Joint visual attention modeling for naturally interacting robotic agents

2009 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 242-247

  Yücel, Zeynep ^a   Salah, Albert Ali ^b,c   Meriçli, Çetin ^d   Meriçli, Tekin ^d  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CWI   (Netherlands)

^d BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE SKILL; FIXATION MECHANISMS; JOINT ATTENTION; NATURAL INTERFACES; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; ROBOTIC AGENTS; ROBOTIC DESIGN; VISUAL ATTENTION MODELING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 73949139808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCIS.2009.5291820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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