Visual Person Localization with Dynamic Neural Fields: Towards a Gesture Recognition System

For any visually-based interaction between persons and acting systems within a real-world environment the localization of a user by the system is a necessary condition. The presented work deals with this visual localization problem of a user concretely referred to the autonomous mobile robot system MILVA of our department. Since this system is applied under real-world conditions especially for the localization some proper techniques are needed which have an adequate robustness. In our opinion, this requires the combination of several components of saliency towards a multi-cue approach, consisting of structure- and color-based features [2].

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