Vision-Based Joint Attention Detection for Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood. Its clinical symptoms mainly include narrow interests, stereotyped behavior and social communication disorders. There is still no cure for ASD. Only early detection and intervention can help to alleviate the symptoms and effects of ASD, so that ASD patients can adapt to the society and live a relatively normal life. Joint Attention is one of the core features of ASD and one of the key diagnostic indicators. In this paper, a detection test for Joint Attention is carried out among 8 non-ASD adults through a visual system which contains of one RGB camera and one Kinect. The result shows that the system can effectively detect the Joint Attention and has good accuracy.

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