Visual Interaction Including Biometrics Information for a Socially Assistive Robotic Platform
Abstract
This work introduces biometrics as a way to improve human-robot interaction. In particular, gender and age estimation algorithms are used to provide awareness of the user biometrics to a humanoid robot (Aldebaran NAO), in order to properly react with a specific gender/age behavior. The system can also manage multiple persons at the same time, recognizing the age and gender of each participant. All the estimation algorithms employed have been validated through a k-fold test and successively practically tested in a real human-robot interaction environment, allowing for a better natural interaction. Our system is able to work at a frame rate of 13 fps with 640 $\times $ 480 images taken from NAO’s embedded camera. The proposed application is well-suited for all assisted environments that consider the presence of a socially assistive robot like therapy with disable people, dementia, post-stroke rehabilitation, Alzheimer disease or autism.
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Text
Carcagnì et al. "Visual Interaction Including Biometrics Information for a Socially Assistive Robotic Platform." European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2014. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16199-0_28Markdown
[Carcagnì et al. "Visual Interaction Including Biometrics Information for a Socially Assistive Robotic Platform." European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2014.](https://mlanthology.org/eccvw/2014/carcagni2014eccvw-visual/) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16199-0_28BibTeX
@inproceedings{carcagni2014eccvw-visual,
title = {{Visual Interaction Including Biometrics Information for a Socially Assistive Robotic Platform}},
author = {Carcagnì, Pierluigi and Cazzato, Dario and Del Coco, Marco and Distante, Cosimo and Leo, Marco},
booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops},
year = {2014},
pages = {391-406},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-16199-0_28},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/eccvw/2014/carcagni2014eccvw-visual/}
}