9 accepted papers
We present PhoMi, an interactive recall assistant that supports dementia reminiscence by engaging users with personal photographs captured via a live camera interface. Given a photograph, PhoMi delivers spoken questions and receives spoken responses, creating an accessible reminiscence setting with
Deploying humans in a high-risk environment to extract casualties in order to provide medical attention is an inherently dangerous endeavor. To minimize this risk, Robotics and Autonomous Systems can be deployed in hazardous areas in place of human personnel to limit the exposure of first responders…
Recent complicated problems require large-scale datasets and complex model architectures, however, it is difficult to train such large networks due to high computational issues. Significant efforts have been made to make the training more efficient such as momentum, learning rate scheduling, weight…
Untethered mobile microrobots controlled by an external magnetic gradient field can be employed as advanced biomedical applications inside the human body such as cell therapy, micromanipulation, and noninvasive surgery. Haptic technology and telecommunication, on the other hand, can extend the poten
Vision modules running on mobility platforms, such as robots and cars, often face challenging situations such as a domain shift where the distributions of training (source) data and test (target) data are different. The domain shift is caused by several variation factors, such as style, camera viewp
Deep learning, based on which many modern algorithms operate, is well known to be data-hungry. In particular, the datasets appropriate for the intended application are difficult to obtain. To cope with this situation, we introduce a new dataset called ETRI-Activity3D, focusing on the daily activitie…
Co-speech gestures enhance interaction experiences between humans as well as between humans and robots. Most existing robots use rule-based speech-gesture association, but this requires human labor and prior knowledge of experts to be implemented. We present a learning-based co-speech gesture genera…
In this paper, an object detection and localization method for bin picking of plastic wrapped objects is described. Since such objects are deformable and have non-Lambertian surfaces, it is difficult to apply conventional feature point approaches or edge based template matching. To solve this proble…
This paper presents a design, a control scheme, and experiments for a new vibrating magnet robot (ViMbot). Permanent magnets in the new robot vibrate due to an external vibrating magnetic field. The vibration motion of the robot induces the locomotion of the robot. The vibratory dynamic response of…