Single- and multi-channel whistle recognition with NAO robots

Abstract

We propose two real-time sound recognition approaches that are able to distinguish a predefined whistle sound on a NAO robot in various noisy environments. The approaches use one, two, and four microphone channels of a NAO robot. The first approach is based on a frequency/band-pass filter whereas the second approach is based on logistic regression. We conducted experiments in six different settings varying the noise level of both the surrounding environment and the robot itself. The results show that the robot will be able to identify the whistle reliability even in very noisy environments.