Target Identification Through Human Pointing Gesture Based on Human-Adaptive Approach

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 515-525

  Tamura, Yusuke ^a   Sugi, Masao ^a   Arai, Tamio ^a   Ota, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

context; epistemic action; humanrobot interface; pointing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ACTION SEQUENCES; ADAPTIVE APPROACH; CONTEXT; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; EPISTEMIC ACTIONS; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACE; POINTING; POINTING GESTURES; SENSORY INFORMATION; TARGET'S IDENTIFICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 78649397857     PISSN: 09153942     EISSN: 18838049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2008.p0515     Document Type: Article

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