International Workshop on Computer Vision for Human-Robot Interaction

For robots in human-populated environments, computer vision and human-robot interaction (HRI) can be highly complementary pursuits. Capable computer vision algorithms for tasks such as person detection, pose estimation, scene understanding or object recognition can facilitate a wide array of HRI systems which have only been tele-operated in the past. On the other hand, HRI tasks can elucidate the important features of computer vision algorithms, use human interaction to improve algorithm performance, and give those algorithms a larger context. Human-robot cooperation can even simplify computer vision tasks by improving viewing conditions.
This half-day workshop will bring together researchers in the computer vision and HRI communities to share information about the state-of-the-art in each discipline, as well as discuss future directions of collaboration.