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December 19, 2012

Head-mounted cameras could help robots understand social interactions
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 19, 2012
What is everyone looking at? It's a common question in social settings because the answer identifies something of interest, or helps delineate social groupings. Those insights someday will be essential for robots designed to interact with humans, so researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have developed a method for detecting where people's gazes intersect. The researchers tested the method using groups of people with head-mounted video cameras. By noting where their gazes c ... read more

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