Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 Projects

HUMAVIPS

• Title: Humanoids with audiovisual skills in populated spaces

• Type: COOPERATION (ICT)

• Defi: Cognitive Systems and Robotics

• Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP)

• Duration: February 2010 - January 2013

• Coordinator: Inria (France)

• Others partners: CTU Prague (Czech Republic), University of Bielefeld (Germany), IDIAP (Switzerland), Aldebaran Robotics (France)

• See also: http://humavips.inrialpes.fr

• Abstract: Humanoids expected to collaborate with people should be able to interact with them in the most natural way. This involves significant perceptual, communication, and motor processes, operating in a coordinated fashion. Consider a social gathering scenario where a humanoid is expected to possess certain social skills. It should be able to explore a populated space, to localize people and to determine their status, to decide to join one or two persons, to synthetize appropriate behavior, and to engage in dialog with them. Humans appear to solve these tasks routinely by integrating the often complementary information provided by multi sensory data processing, from low-level 3D object positioning to high-level gesture recognition and dialog handling. Understanding the world from unrestricted s