Robot anticipation of human intentions through continuous gesture recognition

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 218-225

  Saponaro, Giovanni ^a   Salvi, Giampiero ^b   Bernardino, Alexandre ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION PREDICTION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE; HUMAN BODY MOVEMENT; HUMAN INTENTIONS; HUMAN-ROBOT COLLABORATION; HUMANOID ROBOT; PHYSICAL ACTION;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; GESTURE RECOGNITION;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84883302848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CTS.2013.6567232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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