Visual learning by imitation with motor representations

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 438-449

  Lopes, Manuel ^a,b   Santos Victor, José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic robots; Imitation; Learning; Visuomotor coordination

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KINEMATICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

VIEWPOINT TRANSFORMATION; VISUAL IMITATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; BIONICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; HAND; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; BIONICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROBOTICS; VISION;

EID: 20444391990     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2005.846654     Document Type: Article

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