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Experimental Evaluation of Several Strategies for Human Motion Based Transparency Control

Human interactive robots continue to improve human quality of life with their diverse applications. Their field includes, but is not limited to, haptic devices, force feedback tele-manipulation, surgical co-manipulation, medical rehabilitation, and various ...

2009

Gaze Behaviors for Virtual Crowd Characters

Daniel Thalmann, Jonathan Maim, Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec, Barbara Yersin

Nowadays, crowds of virtual characters are used in many domains such as neurosciences, psychology, and computer sciences. Since as human beings, we are natural experts in human being representation and movement, it makes it that much harder to correctly mo ...

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Social Signals, their Function, and Automatic Analysis: A Survey

Hervé Bourlard, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Social Signal Processing (SSP) aims at the analysis of social behaviour in both Human-Human and Human-Computer interactions. SSP revolves around automatic sensing and interpretation of social signals, complex aggregates of nonverbal behaviours through whic ...

2008

Working in the action/research nexus for education for sustainable development; two case studies from Ireland

Roland John Tormey

Purpose – Higher education has a key role and responsibility in creating change and addressing issues of fundamental human concern such as inequality and social justice, globalisation and development, environmental protection and sustainability. The purpos ...

2008

A modular bio-inspired architecture for movement generation for the infant-like robot iCub

Auke Ijspeert, Ludovic Righetti, Sarah Dégallier Rochat

Movement generation in humans appears to be processed through a three-layered architecture, where each layer corresponds to a different level of abstraction in the representation of the movement. In this article, we will present an architecture reflecting ...

2008

Evaluating the influence of induced passive torques in the simulation of time-varying human poses

Ronan Boulic

In the computerized generation of human poses, it is important to take into account not only the active component of the torque, but also the ligaments and connective tissues which produce a passive torque at the limits of the joint range of motion. We pre ...

2008

Border urban intermediation in the Dominican Republic

This study is comprised of seven chapters including a final part of conclusions. The First Chapter attempts to bring this topic into the current debate on the main aspects discussed by the thesis, vis-à-vis urban intermediation in border situations within ...

EPFL2007

Modelling Human Perception of Facial Expressions by Discrete Choice Models

Michel Bierlaire, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Matteo Sorci, Javier Cruz Mota, Thomas Robin

Facial expression recognition is a hard and ambiguous problem in computer vision. It is hard due to the wide variety of faces and the wide variety of ways of representing the same expression. And it is ambiguous because, even though common approaches treat ...

2007

Modelling Human Perception of Facial Expressions by Discrete Choice Models

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Sorci, Javier Cruz Mota, Thomas Robin

2007

Automatic Speech Receognition for Human-Machine Interaction

Pierre-André Farine, Michael Ansorge, Sara Grassi Pauletti

Since the sixties, movies such as “2001: A Space Odyssey” have familiarized us with the idea of com-puters that can speak and hear just as a human being does. Automatic speech recogni-tion (ASR) is the technol-ogy that allows machines to interpret human sp ...

2005

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