A message from the ECHORD coordinator Alois Knoll

In the last bimester we have worked on with the activities of Task 3: System Development, Implementation, Integration and Testing, namely on the implementation and testing of the first prototype of the VUI for the chosen domains. According to the results of the design phase, we are focusing on the generalized components that...

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 last bimester we have worked on with the activities of Task 3: System Development, Implementation, Integration and Testing, namely on the implementation and testing of the first prototype of the VUI for the chosen domains. This effort will be reported in Deliverable 3.1, Mid-term Home Service Prototype and...

In the last bimester, we have focussed our work on with the refinement and testing of the Service Prototype and Demonstrator, (Deliverable 3.1) which is part of the Task 3: System Development, Implementation, Integration and Testing. Specifically, we have completed the interface to the MS dictation engine, in preparation to a...

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...

In the last bimester, we have been working on the experimental evaluation of the prototypes (Task 4). On the one hand, we have defined and tested the procedure for performance evaluation of the vocal interfaces defined for different robots and environments. On the other hand, laboratory experiments have been performed to...

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...

The effort in the past two months was focused on collecting and analyzing user feedback on the usability of the EduFill software toolbox. The users are the students who were involved in the EPRo course where the toolbox has been used for developing robotic applications. This includes two activities which are: 1. Analyzing the...