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HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 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
13 years 11 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 2 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»
13 years 10 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 4 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...