On the choice and placement of wearable vision sensors

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 414-425

  Mayol Cuevas, Walterio W ^a   Tordoff, Ben J ^b   Murray, David W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MathWorks UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Sensor placement; Wearable computing; Wearable vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; NOVEL METHODOLOGIES; SENSOR PLACEMENT; SENSOR SELECTIONS; VISUAL SENSING; WEARABLE COMPUTING; WEARABLE DEVICES; WEARABLE VISION;

SENSORS;

EID: 62149122243     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2008.2010848     Document Type: Article

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