Unsupervised approach to acquire robot joint attention

ICARA 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 601-606

  Ravindra, P ^a   De Silva, S ^a   Tadano, Katsunori ^a   Lambacher, Stephen G ^b   Herath, Susantha ^c   Higashi, Masatake ^a  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE-GAZE; GAUSSIAN; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; HEAD POSE; JOINT ATTENTION; OBJECT OF INTERESTS; ROBOT JOINT; SIMULATED DATA; TIME INTERVAL; TIME SEGMENTATION; TRAINING DATA; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTER; VISUAL INFORMATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 66149189427     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARA.2000.4803926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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