Multimodal saliency-based bottom-up attention a framework for the humanoid robot iCub

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 962-967

  Ruesch, Jonas ^a   Lopes, Manuel ^b   Bernardino, Alexandre ^b   Hörnstein, Jonas ^b   Santos Victor, José ^b   Pfeifer, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

BOTTOM-UP ATTENTION; HUMANOID ROBOT; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 51649087510     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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