Designing a Real Time Artificial Vision System for Human Interaction with an Omnidirectional Mobile Platform

In this paper we presents preliminary results about the development of an artificial vision system for Human Robot Interaction (HRI) based on methods for recognition of facial features, object detection and tracking. The purpose is to implement a vision system in order to process perceptual information as a result of human-robot social interaction in a hybrid architecture for an omni directional test platform that is currently being developed in the Robotics Laboratory of the UFBA Polytechnic School.