ManyEars Files

The ManyEars Project: Microphone Array-Based Audition for Mobile Robots
IntroLab, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada  
http://manyears.sourceforge.net            
http://introlab.3it.usherbrooke.ca

ManyEars: Overall context - Header                                          
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Author: Francois Grondin                                                    
Original Code: Jean-Marc Valin                                              
Modified Code: Simon Briere                                                 
Support : Dominic Letourneau
Version: 1.1.4                                                             
Date: 28/07/2014                                                        
           
CHANGES
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1.1.4
* Make sure buffers are the right size before processing, 
  the Windows driver did not always return the requested frame size. 
* Updated installer.
* Added documentation menu and sub window. Fixed sub windows titles.

1.1.2
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* Updated RTAudio
* Added debug Window
* Displaying only supported sound card in sound card selection GUI
* Avoid crashing when the driver does not send us the required data size


1.1.0
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Initial release.

                     
LICENSE                                                                     
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ManyEars is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ManyEars is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with ManyEars. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.                         
                                                                            
PUBLICATIONS
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1) F. Grondin, D. Létourneau, F. Ferland, V. Rousseau, F.Michaud, "The ManyEars open framework", Autonomous Robots, 1-16, 2013.                                                                        

2) S. Briere, J.-M. Valin, F. Michaud, Dominic Letourneau, Embedded Auditory System for Small Mobile Robots, Proc. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2008.

3) J.-M. Valin, S. Yamamoto, J. Rouat, F. Michaud, K. Nakadai, H. G. Okuno, Robust Recognition of Simultaneous Speech By a Mobile Robot, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 742-752, 2007.            
                                                                             
4) J.-M. Valin, F. Michaud, J. Rouat, Robust Localization and Tracking of Simultaneous Moving Sound Sources Using Beamforming and Particle Filtering. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Elsevier), Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 216-228, 2007.                                               
                                                                              
5) S. Yamamoto, K. Nakadai, M. Nakano, H. Tsujino, J.-M. Valin, K. Komatani, T. Ogata, H. G. Okuno, Simultaneous Speech Recognition based on Automatic Missing-Feature Mask Generation integrated with Sound Source Separation (in Japanese). Journal of Robotic Society of Japan, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2007.                                                            
                                                                              
6) J.-M. Valin, F. Michaud, J. Rouat, Robust 3D Localization and Tracking of Sound Sources Using Beamforming and Particle Filtering. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 841-844, 2006.                                            
                                                                              
7) S. Briere, D. Letourneau, M. Frechette, J.-M. Valin, F. Michaud, Embedded and integration audition for a mobile robot. Proceedings AAAI Fall Symposium Workshop Aurally Informed Performance: Integrating Machine Listening and Auditory Presentation in Robotic Systems, FS-06-01, 6-10, 2006                                                                    
                                                                              
8) S. Yamamoto, K. Nakadai, J.-M. Valin, J. Rouat, F. Michaud, K. Komatani, T. Ogata, H. G. Okuno, Making a robot recognize three simultaneous sentences in real-time. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2005.              
                                                                              
9) M. Murase, S. Yamamoto, J.-M. Valin, K. Nakadai, K. Yamada, K. Komatani, T. Ogata, H. G. Okuno, Multiple Moving Speaker Tracking by Microphone Array on Mobile Robot. Proc. European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech), 2005.                       
                                                                              
10) S. Yamamoto, J.-M. Valin, K. Nakadai, J. Rouat, F. Michaud, T. Ogata, H. G. Okuno, Enhanced Robot Speech Recognition Based on Microphone Array Source Separation and Missing Feature Theory. Proc. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005.                     
                                                                              
11) J.-M. Valin, J. Rouat, F. Michaud, Enhanced Robot Audition Based on Microphone Array Source Separation with Post-Filter. Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2123-2128, 2004.                                                    
                                                                              
12) J.-M. Valin, F. Michaud, J. Rouat, D. Letourneau, Robust Sound Source Localization Using a Microphone Array on a Mobile Robot. Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1228-1233, 2003.                                                    
                                                                              
13) J.-M. Valin, F. Michaud, B. Hadjou, J. Rouat, Localization of Simultaneous Moving Sound Sources for Mobile Robot Using a Frequency-Domain Steered Beamformer Approach. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1033-1038, 2004.                             
                                                                              
14) J.-M. Valin, J. Rouat, F. Michaud, Microphone Array Post-Filter for Separation of Simultaneous Non-Stationary Sources. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 221-224, 2004.