Extending 3D body pose estimation for robotic-assistive therapies of autistic children

Robotic-assistive therapy has demonstrated very encouraging results for children with Autism. Accurate estimation of the child's pose is essential both for human-robot interaction and for therapy assessment purposes. Non-intrusive methods are the sole viable option since these children are sensitive to touch.
While depth cameras have been used extensively, existing methods face two major limitations: (i) they are usually trained with adult-only data and do not correctly estimate a child's pose, and (ii) they fail in scenarios with a high …

assessment autism cameras child children cs.cv cs.hc cs.ro human robot robotic therapy