OHISHI Yasunori (NTT)

INFORMATION

4~8/5/2020: New!　Present our research at oral session of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2020@Barcelona, Spain
Y. Ohishi, A. Kimura, T. Kawanishi, K. Kashino, D. Harwath, and J. Glass,
"Trilingual Semantic Embeddings of Visually Grounded Speech with Self-attention Mechanisms," 'Signal Processing for Multimedia Applications I'
5/10/2017: Back to NTT CSL
5/9/2014: Transfer to NTT DATA
It's a pleasure doing business with you!
5/9/2014: Received 36th Awaya Kiyoshi Science Promotion Award from Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
15/7/2014: Gave a special lecture on audio content-based music retrieval at Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
Please check the papers here.
5,6/6/2014: NTT Communication Science Labs. OPEN HOUSE 2014
Date: 5/6/2014 THU. 12:00-17:30, 5/6/2014 FRI. 9:30-16:00
Place: NTT Keihanna Building, No Admission Charge, No Pre-registration Required
http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/openhouse/2014/
25/5/2014: Received the poster award at the Ongaku Symposium 2014 from Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
24,25/5/2014: Presented our research at a poster session of the Ongaku Symposium 2014
Yasunori Ohishi, Daichi Mochihashi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kunio Kashino,
"Prediction of Vocal F0 Contour and Singing Style Conversion based on Mixture of Gaussian Process Experts"
4~9/5/2014: Presented our researches at oral and poster sessions of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2014@Florence, Italy
Yasunori Ohishi, Daichi Mochihashi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kunio Kashino,
"Mixture of Gaussian process experts for predicting sung melodic contour with expressive dynamic fluctuations"
Masahiro Nakano, Yasunori Ohishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ryo Mukai, Kunio Kashino,
"Mondrian hidden Markov model for music signal processing"
Please check the papers here.

PROFILE

Japanese cherry

1981.12 Born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
2000.03 Graduated from Aichi prefectual Okazaki high school
2004.03 Graduated from Department of Electrical and Electoronic Engineering and Information Engineering, Nagoya University
2009.03 Received Ph.D. from Nagoya University.
Currently, Yasunori Ohishi is with NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Media Information Laboratory.

Editorial Committee of IPSJ Magazine (2017/4-)
Editorial Committee of IEICE Journal (2017/4-)
Editorial Committee of IPSJ Journal (2014/6-2017/5)
IPSJ Special Interest Group on music and computer (SIGMUS), Local Committee (2014/4-2017/3)
IPSJ Special Interest Group on music and computer (SIGMUS), Local Committee (2009/4 - 2013/3)
INTERSPEECH2010 Satelite Workshop InterSinging2010, Local Committee (2010/10)
10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR2009), Local Committee (2009/10)
Internship at NTT Communication Science Laboratories under the guidance of Dr. Kunio Kashino and Dr. Hirokazu Kameoka (2007/11 - 2007/12)
Internship at KDDI R&D Laboratories under the guidance of Dr. Keiichiro Hoashi and Mr. Hiromi Ishizaki (2007/10)
Teaching Assistant of Engineering Experiment at Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University under the guidance of Dr. Kenji Imamura (NTT) (2008/04 - 2008/07)
Research Fellowships for Young Scientists from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007/04 - 2009/03)
Part-time teacher at Nihon Chono Gengo Fukushi Gakuin (Medical college) (2006/10 - 2009/03)
COE Research Assistant at Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University (2006/04 - 2007/03)
Teaching Assistant of Mathematics and Practice at Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya University (2004/09 - 2005/03)
Internship at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) under the guidance of Dr. Masataka Goto (2004/08, 2005/08, 2006/08, 2007/03)

Research Interests

Acoustic Signal Processing
Speech Processing
Music Application
Statistical Inference

Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

Analysis-Synthesis Model of Singing Voice that Characterize Varied Singing Behaviors and Its Practical Applications

Journals

K. Imoto, Y. Ohishi, H. Uematsu, H. Omuro, N. Ono, "Online acoustic scene analysis with sequentially obtained acoustic event sequence," Journal of the Acoustival Society of Japan, 72(6) pp. 293-305, 2016.
H. Kameoka, K. Yoshizato, T. Ishihara, K. Kadowaki, Y. Ohishi, and K. Kashino, "Generative Modeling of Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours," IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 1042–1053, 2015.
Yasunori Ohishi, Masataka Goto, Katunobu Itou, and Kazuya Takeda. "Sung Melodic Contour Characterized in Phase Plane: Estimation of Target Note Sequence from the Melodic Contour and Its Application for Query-by-humming," IPSJ Journal, vol.49, no.11, pp.3789-3797, Nov. 2008, (in Japanese).
Yasunori Ohishi, Masataka Goto, Katunobu Itou, and Kazuya Takeda. "Discrimination between Singing and Speaking Voices Using a Spectral Envelope and a Fundamental Frequency Derivative," IPSJ Journal, vol.47, no.6, pp.1822-1830, June 2006, (in Japanese).

Letter

Yasunori Ohishi, Katunobu Itou, Kazuya Takeda, Atsushi Fujii, and Fumitada Itakura. "Statistical Analysis for the hierarchy Using an Encyclopedic Corpus," Information Technology Letters, FIT2004, LF-001, Sept. 2004. (in Japanese).

Conference Papers

Yasunori Ohishi, Daichi Mochihashi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kunio Kashino, "Mixture of Gaussian process experts for predicting sung melodic contour with expressive dynamic fluctuations," In Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2014), pp.3742-3746, May 2014. (PDF) (Oral)
Masahiro Nakano, Yasunori Ohishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ryo Mukai, Kunio Kashino, "Mondrian hidden Markov model for music signal processing," In Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2014), pp.2424-2428, May 2014.
Keisuke Imoto, Yasunori Ohishi, Hisashi Uematsu, Hitoshi Ohmuro, "Acoustic Scene Analysis Based On Latent Acoustic Topic And Event Allocation," In Proc. International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2013), Sep. 2013.
Hirokazu Kameoka, Kota Yoshizato, Tatsuma Ishihara, Yasunori Ohishi, Kunio Kashino and Shigeki Sagayama, "Generative modeling of speech F0 contours," In Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2013), Aug. 2013. (PDF)
Yasunori Ohishi, Daichi Mochihashi, Tomoko Matsui, Masahiro Nakano, Hirokazu Kameoka, Tomonori Izumitani, Kunio Kashino, "Bayesian Semi-supervised Audio Event Transcription based on Markov Indian buffet Process," In Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2013), June 2013. (PDF) (Oral)
Yasunori Ohishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Daichi Mochihashi, Kunio Kashino, "A Stochastic Model of Singing Voice F0 Contours for Characterizing Expressive Dynamic Components," In Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2012), Sep. 2012. (PDF) (Poster)
Masahiro Nakano, Yasunori Ohishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ryo Mukai, Kunio Kashino, "Bayesian Nonparametric Music Parser," In Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2012), pp. 461-464, Mar. 2012. (PDF) (Poster)
Jun Takagi, Yasunori Ohishi, Akisato Kimura, Masashi Sugiyama, Makoto Yamada, Hirokazu Kameoka, "Automatic Audio Tag Classification via Semi-supervised Canonical Density Estimation," In Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2011), pp. 2232-2235, May 2011. (PDF) (Poster)
Yasunori Ohishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Daichi Mochihashi, Hidehisa Nagano, Kunio Kashino, "Statistical Modeling of F0 Dynamics in Singing Voices Based on Gaussian Processes with Multiple Oscillation Bases," In Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2010), pp. 2598-2601, Sept. 2010. (PDF) (Oral)
Hirokazu Kameoka, Jonathan Le Roux, Yasunori Ohishi, "A statistical model of speech F0 contours," ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical And Perceptual Audition (SAPA 2010), pp. 43-48, Sept. 2010. (PDF)
Tatsuya Kako, Yasunori Ohishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kunio Kashino and Kazuya Takeda, "Automatic Identification for Singing Style Based on Sung Melodic Contour Characterized in Phase Plane," In Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, (ISMIR 2009), pp. 393-397, Oct. 2009. (PDF) (Poster)
Yasunori Ohishi, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kunio Kashino, and Kazuya Takeda, "Parameter Estimation Method of F0 Control Model for Singing Voices," In Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2008), pp. 139-142, Sept. 2008. (PDF) (Poster)
Ryoei Takahashi, Yasunori Ohishi, Norihide Kitaoka, and Kazuya Takeda, "Building and Combining Document and Music Spaces for Music Query-By-Webpage System," In Proc. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2008), pp. 2020-2023, Sept. 2008. (PDF) (Oral)
Ryoei Takahashi, Yasunori Ohishi, and Kazuya Takeda, "Associating document and acoustic spaces for a WEB-BGM system," In Proc. International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS 2007), Dec. 2007.
Yasunori Ohishi, Masataka Goto, Katunobu Itou, and Kazuya Takeda, "A Stochastic Representation of the Dynamics of Sung Melody," In Proc. International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2007), pp. 371-372, Sept. 2007. (PDF) (Poster)
Yasunori Ohishi, Masataka Goto, Katunobu Itou, and Kazuya Takeda, "Automatic Discrimination between Singing and Speaking Voices for Flexible Music Retrieval System," The 152th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) / 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Dec. 2006. (Oral)
Yasunori Ohishi, Masataka Goto, Katunobu Itou, and Kazuya Takeda, "On the human capability and acoustic cues for discriminating the singing and the speaking voices," In Proc. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC 2006), pp. 1831-1837, Aug. 2006. (PDF) (Oral)
Yasunori Ohishi, Katunobu Itou, Kazuya Takeda, and Atsushi Fuji, "Statistical Analysis for Thesaurus Construction using an Encyclopedic Corpus," In Proc. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2006), pp. 1368-1371, May 2006. (PDF) (Poster)
Yasunori Ohishi, Masataka Goto, Katunobu Itou, and Kazuya Takeda, "Discrimination between Singing and Speaking Voices," In Proc. European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH 2005), pp. 1141-1144, Sept. 2005. (PDF) (Oral)

Others

Yasunori Ohishi, "Audio content-based music retrieval," A special lecture at Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, July 2014. (Lecture)
Yasunori Ohishi, "Extracting Personal Characteristics from Singing Voice," Digital Media Analysis, Search and Management (DMASM) 2013, Feb. 2013. (Oral)
Yasunori Ohishi, "Singing style extraction based on singing voice F0 model," NTT Technical review Digital Library, Aug. 2012.

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Awards

36th Awaya Kiyoshi Science Promotion Award from Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
The Poster Award at Ongaku Symposium 2014 from Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Yamashita SIG Research Award in 2009
The Best Presentation Award at SIGMUS Annual Symposium 2007 from Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
The Poster Award at 2005 Spring Meeting from Acoustic Society of Japan

Yasunori Ohishi