Observing human-object interactions: Using spatial and functional compatibility for recognition

A Gupta, A Kembhavi, LS Davis - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2009‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interpretation of images and videos containing humans interacting with different objects is a
daunting task. It involves understanding scene/event, analyzing human movements …

Objects in action: An approach for combining action understanding and object perception

A Gupta, LS Davis - 2007 IEEE Conference on computer vision …, 2007‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analysis of videos of human-object interactions involves understanding human movements,
locating and recognizing objects and observing the effects of human movements on those …

Exploiting human actions and object context for recognition tasks

DJ Moore, IA Essa, MH Hayes - Proceedings of the seventh …, 1999‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our goal is to exploit human motion and object context to perform action recognition and
object classification. Towards this end, we introduce a framework for recognizing actions …

[PDF][PDF] Reasoning about the functionality of tools and physical artifacts

E Bicici, R St Amant - 2003‏ - repository.lib.ncsu.edu
Tool use is an important characteristic of intelligent human behavior. Representing,
classifying and recognizing tools by their functionality can provide us new opportunities for …

Video-based tracking, learning, and recognition method for multiple moving objects

H Sakaino - IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an extended Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for tracking
and an extended hidden Markov model (HMM) method for learning/recognizing multiple …

Robot manipulation in human environments

A Edsinger - 2007‏ - dspace.mit.edu
Human environments present special challenges for robot manipulation. They are often
dynamic, difficult to predict, and beyond the control of a robot engineer. Fortunately, many …

Tracking people interacting with objects

H Kjellström, D Kragić, MJ Black - 2010 IEEE Computer Society …, 2010‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the problem of tracking 3D human motion has been widely studied, most approaches
have assumed that the person is isolated and not interacting with the environment …

Predicting object functionality using physical simulations

L Hinkle, E Olson - 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2013‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is challenging for a robot acting in the world to interact with and use novel objects. While a
person may be able to look past visual differences and recognize the intended function of an …

[PDF][PDF] Functional 3D Object Classification Using Simulation of Embodied Agent.

E Bar-Aviv, E Rivlin - BMVC, 2006‏ - Citeseer
This paper presents a cognitive-motivated approach for classification of 3D objects
according to the functional paradigm. We hypothesize that classification can be achieved …

Functional analysis from visual and non-visual data. an artificial intelligence approach

JA Barceló, VM De Almeida - Mediterranean Archaeology and …, 2012‏ - maajournal.com
Why archaeological artefacts are the way they are? In this paper we try to solve such a
question by investigating the relationship between form and function. We propose new ways …