Developing The Bottom-up Attentional System of A Social Robot

Randy Gomez,Álvaro Páez,Yu Fang,Serge Thill,Luis Merino,Eric Nichols,Keisuke Nakamura,Heike Brock,Randy Gomez,Álvaro Páez,Yu Fang,Serge Thill,Luis Merino,Eric Nichols,Keisuke Nakamura,Heike Brock

This paper describes the development of a 3- stage signalling framework to trigger a social robot's bottom- up reactive behavior inspired by a biological model. In the first stage, low-level firing of stimuli due to external sources is constructed through perception grounding. This is followed by a saliency classifier which fires-up high level salient signals that require attention and are used to...