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A Wearable Camera Detects Gaze Peculiarities during Social Interactions in Young Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris, Patrick Jermann, Silvia Magrelli

We report on the study of gazes, conducted on children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), by using a novel head-mounted eye-tracking device called the WearCam. Due to the portable nature of the WearCam, we are able to monitor naturalistic intera ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Social orienting of children with autism to facial expressions and speech: a study with a wearable eye-tracker in naturalistic settings

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris, Patrick Jermann, Silvia Magrelli

This study investigates attention orienting to social stimuli in children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) during dyadic social interactions taking place in real-life settings. We study the effect of social cues that differ in complexity and distingui ...

Frontiers Media2013

Investigating Gaze of Children with ASD in Naturalistic Settings

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris, Nouchine Hadjikhani

Background: Visual behavior is known to be atypical in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Monitor-based eye-tracking studies have measured several of these atypicalities in individuals with Autism. While atypical behaviors are known to be accentuated during ...

Public Library of Science2012

A Wearable Gaze Tracking System for Children in Unconstrained Environments

Aude Billard, Jean-Baptiste Keller, Basilio Noris

We present here a head-mounted gaze tracking system for the study of visual behavior in unconstrained environments. The system is designed both for adults and for infants as young as 1 year of age. The system uses two CCD cameras to record a very wide fiel ...

2011

Machine Vision-Based Analysis of Gaze and Visual Context : an Application to Visual Behavior of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Basilio Noris

Visual behavior, and specifically gaze directed at objects and people, is a fundamental cue for understanding how children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience and respond to social interaction. Indeed atypical behaviors such as averting the gaze ...

EPFL2011

Wearable systems for audio, visual and gaze monitoring

Aude Billard, Jean-Baptiste Keller, Basilio Noris

A non-obtrusive portable device, wearable from infancy through adulthood, mounted with i) a set of two or more optical device(s) providing visual and audio information as perceived by the user ii) an actuated mirror or optical device returning visual infor ...

2011

Measuring Gaze of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Naturalistic Interactions

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris

In this paper, we report on a study on gaze behavior by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) during a dyadic interaction in a naturalistic environment. Twelve children with ASD were contrasted to twelve typically developing (TD) children, in a semi ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Scripting the swarm: event-based control of microcontroller-based robots

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Basilio Noris, Philippe Rétornaz

Swarm robotics in real world requires a large number of robots and thus enough room for experimentation. Therefore, to implement such experiments with limited budget, robots should be compact and low cost, which entails the use of microcontroller-based min ...

2008

Aseba-Challenge: An Open-Source Multiplayer Introduction to Mobile Robots Programming

Francesco Mondada, Stéphane Magnenat, Basilio Noris

We present in this paper a realistic looking robotic survival challenge simulation. Using a model of the e-puck, an open-source mobile robot designed for educational purposes, our simulation allows several players to program the behaviour of e-pucks compet ...

Springer2008

Calibration-Free Eye Gaze Direction Detection with Gaussian Processes

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris

In this paper we present a solution for eye gaze detection from a wireless head mounted camera designed for children aged between 6 months and 18 months. Due to the constraints of working with very young children, the system does not seek to be as accurate ...

2008

WearCam: A head mounted wireless camera for monitoring gaze attention and for the diagnosis of developmental disorders in young children

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris, Olivier Barbey

Autism covers a large spectrum of disorders that affect the individual’s way of interacting socially and is often revealed by the individual’s lack of interest in gazing at human faces. Currently Autism is diagnosed in children no younger than 2 years old. ...

2007

Analysis of Head Mounted Wireless Camera Videos for Early Diagnosis of Autism

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Aude Billard, Basilio Noris, Julien Meynet

2007

Analysis of Head Mounted Wireless Camera Videos for Early Diagnosis of Autism

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Aude Billard, Basilio Noris, Julien Meynet

In this paper we present a computer based approach to analysis of social interaction experiments for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in young children of 6-18 months of age. We apply face detection on videos from a head-mounted wireless camera t ...

Springer-Verlag2007