While we are capable of modeling the shape, eg face, arms, etc. of humanoid robots in a
nearly natural or humanlike way, it is much more difficult to generate human-like facial or …

Based on inspirations from infant development we present a system which learns
associations between acoustic labels and visual representations in interaction with its tutor …

Speech understanding requires the ability to parse spoken utterances into words. But this
ability is not innate and needs to be developed by infants within the first years of their life. So …

This thesis is concerned with the autonomous acquisition of speech production skills by a
robotic system. The acquisition should occur in interaction with a human tutor, making little …

A travers les tâches de perception et de production, les humains peuvent manipuler non
seulement des mots et des phrases mais également des unités de plus bas niveau tels des …

The standard approach for teaching robots to communicate via speech is by providing the
structure, statistics, and semantics of speech through a supervised, offline learning process …

Rather than try to learn skills directly, developmental learning seeks to create a general
purpose system inspired by the human developmental process. The premise is that …

We present an audio-visual attention system for speech based interaction with a humanoid
robot where a tutor can teach visual properties/locations (eg” left”) and corresponding …

Children acquire language to a large extend in the interaction with their caregivers. Inspired
by this observation we develop computational models and artifacts for the acquisition of …

Cette thèse s' inscrit dans le cadre des recherches en sciences cognitives, ce champ de
recherche interdisciplinaire ayant pour objet d'étude la pensée et ses mécanismes. Parmi …