A survey of socially interactive robots

T Fong, I Nourbakhsh, K Dautenhahn - Robotics and autonomous systems, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper reviews “socially interactive robots”: robots for which social human–robot
interaction is important. We begin by discussing the context for socially interactive robots …

People detection and tracking using stereo vision and color

R Munoz-Salinas, E Aguirre… - Image and Vision …, 2007 - Elsevier
People detection and tracking are important capabilities for applications that desire to
achieve a natural human–machine interaction. Although the topic has been extensively …

SpringerBriefs in Computer Science

S Zdonik, P Ning, S Shekhar, J Katz, X Wu, LC Jain… - 2012 - Springer
This is an introduction to multicast routing, which is the study of methods for routing from one
source to many destinations, or from many sources to many destinations. Multicast is …

Case study: Robotic person following using fuzzy control and image segmentation

M Tarokh, P Ferrari - Journal of Robotic Systems, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The paper proposes a scheme for amobile robot to follow a person in reasonably complex
dynamic environments. The scheme consists of an image processing technique for person …

A multiple object tracking approach that combines colour and depth information using a confidence measure

R Munoz-Salinas, E Aguirre, M García-Silvente… - Pattern Recognition …, 2008 - Elsevier
Multiple object tracking is a difficult task, especifically when there is not an explicit model of
the object being tracked or when it is not possible to estimate the background of the scene …

Face tracking system based on color, stereovision and elliptical shape features

B Kwolek - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Advanced …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a vision system that tracks a human face in 3D. We combine color and stereo
cues to find likely image regions where a face may exist. A greedy search algorithm …

People detection and tracking through stereo vision for human-robot interaction

R Munoz-Salinas, E Aguirre, M Garcia-Silvente… - … Conference on Artificial …, 2005 - Springer
In this document we present an agent for people detection and tracking through stereo
vision. The agent makes use of the active vision to perform the people tracking with a robotic …

Vision-based sensor fusion for human-computer interaction

S Grange, E Casanova, T Fong… - IEEE/RSJ International …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the development of efficient computer vision techniques for human-
computer interaction. Our approach combines range and color information to achieve …

Robotic orientation towards speaker for human-robot interaction

C Rascón, H Avilés, LA Pineda - … : 12th Ibero-American Conference on AI …, 2010 - Springer
The orientation of conversational robots to face their interlocutors is essential for natural and
efficient Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). In this paper, progress towards this objective is …

Vision based person tracking and following in unstructured environments

M Tarokh, J Kuo - Mechatronics and machine vision in practice, 2008 - Springer
Vision based tracking and following a person by a robot equipped with a vision system has
many applications such as surveillance and motion capture, and detection and following …