A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

In this period the D1.1 Hardware and Software specifications of the modified platform was written. The technical choices are done and kompaï robot is planned to be built. Vicomtech start working on task 2: Locating people at a medium/long distance.

The last two month work consists in analyzing the system and its capabilities in order to define scenarios that will point out the developments done for the project. Test Scenarios Test case 1 The purpose of this test is to check the person behavior monitoring vision system alone. For this purpose the next test case...

During the last two months the work has been focused on the scientific and technical aspects regarding person detection and tracking, and gesture spotting. For the person detection, the work is further divided into face detection and tracking and body features detection and tracking. In face detection, the work has been...

In the previous months the work has been devoted to the encoding of facial expressions in a coherent, accurate and efficient manner using FACS. After achieving a satisfactory result, then the target of the work has moved to the rest of the body. During the last two months the work has been focused on obtaining a suitable...

At the current stage of the project several incremental milestones have been achieved. First of all, robust person detection, combining several computer vision techniques. Secondly, face, facial feature and facial expression detection and tracking. Then, body part detection, tracking and body expression coding. And finally...

We have been improving the facial tracker in order to make it more robust than the original version to sudden illumination changes. The improvements have been focused principally in the learning strategy of the facial template for the calculation of the update of the 3D facial model configuration. Its previous version was...