NDLI: eBear: An expressive Bear-Like robot

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Xiao Zhang Mollahosseini, A. Kargar B, A.H. Boucher, E. Voyles, R.M. Nielsen, R. Mahoor, M.H.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA (Nielsen, R.) \|\| Coll. of Technol., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA (Voyles, R.M.) \|\| Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Denver, Denver, CO, USA (Xiao Zhang; Mollahosseini, A.; Kargar B, A.H.; Boucher, E.; Mahoor, M.H.)
Abstract	This paper presents an anthropomorphic robotic bear for the exploration of human-robot interaction including verbal and non-verbal communications. This robot is implemented with a hybrid face composed of a mechanical faceplate with 10 DOFs and an LCD-display-equipped mouth. The facial emotions of the bear are designed based on the description of the Facial Action Coding System as well as some animal-like gestures described by Darwin. The mouth movements are realized by synthesizing emotions with speech. User acceptance investigations have been conducted to evaluate the likability of these facial behaviors exhibited by the eBear. Multiple Kernel Learning is proposed to fuse different features for recognizing user's facial expressions. Our experimental results show that the developed Bear-Like robot can perceive basic facial expressions and provide emotive conveyance towards human beings.
Starting Page	969
Ending Page	974
File Size	1794033
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479967636
e-ISBN	9781479967650
DOI	10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926378
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-08-25
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Robots Speech Ear Mouth Face Kernel Face recognition
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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