Auditory feedback influences human speech production, as demonstrated by studies using rapid pitch and loudness changes. Feedback has also been investigated using the gradual manipulation of formants in adaptation studies with whispered speech. In the work reported here, the first formant of steady-state isolated vowels was unexpectedly altered within trials for voiced speech. This was achieved...

We propose the Dexterous Manipulation Graph as a tool to address in-hand manipulation and reposition an object inside a robot’s end-effector. This graph is used to plan a sequence of manipulation primitives so to bring the object to the desired end pose. This sequence of primitives is translated into motions of the robot to move the object held by the endeffector. We use a dual arm robot with p...

A set of simple new procedures has been developed to enable the real-time manipulation of speech parameters. The proposed method uses pitch-adaptive spectral analysis combined with a surface reconstruction method in the time-frequency region, and an excitation source design based on phase manipulation. The proposed procedures preserve the details of time-frequency surfaces while almost perfectl...

This paper presents a method for using a runner’s pace for real-time control of the time-scaling functionality of a phase vocoder, resulting in the automated synchronization of an audio track tempo to the generated control signal. The increase in usage of portable music players during exercise has given rise to the development of new personal exercise aids, most notably the Nike+iPod system, wh...

Many problems in image processing and computer vision (e.g. colorization, style transfer) can be posed as “manipulating” an input image into a corresponding output image given a user-specified guiding signal. A holy-grail solution towards generic image manipulation should be able to efficiently alter an input image with any personalized signals (even signals unseen during training), such as div...

This paper reviews the current state of the art and outlook in robotic tactile sensing for real-time control of dextrous manipulation. We begin with an overview of human touch sensing capabilities and draw lessons for robotic manipulation. Next, tactile sensor devices are described, including tactile array sensors, force-torque sensors, and dynamic tactile sensors. The information provided by t...

Malware analysts have an arsenal of tools with which to reverse engineer malware but lack the means to monitor, debug and control malicious network traffi c. In this paper we propose the use of Haka, an open source security-oriented language, to address this problem. The rationale for this is fourfold: fi rst, Haka features a grammar that allows one to naturally express malware protocol dissect...

Tabletop environments are ideal for collaborative activities that involve moving and arranging objects. However, manipulating 3D virtual objects through the 2D interface is challenging because users’ 2D actions must be translated into 3D actions. We explore the use of touch and tangibles to aid collaboration and 3D object manipulation. Our user study shows that using touch and tangible interact...

An explicit manipulation of business rules in information systems development (ISD) is an old domain. There were many attempts in the last two decades to define how the rules should be dealt with throughout the ISD activities. Despite many results that have been achieved, several questions regarding business rule manipulation within ISD remain unresolved and present challenges for future resear...