Recognizing the visual focus of attention for human robot interaction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7559 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-112

  Sheikhi, Samira ^a,b   Odobez, Jean Marc ^a,b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

gaze; head pose; Human robot interaction; visual focus of attention

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVITY; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; GAZE; HEAD POSE; HIGH DEFINITION; HUMANOID ROBOT; PUBLIC DATASET; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TARGET DIRECTION; UNSUPERVISED ADAPTATION;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84867660691     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34014-7_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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