Ubiquitous human perception for real-time gender estimation

In environments where robotic systems are deployed people often have different requirements for the robotic services and human-robot interaction methods. This paper presents a robotic system that exploits the advantages of ubiquitous perception in order to gather knowledge from multiple sensors and various modalities. This ubiquitous human perception will facilitate user profiling in order to support personalised services and individual human-robot interaction. This system combines ubiquitous smart sensing, methods of multi-modal human perception and existing human recognition algorithms from the field of biometrics to collectively work towards a real-time, robust and scalable solution for gender estimation.