• DocumentCode
    2279295
  • Title

    A machine vision based navigation system for the blind

  • Author

    Wenqin, Shang ; Wei, Jiang ; Jian, Chu

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Cyber Syst. & Control, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    10-12 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    81
  • Lastpage
    85
  • Abstract
    Blindness aid system has been part of the blind´s life. In this study, we present a new computer vision based blindness navigation system, using robust and stable computer vision technologies to strengthen the weakness of existing electronic intellectual aid device. Our system can offer state information of the road scene, and assists the blind to find out the obstacles and the walkable planar regions, through which the blind can walk independently. The real scene experiments show that our method can provide a robust cognitive result of road scene.
  • Keywords
    computer vision; computerised navigation; handicapped aids; blindness aid system; blindness navigation system; machine vision; Machine vision; blindness aid system; homography estimation; planar region extraction;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8727-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSAE.2011.5952638
  • Filename
    5952638