Teppei Miura and Shinji Sako, "Simple yet effective 3D ego-pose lift-up based on vector and distance for a mounted omnidirectional camera", Applied Intelligence, 2022. [DOI]
Bogdan Kwolek, Wojciech Baczynski, Shinji Sako, "Recognition of JSL fingerspelling using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks", Neurocomputing,Volume 456, pp.586–598, 2021. [DOI]
Toshiharu Tadano, Masahiko Nawate, Fumihito Ito, Shinji Sako, "Study on Effective Combination of Features for Non-word Speech Recognition of Phonological Examination", Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.61, No. 10, pp.1647–1657, 2020. [DOI]
Teppei Miura and Shinji Sako, "3D human pose estimation model using location-maps for distorted and disconnected images by a wearable omnidirectional camera", IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications, Vol.12, No. 4, pp.1–12, 2020. [DOI]
Kenta Okumura, Shinji Sako, and Tadashi Kitamura, "Automatic performance rendering method for keyboard instruments based on statistical model that associates performance expression and musical notation", Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp.557–569, 2016. (in Japanese) [DOI]
Kenta Okumura, Shinji Sako, and Tadashi Kitamura, "Comparative Analysis of Performance Expression using Similarity Metrics based on Statistical Model and Musical Score Information", Journal of Japan Society of Kansei Engieering (JSKE), Vol. 15, No. 1, pp.255–263, 2016. (in Japanese) [DOI]
Wakana Nagata, Shinji Sako, and Tadashi Kitamura, "Violin Fingering Estimation Depending on Skill Level by Consideration of Note Length", IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems, Vol. 134, No. 4, pp. 581–586, 2014. (in Japanese) [CiNii, DOI]
Satoru Fukayama, Kei Nakamura, Shinji Sako, Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama, "Automatic Melody Composition from Japanese Lyrics with Combination of Decomposed Musical Components", Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) , Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 1709–1720, May 2013. (in Japanese) [CiNii]
Kenta Okumura, Shinji Sako, and Tadashi Kitamura, "Stochastic Modeling of the Expressive Musical Performance of the Keyboard Instrument Using Information of the Score", Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) , Vol. 54, No. 4, pp.1338–1348, Apr. 2013. (in Japanese) [CiNii]
Eita Nakamura, Haruto Takeda, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Saito, Shinji Sako, Shigeki Sagayama, "Score Following Handling Performances with Arbitrary Repeats and Skips and Automatic Accompaniment", Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) , Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 1288–1301, Apr. 2013．(in Japanese) [CiNii]
Shigeki Sagayama, Shinji Sako, Gen Hori and Satoru Fukayama, "Automatic Song Composition from Japanese Lyrics Based on a Probabilistic Approach", Journal of Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, Vol. 56, No. 5, pp.219–225, May. 2012. (in Japanese) [CiNii]
Shinji Sako, Chiyomi Miyajima, Keiichi Tokuda and Tadashi Kitamura, "A Singing Voice Synthesis System Based on Hidden Markov Model", Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) , Vol. 45, No. 3, pp.719–727, 2004. (in Japanese) [CiNii]
Shinji Sako, Keiichi Tokuda, Takashi masuko, Takao Kobayashi and Tadashi Kitamura, "HMM-Based Audio-visual Speech Synthesis : Pixel-based Approach", Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) , Vol. 43, No. 7, pp.2169–2176, 2002. (in Japanese) [CiNii]
Tutorial Papers
Keiichiro Oura, Heiga Zen, Shinji Sako and Keiichi Tokuda, "Construction of Speech Synthesis Systems using HTS", Journal of Human Interface Society, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35–40, Feb. 2010. (in Japanese) [CiNii]
Shigeki Sagayama, Kei Nakazuma, Shinji Sako, Satoru Fukayama, Takuya Nishimoto, "Automatic Song Composition from Japanese Lyrics", Operations research as a management science Research, Vol. 54，No. 9, pp. 546–553, 2009. (in Japanese) [CiNii]
Shinji Sako, and Tadashi Kitamura, "HMM-based Automatic Sign Language Recognition using Phonemic Structure of Japanese Sign Language", Japan Society for Welfare Enginering, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 2–7, 2015. (in Japanese) [CiNii]
Thesis
Shinji Sako, "Audio-Visual Speech/Singing-voice Synthesis and Gesture Recognition for Multimodal Human Computer Interaction", Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Feb. 2004. [Supervisor: Prof. Tadashi Kitamura, and Associated Prof. Keiichi Tokuda]
Shinji Sako, "HMM-based Audio-Visual Speech Synthesis", Master Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Jan. 2001. [Supervisor: Prof. Tadashi Kitamura, and Associated Prof. Keiichi Tokuda] (in Japanese)
Shinji Sako, "HMM-based speech driven lip movement movie synthesis", Bachelor Dissertation of Nagoya Institute of Technology，Jan. 1999. [Supervisor: Prof. Tadashi Kitamura, and Associated Prof. Keiichi Tokuda] (in Japanese)