And The Fans are Going Wild! SIG plus MIKE
Ian Frank, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Hiroshi G. Okuno,
Yukiko Nakagawa, K. Maeda, Kazuhiro Nakadai, and Hiroaki Kitano
Fourth International Workshop on RoboCup, Melbourne, Australia. Proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence series.
Abstract:
We present a commentary system for real-world robotic soccer.
In our system, a computer commentator is embodied physically by a
robot, SIG, and is assisted by one or more humans.
Our system recognises that each of the human commentators, as well
as the referee, robots, team designers, and audience members are
important actors in the drama of a RoboCup game.
To analyse a game, we use a modified version of the MIKE program
to combine the multi-modal input of one stream of audio data plus
two streams of video data. The physical robot that `speaks' MIKE's
output adds the modality of body language to the social interaction
that characterises the overall commentary task.
SIG can direct audience attention to important events by looking
at them, provide more realism to the interaction between MIKE and
the human commentators, and even comment on audience attitudes as
part of the commentary itself.
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