Title
Development of face-to-face communication function for a humanoid robot
Abstract
In this paper the authors report on the creation of a face tracking function that combines foveal vision and peripheral vision for communications between a humanoid robot and a person. In the authors' approach, by combining foveal vision and peripheral vision using a particle filter, a function for robust face tracking and attention direction can be achieved. In particular, the authors used peripheral vision when the robot was looking at an object other than a human being in order to make a deliberate gesture, and were able to achieve robust face tracking at all times by combining foveal vision and peripheral vision when the robot was paying attention to the person's face. Moreover, robust face tracking can also be applied to conventional technologies for facial expression recognition and utterance detection during interactive communication. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 37(14): 1–14, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (). DOI 10.1002/scj.20680
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1002/scj.v37:14
Systems and Computers in Japan
Keywords
Field
DocType
face tracking,communication,humanoid robot
Computer vision,Computer science,Gesture,Particle filter,Peripheral vision,Foveal,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Face-to-face interaction,Facial motion capture,Humanoid robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
37
14
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Masahiro Shiomi193182.89
Takayuki Kanda23477326.97
Nicolas Miralles300.34
Takahiro Miyashita440941.40
Ian Fasel543131.58
Javier R. Movellan61853150.44
Hiroshi Ishiguro74680513.13