Design and development of a navigation assistance system for visually impaired individuals

i-CREATe 2009 - International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zhang, J ^a   Ong, S K ^a   Nee, A Y C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Navigation assistance; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; LOCATION; NAVIGATION; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ASSISTANCE SYSTEM; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; NAVIGATIONAL INFORMATION; ORIENTATION DATA; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; USER LOCALIZATION; USER-CENTRIC; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUALLY IMPAIRED; WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATION; ZIGBEE TECHNOLOGY;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70449685884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1592700.1592702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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