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Detection of Response to Instruction in Autistic Children Based on Human-Object Interaction

  • Weibo Jiang
  • , Weihong Ren*
  • , Bowen Chen
  • , Yuhang Shi
  • , Hanwei Ma
  • , Xiu Xu
  • , Qiong Xu
  • , Honghai Liu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen
  • Children's Hospital of Fudan University

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Abstract

Autism is a childhood developmental disorder characterized by impairments in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, narrow interests, and repetitive stereotypes, starting in infancy and early childhood. Children’s Response to Instruction (RTI) is an important protocol in the diagnosis of children with autism. The so-called verbal response refers to a child’s response to a doctor’s verbal or gestural instructions in the process of performing a specific task. This paper proposes an end-to-end network for detecting Human-Object Interaction (HOI), which can simply, quickly and efficiently evaluate the behaviors of children, doctors, and parents in the RTI protocol. Through behavior analysis, we can determine whether the children’s performance in this protocol is normal, and can also give a screening score for autism. In order to verify the proposed method, 16 children aged 5–8 are recruited to take participate in this study. The HOI detection accuracy and autism screening accuracy can reach 81.9% and 89%, respectively, which proves the effectiveness of our method in ASD screening.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 15th International Conference, ICIRA 2022, Proceedings
EditorsHonghai Liu, Weihong Ren, Zhouping Yin, Lianqing Liu, Li Jiang, Guoying Gu, Xinyu Wu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages712-722
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031138409
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022 - Harbin, China
Duration: 1 Aug 20223 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13458 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period1/08/223/08/22

Keywords

  • Autism screening
  • Behavior analysis
  • Human-Object Interaction

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