4 papers
Towards Senior-Robot Interaction: Reactive Robot Dog Gestures
Chunyang Meng, Eduardo B. Sandoval, Ricardo Sosa +1
As the global population ages, many seniors face the problem of loneliness. Companion robots offer a potential solution. However, current companion robots often lack advanced funct…
Attention-Enhanced Lightweight Hourglass Network for Human Pose Estimation
Marsha Mariya Kappan, Eduardo Benitez Sandoval, Erik Meijering +1
Pose estimation is a critical task in computer vision with a wide range of applications from activity monitoring to human-robot interaction. However,most of the existing methods ar…
MERCI: Multimodal Emotional and peRsonal Conversational Interactions Dataset
Mohammed Althubyani, Zhijin Meng, Shengyuan Xie +5
The integration of conversational agents into our daily lives has become increasingly common, yet many of these agents cannot engage in deep interactions with humans. Despite this,…
PERCY: Personal Emotional Robotic Conversational System
Zhijin Meng, Mohammed Althubyani, Shengyuan Xie +4
Traditional rule-based conversational robots, constrained by predefined scripts and static response mappings, fundamentally lack adaptability for personalized, long-term human inte…