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Erschienen in: Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics 2/2013

01.07.2013 | Original Article

Finding objects for assisting blind people

verfasst von: Chucai Yi, Roberto W. Flores, Ricardo Chincha, YingLi Tian

Erschienen in: Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics | Ausgabe 2/2013

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Abstract

Computer vision technology has been widely used for blind assistance, such as navigation and way finding. However, few camera-based systems are developed for helping blind or visually impaired people to find daily necessities. In this paper, we propose a prototype system of blind-assistant object finding by camera-based network and matching-based recognition. We collect a dataset of daily necessities and apply Speeded-Up Robust Features and Scale Invariant Feature Transform feature descriptors to perform object recognition. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our prototype system.

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Metadaten
Titel
Finding objects for assisting blind people
verfasst von
Chucai Yi
Roberto W. Flores
Ricardo Chincha
YingLi Tian
Publikationsdatum
01.07.2013
Verlag
Springer Vienna
Erschienen in
Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics / Ausgabe 2/2013
Print ISSN: 2192-6662
Elektronische ISSN: 2192-6670
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13721-013-0026-x

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