Based on concepts of the human visual system, computational visual attention systems aim
to detect regions of interest in images. Psychologists, neurobiologists, and computer …

Saving energy in residential and commercial buildings is of great interest due to diminishing
resources. Heating ventilation and air conditioning systems, and electric lighting are …

Multimodal attention is a key requirement for humanoid robots in order to navigate in
complex environments and act as social, cognitive human partners. To this end, robots have …

Organic User Interfaces (OUIs) are flexible, actuated interfaces characterized by being
aesthetically pleasing, intuitively manipulated and ubiquitously embedded in our daily life. In …

We extend our previous work and present how Bayesian surprise can be applied to detect
salient acoustic events. Therefore, we use the Gamma distribution to model each …

When persons interact, non-verbal cues are used to direct the attention of persons towards
objects of interest. Achieving joint attention this way is an important aspect of natural …

This paper presents a new method for designing multi-camera arrangements with aim to
maximize coverage with the minimum number of cameras. More specifically, the presented …

The natural environment and our interaction with it are essentially multisensory, where we
may deploy visual, tactile and/or auditory senses to perceive, learn and interact with our …

In human-machine interaction, gestures play an important role as input modality for natural
and intuitive interfaces. While the usage of sign languages or crafted command gestures …

We extend our work on an integrated object-based system for saliency-driven overt attention
and knowledge-driven object analysis. We present how we can reduce the amount of …