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This paper introduces a glasses tracking interface as an alternative to tracking the human head, which can be used in human-robot interaction. The main idea of this study is originated from the fact that the face of a glasses frame resembles two coplanar conies, which can be extracted and approximated simply through visual processing. We mainly address, in this paper, how the 3-D pose of two-conics...
This paper introduces a novel vision device for hand gesture-based human-robot interaction. Taking advantage of an eye-in-hand configuration, the proposed device guarantees that a target hand is projected always onto images captured from a camera. On the basis of the device, an adaptive histogram-based hand region segmentation algorithm is also proposed especially to enhance the performance against...
This paper deals with vision-based elevator button recognition for a robot arm manipulating elevator buttons. The major difficulties in elevator button recognition are the presence of partial occlusion of the target objects and image clutter caused by specular reflection from mirrorlike walls inside the elevator. As a remedy for the elevator button recognition problem in highly complicated settings,...
This paper presents a Text-To-Gesture (TTG) system which enables an embodied agent to generate proper gestures for a given text input. To transform text information to a sequence of gestural motions, it is important to analyze coverbal gestures linguistically. It should be also concerned to reproduce natural motions synchronized with speech signals in a human-like fashion. This paper proposes a TTG...
The Roboid Studio is an all-in-one framework based on the Eclipse to develop robotics applications for thin-client network robots. The framework includes support programs, graphical interfaces, code libraries, a modeling language, a script language, execution semantics and a communication protocol. The Roboid Studio enables developers and even the people unskilled in the robotics to create software...
Independence of people in need in their living environment becomes an imperative notion for any society in the years to come. As an approach to achieve independence, this paper addresses the problem of controlling an assistive home environment emphasizing a human-friendly man-machine interaction. We introduce a new service robot, named Joy, which can be categorized as a steward robot. As an intermediate...
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