Activities
At Automatic Face and Gesture (FG'2008) Conference, Amterdam, Hollan 2008
At CVISP'2008 Praha, Cezh
At
KITARO (Kyutech Intelligent and Tender Autonomous RObot)
The interaction between robots and humans is a research topic which has been given much
attention recently. At our laboratory, we have developed an interactive robot that works in a human living
space. This robot has been named KITARO (Kyutech Intelligent and Tender Autonomous Robot). KITARO is
designed to collect and understand several types of human information by moving around in a human living
space. Additionally, KITARO has the ability to imitate human behavior based on time-series information.
In
order to realize the system for collecting human visual information around KITARO’s working area, we have
associated certain modules into KITARO. The first module is HeadFinder, which has the capability of
detecting and tracking a human head. The second module is HeadClassifier, which estimates several
categories, e.g., the gender and the age of human based on head image information from HeadFinder. By using
these modules, the KITARO can understand and abstract the trajectory of a person walking in front of its.
Imitate robot (movie file: robo4.avi 7.3MB)
Our laboratory participated in RoboCup99 in Sweden, RoboCup2000 in Australia. This year,
our
team – KIRC – consists of Ejima laboratory members will participate in RoboCup2002 in Fukuoka, Japan.
The most important of our team characteristics is utilizing only visual information to decide the robot
behavior. Another characteristic is that our original robot is not so expensive. We believe that these
characteristics extended a RoboCup participant’s research background variety.
Past ICML(Available)