... In the context of scene understanding for social robots, the thesis investigates and researches the following scientific problems: visual saliency and attention, and information presentation and ... Behave and respond in a natural and biological manner; and ◦ Understand and reveal the underlying geometry information of a scene In addition to these possible research results in scene understanding, ... improving the capabilities of social robots in social perception, scene understanding, and human robot interaction in order to ◦ Discover and perceive important and salient contents in a scene; ...