This is really all about anthropomorphisation. There's not much detail on this robot, so I would guess that it's ability to detect body postures of humans is just something hard coded into the system (I've tried doing this myself, and it does work to some extent).
However, if you're going to do this properly with the system learning autonomously initially it just needs to experiment with its own body (play) and construct a theory of itself and how it moves, similar to the Cornell "starfish" (http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/research/selfmodels/morepictures.htm). This "theory of body" can then be mapped onto patterns of optical flow observed whilst interacting with other people (a kind of mirror system). In this way even with quite minimal or noisy visual information the system is able to robustly estimate body postures. The interesting side effect of this is sometimes the system makes plausible mistakes by superimposing the model onto creatures or objects with a non-anthropomorphic body layout. As humans we do this all the time. On 26/10/2007, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting... > > Indeed, this is something we wanted to do in AGISim, but didn't get to > yet... > > Furthermore, this is the sort of thing that is irritatingly difficult to do > in Second Life, because of the way avatar movements work in SL... (thru the > external API you don't get information on bone positions, only on what > animations are being run at a certain point in time). But, you could do it > via scraping the visual info that comes thru to the client, and doing vision > processing on it ... or else wait for the server to get open-sourced ... or > use a SL clone like HiPiHi, which reportedly will in early 08 offer a Java > API including information on skeleton position... > > -- Ben > > > > On 10/25/07, Joel Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Somewhat apropos to what Novababy was planning to do in AGISIM: > > > > > http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/10/android-acquires-nonverbal-communication-skills/ > > > > -J > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Agisim-general mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/agisim-general > > > > ________________________________ > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=57769439-0cb2fd
