Title :
On the study about opening and closing of an eyelid-application to the support system of medical care
Author :
Uchikado, Shigeru ; Igarashi, Megumi ; Kawashima, Yukiko ; Saitou, Noriko ; Izaki, Daiyu ; Satoh, T. ; Tanaka, Kanya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci., Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Bedridden persons who cannot use their hands, mouth or ears communicate with other persons only by opening and shutting their eyelids. Hence a communication support system for such persons is important and necessary. The purpose of this paper is to design a system to estimate whether an eyelid is open or shut from a sequence of real images which are taken with a CCD camera
Keywords :
CCD image sensors; gesture recognition; handicapped aids; image processing; CCD camera; communication support system; eyelid closing; eyelid opening; medical care; paralysed persons; real image sequence; Aging; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Charge coupled devices; Ear; Eyebrows; Eyelids; Image processing; Medical robotics; Vehicle driving;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2000. RO-MAN 2000. Proceedings. 9th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Osaka
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6273-X
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2000.892641
