Hiroyasu SAIGA
・Master's degree student, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto Universitiy
・e-mail:saiga[at]ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
My Research
Masters study
Papers
・Graduate thesis
- Title:Automatic detection and function analysis of nodding in multi-party conversation(pdf, in Japanese)
- Abstract:The system detects head-nodding automatically using accel sensors and analyzes functions by cllustering against verbal and non-verbal behaviors.
- System Flow:

・Oral Presentation(No Reviewed)
- Title:Automatic detection and function analysis of nodding in multi-party conversation
Authors:Hiroyasu Saiga, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida
72nd National Convention of IPSJ, March, 2010, Tokyo(pdf, in Japanese)
- Title:Function analysis of nodding for conversation adjustment in multi-party conversation
Authors:Hiroyasu Saiga, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida
May, 2010, Hakodate26th IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems(pdf, in Japanese)
- Title:Function Analysis of Nodding for Control of Turn-Taking in Multi-Party Conversation
Authors:Hiroyasu Saiga, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida
IPSJ Kansai BranchJuly, 2010, Osaka(pdf, in Japanese)
- Title:Function Analysis of Head Nodding in Multi-party Conversations
Authors:Hiroyasu Saiga, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida
Interaction2011, March, 2011, Tokyo(pdf,Poster)
My paper about graduate research in English is here.
Graduate study
- Acquire rules of verbal and nonverbal behaviors in multi-party conversation(Make dictionary and grammers of Human behaviors)
- Detect nonverbal behaviors automatically from sensors data
- Develop the environment for recording and analyzing multi-party conversations → IMADE-room, iCorpusStudio
IMADE-room
- The environment for recording multi-party conversation
- Sensors: Motion capture, Eye tracking, Network camera array, Head-worn microphone, Acceleration sensors...etc
- Show multiple movies and sounds at the same time
- Show and compute sensor data, annotation data(labels), and motion data(3Ddata)
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