Title :
Towards long-term large-scale visual health monitoring using Cyber Glasses
Author :
Hoang Le ; Thanh Dang ; Feng Liu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Comput. Sci., Washington State Univ. Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, USA
Abstract :
More than 30% of the world population have vision defects, for some of which causes are still unclear. Visual health monitoring for detection, prevention, and treatment is possible but still very limited due to limited access to expensive specialized equipment and domain experts. Therefore, it is difficult to provide long-term visual health monitoring for a large population. In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of Cyber Glasses, low-cost computational glasses as a step toward longterm large-scale human visual health monitoring. At the core of Cyber Glasses are three key novel contributions: an integration of low-cost commercial off the shelf (COTS) components, an adaptive data collection mechanism taking into account tradeoff´s between sensing accuracy, latency, memory, and energy, and a suit of energy efficient algorithms to reduce sensor data size and to extract meaningful human vision information to highlevel applications. We conduct a number of experiments to verify the feasibility of Cyber Glasses to enable long-term large-scale human visual health monitoring.
Keywords :
data handling; eye; patient monitoring; sensors; telemedicine; COTS; adaptive data collection mechanism; cyber glasses; energy efficient algorithms; human vision information; long-term large-scale visual health monitoring; low-cost commercial off the shelf components; low-cost computational glasses; sensing accuracy; sensor data size; vision defects; Databases; Glass; Lenses; Medical services; Monitoring; Temperature sensors; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2013 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0296-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-936968-80-0