Exploratory gaze movements are fundamental for gathering the most relevant information regarding the partner during social interactions. We have designed and implemented a system for dynamic attention allocation which is able to actively control gaze movements during a visual action recognition task. During the observation of a partner’s reaching movement, the robot is able to contextually estimate the goal position of the partner hand and the location in space of the candidate targets, while moving its gaze around with the purpose of optimizing the gathering of information relevant for the task. Experimental results on a simulated environment show that active gaze control provides a relevant advantage with respect to typical passive observation, both in term of estimation precision and of time required for action recognition.

Ognibene, D., Chinellato, E., Sarabia, M., Demiris, Y. (2013). Towards Contextual Action Recognition and Target Localization with Active Allocation of Attention. In First International Conference, Living Machines 2012, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-12, 2012. Proceedings (pp.192-203). Springer [10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_17].

Towards Contextual Action Recognition and Target Localization with Active Allocation of Attention

Ognibene D
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2013

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Exploratory gaze movements are fundamental for gathering the most relevant information regarding the partner during social interactions. We have designed and implemented a system for dynamic attention allocation which is able to actively control gaze movements during a visual action recognition task. During the observation of a partner’s reaching movement, the robot is able to contextually estimate the goal position of the partner hand and the location in space of the candidate targets, while moving its gaze around with the purpose of optimizing the gathering of information relevant for the task. Experimental results on a simulated environment show that active gaze control provides a relevant advantage with respect to typical passive observation, both in term of estimation precision and of time required for action recognition.
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active vision; social interaction; humanoid robots; attentive systems; information gain;
English
Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Living Machines 2012
2012
Prescott T.J., Lepora N.F., Mura A., Verschure P.F.M.J.
First International Conference, Living Machines 2012, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-12, 2012. Proceedings
978-364231524-4
2013
2
192
203
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_17#citeas
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Ognibene, D., Chinellato, E., Sarabia, M., Demiris, Y. (2013). Towards Contextual Action Recognition and Target Localization with Active Allocation of Attention. In First International Conference, Living Machines 2012, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-12, 2012. Proceedings (pp.192-203). Springer [10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_17].
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