Title :
Helping computer vision by verbal and nonverbal communication
Author :
Takahashi, Takuya ; Nakanishi, Satoru ; Kuno, Yoshinori ; Shirai, Yoshiaki
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput.-Controlled Mech. Syst., Osaka Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Proposes a method of removing ambiguities in robot tasks by a multimodal human-robot interface consisting of verbal and nonverbal communication. Such ambiguities often arise from failures of the robot vision system. However, it is not easy to solve this problem only by improving computer vision techniques. Thus, our robot asks a human such a question that a natural reply to it will contain helpful information to adapt the vision system for the current situation. We present a robot system that can bring the object ordered by a human by verbal and nonverbal behaviors
Keywords :
gesture recognition; mobile robots; natural language interfaces; robot vision; speech-based user interfaces; ambiguities removal; computer vision; multimodal human-robot interface; natural reply; nonverbal communication; robot vision system; verbal communication; Computer vision; Humans; Robot vision systems; Speech analysis; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Target recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 1998. Proceedings. Fourteenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brisbane, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8512-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.1998.711917