Attention driven visual processing for an interactive dialog robot

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1151-1155

  Müller, Thomas ^a   Knoll, Alois ^a  

^a Informatics VI: Robotics and Embedded Systems   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active perception and vision; Autonomous robots; Bioinspired robot vision; Computer vision; Gesture; Object and self recognition; Realtime visual processing

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTS; BIOINSPIRED ROBOT VISION; OBJECT AND SELF RECOGNITION; REAL-TIME VISUAL PROCESSING; SELF-RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER VISION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 72949093748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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