Disputation von Fares Abawi am 16.12.2024, 12:00 Uhr

16. Dezember 2024, von Reinhard Zierke

Einladung zur hochschulöffentlichen Disputation im Rahmen des Promotionsverfahrens von Fares Abawi

Titel der Dissertation: Multimodal Social Cue Integration for Attention Modeling and Robot Gaze Control

ocial cues influence our attention leading to shifts in our gaze. In this thesis, we integrate non-verbal head-related social cues such as gaze direction, facial expressions, and localized sound into saliency models. We deploy these models on robots, enabling gaze control during social interactions. Using neural early fusion and late integration, we enhance audiovisual saliency prediction models. We then extend these models to predict personalized scanpath patterns. Finally, we introduce a distributed framework for deploying and evaluating our models on robotic platforms, allowing us to design robots with humanlike gaze for conducting human-robot interaction studies and cognitive robotic simulations.
The presentation will be given in English.

Datum und Uhrzeit: Montag, 16. Dezember 2024 um 12:00 Uhr
Ort: Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30, Raum B-201
Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter

Prof. Dr. Matthias Rarey
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