Arnaud Ramey
Papers
9
Total Citations
148
H-Index
5
About
Arnaud Ramey is a robotics researcher specializing in human-robot interaction (HRI), social robotics, and multimodal perception systems. His work centers on enabling robots to perceive, recognize, and naturally engage with humans through gesture, voice, and vision-based technologies. Ramey's most influential contribution, "Integration of a low-cost RGB-D sensor in a social robot for gesture recognition" (2011, 69 citations), demonstrated how affordable depth-sensing hardware could unlock natural gestural communication between humans and robots — a significant step toward accessible, intuitive HRI. His sustained work on the social robot Maggie, including its development as a gaming platform, showcases his interest in deploying robots in real-world interactive scenarios. Beyond gesture, Ramey has tackled the challenge of robust user awareness through speaker identification using voice domain analysis, morphological gender recognition for personalized interaction, and multi-modal fusion techniques for user detection and tracking. His 2017 work on vision-based people detection further reflects his commitment to making robots genuinely aware of their human surroundings. Collectively accumulating over 140 citations, Ramey's research has meaningfully advanced the practical foundations of social robotics, bridging perception, recognition, and interaction in ways that bring robots closer to seamless human collaboration.
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Top Papers
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- 2Maggie: A Social Robot as a Gaming Platform37 citations · 2011
- 3Morphological gender recognition by a social robot and privacy concerns12 citations · 2014
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- 5Using a Social Robot as a Gaming Platform8 citations · 2010
- 6Vision-based people detection using depth information for social robots5 citations · 2017
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- 8Local user mapping via multi-modal fusion for social robots2 citations · 2016
- 9A social robot as an aloud reader2 citations · 2012