Vision for a Smart Kiosk

Vision for a Smart Kiosk
James M. Rehg, Maria Loughlin, Keith Waters



The kiosk interface supports public interaction with multiple users.

[Obtained Information]

• three dimensional location
• body language
• facial expressions

[Modules]

• Motion blob detection
  
• Color tracking
  a color histogram model of each user's shirt
  
• Stereo triangulation
• DECface
• Behavior
  

[DECface Agent]

• speak an arbitrary piece of text at a specific speech rate in one of eight voices from one of eight faces
• the creation of simple facial expressions under control of a facial muscle model
• simple head and eye rotation

[Taxonomy of vision tasks]

	Features	Attributes	Behaviors
Distant (Dist)	whole body	position	monitor
Midrange (Mid)	head and torso	orientation	entice
Proximate (Prox)	face / hands	expression	communicate

[Experiments]

• 推測position的正確性
• tracking和behvior模組的測試
  

[Conclusion]

• Color is a valuable feature for tracking people in real-time.