CSI7657-01 Topics in Pattern Recognition: Gesture Recognition and Robotics Spring Semester, 2010.

CSI7657-01Topics in Pattern Recognition:

Gesture Recognition and Robotics

Spring Semester, 2010

Teaching Staff

Lecturer

– Sung-Bae Cho (C515; 2123-2720; [email protected])

– Kyung-Joong Kim ( 3408-3838, [email protected])

TA

– Jun Ki Min ( 2123-4803; [email protected])

Web page: http://sclab.yonsei.ac.kr/Courses/10TPR

Hours : Tue 5, Thu 2, 3

Place : A646

Office Hours : Tue 9, 10

Course Goals

Study basics to recognize gestures with accelerometers

Understand interdisciplinary nature of robotics

Review state-of-the-art papers in those fields

Try to formulate and solve challenging problems

Gesture

http://image.asiatoday.co.kr

Gesture: Applications

Robot

Course Materials

Reading in Pattern Recognition

– Gesture Recognition

• Pattern Recognition

• Pattern Recognition Letters

• Pervasive and Mobile Computing

– Robotics

• Nature, Science, PNAS, Current Biology, PLOS Biology, Nature Physics

Evaluation Criteria

Evaluation Criteria

– Term Project (written report and an oral presentation) : 50%

– Written Exam : 30%

– Class Presentation : 20%

Term Project (Oral presentation is required) :

– Theoretical Issue (Analysis, Experiment, Simulation) : Originality

– Interesting Programming (Game, Demo, etc) : Performance

– Survey : Completeness

Week Gesture Recognition (Thu) Robotics (Tue)1 Course Introduction2 Accelerometer Data Collection Overview on Robotics I3 Preprocessing Overview on Robotics II4 Feature Extraction Self Replication I

5Gesture Recognition based on

AccelerometerSelf Replication II

6Behavior Recognition based on

AccelerometerSelf Modeling

7 Term Project Proposal8 Midterm Exam

9Dynamic Time Warping and

Neural NetworkSelf Organization I

10 Hidden Markov Models Self Organization II11 Support Vector Machine Communication I12 Real-Time Gesture Recognition Communication II

13Behavior Recognition with Multiple Wearable Sensors

Robotic Scientist

14 Applications Reverse Engineering15 Term Project Final Presentation16 Final Exam

Possible Project Lists

Gesture clustering, classification, understanding (high-level) Understanding sequential gestures Gesture-based interface for games, phone, and robot Mixed-initiative gesture recognition Augmented reality with gesture recognition

Evolving robot’s morphology, behavior, and controller Game playing with vision-based robots Automatic behavior transfer among different robots (ghost controller) Fault-tolerant robots Mining scientific data using Eureqa