Anticipation through Head Pose Estimation: a preliminary study

Abstract--The ability to anticipate others' goals and intentions More in detail, we hypothesize we can use the 3D Head I. Direction as a proxy of the gaze, and that by deriving simple A key element of natural human-human interaction is the visual geometrical cues in an unsupervised way - connecting ability to anticipate humans' goals and intentions [13]. The the head and hands of a subject with the elements in the same ability is paramount in different application domains environment - we can anticipate the goal of an action in terms - ranging from gaming to domotics and home assistance, of next active object or target position (when the movement to robotics. In the latter, in particular, anticipation abilities involves a change in location of objects). The goal is achieved may enable robots to seamlessly interact with humans in using object and human pose detectors, deriving the 3D head shared environments, enhancing safety, efficiency and fluidity pose and reasoning on the interaction between the human and in Human-Robot Interaction scenarios [8]. To test this hypothesis, Over the last years, the importance of leveraging non-verbal we conducted preliminary experiments using a private dataset cues for understanding humans' intentions has been well including videos of different subjects sitting in front of a table assessed [2, 3].