Robust real-time vision for a personal service robot

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 196-203

  Medioni, Gérard ^a   François, Alexandre R J ^a   Siddiqui, Matheen ^a   Kim, Kwangsu ^a   Yoon, Hosub ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Human computer interfaces; Integration; Personal service robot; Robotics; Robust real time vision; Social interaction; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; PERSONAL SERVICE ROBOTS; ROBUST REAL TIME VISION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 34548221824     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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