A Computer That Reads Body Language
From: ECN Magazine - 07/06/2017

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have enabled a
computer to understand the body poses and movements of multiple people from
video in real time - including, for the first time, the pose of each
individual's fingers.

This new method was developed with the help of the Panoptic Studio, a
two-story dome embedded with 500 video cameras. The insights gained from
experiments in that facility now make it possible to detect the pose of a
group of people using a single camera and a laptop computer.

Detecting the nuances of nonverbal communication between individuals will
allow robots to serve in social spaces, allowing robots to perceive what
people around them are doing, what moods they are in and whether they can be
interrupted. A self-driving car could get an early warning that a pedestrian
is about to step into the street by monitoring body language. Enabling
machines to understand human behavior also could enable new approaches to
behavioral diagnosis and rehabilitation for conditions such as autism,
dyslexia, and depression.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2017/07/computer-reads-body-language

Links:
Robots Learn to Speak Body Language
http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/robotics/robotics-software/robots-learn-to-speak-body-language

Panoptic Studio
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hanbyulj/panoptic-studio

Yaser Sheikh
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yaser

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