the most challenging part of the commission, painting the head and face, was the most trying day for me because I was unable to move my head without upsetting the pose. The artist often consulted the photographs and to my surprise used a tape measure to determine the relationships between various parts of my face. The technique of facial measurement derives from Holbein, the sixteenth century D...

Project Description: The proposal aims at developing a software service interface for natural-like interaction of humans with PR2-type personal robots. Natural-like interaction will be considered for communication (a model of hand gestures will be established that allow many natural gestures to be interpreted by the personal robot) and emulation of human skills, routine tasks (extracting reusab...

Hand gesture recognition techniques have been studied for more than two decades. Several solutions have been developed; however, little attention has been paid on the human factors, e.g. the intuitiveness of the applied hand gestures. This study was inspired by the movie Minority Report, in which a gesture-based interface was presented to a large audience. In the movie, a video-browsing applica...

Hand gestures are one of the natural forms of communication in human-robot interaction scenarios. They can be used to delegate tasks from a human to a robot. To facilitate human-like interaction with robots, a major requirement for advancing in this direction is the availability of a hand gesture dataset for judging the performance of the proposed algorithms. We present details of the Innsbruck...

BACKGROUND When we talk to one another face-to-face, body gestures accompany our speech. Motion tracking technology enables us to include body gestures in avatar-mediated communication, by mapping one's movements onto one's own 3D avatar in real time, so the avatar is self-animated. We conducted two experiments to investigate (a) whether head-mounted display virtual reality is useful for resear...