Title :
A vision-based talker distinction system for human-robot communication
Author :
Oshiro, S. ; Kato, Shigeo ; Watabe, Kinji ; Yamakita, Takanori ; Kimura, K. ; Itoh, Hayato
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Intelligence & Comput. Sci., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
A novel robot, Ifbot, which can communicate with human by joyful conversation and emotional facial expression, has been developed by our industry-university joint research project. In this paper, as the fundamental technology of Ifbot for the robot-human interaction, we propose an image processing method for real-time face tracking and talker distinction.
Keywords :
emotion recognition; face recognition; image processing; intelligent robots; man-machine systems; speaker recognition; Ifbot; emotional facial expression; human-robot communication; image processing method; industry-university joint research project; joyful conversation; novel robot; real-time face tracking; robot-human interaction; vision-based talker distinction system; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Communication industry; Face; Humans; Image processing; Machine vision; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Service robots;
Conference_Titel :
Micromechatronics and Human Science, 2003. MHS 2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8165-3
DOI :
10.1109/MHS.2003.1249912
