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My Sparring Partner Is a Humanoid Robot

A Parallel Framework for Improving Social Skills by Imitation

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Bioinspired Applications in Artificial and Natural Computation (IWINAC 2009)

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This paper presents a framework for parallel tracking of human hands and faces in real time, and is a partial solution to a larger project on human-robot interaction which aims at training autistic children using a humanoid robot in a realistic non-restricted environment. In addition to the framework, the results of tracking different hand waving patterns are shown. These patterns provide an easy to understand profile of hand waving, and can serve as the input for a classification algorithm.

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Tino Lourens & Emilia Barakova

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  1. Dapartamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, Juan del Rosal, 16, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    José Mira  & Félix de la Paz  & 

  2. Departamento de Electrónica, Tecnología de Computadores y Proyectos, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena,, Pl. Hospital, 1, 30201, Cartagena, Spain

    José Manuel Ferrández

  3. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Informática, Juan del Rosal, 16, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    José R. Álvarez

  4. Departamento de Electrónica, Tecnología de Computadoras y Proyectos, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Pl. Hospital, 1, 30201, Cartagena

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Lourens, T., Barakova, E. (2009). My Sparring Partner Is a Humanoid Robot. In: Mira, J., Ferrández, J.M., Álvarez, J.R., de la Paz, F., Toledo, F.J. (eds) Bioinspired Applications in Artificial and Natural Computation. IWINAC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5602. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02267-8_37

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