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Detection of multiple people is a key element for social robot design and it is a requirement for effective human-robot interaction. However, it is not an easy task, especially in complex real world scenarios that commonly involve unpredictable motion of people. This paper focuses on detecting multiple people with a mobile robot by fusing information from different sensors over time. The proposed approach applies a segmentation method that uses the distance to the objects to separate possible people from the background and a novel adaptive contour people model to obtain a probability of detecting people. A probabilistic skin model is also applied to the images and both evidences are merged and used over time with a Bayesian scheme to detect people. We present experimental results that demonstrate how the proposed method is able to detect people who is standing, sitting and leaning sideways using a mobile robot in cluttered real world scenarios.
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Méndez-Polanco, J.A., Muñoz-Meléndez, A., Morales-Manzanares, E.F. (2010). Detection of Multiple People by a Mobile Robot in Dynamic Indoor Environments. In: Kuri-Morales, A., Simari, G.R. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2010. IBERAMIA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6433. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16952-6_53
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