J. Blanco, W. Burgard, R. Sanz, J.L. Fernandez
Fast Face Detection for Mobile Robots
by Integrating Laser Range Data with Vision
In Proc. of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2003.
Abstract
In many application areas mobile robots need the ability to interact
with people. In order to be able to communicate with even untrained
users, the interaction should be as natural as possible. One of the
preconditions of a natural interaction is that the robot focuses the
person it is interacting with. In this paper we present a technique
that combines data acquired with a laser range finder and the output
of a standard face detection system to determine the positions of
persons in the vicinity of the robot. We present experimental
results obtained with a real robot which illustrate that our
approach can efficiently detect faces of persons and that the
overall processing time is reduced compared to a purely vision-based
approach.
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Bibtex
@InProceedings{Blanco02Image,
author = {Blanco, J. and Burgard, W. and Sanz, R. and Fernandez, J.L.},
title = {Fast Face Detection for Mobile Robots\
by Integrating Laser Range Data with Vision},
booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)},
year = {2003}
}