Face recognition in a group home environment taking care of people with developmental disabilities

该项目的总体愿景是设计和制造一个协作式服务机器人，利用现有和新的技术，帮助发育性残疾人(DD)实现他们的个人目标并实现更大的独立性。这将使京东系统公司能够推进在集体之家环境中为DD及其照顾者提供的服务类型。该项目的目标是通过机器人摄像头捕获的视觉数据来检测和识别集体之家中的人的脸。这需要在不同的条件下从一个或多个人身上检测人脸，并根据机器人的相对位置从不同的角度和距离进行检测。识别每个人的脸是第二项需要，这需要使用来自特定群体的样本标签数据。交付这样的服务机器人将在经济上改善为DD患者提供的服务规模。它还减轻了照顾者的重复性任务负担，解放了他们的时间，让他们专注于目前机器人做不好的其他任务。为京东系统公司开发这样一项技术为实现更大的目标铺平了道路，这将导致支持服务的持续改进，同时继续关注有限财政资源的有效利用。通过实现该项目的目标，还可以调查健康和老年护理部门中日益增长的问题和机会，这些问题和机会将随着我们的人口老龄化在加拿大社会中显现出来。

The overarching vision of this project is to design and build a collaborative service robot that will help peoplewith developmental disabilities (DD) reach their personal goals and achieve greater independence, usingexisting and new technologies. This will allow JDQ Systems Inc. to advance the type of services provided topeople with DD and their caregivers in a group home environment.The aim of this project is to detect and identify peoples' faces in a group home through the visual data capturedby the robot's camera. This requires detecting human faces from one or multiple people in various conditions,and from various angles and distances depending on the relative location of the robot. Identifying the face ofeach individual is a second necessity, and requires working with sample labelled data from a specific grouphome.Delivering such a service robot will improve the scale of services provided to people with DD economically. Italso reduces the burden of repetitive tasks on the caregivers and frees up their time to focus on other tasks thatrobots cannot do well at present. Developing such a technology for JDQ Systems Inc. paves the way to achievegreater goals that will result in continual improvement of support services accompanied with continualattention to the efficient use of limited financial resources. Achieving the goals of this project also allows toinvestigate the growing problems and opportunities in the health and elder care sectors that will manifest inCanadian society as our population ages.