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Shimon the Robot Film Composer and DeepScore: An LSTM for Generation of Film Scores based on Visual Analysis
Richard Savery, Gil Weinberg
Composing for a film requires developing an understanding of the film, its characters and the film aesthetic choices made by the director. We propose using existing visual analysis…
Emotional Musical Prosody: Validated Vocal Dataset for Human Robot Interaction
Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg
Human collaboration with robotics is dependant on the development of a relationship between human and robot, without which performance and utilization can decrease. Emotion and per…
Shimon the Rapper: A Real-Time System for Human-Robot Interactive Rap Battles
Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg
We present a system for real-time lyrical improvisation between a human and a robot in the style of hip hop. Our system takes vocal input from a human rapper, analyzes the semantic…
Emotional Musical Prosody for the Enhancement of Trust in Robotic Arm Communication
Richard Savery, Lisa Zahray, Gil Weinberg
As robotic arms become prevalent in industry it is crucial to improve levels of trust from human collaborators. Low levels of trust in human-robot interaction can reduce overall pe…
Mechatronics-Driven Musical Expressivity for Robotic Percussionists
Ning Yang, Richard Savery, Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan +2
Musical expressivity is an important aspect of musical performance for humans as well as robotic musicians. We present a novel mechatronics-driven implementation of Brushless Direc…
A Survey of Robotics and Emotion: Classifications and Models of Emotional Interaction
Richard Savery, Gil Weinberg
As emotion plays a growing role in robotic research it is crucial to develop methods to analyze and compare among the wide range of approaches. To this end we present a survey of 1…
Establishing Human-Robot Trust through Music-Driven Robotic Emotion Prosody and Gesture
Richard Savery, Ryan Rose, Gil Weinberg
As human-robot collaboration opportunities continue to expand, trust becomes ever more important for full engagement and utilization of robots. Affective trust, built on emotional…