J. Ogata;H. G. Okuno

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuya Ogata
Tetsuya Ogata Waseda University
Kazuhiro Nakadai
Kazuhiro Nakadai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Masataka Goto
Masataka Goto National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hiroaki Kitano
Hiroaki Kitano Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Jun Tani
Jun Tani Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Tatsuya Kawahara
Tatsuya Kawahara Kyoto University
Satoshi Tadokoro
Satoshi Tadokoro Tohoku University
Takuya Yoshioka
Takuya Yoshioka Microsoft (United States)

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