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PAMI
2010
188views more  PAMI 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
A Unified Probabilistic Framework for Spontaneous Facial Action Modeling and Understanding
—Facial expression is a natural and powerful means of human communication. Recognizing spontaneous facial actions, however, is very challenging due to subtle facial deformation, ...
Yan Tong, Jixu Chen, Qiang Ji
EUROS
2008
177views Robotics» more  EUROS 2008»
15 years 1 months ago
Eyes-Neck Coordination Using Chaos
Abstract. The increasing complexity of humanoid robots and their expected performance in real dynamic environments demand an equally complex, autonomous and dynamic solution. Our a...
Boris Duran, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Giulio Sandini
IROS
2007
IEEE
184views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Integration of emotional reactions on human facial expressions into the robot head MEXI
— Emotion recognition and adequate reactions are a crucial part of human communication and hence should also be considered for interactions between humans and robots. In this pap...
Natascha Esau, Lisa Kleinjohann, Bernd Kleinjohann
ICRA
2010
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 9 months ago
Design and control of motion compensation cardiac catheters
Robotic cardiac catheters have the potential to revolutionize heart surgery by extending minimally invasive techniques to complex surgical repairs inside the heart. However, cathet...
Samuel B. Kesner, Robert D. Howe
HRI
2007
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Robot expressionism through cartooning
We present a new technique for human-robot interaction called robot expressionism through cartooning. We suggest that robots utilise cartoon-art techniques such as simplified and ...
James Everett Young, Min Xin, Ehud Sharlin