A systematic review on affective computing: Emotion models, databases, and recent advances

Y Wang, W Song, W Tao, A Liotta, D Yang, X Li, S Gao… - Information …, 2022 - Elsevier
Affective computing conjoins the research topics of emotion recognition and sentiment
analysis, and can be realized with unimodal or multimodal data, consisting primarily of …

Robotic vision for human-robot interaction and collaboration: A survey and systematic review

N Robinson, B Tidd, D Campbell, D Kulić… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Robotic vision, otherwise known as computer vision for robots, is a critical process for robots
to collect and interpret detailed information related to human actions, goals, and …

Fusing body posture with facial expressions for joint recognition of affect in child–robot interaction

PP Filntisis, N Efthymiou, P Koutras… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we address the problem of multi-cue affect recognition in challenging scenarios
such as child–robot interaction. Toward this goal we propose a method for automatic …

Artificial intelligence in intelligent tutoring robots: A systematic review and design guidelines

J Yang, B Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study provides a systematic review of the recent advances in designing the intelligent
tutoring robot (ITR) and summarizes the status quo of applying artificial intelligence (AI) …

Childbot: Multi-robot perception and interaction with children

N Efthymiou, PP Filntisis, P Koutras, A Tsiami… - Robotics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present an integrated robotic system capable of participating in and
performing a wide range of educational and entertainment tasks collaborating with one or …

A deep learning approach for multi-view engagement estimation of children in a child-robot joint attention task

J Hadfield, G Chalvatzaki, P Koutras… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we tackle the problem of child engagement estimation while children freely
interact with a robot in a friendly, room-like environment. We propose a deep learning-based …

Babynet: A lightweight network for infant reaching action recognition in unconstrained environments to support future pediatric rehabilitation applications

A Dechemi, V Bhakri, I Sahin, A Modi… - 2021 30th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Action recognition is an important component to improve autonomy of physical rehabilitation
devices, such as wearable robotic exoskeletons. Existing human action recognition …

A behaviorally inspired fusion approach for computational audiovisual saliency modeling

A Tsiami, P Koutras, A Katsamanis, A Vatakis… - Signal Processing …, 2019 - Elsevier
Human attention is highly influenced by multi-modal combinations of perceived sensory
information and especially audiovisual information. Although systematic behavioral …

A detection-based approach to multiview action classification in infants

C Pacheco, E Mavroudi, E Kokkoni… - 2020 25th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Activity recognition in children and infants is important in applications such as safety
monitoring, behavior assessment, and child-robot interaction, among others. However, it …

Multi-modal data fusion for people perception in the social robot haru

R Ragel, R Rey, Á Páez, J Ponce, K Nakamura… - … Conference on Social …, 2022 - Springer
This article presents a people perception software architecture and its implementation,
focused on the information of interest from the point of view of a social robot. The key …