Publication detail

Reduction of face detection false positives in mobile robot interaction using proximity sensors

KREJSA, J.

Czech title

Redukce nekorektních pozitivních detekcí obličeje pomocí proximitních snímačů během interakce mobilního robotu

English title

Reduction of face detection false positives in mobile robot interaction using proximity sensors

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original abstract

People detection is essential for mobile robots that are suppose to communicate with human. Face detector can be used as a primary tool for such detection. The paper presents a method of combining the face detector output with distance measurements provided by low cost proximity sensors. The method reduces the false positives given by face detector, thus preventing the robot from starting the conversation when the subject is not present. Data for fusion were taken from the measurements of mobile robot Advee in real world environment. Presented approach is easy to implement on variety of platforms and is computationally cheap. Verification tests were performed with the same robot and about 30 % reduction of false positives was obtained.

Czech abstract

Detekce lidí je důležitá pro mobilní roboty které s nimi mají komunikovat. Jako primární nástroj detekce je možné použít detektor obličeje. Článek předkládá metodu, která kombinuje výstup detektoru obličeje s měřením vzdálenosti poskytovaným nízkonákladovými proximitními snímači. Metodu redukuje falešné pozitivní detekce, čímž zabraňuje tomu, aby robot spustil interakci v případě že subjekt není přítomen. Data pro fúzi byla získáná z měření mobilního robotu Advee v reálném prostředí. Prezentovaný přístup je výpočetně nenáročný a snadno implementovatelný. Verifikační testy prokázaly redukci nekorektních detekcí o cca 30%

English abstract

People detection is essential for mobile robots that are suppose to communicate with human. Face detector can be used as a primary tool for such detection. The paper presents a method of combining the face detector output with distance measurements provided by low cost proximity sensors. The method reduces the false positives given by face detector, thus preventing the robot from starting the conversation when the subject is not present. Data for fusion were taken from the measurements of mobile robot Advee in real world environment. Presented approach is easy to implement on variety of platforms and is computationally cheap. Verification tests were performed with the same robot and about 30 % reduction of false positives was obtained.

Keywords in Czech

mobilní robot, interakce člověk-robot, detekce obličeje

Keywords in English

mobile robot, human-robot interaction, face detection

RIV year

2011

Released

15.06.2011

ISBN

978-80-214-4302-0

Book

Mendel 2011

Edition number

1

Pages from–to

540–545

Pages count

6

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT73090,
  author="Jiří {Krejsa},
  title="Reduction of face detection false positives in mobile robot interaction using proximity sensors",
  booktitle="Mendel 2011",
  year="2011",
  month="June",
  pages="540--545",
  isbn="978-80-214-4302-0"
}