An Automated Virtual Receptionist for Recognizing Visitors and Assuring Mask Wearing
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2020
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Intelligent virtual agents have many societal uses, specifically in situations in which the presence of real humans would be prohibitive. In particular, virtual receptionists can perform a variety of tasks associated with visitor and employee safety, e.g., during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this poster, we present our prototype of a virtual receptionist that employs computer vision and meta-learning techniques to identify and interact with a visitor in a manner similar to that of a real human receptionist. Specifically we employ a meta-learning-based classifier to learn the visitors' faces from the minimal data collected during a first visit, such that the receptionist can recognize the same visitor during follow-up visits. The system also makes use of deep neural network-based computer vision techniques to recognize whether the visitor is wearing a face mask or not.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:egve.20201273,
booktitle = {ICAT-EGVE 2020 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments - Posters and Demos},
editor = {Kulik, Alexander and Sra, Misha and Kim, Kangsoo and Seo, Byung-Kuk},
title = {{An Automated Virtual Receptionist for Recognizing Visitors and Assuring Mask Wearing}},
author = {Zehtabian, Sharare and Khodadadeh, Siavash and Kim, Kangsoo and Bruder, Gerd and Welch, Greg and Bölöni, Ladislau and Turgut, Damla},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-530X},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-112-0},
DOI = {10.2312/egve.20201273}
}