Leveraging the robot dialog state for visual focus of attention recognition

Samira Sheikhi; Vasil Khalidov; D. Klotz; B. Wrede; J. Odobez

DOI:10.1145/2522848.2522881

Corpus ID: 12616986

Leveraging the robot dialog state for visual focus of attention recognition

@inproceedings{Sheikhi2013LeveragingTR,
  title={Leveraging the robot dialog state for visual focus of attention recognition},
  author={Samira Sheikhi and Vasil Khalidov and D. Klotz and B. Wrede and J. Odobez},
  booktitle={ICMI '13},
  year={2013}
}

Samira Sheikhi, Vasil Khalidov, +2 authors J. Odobez

Published in ICMI '13 2013

Computer Science

The Visual Focus of Attention (what or whom a person is looking at) or VFOA is a fundamental cue in non-verbal communication and plays an important role when designing effective human-machine interaction systems. However, recognizing the VFOA of an interacting person is difficult for a robot, since due to low resolution imaging, eye gaze estimation is not possible. Rather, head pose cue is used as a substitute for gaze, but leads to ambiguities in its interpretation as VFOA indicator. In this… CONTINUE READING

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