Interaction of receptionist ASKA using vision and speech information

Author

Ido, Jun Ichi ; Myouga, Youhei ; Matsumoto, Yoshio ; Ogasawara, Tsukasa

Author_Institution

Robotics Lab., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Ikoma, Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

30 July-1 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

335

Lastpage

340

Abstract

Intelligent robots will give us the chance to use a computer in daily life. We implemented a humanoid robot, ASKA, at our university reception desk for computerized university guidance. This paper describes the hardware and software system of ASKA. ASKA can detect a user in front of the reception desk using a stereo camera system attached to the head and can recognize a user´s question utterance. It can answer the question by its synthesized voice with hand gestures and head movements.

Keywords

educational computing; face recognition; robot vision; speech recognition; stereo image processing; ASKA; automated receptionist agent; computerized university guidance; face recognition; hardware system description; humanoid robot; intelligent robot; receptionist interaction; software system description; speech information; speech recognition; stereo camera; user detection; utterance recognition; vision information; Cameras; Computer vision; Hardware; Humanoid robots; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Motion control; Personal communication networks; Robot vision systems; Speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI2003. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7987-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MFI-2003.2003.1232680

Filename

1232680