Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
WIT |
2016-07-16 10:20 |
Yamanashi |
University of Yamanashi Organization for Information Management |
An analisys of archival materials of education for congenital Deafblind, and digitization of the materials Akira Okamoto (NTUT), Akemi Shirakura (Fujizakura SSES), Misako Nambu (FUN), Kazuhuko Amano, Manabi Miyagi (NTUT) WIT2016-27 |
Soon after the Second World War, education for two congenital Deafblind children have been provided at Yamanashi Prefect... [more] |
WIT2016-27 pp.31-36 |
WIT, SP, ASJ-H, PRMU |
2015-06-19 14:00 |
Niigata |
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The Effect of the Number of Scales on Target Search Time in Tactile Maps Midori Mishina, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.) PRMU2015-57 SP2015-26 WIT2015-26 |
The previous studies have shown that the scales around tactile maps for blind people can shorten the search time for tac... [more] |
PRMU2015-57 SP2015-26 WIT2015-26 pp.149-152 |
WIT |
2015-03-13 15:40 |
Ibaraki |
Kasuga Campus, Tsukuba University of Technology |
A Study on Discriminability of Sizes of Tactile Dot Symbols Printed on Swell Paper
-- Comparison between Blind People and Sighted People -- Takahiro Yamazaki, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.) WIT2014-98 |
We conducted an experiment to find highly discriminable combinations of tactile circular dot symbols on swell paper with... [more] |
WIT2014-98 pp.73-77 |
WIT |
2015-03-14 16:00 |
Ibaraki |
Kasuga Campus, Tsukuba University of Technology |
An improvement of blind bowling support system which detects remaining pins and ball trajectory
-- Sharing of speech information and presumption of ball position in arrows area -- Makoto Kobayashi (TUT) WIT2014-119 |
To play a blind bowling, the blind player have to be supported by sighted assistant with telling information like ball t... [more] |
WIT2014-119 pp.191-195 |
WIT |
2014-09-12 16:10 |
Hyogo |
Kobe Univ. Kusunoki Campus |
A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers and the Internet among Blind and Visually Impaired People in 2013 Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (NDC) WIT2014-23 |
A survey was conducted on the use of personal computers and the Internet by blind and visually impaired people. Among 30... [more] |
WIT2014-23 pp.25-30 |
SP, WIT |
2013-06-14 14:30 |
Niigata |
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Development of an Adjusting Device for Elderly Person's TV
-- Aim to make broadcasting sounds easier to listen to -- Tomoyasu Komori (NHK Engineering System), Atsushi Imai, Nobumasa Seiyama, Reiko Takou (NHK), Tohru Takagi (NHK Engineering System), Yasuhiro Oikawa (Waseda Univ.) SP2013-49 WIT2013-19 |
With the aim of making speech easier to listen to on a TV receiver. We are researching effective ways of combining speec... [more] |
SP2013-49 WIT2013-19 pp.107-112 |
SIP, CAS, CS |
2013-03-14 16:05 |
Yamagata |
Keio Univ. Tsuruoka Campus (Yamagata) |
[Invited Talk]
On the issues of DOA Estimation and Separation for Multiple Speech Signals Nozomu Hamada (Keio Univ.) CAS2012-108 SIP2012-139 CS2012-114 |
On the issues of direction-of-arrival estimation of multiple sound sources and blind source separation of mixed speech s... [more] |
CAS2012-108 SIP2012-139 CS2012-114 pp.69-74 |
SANE, SAT (Joint) |
2013-02-22 10:15 |
Okinawa |
Youth Center of Okinawa prefecture |
Blind Adaptive Channel Equalizer of Multi-Path Feedback Channel for OFDM-Based Wireless Repeater System Faramarz Asharif, Shiro Tamaki, Mohammad Reza Alsharif (Univ. of the Ryukyus), Heung Gyoon Ryu (Chungbuk National Univ.) SAT2012-61 |
In this paper, we aim to blindly equalize the feedback multipath channel in relay system. Blind equalizers do not requir... [more] |
SAT2012-61 pp.83-86 |
HCS, HIP, HI-SIGCOASTER [detail] |
2012-05-22 16:40 |
Okinawa |
Okinawa Industry Support Center |
Accesibility of information terminal devices with touchscreen Ryo Hashimoto, Masahiro Watanabe, Yoko Asano (NTT) HCS2012-15 HIP2012-15 |
Now, many people have a smartphone with touchscreen interface. However, since accessibility of smartphone OS using touch... [more] |
HCS2012-15 HIP2012-15 pp.109-114 |
WIT |
2012-01-28 10:45 |
Aichi |
Nagoya Institute of Technology |
Search Methods of Landmarks Along the Route for Producing Route Guidances by Speech George Akiyama (Niigata Univ.), Tetsuya Watanabe (NiigatFaculty of Engineering, University of Niia Univ.), Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (DNC), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (NISE) WIT2011-60 |
Route guidances are one of walking assistance for visually impaired people. We are developing the route guidance automat... [more] |
WIT2011-60 pp.51-56 |
EA |
2011-06-23 15:15 |
Hokkaido |
Health Sci. Univ. of Hokkaido |
Reducing Computational Complexity of ICA Source Separation Based on Coherence Between Observed Signals Yusuke Mizuno, Satoshi Esaki (Nagoya Univ.), Kazunobu Kondo (Yamaha), Takanori Nishino (Mie Univ.), Norihide Kitaoka, Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya Univ.) EA2011-33 |
Source separation techniques can be used in the preprocessing of speech signals, in order to improve speech recognition ... [more] |
EA2011-33 pp.19-24 |
WIT |
2011-05-21 14:30 |
Niigata |
Niigata Univ. |
Development of a Route Guidance System for Blind Pedestrians George Akiyama, Tetsuya Watanabe, Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (DNC), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (NISE) WIT2011-18 |
We developed a route guidance automatic creating system to help blind people know their route by speech. The route guida... [more] |
WIT2011-18 pp.97-100 |
WIT |
2011-05-21 15:15 |
Niigata |
Niigata Univ. |
Evaluation of Findability and Discriminability of Tactile Symbols in Tactile Maps Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe, George Akiyama (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (National Center for Univ. Entrance Exam.), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (NISE) WIT2011-19 |
To assist blind persons’ mobility, we are developing a tactile map automated creation system. As it is important to read... [more] |
WIT2011-19 pp.101-105 |
WIT |
2010-08-06 11:00 |
Tokyo |
NHK Sci. Tech. Res. Labs. |
Search for Table Contents by Speech synthesis and Tactile Preseatation Masamitsu Misono (KGS/Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ.), Tadahiro Sakai, Takuya Handa (NHK), Hanae Fuzii, Yu Matsuura, Koichi Oda (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ.) WIT2010-25 |
We are examined the effects of the understanding and search for contents by tactile presentation, which enables a space ... [more] |
WIT2010-25 pp.41-46 |
SP, EA, SIP |
2010-05-26 14:55 |
Hyogo |
Konan Univ. (Hirao Seminar House) |
[Invited Talk]
Recent advances in blind speech dereverberation Keisuke Kinoshita, Takuya Yoshioka, Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT CS labs.) EA2010-5 SIP2010-5 SP2010-5 |
A speech signal captured by a distant microphone inevitably contains reverberant components due to reflection from, for ... [more] |
EA2010-5 SIP2010-5 SP2010-5 pp.25-30 |
WIT |
2010-05-21 16:15 |
Niigata |
Tokimate, Univ. of Niigata |
Development of a Mail Service that Supplys Surrounding Information Using the GPS Function of Mobile Phones George Akiyama, Tetsuya Watanabe, Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (Nati. Center for Univ. Entrance Examination), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (Nati. Inst. of Special Needs Education) WIT2010-7 |
Fujitsu's RakuRaku phone series with the voice output function can send GPS information by e-mail. Using this informatio... [more] |
WIT2010-7 pp.33-37 |
PRMU, IE, MI |
2010-05-14 11:00 |
Aichi |
Chubu Univ. |
Estimating Blind Spot to Support Drivers Kazuma Minoura, Noritaka Sekiyama, Toyohide Watanabe (Nagoya Univ.) IE2010-34 PRMU2010-22 MI2010-22 |
The intersection is a place where many accidents often occur. Many collisions occurred at intersection are so reasonable... [more] |
IE2010-34 PRMU2010-22 MI2010-22 pp.115-120 |
SWIM |
2010-02-26 14:05 |
Tokyo |
Kikai Sinkukaikan B3-2 |
Implementation of the Navigation System VONAVS for the Blind in Patient Service Cloud Tamotsu Noji, Hiroyuki Kitamura, Yuusuke Minato (Tokai Univ.) SWIM2009-21 |
he main point of the guidance support method for visually impaired person and blind person is show the possibility of th... [more] |
SWIM2009-21 pp.13-18 |
WIT |
2010-01-09 14:15 |
Tokyo |
Shibaura Univ. |
[Invited Talk]
Review and Prospect of Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired and Blind Bersons Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (Nat. Center Entrance Exam.) WIT2009-78 |
This paper reviewed Technical Reports of IEICE which were presented in Technical Committee WIT for the last ten years (1... [more] |
WIT2009-78 pp.57-64 |
RCS, AP (Joint) |
2009-11-27 14:55 |
Tokyo |
Tokyo Inst. of Tech. |
Acceleration of ICA by FPGA-based hardware Shunsuke Fujio, Hidehisa Shiomi, Yasuyuki Okamura (Osaka Univ.) AP2009-139 |
The ICA (Independent Component Analysis) is one of the blind estimation technologies. The MIMO (Multiple-input Multiple-... [more] |
AP2009-139 pp.119-122 |