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Chapter and Conference Paper
On-board UAV Pilots Identification in Counter UAV Images
Among Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) countermeasures, the detection of the drone position and the identification of the human pilot represent two crucial tasks, as demonstrated by the attention already obtaine...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Faster Visual-Based Localization with Mobile-PoseNet
Precise and robust localization is of fundamental importance for robots required to carry out autonomous tasks. Above all, in the case of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), efficiency and reliability are critica...
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Article
Open AccessA study on different experimental configurations for age, race, and gender estimation problems
This paper presents a detailed study about different algorithmic configurations for estimating soft biometric traits. In particular, a recently introduced common framework is the starting point of the study: i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Soft Biometrics by Modeling Temporal Series of Gaze Cues Extracted in the Wild
Soft biometric systems have spread among recent years, both for powering classical biometrics, as well as stand alone solutions with several application scopes ranging from digital signage to human-robot inter...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Joint Attention Detection During Interaction with a Humanoid Robot
Joint attention is an early-develo** social-communicative skill in which two people (usually a young child and an adult) share attention with regards to an interesting object or event, by means of gestures a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visual Interaction Including Biometrics Information for a Socially Assistive Robotic Platform
This work introduces biometrics as a way to improve human-robot interaction. In particular, gender and age estimation algorithms are used to provide awareness of the user biometrics to a humanoid robot (Aldeba...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Real-Time Gender Based Behavior System for Human-Robot Interaction
This work introduces a real-time system able to lead humanoid robot behavior depending on the gender of the interacting person. It exploits Aldebaran NAO humanoid robot view capabilities by applying a gender p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Social Robots in Postural Education: A New Approach to Address Body Consciousness in ASD Children
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) represent one of the most prevalent developmental disorders among children with different level of impairments in social relationships, communication and imagination. In additio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pervasive Retail Strategy Using a Low-Cost Free Gaze Estimation System
This paper proposes a pervasive retail architecture based on a free human gaze estimation system. The main aim of the paper is to investigate the possibility to automatically understand the behavior of the per...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Fully Automatic Approach for the Accurate Localization of the Pupils
This paper presents a new method to automatically locate pupils in images (even with low-resolution) containing human faces. In particular pupils are localized by a two steps procedure: at first self-similarit...