10 accepted papers
Recently, deep autoencoder architectures have received attention for the problem of unsupervised anomaly detection. Detecting psychotic relapses in mental health patients is a crucial challenge, often framed as anomaly detection, given the limited availability of data during relapsing states. In thi…
The e-Prevention challenge concerns the analysis and processing of long-term continuous recordings of biosignals recorded from wearable sensors, i.e., accelerometers, gyroscopes and heart rate monitors embedded in smartwatches, as well as sleep information and daily step count, in order to extract h…
The introduction of biometric signal analysis in psychiatry could potentially reshape the field by making it more accurate, proactive and personalized. Such biosignals usually acquired from wearables encompass the quantification of human behavior and traits. In this study, we use long-term data acqu…
Robots are increasingly introduced in various Child-Robot Interactions with educational, entertainment or even therapeutic goals. In order to achieve qualitative inter-actions, robots need to adjust their behavior according to children's response. A robot's ability to successfully estimate partner's…
Estimating the engagement of children is an essential prerequisite for constructing natural Child-Robot Interaction. Especially in the case of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, monitoring the engagement of the other party allows robots to adjust their actions according to the educational and t…
In this work, we explore the discriminating ability of short-term signal patterns (e.g. few minutes long) with respect to the person identification task. We focus on signals recorded by simple wearable devices, such as smart watches, which can measure movements (accelerometer and gyroscope sensors)…
In this letter, we address the problem of multi-cue affect recognition in challenging scenarios such as child–robot interaction. Toward this goal we propose a method for automatic recognition of affect that leverages body expressions alongside facial ones, as opposed to traditional methods that typi
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a research area of growing interest with a multitude of applications for both children and adult user groups, as, for example, in edutainment and social robotics. Crucial, however, to its wider adoption remains the robust perception of HRI scenes in natural, untether…
Child-robot interaction is an interdisciplinary research area that has been attracting growing interest, primarily focusing on edutainment applications. A crucial factor to the successful deployment and wide adoption of such applications remains the robust perception of the child's multi-modal actio…
This work examines how and to what benefit an autonomous humanoid robot can supervise a child in an object assembly task. In order to understand the child's actions, a novel 3D object tracking algorithm for RGB-D data is employed. The tracker consists of two stages: the first performs a tracking-by-…