AUTOMATION21XX

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ALCOR has been established in 1998. The research activity focuses mainly on the perceptual inference processes a cognitive robotics system should be able to activate. We study and develop both methods of representation and methods of inference related to the perceptual process. Starting from early attention, we study many aspects of audio-visual salience, as induced by motion, actions, interactions. We are also interested in how classification of these different aspects of the concept of salience can lead to the recognition of different patterns of human behaviours, and in general to the recognition of how events unfold in the environment . Our aim is to emphasize the recognition process as an effective inference process that can inform and determine the formation of knowledge about the environment, about how events are determined and induced, and about their spatio-temporal relations. We study this via different aspects of the recognition process, 3D reconstruction, people facial expression interpretation, motion interpretation, shape analysis, bottom-up attention in audio-visual scenes, natural images for visual localization, probabilistic and logical models of actions prediction. Most of our experiments use the Gaze machine, a device in progressive development.