Learning to comprehend deictic gestures in robots and human infants

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 217-222

  Nagai, Yukie ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deictic gesture; Image feature; Infant development; Learning; Pointing

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

DEICTIC GESTURE; IMAGE FEATURES; INFANT DEVELOPMENT; POINTING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33745873764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2005.1513782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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