Project Number

279

Title

V-TOYS: Visually Interactive Toys

Description

Human-sensing, visually interactive robot that understands and reacts to visual communication.

Contact

Yaser Yacoob

Affiliation

University of Maryland, College Park

Address

A.V. Williams UMIACS 
College Park, Maryland 20742

E-mail

yaser@umiacs.umd.edu

WWW

Year

2000

Reference

SIGGRAPH 2000 Program & Buyer's Guide

Project Details

V-TOY presents a visually interactive robot that understands and reacts to human presence and visual communication. 
 
V-TOY detects people, performs facial gestures, recognizes people, greets them verbally and visually, and invites users to test how well it can understand and mimic human facial expressions.

Sight

V-TOY robot

Sound

embedded audio

Touch

V-TOY robot

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

2 - Technique (paradigm, human)

Primary

203 - interactive paradigm, technique

Secondary

104 - machine recogition

Remarks

Implementation details undocumented.

 


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