VizWear-Active: Towards a functionally-distributed architecture for real-time visual tracking and context-aware UI

VizWear-Active is a wearable active vision system for distributed computing environments. It consists of wearable and infrastructure-side modules that autonomously and cooperatively work together. The wearable-side modules include a wearable active camera module for actively acquiring information existing around the wearer in his/her daily life and a wristwatch UI module to provide a context-aware user interface (UI). We have implemented and demonstrated a visual augmented memory application based on real-time visual tracking by the wearable active camera module and arm gesture recognition by the wristwatch UI module.