Human Behavior Understanding: Third International Workshop, HBU 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 7, 2012. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Albert Ali Salah, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Çetin Meriçli, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (auth.), Albert Ali Salah, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Çetin Meriçli, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7559 Image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and graphics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, HBU 2012, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in October 2012. The 14 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on sensing human behavior; social and affective signals; human-robot interaction; imitation and learning from demonstration.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Human Behavior Understanding for Robotics....Pages 1-16
Real-Time Exact Graph Matching with Application in Human Action Recognition....Pages 17-28
An Efficient Approach for Multi-view Human Action Recognition Based on Bag-of-Key-Poses....Pages 29-40
Bayesian Fusion of Ceiling Mounted Camera and Laser Range Finder on a Mobile Robot for People Detection and Localization....Pages 41-51
Using Speech Data to Recognize Emotion in Human Gait....Pages 52-64
Gender Differences in the Perception of Affective Movements....Pages 65-76
Vagueness and Dreams: Analysis of Body Signals in Vague Dream Telling....Pages 77-89
Computing and Evaluating the Body Laughter Index....Pages 90-98
Recognizing the Visual Focus of Attention for Human Robot Interaction....Pages 99-112
Contextual Analysis of Human Non-verbal Guide Behaviors to Inform the Development of FROG, the Fun Robotic Outdoor Guide....Pages 113-124
Getting Acquainted with a Developing Robot....Pages 125-133
Learning the Combinatorial Structure of Demonstrated Behaviors with Inverse Feedback Control....Pages 134-147
Internal Simulations for Behaviour Selection and Recognition....Pages 148-160
Automatic Imitation Assessment in Interaction....Pages 161-173
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Pattern Recognition; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Biometrics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer Vision; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics