Title :
Finding and following a human based on online visual feature determination through discourse
Author :
Inamura, Tetsunari ; Shibata, Tomohiro ; Matsumoto, Yoshio ; Inaba, Masayuki ; Inoue, Hirochika
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We propose an approach “online visual feature determination through discourse”, which realizes the finding and the following task in a real environment. To segment the human´s image from the complex background, it is possible to prepare many finds of basic visual features, and to combine them. The proposed approach is a solution for the problem of how to select and combine these visual features for each situation. Namely, a robot and a human make a conversation to search for the suitable visual features for the current situation. This idea enables the robot to find and follow a human successfully in a changeable background environment
Keywords :
feature extraction; image segmentation; mobile robots; natural language interfaces; object recognition; robot vision; speech recognition; stereo image processing; basic visual features; changeable background environment; online visual feature determination through discourse; personal mobile robot; Computer vision; Detectors; Face detection; Hospitals; Humans; Image converters; Image segmentation; Mobile robots; Navigation;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4465-0
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1998.724643