ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2024
A pipeline for estimating human attention toward objects with on-board cameras on the iCub humanoid robot.
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- Eyes ahead: a scoping review of technologies enabling humanoid robots to follow human gaze.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Pooled it
- A visual perceptual perspective on gaze in social robotics.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Integrating Egocentric and Robotic Vision for Object Identification Using Siamese Networks and Superquadric Estimations in Partial Occlusion Scenarios.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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This research report introduces a learning system designed to detect the object that humans are gazing at, using solely visual feedback. By incorporating face detection, human attention prediction, and online object detection, the system enables the robot to perceive and interpret human gaze accurately, thereby facilitating the establishment of joint attention with human partners. Additionally, a novel dataset collected with the humanoid robot iCub is introduced, comprising more than 22,000 images from ten participants gazing at different annotated objects. This dataset serves as a benchmark for human gaze estimation in table-top human-robot interaction (HRI) contexts. In this work, we use it to assess the proposed pipeline's performance and examine each component's effectiveness. Furthermore, the developed system is deployed on the iCub and showcases its functionality. The results demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach as a first step to enhancing social awareness and responsiveness in social robotics. This advancement can enhance assistance and support in collaborative scenarios, promoting more efficient human-robot collaborations.
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