TY - GEN
T1 - Wearable multimodal interface for helping visually handicapped persons
AU - Shin, Byeong Seok
AU - Ahn, Honam
AU - Kim, Gye Young
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Handicapped Persons who partially or entirely lose their sensory for external stimuli struggle to lead on daily life due to lack of the ability of sensors. We propose a system to provide alternative sensory for visually handicapped persons with wearable multimodal interface. It acquires visual information with a variety of sensors, converts them to high-level information, and represents the information with alternative sensory such as sound or vibration. The system is mainly composed of two sub-systems. The first is obstacle detection and avoidance module with multiple ultrasound sensors and a tracker. It helps handicapped person to access to target place easily and safely. The second is stereo vision system to provide ability to track some target objects, to recognize persons around a user, and to understand color and gray-level of a specific object. Since our system is designed for wearable computers, visually handicapped persons carry and operate it very easily.
AB - Handicapped Persons who partially or entirely lose their sensory for external stimuli struggle to lead on daily life due to lack of the ability of sensors. We propose a system to provide alternative sensory for visually handicapped persons with wearable multimodal interface. It acquires visual information with a variety of sensors, converts them to high-level information, and represents the information with alternative sensory such as sound or vibration. The system is mainly composed of two sub-systems. The first is obstacle detection and avoidance module with multiple ultrasound sensors and a tracker. It helps handicapped person to access to target place easily and safely. The second is stereo vision system to provide ability to track some target objects, to recognize persons around a user, and to understand color and gray-level of a specific object. Since our system is designed for wearable computers, visually handicapped persons carry and operate it very easily.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77249148456&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/11941354_101
DO - 10.1007/11941354_101
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77249148456
SN - 3540497765
SN - 9783540497769
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 980
EP - 988
BT - Advances in Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence - 16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2006, Proceedings
T2 - 16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2006
Y2 - 29 November 2006 through 1 December 2006
ER -