Imitating Human Movement with Teleoperated Robotic Head

by Sarah Frigg | Aug 26, 2016 | Robotics

Imitating Human Movement with Teleoperated Robotic Head   We develop a controller for realizing smooth and accurate motion of a robotic head with application to a teleoperation system for the Furhat robot head. August 26, 2016International Symposium on Robot and Human...

Maintaining Awareness of the Focus of Attention of a Conversation: A Robot-Centric Reinforcement Learning Approach

by Sarah Frigg | Aug 26, 2016 | Uncategorized

Maintaining Awareness of the Focus of Attention of a Conversation: A Robot-Centric Reinforcement Learning Approach    We explore online reinforcement learning techniques to find good policies to control the orientation of a mobile robot during social group...

Study of Children’s Hugging for Interactive Robot Design

by Sarah Frigg | Aug 26, 2016 | Robotics

Study of Children’s Hugging for Interactive Robot Design   We have developed a toy sized humanoid robot with soft air-filled modules on its links which sense contact and protect the robot and any interacting humans from damaging collisions. August 26,...

Estimation of Children’s Physical Characteristics from their Voices

by Martina Megaro | Aug 9, 2016 | Machine Learning

Estimation of Children’s Physical Characteristics from their Voices   In this paper, using different formant-related measurements as exemplary analysis features generated within articulatory-phonetic guidelines, we demonstrate the nonlinear relationships of...

Interactive High-Quality Green-Screen Keying via Color Unmixing

by Martina Megaro | Aug 8, 2016 | Video Processing, Visual Computing

Interactive High-Quality Green-Screen Keying via Color Unmixing   We present comprehensive comparisons with commercial software packages and relevant methods in literature, which show that the quality of our results is superior to any other currently available...