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Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics

By : Álvaro Morena Alberola, Gonzalo Molina Gallego, Unai Garay Maestre
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Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics

By: Álvaro Morena Alberola, Gonzalo Molina Gallego, Unai Garay Maestre

Overview of this book

Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics begins by discussing the theory behind robots. You'll compare different methods used to work with robots and explore computer vision, its algorithms, and limits. You'll then learn how to control the robot with natural language processing commands. You'll study Word2Vec and GloVe embedding techniques, non-numeric data, recurrent neural network (RNNs), and their advanced models. You'll create a simple Word2Vec model with Keras, as well as build a convolutional neural network (CNN) and improve it with data augmentation and transfer learning. You'll study the ROS and build a conversational agent to manage your robot. You'll also integrate your agent with the ROS and convert an image to text and text to speech. You'll learn to build an object recognition system using a video. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to build a functional application that can integrate with a ROS to extract useful information about your environment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics
Preface

Dialogue Systems


As we mentioned before, chatbots are becoming more and more popular. They can help humans 24/7, answering questions or just holding a conversation. Dialogue systems can understand topics, give reasonable answers, and detect sentiments in a conversation (such as positive, neutral, or negative sentiment) with a human. The main goal of these systems is to hold a natural dialogue by imitating a human. This capability to behave or think like a human is one of the most important factors in ensuring a good user experience in the conversation. The Loebner Prize is a chatbot contest in which chatbots are tested using many different sentences and questions, and the most human-like system wins. One of the most popular conversational agents is the Mitsuku chatbot (https://www.pandorabots.com/mitsuku/).

Chatbots are commonly used as a text service to give information to users. For example, one of the most popular conversational agents in Spain is Lola, which can give you your zodiac information...