[Colloquium] Reminder: today's talk by Gerhard Sagerer

[Margery Ishmael]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Date: Monday, February 23, 2004
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Ryerson 255

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Speaker:  GERHARD SAGERER

From:   Bielefeld University, Germany

Url:  
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/ags/ai/members/homes/sagerer.html

Title: Towards a Robot Companion

Abstract:
In order to enable the widespread use of robots in home and office
environments natural interaction capabilities have to be developed. A
first prerequisite to achieve such a goal is the robot?s ability is to
recognize when and how long a person?s attention is directed towards it
for communication. Already this task requires a number of different
sensing and categorial modalities. For example, speech, gestures or
non-verbal accoustic signals may be used. For instructing and teaching
the robot as well as for cooperative work, a multi-modal dialog related
to the environment is necessary. Knowledge and learning of objects,
scenes, actions, and events has to be performed. In the talk the
cognitive paradigm for these tasks will be explified. We use a special
robot as an experimental platform. This system called BIRON already
integrates a number of different behaviours and cognitive capabilities.
Additionally, not yet integrated features for the vision subsystem will
be demonstrated.

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Host: GINA LEVOW  (ext. 702-5680, levow at cs.uchicago.edu)