— A mobile robot operating in an urban environment has to navigate around obstacles and hazards. Though a significant amount of work has been done on detecting obstacles, not mu...
In this paper, we present an investigation into the use of cue phrases as a basis for dialogue act classification. We define what we mean by cue phrases, and describe how we extra...
Local space-time features have recently shown promising results within Bag-of-Features (BoF) approach to action recognition in video. Pure local features and descriptors, however,...
Muhammad Muneeb Ullah, Sobhan Naderi Parizi, Ivan ...
— Achieving and maintaining user engagement is a key goal of human-robot interaction. This paper presents a method for determining user engagement state from physiological data (...
Emily Mower, David Feil-Seifer, Maja J. Mataric, S...
In this paper, a new systematic method to segment possible target areas based on wavelet transforms is presented. We develop an analytic model for the segmentation of targets, whi...