Human gesture recognition for robot partners by spiking neural network and classification learning

Recently, the rate of elderly people rises in the super-aging society. Human-friendly robots can be used to support the mental and physical care for elderly people and to assist the care of caregivers to elderly people. Robotic conversation can activate the brain of such elderly people and improve their concentration and memory abilities. However, it is difficult for a robot to converse appropriately with a person even if many contents of the conversation are designed in advance because the performance of voice recognition is not enough in the daily conversation. Recognition of human gestures is also important in order to perform smooth communication. This paper deals with human gestures recognition using spiking neural network and classification learning. The proposed method is able to handle the cultural differences in the human communication.

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