Hiroshi Mizoguchi

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Hiroshi Mizoguchi is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work has profoundly shaped the fields of human-robot interaction, mobile robotics, and symbiotic systems. With a career spanning several decades, Mizoguchi has consistently pursued a central vision: creating robots that coexist naturally and meaningfully with humans in everyday environments. His most celebrated contributions include the development of the person-following robot "ApriAttend," which uses vision-based target detection and obstacle avoidance to accompany individuals autonomously (106 citations), and his foundational work on the "Robotic Room" concept, which explored environments as intelligent, behavior-mediated spaces (100 citations). Mizoguchi has also made significant advances in robot audition, developing sophisticated microphone array systems capable of localizing and separating multiple moving sound sources in real time, work that has drawn considerable scholarly attention across multiple publications totaling over 200 citations in this area alone. Beyond mobility and perception, his research extends to expressive nonverbal robot communication, noninvasive patient monitoring systems, and high-speed pressure sensing for humanoid feet, demonstrating remarkable breadth. With over 597 cumulative citations across his top works, Mizoguchi's research has left a lasting imprint on assistive robotics and intelligent human-machine symbiosis — fields of growing urgency in aging societies worldwide.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Development of a Person Following Robot with Vision Based Target Detection

   106 citations · 2006
2. 2
   Robotic room: Symbiosis with human through behavior media

   100 citations · 1996
3. 3
   Multiple Sound Source Mapping for a Mobile Robot by Self-motion Triangulation

   77 citations · 2006
4. 4
   Human-robot interaction through real-time auditory and visual multiple-talker tracking

   70 citations · 2002
5. 5
   Three ring microphone array for 3D sound localization and separation for mobile robot audition

   54 citations · 2005
6. 6
   Visual tracking of human back and shoulder for person following robot

   44 citations · 2004
7. 7
   Monitoring patient respiration and posture using human symbiosis system

   43 citations · 2002
8. 8
   Realization of Expressive Mobile Robot

   41 citations · 2002
9. 9
   High-speed pressure sensor grid for humanoid robot foot

   33 citations · 2005
10. 10
    Development of vision based person following module for mobile robots in/out door environment

    29 citations · 2009

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