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Soshi Iba
PhD Student

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I am currently working on the gesture based human-robot interaction and programming. The task involves gesture modelling, gesture spotting, interpretation, execution, and feedback. My primary focus is on the interpretation and programming aspect of the task.

gesture recognition, human-computer interaction, and robot programming

• Advanced Mechatronics Lab - Research on distributed robotics, distributed informations systems, sensor based robotics, and reconfigurable systems.

• Distributed Robotics Systems - CyberScout - Tactical surveillance collaborative robotics.
• Interactive Robot Programming - We are developing human-machine interfaces to allow non-experts to interact in a human manner with robots.
• Real and Virtual Environment for Multiple Robots - General-purpose framework to run and simulate multiple mobile robot systems
• Transitional Unmanned Ground Vehicle - Cross Country Navigation
• Xavier - Perceptual, reasoning and learning abilities in autonomous mobile robots

• Interactive Multimodal Robot Programming
  S. Iba, C. Paredis, and P. Khosla
  International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, January, 2005, pp. 83-104. [Abstract]

• Interactive Multi-Modal Robot Programming
  S. Iba, C. Paredis, and P. Khosla
  9th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, June, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Interactive Multi-Modal Robot Programming
  S. Iba
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Intention aware interactive multi-modal robot programming
  S. Iba, C. Paredis, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings. 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 4, October, 2003, pp. 3479 - 3484.
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• Interactive Multi-Modal Robot Programming
  S. Iba, C. Paredis, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the International Conf. on Robotics and Automations, May, 2002, pp. 161-168. [Abstract]
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• Acquiring hand-action models by attention point analysis
  K. Ogawara, S. Iba, T. Tanuki, H. Kimura, and K. Ikeuchi
  Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2001, pp. 465-470. [Abstract]
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• Recognition of human task by attention point analysis
  K. Ogawara, S. Iba, T. Tanuki, H. Kimura, and K. Ikeuchi
  Proceedings. 2000 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2000, pp. 2121-2126. [Abstract]
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• Acquiring hand-action models in task and behavior levels by a learning robot through observing human demonstrations
  K. Ogawara, J. Takamatsu, S. Iba, T. Tanuki, H. Kimura, and K. Ikeuchi
  Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, September, 2000. [Abstract]
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• Recognition and Performance of Human Task with 9-eye Stereo Vision and Data Gloves
  K. Ogawara, S. Iba, T. Tanuki, H. Kimura, and K. Ikeuchi
  Computer Vision and Image Media, June, 2000, pp. 57-64. [Abstract]
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• Recognition of human behaviour using stereo vision and data gloves
  K. Ogawara, S. Iba, T. Tanuki, Y. Sato, A. Saegusa, H. Kimura, and K. Ikeuchi
  Seisan Kenkyu, Vol. 52, No. 5, May, 2000, pp. 225-230. [Abstract]
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