Regular biography
Hiroshi Shimodaira is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh. His research interests include areas such as machine learning and statistical modeling. He is affiliated with the university through his role as a Senior Lecturer and maintains a profile page at https://www.ed.ac.uk/Hiroshi_Shimodaira.html. Contact information for Hiroshi Shimodaira is available via email at h.shimodaira@ed.ac.uk.
Scholar-generated biography
Hiroshi Shimodaira is a researcher specializing in speech processing and speech-driven talking head technologies. His work focuses on developing advanced models for speech recognition, dialogue systems, and human-computer interaction. Shimodaira has contributed to the development of hidden Markov models (HMMs) for tasks such as on-line handwriting recognition, text classification, and speech-driven lip motion generation. His research also explores reinforcement learning for dialogue strategies and the use of support vector machines (SVMs) with dynamic time-alignment kernels for speech recognition. Additionally, he has developed open-source tools like Galatea for creating anthropomorphic spoken dialog agents.