Yeow Kee Tan

Experience in researching and developing multi-modal interface that combines speech recognition and eye gaze tracking technology for speech-enabled systems.

Application Developer, Researcher, and Project Manager in a wide variety of applications related to speech-enabled systems and social robotics.

Managed various research and industry projects, up to $3mil dollars worth in total.

Currently interested in developing small robotic platform for autism, education, healthcare, companion and entertainment. Would like to contribute back to the society through innovative ideas and technologies.

Over the past 4 years, have mentored more than 20 students from universities, polytechnics and tertiary schools in various projects related to speech-enabled system and robotics.

• Attention Directed Dialog for a Social Robot

  • International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems 2009
  • 2009
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Jiang Ridong, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Nguyen Trung Hieu, Han Boon Siew, Anthony Wong

• Language Models Learning for Domain-Specific Natural Language User Interaction

  • IEEE International Conference Robotics and Biometrics
  • 2009
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Bai Shuan Hu, Huang Chien-Lin, Ma Bin

• Robust Multi-Person Detection and Tracking for Mobile Service and Social Robots

  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B. (SMCB)
  • 2012
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, LI L.Y., YAN S.C., YU X.G, TAN Y.K., LI H.Z.,

• COMPONENT PLUGGABLE DIALOGUE FRAMEWORK AND ITS APPLICTION TO SOCIAL ROBOTS

  • International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems 2012
  • 2012
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Jiang Ridong, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Tran Anh Dung, Li Haizhou

• A User Trial Study to Understand Play Behaviors of Autistic Children Using a Social Robot

  • International Conference on Social Robotics 2012
  • October 2012
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, WONG H. Y. A., TAN Y.K., TAY H.J.A., WONG C.Y., DILIP K. LIMBU, TRAN A.D., CHU Y.W., A. P. Yow

• Vision-Based Attention Estimation and Selection for Social Robot to Perform Natural Interaction in the Open World

  • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human- Robot Interaction (HRI 2012)
  • 2012
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, LI L. Y., YU X.G, LI J., WANG G.S., SHI J.Y., LI H.Z

• Configurable Dialogue Platform for ASORO Robots

  • Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference 2011 (APSIPA)
  • 2011
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Jiang Ridong, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Tran Anh Dung

• A Software Architecture Framework for Service Robots

  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biometrics (ROBIO)
  • December 2011
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Jiang Ridong, Tran Anh Dung

• Attention Directed Dialog for a Social Robot

  • International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems 2009
  • 2009
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Jiang Ridong, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Nguyen Trung Hieu, Han Boon Siew, Anthony Wong, Li Liyuan, Jerry Hoe Kah Eng, Yu Xinguo, Dong Li, Li Haizhou

• Language Models Learning for Domain-Specific Natural Language User Interaction

  • IEEE International Conference Robotics and Biometrics 2009
  • 2009
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Bai Shuanhu, Chien-Lin Huang, Ma Bin

• Experiences with a Barista Robot, FusionBot

  • International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) 2009
  • 2009
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Anthony Wong, Jiang Ridong, Hengxin Wu, Li Liyuan, Jerry Hoe Kah Eng, Yu Xinguo, Dong Li, Li Haizhou

• An Interactive Robot Butler

  • 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2009
  • 2009
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Jiang Ridong, Li Liyuan, Jerry Hoe Kah Eng, Yu Xinguo, Dong Li, Anthony Wong, Li Haizhou

• Development of Event-Driven Dialogue System for Social Mobile Robot

  • Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2009)
  • 2009
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Jiang Ridong, Anthony Wong, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Li Haizhou

• A Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion for Standard Malay

  • Resources and Standards of Spoken Language Systems
  • 2008
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Teoh Boon Seong, Li Haizhou

• Usability Study: Web-based Speaker Identification for Second Factor Authentication

  • 13th Youth Science Conference 2007
  • 2007
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Lim Wancai, Chiam Zhijie, Tan Tu Guan

• Blended Multimodal Interface for Error Recovery

  • International Conference of Multimodal Interface (ICMI 2003)
  • 2003
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Nasser Sherkat, Tony Allen

• Error Recovery in a blended style eye gaze and speech interface

  • International Conference of Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2003)
  • 2003
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Nasser Sherkat, Tony Allen

• Is Speech Enough? We can use eye too!

  • Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS 2003)
  • 2003
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Nasser Sherkat, Tony Allen

• Speech and Telephone Keypad for Data Entry

  • Applied Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS 2002)
  • 2002
  Authors: Yeow Kee Tan, Nasser Sherkat, Tony Allen

• Speech Keyword Mining System

  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan

  To deliver a keyword mining system that is capable of searching speech utterances based on the keyword of interest from a large repository of speech database. I was responsible for the transcribing system and development of the training tool.

• Voice Identification

  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan

  System capable of recognizing the identity of the caller/speaker in a telephone call. Responsible for the in developing and managing the telephony-based data collection system that allows call transfer and call tromboning.

• Robot Butler

  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan

  To integrate speech recognition module into the robot butler developed by SIMTech for the Fusionopolis opening ceremony. I was the principal investigator (PI) for this project.

• Configurable Robotic Platform for Future Homes

  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan

  To develop a robotic platform with a configurable module that allows developers to configure the robot to perform various tasks upon user’s requirements. I was the Co-PI of this project leading the team to develop a configurable robotic platform.

• Inter-RI Social Robotics Programme

  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan

  To develop a robot receptionist. I’m the Co-PI of this project and leading the robotic dialogue team to deliver modules related to speech processing (e.g. speech enhancement, speech recognition, 3D sound localization), robotic brain (Unified Robotic Framework) and a dialog management system (Apollo). Also involve in the integration of software modules and hardware for the robotic system.

• Multimodal Sensory System

  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan

  Project manager of the project related to research and development of a platform capable of performing human/vehicle tracking, sound event localization and 3D sound localization.

• PetH: Interactive Pet Companion for Elderly

  • October 2012 to Present
  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan, Nicole Mirnig, Anthony Wong, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Adrian Tay Hwang Jian, Tran Anh Dung, rui yan, Alvin Wong Hong Yee

  This core project is related to the research and development of interactive pet companion robot with Emotion Recognition & Expression Framework (EREx). The uniqueness of this pet robot is the capability to detect emotion through different modalities and perform empathy actions through cognitive process. This project intends to achieve short and long term goal that contributes to the robotics programme: Short term goal - develop generic robotic platform and various deployable technologies/components that is ready for commercialization; long term goal – research in advance human-robot interaction through EREx

• PeCo Project

  • September 2011 to Present
  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan, Anthony Wong, Limbu Dilip Kumar, Adrian Tay Hwang Jian, Alvin Wong Hong Yee, Tran Anh Dung, Terence Ng Wen Zheng, Tran Huy Dat, Nicole Mirnig

  PECo is intended to be an entertainment robot that is designed for young children aged between 2 to 6 years old. It is a toy, a companion and also a tool to therapy for the children with autism. PECo is small, lightweight and safe to be used by young children. PeCo is also intended to be a monitoring tool to evaluate the interaction of the children with autism. Reports can be generated and access by therapist/psychologist to assess the condition of the children and plan for the appropriate therapy.

• Sound-Eye

  • June 2012 to Present
  Team Members: Yeow Kee Tan, Anthony Wong, Tran Anh Dung, Adrian Tay Hwang Jian, Tran Huy Dat, Terence Ng Wen Zheng

  In Singapore, the number of elderly people living alone is expected to increase to 83,000 by 2030 – up from 35,000 now. Even though facilities such as railings, anti-slip floor tiles and ramp are installed, there still exist the chance of accidents occurring. We propose “Sound-Eye” a revolutionary emergency alert system employing sound event classification technology to detect abnormal sound events. Sound-Eye is carefully design, addressing the need of stakeholders in terms of affordability, ease-of-installation and privacy protection. Should an emergency occur, Sound-Eye can detect the natural reaction of elderly verbally screaming for assistance instantly.

• English

• Mandarin

• Cantonese

• Malay

1. Machine Learning
2. Natural Language Processing
3. Artificial Intelligence
4. Signal Processing
5. Algorithms
6. Computer Science
7. Robotics
8. Visual C++
9. Visual Basic
10. Java
11. Human-Robot Interaction
12. Social Robotics
13. Human-robot Interaction
14. C
15. C++
16. Computer Vision
17. Embedded Software
18. Embedded Systems
19. Digital Signal Processors
20. Human Computer Interaction
21. Software Development

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Websites:

• A*STAR Social Robotics Lab
• Spice Sutra
• CurryXpress

Interests:

Robots, Food, Cool Designs, Online Marketing, Autism, Healthcare, Technologies

Groups and Associations:

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  A*STAR (Singapore)
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  Brain-Computer Interface group
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  Cloud Computing
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  Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
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  IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS)
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  InTech Open Access Publisher
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  Innovations in Robotics & Artificial intelligence !
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  Interaction Design Association
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  International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
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  International Network on Social Robotics
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  Killer Innovations in IT - Algorithms - Software Application Programmers - Everything is Possible
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  MEDICAL ROBOTICS GROUP
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  Medical and Healthcare Opportunities
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  Personal Robotics Group
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  ROBOT LaunchPad
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  Robotic@Green (Robotica Green, RoboticaGreen, Green Robotics)
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  Robotics Guru
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  Robotics for Care
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  Singularity University
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  Social Entrepreneurs and the Third Sector
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  Spurting Innovation
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  TED: Ideas Worth Spreading - Unofficial
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  The Rising Wave of Gamification ! Game Changer ! Change
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  iTwin Fans Collaboration