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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
FOCUS: a generalized method for object discovery for robots that observe and interact with humans
The essence of the signal-to-symbol problem consists of associating a symbolic description of an object (e.g., a chair) to a signal (e.g., an image) that captures the real object....
Manuela M. Veloso, Paul E. Rybski, Felix von Hunde...
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Learning about objects with human teachers
A general learning task for a robot in a new environment is to learn about objects and what actions/effects they afford. To approach this, we look at ways that a human partner c...
Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Maya Cakmak
ICMI
2010
Springer
217views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Focusing computational visual attention in multi-modal human-robot interaction
Identifying verbally and non-verbally referred-to objects is an important aspect of human-robot interaction. Most importantly, it is essential to achieve a joint focus of attentio...
Boris Schauerte, Gernot A. Fink
IROS
2006
IEEE
142views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Experience Based Imitation Using RNNPB
—Robot imitation is a useful and promising alternative to robot programming. Robot imitation involves two crucial issues. The first is how a robot can imitate a human whose phys...
Ryunosuke Yokoya, Tetsuya Ogata, Jun Tani, Kazunor...
AROBOTS
2002
166views more  AROBOTS 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Multi-Modal Interaction of Human and Home Robot in the Context of Room Map Generation
In robotics, the idea of human and robot interaction is receiving a lot of attention lately. In this paper, we describe a multi-modal system for generating a map of the environment...
Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Yasushi Nakata, Hiroshi Saito...