Human vision system actively seeks interesting regions in images to reduce the search effort
in tasks, such as object detection and recognition. Similarly, prominent actions in video …

This paper presents part of an on-going project to integrate perception, attention, drives,
emotions, behavior arbitration, and expressive acts for a robot designed to interact socially …

Object detection and recognition is a topic of significant interest in computer and robot
vision. It is required in most applications of computational vision, for example, biometric …

Human social dynamics rely upon the ability to correctly attribute beliefs, goals, and percepts
to other people. The set of abilities that allow an individual to infer these hidden mental …

Research in robotics has moved away from its primary focus on industrial applications. The
New Robotics is a vision that has been developed in past years by our own university and …

To decide “Where to look next?” is a central function of the attention system of humans,
animals and robots. Control of attention depends on three factors, that is, low-level static and …

The goal of our research is to investigate the interplay between oculomotor control, visual
processing, and limb control in humans and primates by exploring the computational issues …

A major challenge for the realization of intelligent robots is to supply them with cognitive
abilities in order to allow ordinary users to program them easily and intuitively. One …

The goal of the cognitive robotics research is to design robots with human-like cognition
(albeit reduced complexity) in perception, reasoning, action planning, and decision making …

A key prerequisite to make user instruction of work tasks by interactive demonstration
effective and convenient is situated multi-modal interaction aiming at an enhancement of …