Angelica Lim

Angelica Lim

PhD Candidate, Speech Media Processing Group (Okuno Lab)
Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
京都大学大学院情報学研究科知能情報学専攻奥乃研究室
Rm: 424
Tel: 075-753-4952
E-mail : angelica[at]kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
LinkedIn: Angelica Lim

Publications

My Master's thesis was entitled Design and Implementation of Emotions for Humanoid Robots based on the Modality-independent DESIRE Model. (pdf, 31 Mb) It discusses how we can generate and analyze emotions in the same way, whether it's in voice, music or movement. My model is based on four parameters: speed, intensity, regularity and extent (SIRE). The thesis discusses how to use this approach to add emotional colour to humanoids such as HRP-2, NAO, and potentially any other robot.

Journals

Angelica Lim, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Towards expressive musical robots: A cross-modal framework for emotional gesture, voice and music, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2012:3, Published: 17 January 2012. doi:10.1186/1687-4722-2012-3
Angelica Lim, Takeshi Mizumoto, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: A musical robot that synchronizes with a co-player using non-verbal cues, Advanced Robotics, Special Issue on Cutting Edge of Robtics in Japan, Vol.26 (2012) pp.363-381. doi:10.1163/156855311X614626
リムアンジェリカ, 水本武志, 大塚琢馬, 古谷ルイ賢造, 尾形哲也, 奥乃博: 音楽共演ロボット: 開始・終了キューの画像認識による人間のフルート奏者との実時間同期, 情報処理学会論文誌, Vol.52, No.12 (Dec., 2011) 採録決定, Sep. 13, 2011. pdf

International Conferences

Angelica Lim, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Using speech data to recognize emotion in human gait, Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human Behavior and Understanding, IEEE/RSJ-2012 Workshop (acceptance rate 42%), A.A. Salah et al. (Eds): HBU 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.7559, pp.52-64, Springer, Algarve, Portugal, October 7, 2012.
Angelica Lim, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Converting emotional voice to motion for robot telepresence, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2011), accepted as oral (acceptance rate 17.4% = 28/190), Bled, Slovenia, Oct. 26-28, 2011.
Angelica Lim, Takeshi Mizumoto, Takuma Otsuka, Tatsuhiko Itohara, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: More cowbell! A musical ensemble with the NAO thereminist, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2011), IROS 2011 Standard Platform Demo, San Francisco, 25-30 Sep. 2011.
Angelica Lim, Takeshi Mizumoto, Louis-Kenzo Cahier, Takuma Otsuka, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Robot Musical Accompaniment: Integrating Audio and Visual Cues for Real-time Synchronization with a Human Flutist (Invited paper), Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2010), IEEE, RSJ, Taipei, Oct. 2010. NTF Award for Entertainment Robots and Systems (1/832 papers) pdf demo
Angelica Lim, Takeshi Mizumoto, Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Programming by Playing and Approaches for Expressive Robot Performances, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ-2010 Workshop on Robots and Musical Expression, Oct. 2010, Taipei, Taiwan. pdf demo page poster
Takeshi Mizumoto, Angelica Lim, Takuma Otsuka, Kazuhiro Nakadai, Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Integration of flutist gesture recognition and beat tracking for human-robot ensemble, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ-2010 Workshop on Robots and Musical Expression, Oct. 2010, Taipei, Taiwan. pdf

Editorial Activies

Guest Editor, Special Issue in Robots, Music and Emotions, International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2012)

Book reviews

Angelica Lim, Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems, Special Issue in Robots, Music and Emotions, International Journal of Synthetic Emotions, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2012)

National Conferences

Angelica Lim, 尾形哲也, 奥乃博: The DESIRE Model: Cross-modal emotion analysis and expression for robots, 情報処理学会第74回全国大会, 5ZA-4, 8 Mar. 2012. 名古屋工業大学. Presented in Japanese. Student award.
Angelica Lim, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Improving social telepresence by converting emotional voice to robot gesture, 日本ロボット学会第29回学術講演会,芝浦工業大学, Sep. 7-9, 2011. pdf
Angelica Lim, 中村圭佑, 中臺一博, 尾形哲也, 奥乃博: Audio-visual musical instrument recognition 情報処理学会第73回全国大会, 2-309-310, 5R-9, March 3, 2011. pdf
Angelica Lim, Takeshi Mizumoto, Louis-Kenzo Cahier, Takuma Otsuka, Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno: Multimodal gesture recognition for robot musical accompaniment, 日本ロボット学会第28回学術講演会, 名古屋工業大学, Sep. 2010.pdf
Angelica Lim, Takeshi Mizumoto, Takuma Otsuka, Toru Takahashi, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata and Hiroshi G. Okuno, Robot Musical Accompaniment: Real-time Synchronization using Visual Cue Recognition情処第72回全国大会, 6T-7, Mar. 2010pdf

In the Media

My TEDx Talk: On Designing User-Friendly Robots

Robot revolution -- Significant otherness in Japan. Daily Yomiuri, p.14, (Aug. 7, 2010): I play the role of ``human" in a shot with Geminoid-F and my robot, Naoki.

Robo-theremin player jams with humans, New Scientist TV - Born to be Viral (July 15, 2011)

BS Japan "A Prince Shotoku-like robot that listens to multiple voices at the same time!" (February 4, 2011): Played the flute with the opera-singing thereminist robot on Japanese TV!

Mensch 2.0 Der musikalische Kellner -- Ein Roberter, der alles hoert (January, 2011): Interview for Swiss-German documentary on latest robotics technology

GoRobotics: An interview on my background and perspective on robotics

Dot Diva: My profile alongside other cool gals in computer science!

Anita Borg Institute: An article about our autonomous underwater vehicle's (AUV) competition experience.

SFU Computing Science: On a Technical Achievement award for our Search and Rescue robot (Richard Tapia Robotics Competition).