7 accepted papers
In domestic environments, robots require a comprehensive understanding of their surroundings to interact effectively and intuitively with untrained humans. In this paper, we propose DVEFormer – an efficient RGB-D Transformer-based approach that predicts dense text-aligned visual embeddings (DVE) via
As the application scenarios of mobile robots are getting more complex and challenging, scene understanding becomes increasingly crucial. A mobile robot that is supposed to operate autonomously in indoor environments must have precise knowledge about what objects are present, where they are, what th…
A key proficiency an autonomous mobile robot must have to perform high-level tasks is a strong understanding of its environment. This involves information about what types of objects are present, where they are, what their spatial extend is, and how they can be reached, i.e., information about free…
Analyzing scenes thoroughly is crucial for mobile robots acting in different environments. Semantic segmentation can enhance various subsequent tasks, such as (semantically assisted) person perception, (semantic) free space detection, (semantic) mapping, and (semantic) navigation. In this paper, we…
Efficient and robust person perception is one of the most basic skills a mobile robot must have to ensure intuitive human-machine interaction. In addition to person detection, this also includes estimating various attributes, like posture or body orientation, in order to achieve user-adaptive behavi…
An essential feature for navigating socially with a mobile robot is the upper body orientation of persons in its vicinity. For example, in a supermarket orientation indicates whether a person is looking at goods on the shelves or where a person is likely to go. However, given limited computing and b…
In this paper, we propose a new method for AAC encoding detection and bitrate estimation from PCM material. The algorithm is based on a Convolutional Neural Network that can distinguish between eight different bitrates. It achieves an average accuracy of 94.65% by analysis of only 116.10 ms of conte…