Visual estimation of pointed targets for robot guidance via fusion of face pose and hand orientation

  • Authors:
  • Maria Pateraki;Haris Baltzakis;Panos Trahanias

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

In this paper we address an important issue in human-robot interaction, that of accurately deriving pointing information from a corresponding gesture. Based on the fact that in most applications it is the pointed object rather than the actual pointing direction which is important, we formulate a novel approach which takes into account prior information about the location of possible pointed targets. To decide about the pointed object, the proposed approach uses the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to fuse information from two different input streams: head pose, estimated by visually tracking the off-plane rotations of the face, and hand pointing orientation. Detailed experimental results are presented that validate the effectiveness of the method in realistic application setups.