OpenCV Image Processing for AI Pet Robot

Abstract

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Pet Robot is a culmination of multiple fields of computer science. This paper showcases the capabilities of our robot. Most of the functionalities stem from image processing made available through OpenCV. The functions of the robot discussed in this paper are face tracking, emotion recognition and a colour-based follow routine. Face tracking allows the robot to keep the face of the user constantly in the frame to allow capturing of facial data. Using this data, emotion recognition achieved an accuracy of 66% on the FER-2013 dataset. The colour-based follow routine enables the robot to follow the user as they walk based on the presence of a specific colour.