An age estimation system on the AIBO

Author

Fukai, Hironobu ; Nishie, Yuuki ; Abiko, Kohki ; Mitsukura, Yasue ; Fukumi, Minoru ; Tanaka, Masahiro

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Bio-Applic.&Syst. Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Koganei

fYear

2008

Firstpage

2551

Lastpage

2554

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an age estimation system on the AIBO. AIBO is an entertainment robot produced by SONY co., Ltd.. AIBO has many sensors to get information around itself and moves according to its instinct. This autonomous action is considerably natural. However, it is inadequate to communicate with people. If AIBO can estimate the human age from a face image, it becomes more excellent entertainment robot. Then, we propose the age estimation method on the AIBO by using face image. In this paper, the apparent age feature is extracted by the fast Fourier transform (FFT), and it is selected by the GA. Moreover, the age is estimated by the 1-dimensional SOM. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed method, we show the simulation examples.

Keywords

entertainment; face recognition; genetic algorithms; human-robot interaction; mobile robots; self-organising feature maps; service robots; AIBO; SONY; age estimation system; entertainment robot; face image; fast Fourier transform; feature extraction; genetic algorithm; Agricultural engineering; Agriculture; Face; Feature extraction; Genetic algorithms; Humans; Information science; Organizing; Robot sensing systems; Systems engineering and theory; AIBO; age estimation; genetic algorithm (GA); self organizing map (SOM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation and Systems, 2008. ICCAS 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-89-950038-9-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-89-93215-01-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAS.2008.4694285

Filename

4694285