Robot head pose detection and gaze direction determination using local invariant features

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-328

  Ruiz Del Solar, Javier ^a   Loncomilla, Patricio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Gaze direction determination; Head pose detection; Local invariant features; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATTENTION MECHANISMS; CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS; DESCRIPTORS; GAZE DIRECTION DETERMINATION; HEAD MODELS; HEAD POSE DETECTION; LOCAL DESCRIPTORS; LOCAL INVARIANT FEATURES; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; PERCEPTUAL MECHANISMS; PROCESSING STAGES; REAL ROBOTS; ROBOT HEADS; SCALE INVARIANTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 59649129583     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855308X397497     Document Type: Article

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