Preface

**Section 3 Risk Event Recognition 143**

**VI** Contents

Georgia Koukiou

Chapter 8 **Intoxication Identification Using Thermal Imaging 145**

Robots and computers have become a prominent aspect of our lives and their presence will give rise to unique technologies. There are many difficulties to overcome before robots can interact fluidly with human beings. Human-robot interaction would be greatly enhanced if the robotic agent had a module that could interpret the socio-communicative intentions of the users by recognizing their moods and attitudes. The systems developed for the forego‐ ing purpose consider combinations of different modalities, based on vocal and visual cues. This book project takes the foregoing modalities and applications into account by consider‐ ing three main aspects, namely, social and affective robotics, robot navigation and risk event recognition. We are hoping that this book can be a very good starting point for the scientists who are about to start their research work in the field of human-robot interaction.

Finally, we would like to thank all members of iCV Research Lab at University of Tartu and Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Group at University of Barcelona for provid‐ ing sufficient support for making this book come true.
