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23JUL2015

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) visits the lab

In occasion of the visit of the FCA, the guests played with the humanoid robot iCub. The peekaboo demo, recently developed in collaboration with Alessandra Sciutti and Oskar Palinko, showed how reading intentions can provide more effective strategies of interaction within automobiles.

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Breakthrough in the iCub audio and visual attention system published on youtube

Saliency based sensor fusion of the audio and visual channels into a unique saliency map. Additional gaze strategy directs the iCub`s head towards stimuli off the field of view. Project Related: Codefror (https://www.codefror.eu/) Publications Related: "Saliency Based Sensor Fusion of Broadband Sound Localizer for Humanoids" the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Information Integration (MFI 2015), Sept 14-16, 2015, San Diego, CA

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