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A tool for autonomous and performant benchmarking of facial expression analysers
Ever used your phone’s face recognition system to unlock it? Did it work well? Perhaps not every time… Try using it under harsh lighting conditions, turning your head sideways, masking your face with your hands, cap or sunglasses, and it will surely fail. This may be because detecting key [...]
SPRING-ARI robot specifications
ARI is a high-performance robotic platform designed for a wide range of multimodal expressive gestures and behaviours, making it the ideal social robot and suitable for Human-Robot-Interaction, perception, cognition, navigation, and interaction. Its behaviour can be customised using ROS (Robot Operating System) API and the provided, easy to use, [...]
Social robotics supporting hospitals in pandemic situations
With SPRING, PAL Robotics is developing robots that could help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic PAL Robotics is collaborating as a partner in SPRING, one of a number of projects especially important during the COVID-19 health pandemic. New technological solutions are needed quickly, and this includes robots [...]
SPRING and social robotics ethics
The main objective of SPRING is to develop a Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) able to interact simultaneously with multiple persons and perform open-domain dialogues in cluttered environments. Although most of the preliminary work will be done in simulated environments, the main experiments will take place at the Day Care [...]
SPRING Kick-Off meeting took place in Paris, 12-13 February 2020!
All the SPRING partners met in Paris on 12 and 13 February 2020, within Inria's offices, to celebrate the start of the project and setup the framework of the (numerous) upcoming tasks. 27 people participated in this two-day meeting, including of course all the designated Work [...]
Discover SPRING, a European research project aiming at excellence (EN)
Since January 2020, the Perception research team at Inria Grenoble Rhone Alpes Centre is coordinating the European project SPRING (H2020-ICT call) which will last 48 months. This project involves 8 partners, from academia: Inria (France), Heriot-Watt University (UK), the Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic), Trento University (Italy), [...]
Découvrez le projet SPRING, un projet européen d’excellence (FR)
Depuis le 1er janvier 2020, l’équipe Perception du centre Inria Grenoble Rhône Alpes coordonne le projet européen SPRING (Appel à projet H2020-ICT) d’une durée de 48 mois. Ce projet implique 8 partenaires : Inria, l’Université Heriot-Watt (Grande Bretagne), l’Université Technique de Prague (République Tchèque), l’Université de Trento (Italie), l’Université [...]
