Vision-based attention control system for socially interactive robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 496-502

  Das, Dipankar ^a   Hoque, Mohammed Moshiul ^a   Onuki, Tomomi ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshinori ^a   Kuno, Yoshinori ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION CONTROL; ATTENTION LEVEL; EYE CONTACT; INTERACTIVE ROBOT; SOCIAL ROBOTS; VISION BASED; VISION-BASED SYSTEM; VISUAL CUES;

COMMUNICATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84870837100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2012.6343800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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