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CVPR
2003
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Activity Recognition Using the Dynamics of the Configuration of Interacting Objects
Monitoring activities using video data is an important surveillance problem. A special scenario is to learn the pattern of normal activities and detect abnormal events from a very...
Namrata Vaswani, Amit K. Roy Chowdhury, Rama Chell...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 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...
TROB
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory-Motor Coordination to Imitation
Affordances encode relationships between actions, objects and effects. They play an important role on basic cognitive capabilities such as prediction and planning. We address the p...
Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino...
JETAI
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
The interaction of representations and planning objectives for decision-theoretic planning tasks
We study decision-theoretic planning or reinforcement learning in the presence of traps such as steep slopes for outdoor robots or staircases for indoor robots. In this case, achi...
Sven Koenig, Yaxin Liu
RAS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Learning and generalising semantic knowledge from object scenes
The robot described in this paper learns words that relate to objects and their attributes and also learns concepts, which may be recursive, that involve relationships between sev...
Claire D'Este, Claude Sammut