论文标题
与人类目光接触的机器人框架
A Robotic Framework for Making Eye Contact with Humans
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论文摘要
与他人发起任何对话的人是与他人进行任何对话的必要先决条件。但是，如果机器人最初不彼此面对，或者人类强烈地涉足他或她的任务，那么机器人与人的目光接触并不是一件容易的事。如果机器人想开始与特定人进行交流，则应首先将目光转向该人。但是，只有这样的转弯动作并不总是足以设置眼神交流。有时，机器人应该执行一些强大的动作，以便它可以吸引人类对它的关注。在本文中，我们为机器人提出了一个计算模型，该模型可以主动吸引人类的注意力并与他或她进行眼神交流。通过使用机器人头的评估实验揭示了在不同观看情况下所提出的模型的有效性。
Meeting eye contact is the essential prerequisite skill of a human to initiate any conversation with others. However, it is not an easy task for a robot to meet eye contact with a human if they are not facing each other initially or the human is intensely engaged his or her task. If the robot would like to start communication with a particular person, it should turn its gaze to that person first. However, only such a turning action alone is not always enough to set up eye contact. Sometimes, the robot should perform some strong actions so that it can capture the human's attention toward it. In this paper, we proposed a computational model for robots that can proactively capture human attention and makes eye contact with him or her. Evaluation experiments by using a robotic head reveal the effectiveness of the proposed model in different viewing situations.
