This paper describes a new robot-photographer system which can interact with people. The goal of this research is to make the system act like a human photographer. This system is based on a mobile robot having capabilities of wireless communication and stereo vision. It recognizes waving hands of people, moves toward them, and takes pictures with designated compositions. The pictures are transmitted to personal computers over the wireless network. In comparison with previous researches, the most unique things of this system are human interaction and user preference. To realize these properties, this new robot photographer system is considered optical property of lens and applied interesting vision algorithm which was never tried before for previous robot photographer systems.
We apply convergence network to pervasive application system in U-Home (Ubiquitous Home) environment with some of intelligent services planning for intellectual home automation. We developed a new breed of smart architectural component -SC (Smart Computer) _I, SAS (Smart Architectural Surfaces) which is capable of dealing with polymorphic functional changes based on the interpreted user requests through multi-modal interactions. To address the interaction among people we put demands on our SC_I, SAS (Smart Architectural Surfaces) to have more intelligence service in space, which in turn requires research integration of multimedia on the convergence networks. To show convergence services we provide VoIP and MMoIP service with SC_I's mobility. In particular, we propose advanced path planning algorithms for guiding guest and communicate by VoIP and MMoIP.
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