RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV

<p>Entropy-Based Active Vision for a Humanoid Soccer Robot.- A Realistic Simulation Tool for Testing Face Recognition Systems under Real-World Conditions.- Thermal Face Recognition Using Local Interest Points and Descriptors for HRI Applications.- On Progress in RoboCup: The Simulation League Showcase.- Odometry Correction for Humanoid Robots Using Optical Sensors.- SSL-Humanoid: RoboCup Soccer Using Humanoid Robots under the Global Vision.- Localization with Non-unique Landmark Observations.- MR-Simulator: A Simulator for the Mixed Reality Competition of RoboCup.- Learning Footstep Prediction from Motion Capture Kicking a Ball – Modeling Complex Dynamic Motions for Humanoid Robots.- Towards Semantic Scene Analysis with Time-of-Flight Cameras.- Providing Ground-Truth Data for the Nao Robot.- Optimizing Particle Filter Parameters for Self-localization.- Improving People Awareness of Service Robots by Semantic Scene Knowledge.- An Evaluation of Open Source SURF Implementations.- A Semantic World Model for Urban Search and Rescue Based on Heterogeneous Sensors.- Improving Biped Walk Stability Using Real-Time Corrective Human Feedback.- A Review of Shape Memory Alloy Actuators in Robotics.- Biologically Inspired Mobile Robot Control Robust to Hardware Failures and Sensor Noise.- TopLeague & Bundesliga Manager New Generation Online Soccer Games.- Human vs. Robotic Soccer: How Far Are They? A Statistical Comparison.- Learning Powerful Kicks on the Aibo ERS-7: The Quest for a Striker.- Real-Time Active Vision by Entropy Minimization Applied to Localization.- Multi-agent Behavior Composition through Adaptable Software Architectures and Tangible Interfaces.- A Novel Real-Time Local Visual Feature for Omnidirectional Vision Based on FAST and LBP.- Mixed 2D/3D Perception for Autonomous Robots in Unstructured Environments.- Hierarchical Multi-robot Coordination.- Biped Walking Using Coronal and Sagittal Movements Based on Truncated Fourier Series.- Realistic Simulation of Laser Range Finder Behavior in a Smoky Environment.- Cooperative Localization Based on Visually Shared Objects.- Parameter Optimization of a Signal-Based Omni-Directional Biped Locomotion Using Evolutionary Strategies.- Designing Effective Humanoid Soccer Goalies.- A Supporter Behavior for Soccer Playing Humanoid Robots.- Utilizing the Structure of Field Lines for Efficient Soccer Robot Localization.- Robot Detection with a Cascade of Boosted Classifiers Based on Haar-Like Features.- LearnPNP: A Tool for Learning Agent Behaviors.</p>