Multitask Variational Autoencoding of Human-to-Human Object Handover

Haziq Razali,Yiannis Demiris,Haziq Razali,Yiannis Demiris

Assistive robots that operate alongside humans require the ability to understand and replicate human behaviours during a handover. A handover is defined as a joint action between two participants in which a giver hands an object over to the receiver. In this paper, we present a method for learning human-to-human handovers observed from motion capture data. Given the giver and receiver pose from a ...