To be effective in the human world robots must respond to human emotional states. This
paper focuses on the recognition of the six universal human facial expressions. In the last …

Skin color is an important feature of faces. Various applications benefit from robust skin color
detection. Skin color may look quite different, depending on camera settings, illumination …

The demand for humanoid robots as service robots for everyday life has increased during
the last years. The processing power of the hardware and the development of complex …

Skin color is an important feature of faces. Various applications benefit from robust skin color
detection. Depending on camera settings, illumination, shadows, people's tans, and ethnic …

We present a fully automated electronic sales agent for e-procurement portals. The key
technologies for this breakthrough are based on preferences modeled as strict partial …

Even if electronic devices widely occupy our daily lives, human-machine interaction still
lacks intuition. Therefore, researchers intend to resolve these shortcomings by augmenting …

Smart environments are sensor equipped areas that know about their environment thus
being able to adapt to the user. We present sHOME, a multiagent based platform for …

The interaction between humans and computers lacks intuition; mostly it is restricted to
traditional input and output devices. Therefore, integrating interpersonal interaction …

Skin color is an important feature of faces. Applications that try to fit a face outline model to
the real face contour can benefit from robust classification of skin and nonskin regions within …

Computers have been widely deployed to our daily lives, but human-computer interaction
still lacks intuition. Researchers intend to resolve these shortcomings by augmenting …