Rongrong Ni¹, Xiaofeng Liu^1,*, Yizhou Chen¹, Xu Zhou¹, Huili Cai¹, Loo Chu Kiong²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 149-164, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.026813

Abstract Lonely older adults and persons restricted in movements are apt to cause negative emotions, which is harmful to their mental health. A humanoid robot with audiovisual interactions is presented, which can correspondingly output positive facial expressions to relieve human's negative facial expressions. The negative emotions are identified through an attention-enhanced facial expression recognition (FER) network. The network is firstly trained on MMEW macro-and micro-expression databases to discover expression-related features. Then, macro-expression recognition tasks are performed by fine-tuning the trained models on several benchmarking FER databases, including CK+ and Oulu-CASIA. A transformer network is introduced to process the sequential features engineered… More >

Li-Hong Juang^1,*, Yi-Hua Zhao²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.2, pp. 291-301, 2020, DOI:10.31209/2020.100000164

Abstract Speech recognition is one of the most convenient forms of human beings engaging in the exchanging of information. In this research, we want to make robots understand human language and communicate with each other through the human language, and to realize man–machine interactive and humanoid– robot interactive. Therefore, this research mainly studies NAO robots’ speech recognition and humanoid communication between double -humanoid robots. This paper introduces the future direction and application prospect of speech recognition as well as its basic method and knowledge of speech recognition fields. This research also proposes the application of the most advanced method—establishment of the… More >

Noé G. Aldana-Murillo, Jean-Bernard Hayet, Héctor M. Becerra

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.24, No.3, pp. 471-481, 2018, DOI:10.1080/10798587.2017.1304508

Abstract In this paper, we address the problem of the appearance-based localization of a humanoid robot, in the context of robot navigation. We only use information obtained by a single sensor, in this case the camera mounted on the robot. We aim at determining the most similar image within a previously acquired set of key images (also referred to as a visual memory) to the current view of the monocular camera carried by the robot. The robot is initially kidnapped and the current image has to be compared with the visual memory. To solve this problem, we rely on a hierarchical… More >