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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Overview of Smart White Canes: Connected Smart Cane from Front End to Back End

Authors : Gianmario Motta, Tianyi Ma, Kaixu Liu, Edwige Pissaloux, Muhammad Yusro, Kalamullah Ramli, Jean Connier, Philippe Vaslin, Jian-jin Li, Christophe de Vaulx, Hongling Shi, Xunxing Diao, Kun-Mean Hou

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There are 285 million visually impaired people (VIP) worldwide, among whom 39 million are blind (WHO 2014).

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Footnotes
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Cf. Part 3 of this book on mobility cognitive models.
 
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See also Part 4 of this book.
 
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Although “laser” and “infrared” refer to different, independent aspects of light, and as such cannot perfectly discriminate sensors, we use the terms “infrared sensor” and “laser sensor” in their common sense: an infrared sensor uses an incoherent beam of infrared light, whereas a laser sensor uses a single coherent beam of light, visible or not. Furthermore, we call “laser sensor” only the sensors measuring the distance on a single point; we refer to higher dimensionality laser sensors (2D, 3D) as “LIDARs”.
 
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Natural Language Toolkit: http://​www.​nltk.​org/​.
 
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Metadata
Title
Overview of Smart White Canes: Connected Smart Cane from Front End to Back End
Authors
Gianmario Motta
Tianyi Ma
Kaixu Liu
Edwige Pissaloux
Muhammad Yusro
Kalamullah Ramli
Jean Connier
Philippe Vaslin
Jian-jin Li
Christophe de Vaulx
Hongling Shi
Xunxing Diao
Kun-Mean Hou
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Mobility of Visually Impaired People

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-54444-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-54446-5

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54446-5_16