Fiora Pirri

Projects:

I'm interested in every aspects concerning robot perception as the cornerstone of cognitive robotics. Perception is the ultimate resource of an autonomous system, there is no autonomy no real faculty of reasoning, understanding and interpreting the world without perception. On the other hand there is no understanding of what is perceived without the ability to represent, classify and reasoning about the sensed world.

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I'm currently working on:

1. The Gaze Machine: this is a wearable device that identify the gaze scan path of the person wearing it, in the environment. It can be worn quite easily, so the subject wearing it can walk and go around in any light conditions (I didn't say in the dark, it would be meaningless) either indoor or outdoor.

Why it is important: we get lots of data that we are using to model dynamic attention. We are working to make these data available to the community.

2. Segmentation of human motion. There are harmonic properties of human motion that makes it separable from any other kind of motion.

3. Contrast sensitivity. 3D contrast sensitivity can sort natural stimuli, in space and time. It might be used as feature detector.

4. Interpretation of actions. This requires two main steps: recognition and representation. Understanding actions comes in a loop.

In the past I have been working on theories of action and perception, essentially with the Situation Calculus and on several aspects of reasoning like Abduction and Nonmonotonic reasoning.