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New YOLO-based system enhances robot gesture recognition for multimodal interaction

Researchers have developed a new cloud-edge multimodal interaction system for robots designed to improve human-robot interaction in environments with limited onboard computing power. The system integrates an enhanced YOLO-based gesture detector, which incorporates the Convolutional Block Attention Module and Distance-IoU loss for better gesture recognition and localization. This detector works in tandem with large language model (LLM) and vision-language model (VLM) agents. The cloud layer handles complex tasks like gesture detection and action planning, while the robot executes actions and provides feedback. Experiments show high precision and mAP values for gesture detection, with successful task completion rates of up to 95% for single-action tasks and a user satisfaction score of 3.69 out of 5. AI

IMPACT Enhances robot interaction capabilities by improving gesture recognition and task planning in resource-constrained environments.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new system for robots.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zihan Guo, Xiaoqi Li ·

    An Intelligent-Cloud Edge Multimodal Interaction System for Robots

    arXiv:2607.14675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust human-robot interaction in complex environments requires accurate gesture perception, semantic scene understanding, and reliable task planning under limited onboard computing resources. This paper presents a cloud-edge mult…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaoqi Li ·

    An Intelligent-Cloud Edge Multimodal Interaction System for Robots

    Robust human-robot interaction in complex environments requires accurate gesture perception, semantic scene understanding, and reliable task planning under limited onboard computing resources. This paper presents a cloud-edge multimodal interaction framework that integrates an en…