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13 Human Detection and Gesture Recognition Based on Ambient Intelligence Naoyuki Kubota Tokyo Metropolitan University Japan 1. Introduction Recently, various types of human-friendly robots such as pet robots, amusement robots, and partner robots, have been developed for the next generation society. The human-friendly robots should perform human recognition, voice recognition, and gesture recognition in order to realize natural communication with a human. Furthermore, the robots should coexist in the human environments based on learning and adaptation. However, it is very difficult f