Commissioned researches
Commissioned researches selected in 2022
Corresponding to our open call for commissioned research, 17 proposals were submitted.
The following 5 researches were selected after a rigorous and fair review process.
| Research Leader | Title/Affiliation | Program Name | Summary |
| Shinnosuke TAKAMICHI | Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo | Machine Learning and Corpus Developments for Vocal Harmony Synthesis | |
| Ichiro KOBAYASHI | Professor, Ochanomizu University | A Challenge in Building Fundamental Technologies for Real-World Simulation with Language | |
| Daisuke KAWAHARA | Professor, Waseda University | Establishment of Evaluation Technology for Open-domain Dialogue Systems and its Applications | |
| Akiko AIZAWA | Professor, National Institute of Informatics | Understanding Documents with a Graphical User Interface: Task Design and Model Construction | |
| Shohei YOKOYAMA | Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University | Passive Biometric Authentication without Biometric Database |
Commissioned researches selected in 2019
Corresponding to our open call for commissioned research, 23 proposals were submitted.
The following 8 researches were selected after a strict and fair review process.
Acceptance/rejection notices were sent to applicants during August.
| Research Leader | Title/Affiliation | Program Name | Summary |
| Hayato YAMANA | Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University | A Passive Authentication Scheme with Imitation Resistance for Smartphones | Detail |
| Yuichi TANAKA | Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology | Extreme Signal Processing | Detail |
| Toshio IRINO | Professor, Faculty of Systems Engineering, Wakayama University | Extraction of clear speech feature using hearing impairment simulator based on auditory characteristics | Detail |
| Xuping HUANG | Assistant Professor, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology | Privacy Preserving IoT Healthcare Time-series Data Analysis for Fatigue Detection and Disease Prediction | Detail |
| Masato AKAGI | Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Study on voice conversion system between multiple speakers in multiple languages using non-parallel data for training | Detail |
| Sakti SAKRIANI | Associate Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology | Research on multi-modal speech chain for action recognition of elderly people using audio-visual information | Detail |
| Tomoko MATSUI | Professor, Department of Statistical Modeling, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics | Data Representation Learning Based on Statistical Methods | Detail |
| Naoki YOSHINAGA | Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo | Social Implementation of Chat Dialogue System for Elderly Healthcare Monitoring | Detail |
Commissioned researches selected in 2018
The following 9 researches were selected in January of 2019 with the research period until the end of March, 2020. The first 3 commissioned researches by Prof. KUROHASHI(Kyoto Uni.), Prof. KAWAHARA(Kyoto Uni.) and Prof. KOBAYASHI(Waseda Uni.) were finished in September, 2019, and were shifted to collaborative researches since October, 2019.
| Research Leader | Title/Affiliation | Program Name | Summary |
| Sadao KUROHASHI | Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University | Analysis and modeling of speaker internal state using persuasive dialogue corpus | Detail |
| Tatsuya KAWAHARA | Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University | Robust Audio Scene Analysis | Detail |
| Tetsunori KOBAYASHI | Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University | Multiparty conversation technologies for AI speakers. | Detail |
| Yusuke MIYAO | Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo | Research on Natural Language Processing Technologies for Spoken Dialogues | Detail |
| Eiji ARAMAKI | Associate Professor, Institute of Research Initiative, Nara Institute of Science and Technology | Study on Cognitive Impairment Screening using Smart Speaker | Detail |
| Kentaro INUI | Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University | Knowledge-intensive, Data-driven Dialogue Response Generation | Detail |
| Nobuaki MINEMATSU | Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo | Development of robust speech collection infrastructure for CALL studies using mobile terminals | Detail |
| Hiroaki OSHIMA | Associate Professor, Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo | Monitoring Elderly Person Living Alone by IoT Devices and Its Application to Facilitate Family Communication | Detail |
| Akiyo NADAMOTO | Professor, Department of Intelligence and Informatics, Konan University | Automatic generation of daily laughing content | Detail |