A Face Attention Technique for a Robot Able to Interpret Facial Expressions
Abstract
Automatic facial expressions recognition using
vision is an important subject towards human-robot interaction. Here is
proposed a human face focus of attention technique and a facial
expressions classifier (a Dynamic Bayesian Network) to incorporate in an
autonomous mobile agent whose hardware is composed by a robotic platform
and a robotic head. The focus of attention technique is based on the
symmetry presented by human faces. By using the output of this module
the autonomous agent keeps always targeting the human face frontally. In
order to accomplish this, the robot platform performs an arc centered at
the human; thus the robotic head, when necessary, moves synchronized. In
the proposed probabilistic classifier the information is propagated,
from the previous instant, in a lower level of the network, to the
current instant. Moreover, to recognize facial expressions are used not
only positive evidences but also negative.
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