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ACADEMIC:

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering from EPUSP-University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2000.
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering from EPUSP-University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2005.
- Ph. D. in Engineering - Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, 2010.
- POSTDOC in EPUSP-University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2012.

PUBLICATIONS:

COMPLETE ARTICLES

Nakano, A. Y.; Burt, P. M. S., "Directional acoustic source orientation estimation using only two microphones", Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 23, pp. 1918-1922, December 2013.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Automatic estimation of position and orientation of an acoustic source by a microphone array network," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126 (6), pp. 3084-3094, December 2009.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Auditory perception versus automatic estimation of location and orientation of an acoustic source in a real environment," Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 309-319, September 2010.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Distant Speech Recognition Using a Microphone Array Network," IEICE Transactions, Vol.E93-D, No.9, pp. 2451-2462, September 2010.
da Cunha M. P. and Nakano A. Y., "Comparison Between ST-Cut Quartz 25° and -60° NSPUDT Propagation Direction," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelec. Freq. Contr., Vol. 49, No. 6, June 2002, pp. 820-826.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Nakano, A. Y.; BURT, P. M. S. "Estimation of user orientation using GMMs for multiple voice-commanded devices environments". in Proc. of the International Workshop on Telecommunications (IWT), 2013, Santa Rita do Sapucaí, 2013.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Estimating the position and orientation of an acoustic source with a microphone array," Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK, pp. 1127-1130, September 2009.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Directional acoustic source's position and orientation estimation approach by a microphone array network," in IEEE Proc. of the 13th DSP Workshop & 5th SPE Workshop, Marco Island, USA, pp. 606.611, January 2009.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; Wang, L.; "Sound source localization by distributed microphone network", Proc. Nonlinear Circuit and Signal Processing, Gold Coast, Australia, pp.383-386, March 2008.
Nakano A. Y. and da Cunha M. P., "Experimental Results for Quartz St 300° versus Quartz St 25°,"1999 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference Proceedings, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, August 09-12, 1999.
Braga E. R. and Nakano A. Y. and da Cunha M. P., "A Saw Resonator Sensor System Employed in Humidity Measurements," 1999 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference Proceedings, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, August 09-12, 1999.
da Cunha M.P. and Nakano A. Y., "Experimental Comparison Between St-Quartz 25° and 300° NSPUDT Orientations," IEEE 1999 International Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings, pp. 259-262, October 17-21, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, 1999.

DOMESTIC (JAPAN)

Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "A maximum likelihood approach to suppress the reverberation effect using a single microphone," Acoustical Society of Japan - Autumn Meeting, 1-Q-10, September, 2010.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Distant speech recognition using spatial information estimated by a microphone array network", Acoustical Society of Japan - Autumn Meeting, 1-R-22, September, 2009.
Nakano, A. Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Nakagawa, S.; "Improvements in acoustic source's position and orientation estimation by a microphone array network", Acoustical Society of Japan - Spring Meeting, 3-P-6, March, 2009.
Nakano, A. Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Nakagawa, S.; "Acoustic source's position and orientation estimation by a microphone array network", Acoustical Society of Japan - Autumn Meeting, 3-P-17, September, 2008.
Nakano, A. Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Nakagawa, S.; "Auditory perception of speaking position, distance and facing angle is a real enclosed environment", Acoustical Society of Japan - Autumn Meeting, 1-R-9, September, 2008.
Nakano, A. Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Nakagawa, S.; "Acoustic source localization based on distributed microphone arrays in a living room", Acoustical Society of Japan - Spring Meeting, 2-6-18, March, 2008.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Distant speech recognition using spatial information," G-COE International Symposium 2009, pp. 21, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2009.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Using spatial information for speech recognition," Application and Deepening of Intelligent Sensing Technology (ADIST 2009), pp. 55, Toyohashi, Japan, September, 2009.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Speech recognition under real environmental conditions," Second Symposium on Frontiers of Intelligent Sensing (FIS2009), pp. 92-93, Toyohashi, Japan, March, 2009.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Acoustic source's position and orientation estimation," Application and Deepening of Intelligent Sensing Technology (ADIST 2008), pp. 55, Toyohashi, Japan, October, 2008.
Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Acoustic source localization based on distributed microphone arrays," First Symposium on Frontiers of Intelligent Sensing (FIS2008), pp. 72-73, Toyohashi, Japan, March, 2008.

DOMESTIC (BRAZIL)

Nakano, A. Y.; Burt, P.M.S., "Estimação Da Orientação De Uma Fonte Acústica Direcional Com Um Arranjo De Dois Microfones", XXXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações (SBrT), Fortaleza, 2013. (in Portuguese)
Nakano, A. Y.; Burt, P.M.S., "Dereverberação de voz baseada em dois estágio de predição linear utilizando múltiplos microfones", XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, Campinas, Brazil, 2005. (in Portuguese)
Braga E. R., Nakano A. Y., e da Cunha M. P., "Um sistema sensor a ressoador SAW empregado como medidor de concentração de acetona e álcoois,? Anais do 2000 IX Simpósio Brasileiro de Microondas e Optoeletrônica - SBMO, 07 a 11 de Agosto de 2000, Tropical Hotel Tambaú, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil. (in Portuguese)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

- Speech Processing
- Speech & Speaker Recognition
- Noise Reduction and Reverberation Suppression
- Acoustic Localization (Position and Orientation)
- Microphone Array
- Adaptive Filtering
- Digital Signal Processing
- Perception
- Acoustics

OTHER INTERESTS:

Digital Image Processing
Telecommunication Systems
Artificial Neural Networks
Pattern Recognition
Home Automation - Domotics.
- Contact: Caio Bolzani. caio [at] bolzani.com.br

ACADEMIC LINKS:

- Nakagawa's Laboratory
- Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT)
- Communications and Signals Laboratory (LCS)
- Polytechnique School of the University of São Paulo (EPUSP)
- University of São Paulo (USP)
- Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR)
- UTFPR - Toledo Campus

USEFUL PROGRAMS:

Debian Project - Linux operating system
Ubuntu Project - Linux operating system
Mozilla's Firefox - Browser
Mozilla's Thunderbird - E-Mail client
BleGriffon Web Editor
GNU Octave - For numerical computation
Scilab - For numerical computation
TeXnicCenter - LaTeX editor
MikTeX - LaTeX/TeX Suite
Scintilla and SciTE - Text editors
LibreOffice - Office suite
Putty - SSH and Telnet Client
WinSCP - Free SFTP, SCP and FTP client for Windows



	ACADEMIC:
	- B.S. in Electrical Engineering from EPUSP-University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2000. - M.S. in Electrical Engineering from EPUSP-University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2005. - Ph. D. in Engineering - Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, 2010. - POSTDOC in EPUSP-University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2012.


	PUBLICATIONS:
	COMPLETE ARTICLES Nakano, A. Y.; Burt, P. M. S., "Directional acoustic source orientation estimation using only two microphones", Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 23, pp. 1918-1922, December 2013. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Automatic estimation of position and orientation of an acoustic source by a microphone array network," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126 (6), pp. 3084-3094, December 2009. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Auditory perception versus automatic estimation of location and orientation of an acoustic source in a real environment," Acoustical Science and Technology, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 309-319, September 2010. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Distant Speech Recognition Using a Microphone Array Network," IEICE Transactions, Vol.E93-D, No.9, pp. 2451-2462, September 2010. da Cunha M. P. and Nakano A. Y., "Comparison Between ST-Cut Quartz 25° and -60° NSPUDT Propagation Direction," IEEE Trans. Ultrason. Ferroelec. Freq. Contr., Vol. 49, No. 6, June 2002, pp. 820-826.
	INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES Nakano, A. Y.; BURT, P. M. S. "Estimation of user orientation using GMMs for multiple voice-commanded devices environments". in Proc. of the International Workshop on Telecommunications (IWT), 2013, Santa Rita do Sapucaí, 2013. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Estimating the position and orientation of an acoustic source with a microphone array," Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK, pp. 1127-1130, September 2009. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Directional acoustic source's position and orientation estimation approach by a microphone array network," in IEEE Proc. of the 13th DSP Workshop & 5th SPE Workshop, Marco Island, USA, pp. 606.611, January 2009. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; Wang, L.; "Sound source localization by distributed microphone network", Proc. Nonlinear Circuit and Signal Processing, Gold Coast, Australia, pp.383-386, March 2008. Nakano A. Y. and da Cunha M. P., "Experimental Results for Quartz St 300° versus Quartz St 25°,"1999 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference Proceedings, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, August 09-12, 1999. Braga E. R. and Nakano A. Y. and da Cunha M. P., "A Saw Resonator Sensor System Employed in Humidity Measurements," 1999 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference Proceedings, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, August 09-12, 1999. da Cunha M.P. and Nakano A. Y., "Experimental Comparison Between St-Quartz 25° and 300° NSPUDT Orientations," IEEE 1999 International Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings, pp. 259-262, October 17-21, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, 1999.
	DOMESTIC (JAPAN) Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "A maximum likelihood approach to suppress the reverberation effect using a single microphone," Acoustical Society of Japan - Autumn Meeting, 1-Q-10, September, 2010. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; Yamamoto, K.; "Distant speech recognition using spatial information estimated by a microphone array network", Acoustical Society of Japan - Autumn Meeting, 1-R-22, September, 2009. Nakano, A. Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Nakagawa, S.; "Improvements in acoustic source's position and orientation estimation by a microphone array network", Acoustical Society of Japan - Spring Meeting, 3-P-6, March, 2009. Nakano, A. Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Nakagawa, S.; "Acoustic source's position and orientation estimation by a microphone array network", Acoustical Society of Japan - Autumn Meeting, 3-P-17, September, 2008. Nakano, A. Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Nakagawa, S.; "Auditory perception of speaking position, distance and facing angle is a real enclosed environment", Acoustical Society of Japan - Autumn Meeting, 1-R-9, September, 2008. Nakano, A. Y.; Yamamoto, K.; Nakagawa, S.; "Acoustic source localization based on distributed microphone arrays in a living room", Acoustical Society of Japan - Spring Meeting, 2-6-18, March, 2008. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Distant speech recognition using spatial information," G-COE International Symposium 2009, pp. 21, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2009. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Using spatial information for speech recognition," Application and Deepening of Intelligent Sensing Technology (ADIST 2009), pp. 55, Toyohashi, Japan, September, 2009. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Speech recognition under real environmental conditions," Second Symposium on Frontiers of Intelligent Sensing (FIS2009), pp. 92-93, Toyohashi, Japan, March, 2009. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Acoustic source's position and orientation estimation," Application and Deepening of Intelligent Sensing Technology (ADIST 2008), pp. 55, Toyohashi, Japan, October, 2008. Nakano, A. Y.; Nakagawa, S.; "Acoustic source localization based on distributed microphone arrays," First Symposium on Frontiers of Intelligent Sensing (FIS2008), pp. 72-73, Toyohashi, Japan, March, 2008.
	DOMESTIC (BRAZIL) Nakano, A. Y.; Burt, P.M.S., "Estimação Da Orientação De Uma Fonte Acústica Direcional Com Um Arranjo De Dois Microfones", XXXI Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações (SBrT), Fortaleza, 2013. (in Portuguese) Nakano, A. Y.; Burt, P.M.S., "Dereverberação de voz baseada em dois estágio de predição linear utilizando múltiplos microfones", XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, Campinas, Brazil, 2005. (in Portuguese) Braga E. R., Nakano A. Y., e da Cunha M. P., "Um sistema sensor a ressoador SAW empregado como medidor de concentração de acetona e álcoois,? Anais do 2000 IX Simpósio Brasileiro de Microondas e Optoeletrônica - SBMO, 07 a 11 de Agosto de 2000, Tropical Hotel Tambaú, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil. (in Portuguese)
	RESEARCH INTERESTS: - Speech Processing - Speech & Speaker Recognition - Noise Reduction and Reverberation Suppression - Acoustic Localization (Position and Orientation) - Microphone Array - Adaptive Filtering - Digital Signal Processing - Perception - Acoustics
	OTHER INTERESTS: Digital Image Processing Telecommunication Systems Artificial Neural Networks Pattern Recognition Home Automation - Domotics. Contact: Caio Bolzani. caio [at] bolzani.com.br
	ACADEMIC LINKS: - Nakagawa's Laboratory - Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) - Communications and Signals Laboratory (LCS) - Polytechnique School of the University of São Paulo (EPUSP) - University of São Paulo (USP) - Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR) - UTFPR - Toledo Campus
	USEFUL PROGRAMS: Debian Project - Linux operating system Ubuntu Project - Linux operating system Mozilla's Firefox - Browser Mozilla's Thunderbird - E-Mail client BleGriffon Web Editor GNU Octave - For numerical computation Scilab - For numerical computation TeXnicCenter - LaTeX editor MikTeX - LaTeX/TeX Suite Scintilla and SciTE - Text editors LibreOffice - Office suite Putty - SSH and Telnet Client WinSCP - Free SFTP, SCP and FTP client for Windows
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