Anticipation through Head Pose Estimation: a preliminary study
<|reference_start|>Anticipation through Head Pose Estimation: a preliminary study: The ability to anticipate others' goals and intentions is at the basis of human-human social interaction. Such ability, largely based on non-verbal communication, is also a key to having natural and pleasant interactions with artificial agents, like robots. In this work, we discuss a preliminary experiment on the use of head pose as a visual cue to understand and anticipate action goals, particularly reaching and transporting movements. By reasoning on the spatio-temporal connections between the head, hands and objects in the scene, we will show that short-range anticipation is possible, laying the foundations for future applications to human-robot interaction.<|reference_end|>
@article{tomenotti2024anticipation,
    title={Anticipation through Head Pose Estimation: a preliminary study},
    author={Federico Figari Tomenotti, Nicoletta Noceti},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.05516},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2408.05516},
    primaryClass={cs.RO cs.CV}
}